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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
Taoist
7th Century

About Yoka Genkaku (Yongjia Xuanjue)

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English version by
Robert Aitken

Original Language
Chinese
[38] All categories are no category; (from The Shodoka)

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Buddhism and Zen, by Nyogen Senzaki / Ruth Strout McCandless

All categories are no category;
What relation have have these to my insight?
Beyond praise, beyond blame, --
Like space itself it has no bounds.

 

 

 

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