禅Yunmen Wenyan

proverb

Bell and Robe

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

When the bell rings, why do you put on the seven-piece robe? The bell does not require the robe; the robe does not require the bell. Yet when the bell rings, the robe goes on. That is the practice.

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Attribution

Lineage: Yunmen

By Yunmen Wenyan

Sources

  • contentMaster Yunmen: From the Record of the Chan Master 'Gate of the Clouds'

    Urs App (trans.)

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