禅Yangshan Huiji

proverb

Everything Is the Flower

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

When the master holds up the flower, the flower is the master. When the master sets it down, the master is the flower. The misunderstanding is to think only the holding-up counts.

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Attribution

Lineage: Caodong

By Yangshan Huiji

Sources

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

    Andy Ferguson

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