“Alone, seated atop the Great Mountain”

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“Alone, seated atop the Great Mountain”

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Does anyone know the source of this quote? I’m pretty sure that’s the quote, or it’s something very similar.
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Re: “Alone, seated atop the Great Mountain”

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shanehanner wrote: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:46 pm Does anyone know the source of this quote? I’m pretty sure that’s the quote, or it’s something very similar.
A monk asked Baizhang, “What is extraordinary?” Baizhang said, “Sitting alone on the mountain.” The monk bowed; Baizhang then hit him.
(Blue Cliff Record, case 26, BDK ed, p 148)
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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