Dairin Soto

Dairin Soto (1480 - January 27, 1568) was a Japanese haiku poet.

Quotes

 * My whole life long I've sharpened my sword And now, face to face with death I unsheathe it, and lo - The blade is broken - Alas!
 * Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6.


 * Realize that the taste of tea and the taste of Zen are the same and absorb the wind in the pines. Then will your mind be undefiled.
 * H. Paul Varley, ‎Isao Kumakura. Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu. 1989. p. 62

Quotes about Dairin Soto

 * Zen master Dairin Soto (1480-1568), founder of Nanshuji temple in Sakai, wrote [a verse] on a portrait of : Formerly, he maintained bonds to the unhindered cause of Amida Buddha's [Vow], Then changed schools and actively endeavored [in Zen].
 * Chanoyu Quarterly, Nr. 53-56, 1988. p. 41


 * Dairin Soto (1480-1568), ninetieth abbot of Daitokuji temple in Kyoto and founder of Nanshuji Temple in Sakai, wrote on a portrait of . Jōō practiced Zen under Dairin and received the layman's title Ikkan ~53 in 1549, at the age of forty-eight.
 * J. Ikeda. Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path. 1995