禅Keizan Jōkin

proverb

Broad Seat

Kamakura

Traditionally attributed

Text

Spread the seat of the practice broadly. Do not gather the dharma into a narrow line of monks; let nuns sit, let the children sit, let the donor sit beside the abbot. The seat that excludes is too small for the buddhas.

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Attribution

Lineage: Sōtō

By Keizan Jōkin

Sources

  • contentSōtō Zen in Medieval Japan

    William M. Bodiford

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