Muso Soseki

It is interesting that I find myself so fascinated with Muso Soseki. Perhaps it is because Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer.

He most known today for developing the art of traditional Japanese Zen gardening. Even more impressive is his creation of the institutional structure for all Japanese Buddhist temples, which still in use today.

Tenryu-ji is his temple where I attended zazen in Arashiyama.

I cannot help but feel like I am looking into a mirror.

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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.

-Musō Soseki