景德傳燈錄 5.97

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5.97

There was also a close attendant minister who asked: "Whence did this body come? After a hundred years, where will it return again?" The Master said: "When a person is dreaming, whence do they come? When they wake from sleep, whither do they go?" The minister said: "While dreaming, it cannot be said to be nonexistent; once awakened, it cannot be said to exist. Although there are existence and nonexistence, there is no place of coming or going." The Master said: "This poor monk's body is also like that dream." He also had a verse, which went:

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