I Hate Incense - Ikkyu

[Larry Robinson]

I Hate Incense

Who can even discuss a master's methods?
Speaking of Dao, talking of Zen, your tongues grow long.
Old Ikkyu abhors your scrambling after marvels.
I make a pinched, sour face, all this incense thrown on the
          Buddha.

	- Ikkyu
	  (translated by Sarah Messer and Kidder Smith)
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