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Yunmen Reveals the Golden Wind (BCR27)

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A student asked Yunmen, “When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what’s that?”
Yunmen said, “The Golden Wind reveals itself.”

—Blue Cliff Record Case 27 (transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland)