禅Yunmen Wenyan

proverb

Every Day Is a Good Day

Blue Cliff Record, Case 6

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

What about before the fifteenth of the month? I will not ask. After the fifteenth? Every day is a good day. The good is not in the calendar but in the willingness to meet whatever shows up.

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Attribution

Lineage: Yunmen

By Yunmen Wenyan

Sources

  • contentThe Blue Cliff Record — R.D.M. Shaw translation, 1961

    R.D.M. Shaw (trans.)

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