禅Gyeongheo Seongu

proverb

Sermon of the Meadow

Joseon

Traditionally attributed

Text

The meadow has not asked any of these wildflowers to bloom. The wildflowers have not asked the meadow to hold them. So a teacher and a student are when nothing is asked.

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Attribution

Lineage: Seon

By Gyeongheo Seongu

Sources

  • contentBuddhism and Buddhists in Korea

    Sung-bae Park

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