Ikkyu, the Zen master, was very clever even as a boy.
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With me was the knowledge that that fellow Ikkyu(1394-1481) twice contemplated suicide.
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Ikkyu, producing the pieces of the shattered cup,
added,“It was time for your cup to die.”.
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This view of things has something in common with Ikkyu's world of the Buddha and world of the devil,
and yet at heart the two have their different inclinations.