No Ground to Stand On

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The hwadu pulls the ground from under your feet. If at that moment you reach for a wall, you have already missed it. Fall straight through, and you will find your old life waiting for you, only without the one who used to live it.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Chin'gak Hyesim

Lineage: Jogye

By Chin'gak Hyesim

• What Is This?proverb
• Silence Speaks the Dharmaproverb
• 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