“In the Buddhadharma there is nothing you have to work at: only the ordinary, with no further business.”
Linji
To the card
Record of Linji, 示眾, section 12 of the linked edition. Directly after the statement, Linji names relieving oneself, getting dressed, eating and lying down when tired. He criticizes outward striving and clinging to holiness. Own rendering by HoloKardio, translated from the German card text (itself rendered from the classical Chinese).
Source
Linji Yixuan, Record of Linji (臨濟錄), 示眾; website section 12: Ordinary, Nothing to Do.
https://koan.ehrlich.dev/record-of-linji/12.html
Rights
Original text in the public domain; English version: own rendering.
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