Body Exposed in the Golden Wind

Text

A monk asked Yunmen, "When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what then?" Yunmen said, "Body exposed in the golden wind."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Yunmen Wenyan

Lineage: Yunmen

By Yunmen Wenyan

• Bells And Robeskoan
• Dried Dungkoan
• Ummon's Sidetrackkoan
• Why Put on Your Robe?proverb
• Yunmen's One-Word Barriersdialogue

From Blue Cliff Record

• The Seamless Monument
• A Flower in a Dream
• Nothing Within, Nothing Without
• Verse on Case 1: Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness
• Verse on Case 6: Yunmen's Every Day Is a Good Day
• Verse on Case 14: Yunmen's Appropriate Statement
• Blue Cliff Record (Bìyán Lù)

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Blue Cliff Record, Case 27

  Blue Cliff Record: Body Exposed in the Golden Wind