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Gateless Gate (Mumonkan, Wumenguan) #21
Yunmen's Kanshiketsu
Gateless Gate (Mumonkan, Wumenguan) #21
Yunmen's Kanshiketsu
Personnel
- YUNMEN Wenyan (Ummon Bunen, 864-949, 13th gen), disciple of Xuefeng
- an unnamed monk
A monk asked Yunmen, “What is Buddha?”[1] "Kanshiketsu!" (Sekida); "'Kanshiketsu!' (a shit stick)" (Low); "'Kanshiketsu!' (a dried shit-stick)" (Yamada); "'A shit-stick!' (Kanshiketsu!)" (Shibayama); "Dried shitstick" (Aitken); "A dry turd" (Cleary).
Yunmen answered, “Dried dung."[1]
Wumen's Comment (Senzaki)
It seems to me Yunmen was so poor he could not distinguish the taste of one food from another, or else he was too busy to write legibly. He tried to uphold his school with dried dung. His teaching was just as useless."Wumen's Verse (Senzaki)
Lightning flashes.
In the blink of an eye
You have missed it.
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