Linji Yixuan Quotes

Linji Yixuan was the founder of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China.

✵ ?? – 866
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Linji Yixuan Quotes

“Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place. (Translator unsourced.)”

<爾且隨處作主。立處皆真。> [T47n1985_p0498a19] from Linji lu (臨濟録, Record of Linji).
Just make yourself master of every situation, and wherever you stand is the true [place]. (Trans: R.F. Sasaki, Ed. T. Kirchner, The Record of Linji).
If you master any situation you are in, wherever you stand, all becomes true. (Trans: Irmgard Schloegl, The Zen Teaching of Rinzai).

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