Seeing Through

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Poan said: "If you can see through just one phrase completely, you see through a thousand phrases, ten thousand phrases, all at once. If you cannot see through one phrase, how will more words help you? Do not seek extensively—turn the light around and look at what is looking."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Poan Zuxian

Lineage: Yangqi line

From Traditional Zen Sayings

• A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
• Thirty Blows
• A Day Without Work Is a Day Without Eating
• Mountains Are Mountains
• Cease and Desist
• Die While Alive
• The Whole Universe Is the Eye
• The Directness of Realization
• The Barrier of Words
• The Great Doubt Block

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Wudeng Huiyuan, Poan Zuxian chapter

  Traditional Zen Sayings: Seeing Through