The Gateless Barrier

Text

The Great Way has no gate — a thousand paths enter it. Once you pass through the barrier, you walk freely between heaven and earth.

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
• Concentrate on Muproverb
• Bare Swordproverb
• No Snowflake Falls in the Wrong Placeproverb

Sources

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

  Nyogen Senzaki, Paul Reps (trans.)

• contentThe Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism

  Heine, Steven & Dale S. Wright (eds.)

  pp. 163–188