Snow Falls into the Silver Bowl

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Snow falls into a silver bowl: the white touches the white, and yet it is two. So with the meeting of the apparent and the real — they are not one, and not two, and not somewhere in between.

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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.)