Doyu

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“Doyu's poem is pure metaphor, giving with remarkable precision a sense of the gravity of his emotion: like the sun which daily comes and goes, the poet has come, will go—after a life of standing “mid-air,” contemplative withdrawal.”

“And here is the 13th-century master Doyu's death poem:... The Japanese masters composed not only enlightenment and death poems in Chinese verse forms, they often wrote of important Zen Poetry.”

“Myoken Doyu, (1201-1256)... also came to Sung-China from Japan.”

“In all my six and fifty yearsNo miracles occurred.For the Buddhas and the Great Ones of the FaithI have questions in my heart.And if I say,"Today, this hourI leave the world,"There's nothing in it. Day after day,Does not the sun rise in the east?”

“Fifty-six years, above Buddhas, Patriarchs,I've stood mid-air.Now I announce my final journey-Daily sun breaks from the eastern ridge.”