Ryōkan Quote

The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.


Written after a thief robbed his hut, as translated in The Enlightened Heart : An Anthology of Sacred Poetry (1993) by Stephen Mitchell, p. 162


The thief left it behind: the moon at my window.

The thief left it behind: the moon at my window.

The thief left it behind: the moon at my window.

The thief left it behind: the moon at my window.