Gizan Zenrai

Gizan Zenrai (1802 – March 28, 1878) was a Japanese Zen monk and poet. Quotes I was born into this worldI leave it at my death.Into a thousand townsMy legs have carried me,And countless homes -What are all these?A moon reflected in the waterA flower floating in the skyHo! Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6, 2000; Partly cited in: Scott Alexander Jones. Elsewhere: Indian Summer’s End: Book I, 2014. p. iii. Also translated into German in: Ralf T. Vogel. Der Tod in der Psychotherapie. 2007. p. 111, and quoted in: Andrés Pascual. Die Tränen des Himmels: Roman 2011. p. ii Quotes about Gizan Zenrai As a spiritual successor to the 19th-century Zen poet Gizan Zenrai (and anyone who has ever felt wistful thinking that everything we’ve ever known will one day vanish), [Harold Whit] Williams writes: “A child once again, / Gazing out to where forever ends. / Everything orbiting, gently orbiting.” Harold Whit Williams. Red Clay Journal Paperback, January 2, 2018. Back cover text. External links Q116482757 Category:Poets from Japan Category:1802 births Category:1878 deaths Category:Zen Buddhist monks Category:Buddhists from Japan Category:Articles with no corresponding English Wikipedia article