Chan and Pure Land Together

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Yanshou taught: "If you have Chan and Pure Land together, you are like a tiger with horns—in the present life a teacher of men, in the future life a Buddha or patriarch. If you have Chan but no Pure Land, nine out of ten will go astray—if the bardo death comes on you, you will follow your karma wherever it leads. If you have Pure Land but no Chan, ten thousand practice, ten thousand go—if you see Amitabha, why worry about not awakening? But if you have neither Chan nor Pure Land—iron bed, bronze pillars—ten thousand kalpas, a thousand births, there is nothing to rely on."

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Yongming Yanshou

Lineage: Fayan

By Yongming Yanshou

• One Hundred Acts of Virtuesaying
• On the Harmony of Chan and Pure Landsermon
• The Four Positions on Chan and Pure Landsaying

From Zongjing lu

• One Hundred Acts of Virtue

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Yongming Yanshou, Four-Line Verse on Chan and Pure Land; Zongjing lu

  Zongjing lu: Chan and Pure Land Together