禅Gasan Jito

proverb

River Monk

Edo

Traditionally attributed

Text

I sit by the river that flows past the temple. The river does not ask whether I am a monk; it does not bow when I bow. Yet whenever I rise, I rise from a longer rest than I started with.

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Attribution

Lineage: Rinzai

By Gasan Jito

Sources

  • contentZen Buddhism: A History — Volume 2: Japan

    Heinrich Dumoulin

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