禅Huangbo Xiyun

proverb

Give Up Words and Reach Beyond

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

Give up words, give up thinking, and stretch out to the place where words and thinking cannot reach. There you will meet me — not as a teacher, but as the same hand you use to hold this cup.

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Attribution

Lineage: Linji

By Huangbo Xiyun

Sources

  • contentEssays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

    D. T. Suzuki

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