any road

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its logical; if you're not going anywhere

any road is the right one 

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~ Ikkyu Sojun (1394 -1481)

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he was known his teaching and for his erotic poems and revolutionary shakuhachi music. 

he founded what became known as the "Red Thread," or erotic school of Zen.

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Love letters

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Every day, priests minutely examine the Law

And endlessly chant complicated sutras.

Before doing that, though, they should learn

How to read the love letters sent by the wind

and rain, the snow and moon.

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~ Ikkyu

(Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology,

 trans. by Sonya Arutzen)

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