禅Upagupta

proverb

Lay Merchant Awakens

Indic

Traditionally attributed

Text

A wealthy merchant came to me wanting to leave the world. I told him: stay in the world and trade fairly; the dharma is in the weighing of the goods. He returned a year later and said: the scales have been my master.

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Attribution

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Upagupta

Sources

  • contentEssays in Zen Buddhism, First Series

    D. T. Suzuki

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