禅Bojo Jinul

proverb

Householder and Mountain Monk

Goryeo

Traditionally attributed

Text

The mountain monk who congratulates himself on having left the world has not yet left himself. The householder who is empty in the marketplace is already in the mountains.

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Attribution

Lineage: Jogye

By Bojo Jinul

Sources

  • contentBuddhism and Buddhists in Korea

    Sung-bae Park

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