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Yunmen's One Treasure (BCR62)

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KOAN:

Yunmen said, “In the center of the cosmos, inside heaven and earth, there is one treasure, hidden in the body. It picks up a lantern and walks into the meditation hall. It brings the entrance gate and puts it on top of the lantern.”

—Blue Cliff Record Case 62

(transl. by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland, titled: Yunmen’s Treasure Hidden in the Body)