Wild Fox

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If you say a great practitioner does not fall under cause and effect, you become a wild fox for five hundred lives. If you say he is not blind to cause and effect, the wild fox is freed at once. Watch the difference of one syllable.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Mazu Daoyi

Lineage: Nanyue line

By Mazu Daoyi

• This Mind Is Buddhakoan
• This Mind Is Not Buddhakoan
• This Very Mind Is Buddhadialogue
• Sun-Face Buddha, Moon-Face Buddhadialogue
• Drink Up the Yangtze Riverdialogue

Sources

• contentOrdinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism

  Mario Poceski