To depart while seated or standing is all one.

All I shall leave behind me

Is a heap of bones...

Koho Kennichi

10.12.1316

Zen death poem

Tarryall Mountains, Colorado... view over the bones

Cargoless,

bound heavenward,

ship of the moon.

Tsumimono ya

nakute jodo e

tsuki no fune

Dohaku

1673

Zen death poem

Colorado Rocky Mountain sky