Musō Soseki Quotes

• “It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.”

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• “All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small.”
  Muso Soseki”

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• “My thatched hut;
  the whole sky Is its roof
  The mountains are its hedge,
  And it has the sea for a garden.
  I’m inside with nothing at all,
  Not even a bag,
  And yet there are visitors who say “
  It’s hidden behind a bamboo door”
  — Muso Soseki”

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• “Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.”

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