Cease and Desist

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Shishuang said: "Cease and desist. Spend ten thousand years in one thought. Be cold ashes and a dead tree. Be a strip of white silk. Be cold and severe as the ancient censer in a ruined temple."

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Shishuang Qingzhu

Lineage: Qingyuan line

From Traditional Zen Sayings

• A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
• Thirty Blows
• A Day Without Work Is a Day Without Eating
• Mountains Are Mountains
• Die While Alive
• The Whole Universe Is the Eye
• The Directness of Realization
• The Barrier of Words
• The Great Doubt Block
• Not Deceived by Words

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Shishuang chapter

  Traditional Zen Sayings: Cease and Desist