In another telling of the story he arrives to find his meager shack ransacked by the thief and writes a koan with a broken piece of charcoal on a torn piece of parchment:
He left it right there
In the window
The moon
That’s translated and also my memory from a book I read 20 years ago. Do not take this as historically or literarily accurate.
I just wish I could live naked in a little hut at the foot of a mountain.
Someone owns the mountain and now you owe them first and last months rent, a security deposit, and proof of 7 years of rental history.
Feeling enlightened yet?
I certainly feel the need to sell my clothes and moon them
In another telling of the story he arrives to find his meager shack ransacked by the thief and writes a koan with a broken piece of charcoal on a torn piece of parchment:
He left it right there In the window The moon
That’s translated and also my memory from a book I read 20 years ago. Do not take this as historically or literarily accurate.