Yanyang Shanxin


Yanyang Shanxin (嚴 陽 善 信; pinyin: Yanyin Shànxin; 엄 양선 신 Amyang Sǒnsin; Japanese Genyō Zenshin; ) - Chinese master chan from the lineage of Master Zhaozhou Congshena.

He was the disciple of Master Zhaozhou Congshen. He lived and taught at Xinxing in Hongzhou. Apparently he had a serpent and a tiger that had eaten him. When Yanyang met Zhaozhou for the first time, he asked him, "When one thing can not be taken, what then?" Zhaozhou said: "Put it away." Yanyang said, "If even one thing can not be taken, how can it be put off?" Zhaozhou said, "If you can not put it away, you can not go further." Upon hearing these words, Yanyang experienced great enlightenment. After Yanyang took the abbot's seat in the monastery, a monk asked him, "What is Buddha?" Yanyang said, "They buy dust." The monk asked, "What is Dharma?" Yanyang said, "The earth is moving." The monk asked, "What is Sangha?" Yanyang said, "eating porridge and rice." The monk asked, "What is 'meeting things as they appear?'" Yanyang said, "Give me a bench for meditation." Dharma transmission line Bibliography

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