Tile Striking the Bamboo

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Sweeping the path, a piece of tile struck the bamboo. The sound emptied my whole search of thirty years; I bowed in the direction of my old master and said: had he answered me then, I would never have arrived here.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

license: cc_by

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Xiangyan Zhixian

Lineage: Guiyang

By Xiangyan Zhixian

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Sources

• contentZen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings

  Andy Ferguson