Chan and Pure Land Are One Vehicle

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People say: recite the name, do not investigate. People say: investigate, do not recite the name. Both roads point to the same mountain. Why quarrel on the road about the road? When the mind is empty of clinging, each recitation is a wordless question. When the question dissolves completely, what remains is the pure land — here, now.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Tuệ Trung Thượng Sĩ

Lineage: Trúc Lâm

By Tuệ Trung Thượng Sĩ

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• Why I Refused Official Positionsaying

From Tuệ Trung Thượng Sĩ Ngữ Lục (Recorded Sayings of Lay-Elder Tuệ Trung)

• Teaching the Future King
• Why I Refused Official Position

Sources

• contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

  Cuong Tu Nguyen

  Tuệ Trung Thượng Sĩ Ngữ Lục; after Cuong Tu Nguyen, 'Zen in Medieval Vietnam' (1997), pp. 124–155, on Tuệ Trung's integration of Chan and Pure Land

  Tuệ Trung Thượng Sĩ Ngữ Lục (Recorded Sayings of Lay-Elder Tuệ Trung): Chan and Pure Land Are One Vehicle