Where Cold Cannot Reach

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A monk asked: when cold and heat come, how can we escape them? Why not go to a place where there is no cold and no heat? Where is such a place? Where the cold kills you, the heat kills you.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Dongshan Liangjie

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Dongshan Liangjie

• Truth Outside Yourselfproverb
• Verses of the Five Ranksverse
• Five Ranks: The Verses of the Upright and the Inclinedverse
• Dongshan Crosses the Streamdialogue
• The Seamless Monumentdialogue

Sources

• contentThe Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues

  Cleary, Thomas (trans.)