Bare Sword

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Make your whole body into a great mass of doubt. Then bring out the sword called Mu. When the sword cuts cleanly, you cannot tell it from the cut.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Wumen Huikai

Lineage: Linji

By Wumen Huikai

• Every Season Is a Good Seasonproverb
• Preface to the Gateless Barriersermon
• The Gateless Barrierproverb
• Concentrate on Muproverb
• No Snowflake Falls in the Wrong Placeproverb

Sources

• contentMumonkan (Gateless Barrier) — Senzaki & Reps translation, 1934

  Nyogen Senzaki, Paul Reps (trans.)