Sickness and Medicine (BCR87)
KOAN:
Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other. The whole world is medicine. What am I?
– Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 (Yunmen)
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 cliff.”
—Entangling Vines, Case 99
KOAN:
Sickness and medicine are in accord with each other. The whole world is medicine. What am I?
– Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 (Yunmen)