Verse on the Dharma Body

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Blue mountains do not move; white clouds come and go. The dharma body is just this — neither coming nor going. Students chase the clouds, not seeing the mountains. Stop chasing. Look directly. The mountains have never moved.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Naong Hyegeun

Lineage: Seon

By Naong Hyegeun

• Meeting Zhikong in Yuan Chinadialogue

From Naong Hwasang Eorok (Recorded Sayings of Master Naong)

• Meeting Zhikong in Yuan China

Sources

• contentThe Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  Naong Hwasang Eorok (懶翁和尙語錄); after Buswell, 'The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea' (1989), on Naong Hyegeun's revival of Seon in the late Goryeo period

  Naong Hwasang Eorok (Recorded Sayings of Master Naong): Verse on the Dharma Body