Someone asked Master Yunmen, “What is the eye3 of the genuine teaching?”
The Master said, “ It’s everywhere!”4
Footnotes
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“Eye” signifies the core or essence of something. The Chinese master Dahui Zonggao and chose this expression(literally, “treasury of the eye of the genuine teaching”) as tides of their central works.
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This is one of Master Yunmen's famous one-word answers. In the original, the character in question has meanings such as: 1. vast, great; and 2. general, universal; all, everything, everywhere. Translators including myself must capitulate, in part because o f Yunmen ’s intentional use of multiple meanings. Daisetz T. Suzuki renders this word as “Everywhere!” {Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series, p. 352), Charles Luk as “Universality” (K’uan-yii Lu, Ch ’an and Zen Teachings, Second Series [London: Rider, 1961], p. 203), John Wu as “All-comprehensive!” (Golden Age of Zen, p. 220), Thomas and J. C. Cleary as “Universal" (Blue Cliff Record, p. 39), and Wilhelm Gundert as “ Common! [i.e., everybody has it though it is the most unfathomable mystery]” (Bi-yan-lu: Meister Yuan-wu's Niederschrift von der Smaragdenen Felswand [Frankfurt/M.: Ullstein Verlag, 1983], p. 150).
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