禅Yunmen Wenyan

proverb

Dry Shit-Stick

Mumonkan, Case 21

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

What is Buddha? A dry shit-stick. The blunt phrase is the medicine for the polished mind.

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Lineage: Yunmen

By Yunmen Wenyan

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