禅Guishan Lingyou

proverb

Broken Pot

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

A monk broke a clay pot at my door and apologized. I said: do not apologize to me; apologize to the pot for asking it to be a pot all those years.

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Attribution

Lineage: Caodong

By Guishan Lingyou

Sources

  • contentZen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings

    Andy Ferguson

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