The Directness of Realization

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Yangqi addressed the assembly: "If you want to understand this matter, you must cut off all entanglements at a single stroke. Do not spend your days counting other people's treasures. Right here, right now—what is lacking?"

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Yangqi Fanghui

Lineage: Yangqi line

By Yangqi Fanghui

• The Meaning of Yangqi's Teachingdialogue

From Traditional Zen Sayings

• A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
• Thirty Blows
• A Day Without Work Is a Day Without Eating
• Mountains Are Mountains
• Cease and Desist
• Die While Alive
• The Whole Universe Is the Eye
• The Barrier of Words
• The Great Doubt Block
• Not Deceived by Words

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Wudeng Huiyuan, Yangqi Fanghui dharma hall discourse

  Traditional Zen Sayings: The Directness of Realization