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Ma's Sun Face Moon Face Buddha (BCR3)
KOAN:
Ancestor Ma was sick. The superintendent of the monastery asked him, “How have you been feeling these days?”
The Ancestor said, “Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha.”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 3 (translation by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland)
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