禅Baizhang Huaihai

proverb

Three Pounds of Flax

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

What is Buddha? Three pounds of flax. The student who finds this strange has not yet weighed his own questions.

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Attribution

Lineage: Nanyue line

By Baizhang Huaihai

Sources

  • contentThe Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues

    Cleary, Thomas (trans.)

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