The One Who Has No Rank

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Yanguan Qian said: "There is one who has always been present in your own house, who has no rank and no title, who does not appear on any genealogy. Do you know this one? If you know this one, all the Buddhas and patriarchs become your servants. If you do not know this one, you will wander through the three worlds seeking what was never lost."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Yanguan Qian

Lineage: Nanyue line

By Yanguan Qian

• The Rhinoceros Fandialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree
• The Encounter with Linji

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 6, Yanguan Qian chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: The One Who Has No Rank