No Fixed Abode

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Rāhulata said: 'My teacher taught me: the Dharma is like a great river. A river has no fixed dwelling. It flows wherever the land allows. If you dam it up in one place, calling it your own, you have made a pond—not a river.' He himself moved continuously, staying nowhere long enough to be called a resident.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Rahulata

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Rahulata

• In Praise of the Perfection of Wisdomverse

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 1, Rahulata chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: No Fixed Abode