The Meaning of Yangqi's Teaching

Text

A monk asked Yangqi, "What is the meaning of the patriarch's coming from the West?" Yangqi said, "A donkey peers into a well." The monk said, "I do not understand." Yangqi said, "The well peers at the donkey."

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Attribution

• Speaker
  Yangqi Fanghui

Lineage: Yangqi line

By Yangqi Fanghui

• The Directness of Realizationsaying

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

  Wudeng Huiyuan, Yangqi Fanghui chapter

  Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues: The Meaning of Yangqi's Teaching