禅Nanyue Huairang

proverb

Cart or Ox?

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

If a cart is stuck, do you whip the cart or the ox? If you sit in order to make the body still and the mind goes on as before, you have whipped the cart and not the ox.

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Attribution

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By Nanyue Huairang

Sources

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

    Mario Poceski

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