Dalong's Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82)

KOAN:

Someone asked Dalong, “The color body perishes. What is the pure everlasting body?”
Dalong said, “Mountain flowers bloom like brocade, valley streams run deepest indigo.”

—Blue Cliff Record Case 82 (PZI version)

ALSO,

A student asked Dalong, “The physical body perishes. What is the pure everlasting body?”
Dalong said, “Flowers cover the mountains like brocade, mountain torrents so deep they’re indigo.”

(transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland, titled: Dalong’s Flowers Like Brocade)