What Is This Thing That Thus Comes?

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Fayan pointed to the bamboo blind. Two monks went and rolled it up in exactly the same way. Fayan said, "One got it. One missed it."

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Attribution

• Speaker
  Fayan Wenyi

Lineage: Fayan

By Fayan Wenyi

• Six Attributes of One Houseproverb

From Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues

• My Mind Is Not at Peace
• Thinking of Not-Thinking
• Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
• The Boat Monk's Transmission
• The Sound of Bamboo
• Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy
• Ordinary Mind Is the Way
• Nanquan Kills the Cat
• Wash Your Bowl
• The Oak Tree in the Garden

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Mumonkan Case 26; Jingde Chuandenglu, Fayan chapter

  Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues: What Is This Thing That Thus Comes?