The Seamless Monument

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Dongshan was unwell. A monk asked, "Your Reverence is ill, but is there anyone who does not get ill?" Dongshan said, "There is." The monk asked, "Does the one who does not get ill look after Your Reverence?" Dongshan said, "This old monk is properly looking after that one." The monk asked, "How is it when you look after that one?" Dongshan said, "Then I do not see that there is any illness."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Dongshan Liangjie

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Dongshan Liangjie

• Truth Outside Yourselfproverb
• Verses of the Five Ranksverse
• Five Ranks: The Verses of the Upright and the Inclinedverse
• Dongshan Crosses the Streamdialogue
• Host Within Hostproverb

From Blue Cliff Record

• Body Exposed in the Golden Wind
• A Flower in a Dream
• Nothing Within, Nothing Without
• Verse on Case 1: Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness
• Verse on Case 6: Yunmen's Every Day Is a Good Day
• Verse on Case 14: Yunmen's Appropriate Statement
• Blue Cliff Record (Bìyán Lù)

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Recorded Sayings of Dongshan, on illness

  Blue Cliff Record: The Seamless Monument