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Dream

 

 

Before Japanese Rinzai Zen Master Takuan Soho died, this great scholar-artist-teacher instructed: 

“Bury my body on the mountain behind the temple; throw earth on it and go away. 
No scripture reading, no offerings—go on with your meals. Afterwards, no pagoda, no monument, no posthumous name or title, and certainly no biography full of dates!” 
At his final moment, he wrote the Chinese character for yume ("dream"), put down the brush, and died.