Just This Is It

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When Dongshan was about to leave Yunyan, he asked, "After you have passed away, if someone asks me to describe your teaching, what shall I say?" Yunyan was silent for a long time. Then he said, "Just this is it." Dongshan fell into thought. Yunyan said, "You must be very careful with this great matter." Dongshan remained doubtful. Later, as he was crossing a stream, he saw his own reflection and was greatly awakened. He composed a verse: "Avoid seeking it elsewhere, for that is far from the self."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Yunyan Tansheng
• Respondent
  Dongshan Liangjie

Lineage: Qingyuan line

By Yunyan Tansheng

• The Bodhisattva's Hands and Eyesdialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree
• The Encounter with Linji

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 15, Yunyan Tansheng chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: Just This Is It