Hold the Phrase Like a Mosquito Biting Iron

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Work on the critical phrase as a mosquito works on an iron ox — at a point where it cannot sting, let it bore in with its whole body. In one instant, body and life fall away together.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Seosan Hyujeong

Lineage: Seon

By Seosan Hyujeong

• Investigating the Live Wordpractice-instruction
• Three Bodies, One Swordproverb
• Warrior-Monkproverb
• Three Religions, One Mindproverb
• An Empty Templeproverb

From Mirror of Seon (Seongamnok)

• Three Bodies, One Sword

Sources

• contentThe Zen Monastic Experience — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 21–58