Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
KOAN:
Linji said, “There is a true person with no rank, who is always coming and going through the portals of your face.”
– PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 38b (Record of Linji) & Book of Serenity, Case 38
We and everything we perceive are interwoven and not interwoven, and this interweaving continues on and on, while each thing stands in its own place.
—Shitou Xiqian
KOAN:
Linji said, “There is a true person with no rank, who is always coming and going through the portals of your face.”
– PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 38b (Record of Linji) & Book of Serenity, Case 38