All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.
...
Read full text
mmm.. I had thought that a monk, especially that time, that country, had to show the highest spirit of endurance, so to deal with any adversity with serenity and tolerance.. - All kinds of adversity and nuisance.. including mosquitoes.. ;)
, I wonder if Issa was laughing at himself also when he wrote this! :)
The two contrasting things.. to attain salvage its the guilt that is being killed....