Recognizing the Successor

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When Kumārata arrived in northern India, he saw an auspicious radiance rising from a certain household. He inquired and was told that a man of great virtue named Jayata lived there. Kumārata knocked at the gate. Jayata came out and said: 'What does the elder seek?' Kumārata said: 'Not what I am seeking—what is seeking me.' Jayata bowed and opened the gate.

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Attribution

• Speaker
  Kumarata

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Kumarata

• The Story Is the Teachingsaying

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. 1, Kumarata chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: Recognizing the Successor