Chan and Doctrine Are Not Two

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When Deshao had established himself on Mount Tiantai, a student asked him, "You are a Chan master—why do you study and teach the Tiantai doctrinal commentaries?" Deshao said, "The mind that understands Chan and the mind that understands doctrine: is there a difference?" The student said, "I don't know." Deshao said, "That is because you have not yet understood either one."

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Attribution

• Speaker
  Tiantai Deshao

Lineage: Fayan

By Tiantai Deshao

• On Teaching Foreign Monkssaying

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. 25, Tiantai Deshao chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: Chan and Doctrine Are Not Two