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See with Your Ears (GG16)

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KOAN:

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

—variation on Wumen’s verse in Gateless Gate Case 16

also:

If you listen with your ear, it is hard to understand. If you hear with your eye you are intimate at last.

—Gateless Gate Case 16, from Wumen’s Verse