The Whole World Is You

Text

Xuefeng held up a ball before the assembly and said, "When this whole universe is destroyed—sun, moon, mountains, rivers—where does this go?"

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Xuefeng Yicun

Lineage: Qingyuan line

From Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues

• My Mind Is Not at Peace
• Thinking of Not-Thinking
• Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
• The Boat Monk's Transmission
• The Sound of Bamboo
• Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy
• Ordinary Mind Is the Way
• Nanquan Kills the Cat
• Wash Your Bowl
• The Oak Tree in the Garden

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Xuefeng chapter

  Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues: The Whole World Is You