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Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)

KOAN:

There is nothing I dislike.

—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 38a

From PZI MK Case 38, Linji:

a. There is nothing I dislike.
b. There is a true person of no rank who is constantly coming in and going through the gates of your face.
c. There is a solitary brightness without fixed shape or form. It knows how to listen to the teachings, it knows how to understand the teachings, it knows how to teach. That solitary brightness is you.
d. Wherever you are, just take the role of host, and that place will be a true place.
e. In your life right now, what is it you lack, what is it that practice must mend?

—Record of Linji