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Crossing the Brook (MK23)

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KOAN:

a. Slowly I cross a brook and extinguish its sound.

b. My lazy gaze follows the tracks of the flying birds.

(Freely I follow the tracks of the flying birds.)

—PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 23 (Xuedou’s capping phrases to Yunmen’s Good Day, Case 6 in the Blue Cliff Record)