End-of-Summer Address

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At the end of the summer retreat, Luopu said to the assembly: "All summer I have been talking for your benefit. Look—are my eyebrows still there?" Baofu said to Changqing, "The one who feels remorse—his eyebrows are growing." Changqing said, "The one who gives life—his eyebrows are falling off." Yunmen said: "The barrier!" Xuedou commented: "Baofu and Changqing each expressed one side. Neither expressed the whole. Yunmen expressed the whole—but where are his eyebrows?"

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Luopu Yuanan

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Luopu Yuanan

• The Encounter with Linjidialogue

From Blue Cliff Record

• Tianhuang's Bowl Washing
• The Rhinoceros Fan
• Don't Think
• The Condolence Visit
• The Seamless Tower
• Alive or Dead in Sitting
• All Sounds Are Buddha-Sound
• All Three Bodies of Buddha
• Daguang's Laughing
• The Sound of Raindrops

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Blue Cliff Record, Case 8 (cf. commentary); Jingde Chuandenglu, Luopu chapter

  Blue Cliff Record: End-of-Summer Address