Only One Thing to Settle

Text

Settle this one thing, and the ten thousand affairs settle themselves. Refuse to settle it, and the ten thousand affairs become ten thousand small stones in your shoe.

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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.)