dialogue

Difficult, Easy, Neither

Sayings of Layman Pang

Tang

Historically verified

Encounter dialogue · Mondō

Pang Yun

Layman Pang said

“Difficult, difficult, difficult—like trying to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree.”

His wife said

“Easy, easy, easy—just like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed.”

Their daughter Lingchao said

“Neither difficult nor easy—on the tips of a hundred grass blades, the meaning of the Patriarch.”

Attribution

Lineage: Other

By Pang Yun

From Sayings of Layman Pang

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