Followers of the Way, when I say that there is no Dharma outside, the students do not understand and deduce it is necessary to search within themselves. Then they sit, leaning against a wall, tongue pressed to the upper palate, and remain so motionless. That they take for the patriarch's gate of the Buddha-Dharma. What a great error!
(The Zen Teaching of Rinzai; tr. Irmgard Schloegl, pub. Shambhala 1975)
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