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The Teaching Is Upside Down (BCR15)
KOAN:
Then the student asked Yunmen, “But when it’s not the things I can see, and it’s not what the things are doing, what is it?”
Yunmen said, “Say it upside down.”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 15
ALSO,
KOAN: Yunmen Says It Backwards
Then the student asked Yunmen, “But when it’s not the things I can see, and it’s not what they’re doing, what is it?”
Yunmen said, “Say something backwards.”
—Blue Cliff Record Case 15 (transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland)