Ikkyu's Well (MK22)
KOAN:
In a well that was never dug
water ripples from a spring that doesn’t flow.
Someone with no shadow or form
is drawing the water.
– PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 22 (from a poem by Ikkyu)
Featured: Entangling Vines Case 99 - Jiashan's State of Mind
A student asked Jiashan, “What is Jiashan’s state of mind?”
Jiashan answered, “Monkeys, clasping their young to their breasts, return beyond the green peaks: a bird with a flower in its beak alights before the blue cliff.”
—Entangling Vines, Case 99
