禅Yunmen Wenyan

dialogue

A Dried Shit Stick

Record of Yunmen

Five Dynasties

Historically verified

Encounter dialogue · Mondō

Yunmen Wenyan

A monk asked Yunmen

“What is Buddha?”

Yunmen said

“A dried shit stick.”

Attribution

Lineage: Yunmen

By Yunmen Wenyan

From Record of Yunmen

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