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Jiashan's Surroundings (EV99)

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KOAN:

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 grotto.”

—Entangling Vines, Case 99