禅Prajnatara

proverb

No Pride of Lineage

Indic

Traditionally attributed

Text

I am the twenty-seventh patriarch only because someone wrote it down. The number does not bow when I bow; it does not eat when I eat; it has nothing to do with the sitting.

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Attribution

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Prajnatara

Sources

  • contentEssays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

    D. T. Suzuki

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