Ask. Answer.
I ask and you answer.
When I do not ask, you do not answer.
What can it be then that is in your heart,
O Lord Bodhidharma?
And what is it, the heart?
It is the sound of the pine breeze
there in the ink painting on the wall.
— Ikkyu
I ask and you answer.
When I do not ask, you do not answer.
What can it be then that is in your heart,
O Lord Bodhidharma?
And what is it, the heart?
It is the sound of the pine breeze
there in the ink painting on the wall.
— Ikkyu