The Whole World Is One Bright Pearl

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Xuansha said: "The whole world in all ten directions is one bright pearl." A monk said, "I heard you once said, 'The whole world in all ten directions is one bright pearl.' How am I to understand that?" Xuansha said, "The whole world in all ten directions is one bright pearl—what is there to understand?" The next day Xuansha asked the monk, "The whole world in all ten directions is one bright pearl—how do you understand that?" The monk said, "The whole world in all ten directions is one bright pearl—what is there to understand?" Xuansha said, "I see you are making your living in a demon's cave."

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Attribution

• Speaker
  Xuansha Shibei

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Xuansha Shibei

• The Three Barriersdialogue
• Bodhidharma Never Came to Chinadialogue

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. 18, Xuansha Shibei chapter; Shobogenzo Ikka Myoju

  Jingde Chuandenglu: The Whole World Is One Bright Pearl