Poet-Monk

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Some say I am too much a poet to be a real Chan master. The Chan that fits inside a poem fits everywhere. The Chan that does not is too small to be the dharma.

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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.)