Cold Pond and Bright Moon

Text

The cold pond and the bright moon — neither is master, neither is guest. They simply meet, and the meeting is enough. Practice is the same.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Xuedou Chongxian

Lineage: Yunmen

By Xuedou Chongxian

• Verse on Case 1: Bodhidharma's Vast Emptinessverse
• Poetry and Zensaying
• Verse on Case 6: Yunmen's Every Day Is a Good Dayverse
• Verse on Case 14: Yunmen's Appropriate Statementverse
• Snowy Cliffproverb

Sources

• contentThe Blue Cliff Record — R.D.M. Shaw translation, 1961

  R.D.M. Shaw (trans.)