Dirty Master

[Guest guest]

Ikkyu is a tremendously important figure in the evolution of world

thinking. He understood the beauty of both high and low culture, and

he gently celebrated the ironies of life in a series of poems and

drawings as he practiced Zen Buddhism in 14th centry Japan.

 

some of his poems:

 

Natural, reckless, correct skill;

Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity

The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change

One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.

 

 

 

A Woman's Sex:

It has the original mouth but remains wordless;

It is surrounded by a magnificent mound of hair.

Sentient beings can get completely lost in it

But it is also the birthplace of all the Buddhas of the ten thousand

worlds.

 

A Man's Root:

Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;

If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -

A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.

Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!

 

(A fundoshi is a type of loose-fitting underwear once worn by Japanese

men.)

 

Ikkyu is a fabled character in Japan. There are stories of him

outwitting some kings and priests as a child.

 

One zen priestess writes glowingly about him:

 

One of the characters I want to introduce you to is a wonderful

character in the Zen tradition, called Ikkyu, who is one of my

longstanding and favourite Zen masters and who appeals, I guess, to

the wild woman in me. He was born in 1394 and was an illegitimate son

of the emperor Go-komatsu. He was known by some as the emperor of

renegades, a wild wandering monk and teacher, sometimes called Crazy

Cloud. He was a lover, a poet, and he could write very tenderly about

the beauty of women. He relentlessly attacked the hypocrisy of the

then corrupt Zen establishment, and even had women as his students. I

think he was one of the first Zen masters to have women as students;

that was considered quite radical. It was in the brothels and geisha

houses that he developed the Red Thread Zen, a notion he borrowed from

the old Chinese master Kido and extended to deep and subtle levels of

realisation.

 

 

gotta love this guy!

 

..b b.b.

[Guest guest]

Everybody

 

Is a master

 

And a slave

 

 

Until the

 

Dance where none

 

Are either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nisargadatta , " .b bobji baba "

<Roberibus111 wrote:

>

> Ikkyu is a tremendously important figure in the evolution of world

> thinking. He understood the beauty of both high and low culture, and

> he gently celebrated the ironies of life in a series of poems and

> drawings as he practiced Zen Buddhism in 14th centry Japan.

>

> some of his poems:

>

> Natural, reckless, correct skill;

> Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity

> The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change

> One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.

>

>

>

> A Woman's Sex:

> It has the original mouth but remains wordless;

> It is surrounded by a magnificent mound of hair.

> Sentient beings can get completely lost in it

> But it is also the birthplace of all the Buddhas of the ten thousand

> worlds.

>

> A Man's Root:

> Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;

> If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -

> A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.

> Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!

>

> (A fundoshi is a type of loose-fitting underwear once worn by Japanese

> men.)

>

> Ikkyu is a fabled character in Japan. There are stories of him

> outwitting some kings and priests as a child.

>

> One zen priestess writes glowingly about him:

>

> One of the characters I want to introduce you to is a wonderful

> character in the Zen tradition, called Ikkyu, who is one of my

> longstanding and favourite Zen masters and who appeals, I guess, to

> the wild woman in me. He was born in 1394 and was an illegitimate son

> of the emperor Go-komatsu. He was known by some as the emperor of

> renegades, a wild wandering monk and teacher, sometimes called Crazy

> Cloud. He was a lover, a poet, and he could write very tenderly about

> the beauty of women. He relentlessly attacked the hypocrisy of the

> then corrupt Zen establishment, and even had women as his students. I

> think he was one of the first Zen masters to have women as students;

> that was considered quite radical. It was in the brothels and geisha

> houses that he developed the Red Thread Zen, a notion he borrowed from

> the old Chinese master Kido and extended to deep and subtle levels of

> realisation.

>

>

> gotta love this guy!

>

> .b b.b.

>