禅Guishan Lingyou

proverb

A Lifetime on One Mountain

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

Forty years on this mountain. The trees know me; the path knows me. The student who can stay on one mountain for a lifetime has already left it.

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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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