Nowhere to Stand

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Baofeng said: "If you take a single step forward, you stumble over your own feet. If you take a single step back, you fall into the pit of concepts. If you stand still, you are a dead stump. Tell me—where will you plant your feet?"

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Baofeng Weizhao

Lineage: Guiyang

From Traditional Zen Sayings

• A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
• Thirty Blows
• A Day Without Work Is a Day Without Eating
• Mountains Are Mountains
• Cease and Desist
• Die While Alive
• The Whole Universe Is the Eye
• The Directness of Realization
• The Barrier of Words
• The Great Doubt Block

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Wudeng Huiyuan, Baofeng Weizhao chapter

  Traditional Zen Sayings: Nowhere to Stand