The Lion's Roar

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Siṃha Bhikṣu said: 'The lion does not announce before it roars. The roar simply comes, and everything in the forest becomes still. When you have truly entered the Dharma, your very presence becomes a lion's roar. Not that you shout—but that around you, distractions become still.'

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Simha

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Simha

• The Final Transmissiondialogue

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, Simha chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: The Lion's Roar