Pang Yun
Pang Yun
Dates uncertain
Pang Yun is recorded in the historiography of the late-Tang / Song-period Chan transmission network as a transmission figure in its lineage. The surviving record preserves his place in the line; little distinctive doctrinal material from his teaching is preserved in modern scholarship[1].
Names
Teachers and lineage of Pang Yun
Teacher / root master:
Teachings
- verseMy Daily Activity
My daily activity is nothing special. I just naturally harmonize. Grasping nothing, discarding nothing. In every place, no hindrance, no conflict. Who assigns the ranks of vermilion and purple? The hills and mountains— not a speck of dust. Supernatural power and marvelous activity: drawing water and chopping wood.
- dialogueDifficult, Easy, Neither
Layman Pang said, "Difficult, difficult, difficult—like trying to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree." His wife said, "Easy, easy, easy—just like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed." Their daughter Lingchao said, "Neither difficult nor easy—on the tips of a hundred grass blades, the meaning of the Patriarch."
How wondrous, how miraculous—I chop wood, I carry water.
Other masters in Other
Master Record Sources
Pang Yun
- koan_refsChart of the Chan Ancestors
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- nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Pang Yun
- teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Mazu Daoyi