No.
A monk asked Yunmen, "How is it when one statement says everything?"
Yunmen said, "Torn open."
Xuedou snapped his fingers three times.
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Deshan said to a group in an informal gathering, "Tonight I won't give answers - whoever has a question gets thirty strokes of the cane."
At that time a monk came forth and bowed. Deshan immediately hit him. The monk said, "I haven't asked a question yet; why do you hit me?"
Deshan said, "Where are you from?"
The monk said, "Korea."
Deshan said, "You should have been given thirty strokes of the cane before you got on the boat"
Dagui Zhe versified,
Holding high the seal of the patriarchs, he sits in the center of the heartland.
Who is willing to determine fortune and misfortune at the moment?
If not for this patchrobed one from Korea
How could the pure wind be kept in motion forever?
Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching
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the sun and the moon
never rising or setting
despite how it looks
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Linji said to the assembly,
"There is a true man with no rank always going out and in through the portals of your face. Beginners who have not yet witnessed it, look! Look!"
Then a monk came forward and said,
"What is the true man of no rank?"
Linji got down from the seat, grabbed and held him: the monk hesitated. Linji pushed him away and said,
"The true man of no rank--what a piece of dry crap he is!"
...
the turning world
fully in daylight and dark
dawn circling dusk
...
Master Guanghui Lian said to an assembly,
There's originally nothing to Buddhism; the sages since time immemorial have all been hoking up wonders, creating programs, oppressing free people and making them menials, burying their posterity. Then there were Yunmen, Zhaozhou, Deshan, and Linji; deadly dull, they suffered injustice all their lives.
Here I am not that way. Even if old Shakyamuni Buddha were to show up, I'd banish him to another world, so there would be no trace of him. Why would I do this? So I wouldn't have to worry about losing my posterity.
When I speak this way, how do you people understand? If you can understand here, won't that be joyous? It will get you to shed your hair shirt so you can be clean and free. If you don't understand, next year there will be more new stipulations, disturbing the spring wind, with never an end.
A monk asked for more instruction in a private interview, saying, "The master just said that even if old Shakyamuni Buddha came up you'd banish him to another world..."
Before he had finished quoting, Lian said, "If you understand this way, you'll go to hell like an arrow."
The monk said, "Then how should I understand?"
Lian hit him. The monk hesitated, trying to think of something to say. Lian said, "Understand?"
The monk said, "No."
Lian said, "Today I have explained to you without trying to avoid being censured everywhere; to serve infinite lands with this profound heart is called requiting the blessings of Buddha."
Dahui cited this and said with scorn, "Decent people are unwilling to do it; you have to lie in your piss."
Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching
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perspective matters
spring and autumn together
simultaneous
...
One day, Shih-lin questioned the Layman, saying, "There's something I must ask. Does the Layman ever say anything succinctly?"
The Layman said, "Could you please tell me exactly what it is you're quibbling about?"
Shih—lin said, "I just asked you to say something succinctly."
The Layman said, "Doesn't your question presume someone is going to understand it [when I say it]?"
Shih—lin covered his ears.
The Layman said, "How concise! How concise!"
...
both at the same time
always going out and in
making sense of it
...
Someone asked Master Yunmen, "What is the eye of the genuine teaching?"
The Master said, "Everything!"
...
aye the eye I sigh
not a single speck of dust
tear open I cry
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Someone asked, "The person who possesses neither form nor rank - does he understand?"
Joshu said, "Right now! Do you understand?"
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