Exhausted with gay pleasures, I embrace my wife.
The narrow path of asceticism is not for me:
My mind runs in the opposite direction.
It is easy to be glib about Zen -- I’ll just keep my mouth shut
And rely on love play all the day long.

...

The vagaries of life
Though painful,
Teach us
Not to cling
To this fleeting world.

Ikkyu (1394-1481)