Mountain of Gold, Mountain of Mist

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If a mountain of gold stood at the door, students would line up to climb it. A mountain of mist costs nothing, contains nothing, and only the sincere try to enter it.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Taego Bou

Lineage: Taego Order

By Taego Bou

• Five Houses, One Riverproverb
• The Pure Rule for One Personproverb
• King and Monkproverb
• No Back, No Frontproverb

Sources

• contentTracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 17–97