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Take up the phrase and hold it with great doubt — as if you had swallowed a red-hot iron ball and can neither vomit it out nor swallow it down. When the doubt mass breaks, that is your real face.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Chin'gak Hyesim

Lineage: Jogye

By Chin'gak Hyesim

• Silence Speaks the Dharmaproverb
• No Ground to Stand Onproverb
• Poetry and the Great Doubtproverb
• The Broken Monkproverb
• Three Questions, One Throatproverb

Sources

• contentTracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 98–130

• contentThe Zen Monastic Experience — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 149–190