禅Toeong Seongcheol

proverb

Not a Celebrity

Modern

Traditionally attributed

Text

When laypeople come to make me into a celebrity, I send them home. A monk who collects admirers has lost the only audience that mattered: the morning bell, ringing whether anyone listens or not.

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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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