禅Toeong Seongcheol

proverb

Do Not Leave the Mountain

Modern

Traditionally attributed

Text

I did not leave Haeinsa for ten years. Some called this attachment. Whoever cannot sit through one full season on one cushion will not understand what was being held.

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Attribution

Lineage: Jogye

By Toeong Seongcheol

Sources

  • contentThe Zen Monastic Experience — Robert E. Buswell

    Robert E. Buswell Jr.

    pp. 191–229

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