The Place That Is Not Like Anything

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After his awakening, Jiashan taught: "The place where I dwell is not a temple, not a mountain, not a city. It has no walls and no floor. It cannot be pointed to and cannot be missed. When a student asks me where it is, I say: right here. When the student looks, I say: already gone. This is the place that is not like anything—and it is the only place you have ever actually lived."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Jiashan Shanhui

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Jiashan Shanhui

• Jiashan and the Boat Monkdialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 16, Jiashan Shanhui chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: The Place That Is Not Like Anything