The Bodhisattva's Hands and Eyes

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Daowu asked Yunyan, "What does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion do with so many hands and eyes?" Yunyan said, "It is like a person in the night reaching back for a pillow." Daowu said, "I understand." Yunyan said, "What do you understand?" Daowu said, "All over the body are hands and eyes." Yunyan said, "That is well said, but it only expresses eight-tenths of it." Daowu said, "Then what do you say, elder brother?" Yunyan said, "Throughout the body are hands and eyes."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Yunyan Tansheng
• Respondent
  Daowu Yuanzhi

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Yunyan Tansheng

• Just This Is Itdialogue

From Book of Serenity

• Where Cold Cannot Reach
• Book of Serenity (Cóngróng Lù)

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Book of Serenity, Case 54; Jingde Chuandenglu, Yunyan chapter

  Book of Serenity: The Bodhisattva's Hands and Eyes