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OXHERDING PICTURES I 3098 BOTH OX AND SELF FORGOTTEN / Alldelusive feelings have perished and ideas ofholiness too have vanished.He lingers not in [the state of "I am a] Buddha," and he passes quicklyon through [the stage of "And now I have purged myself of theproud feeling 'I am] not Buddha.' " Even the thousand eyes [offivehundred Buddhas and Patriarchs] can discern in him no specificqua1ity.8 If hundreds of birds were now to strew flowers about hisroom, he could not but feel ashamed of himsel£ 7Whip, rope, Ox and man alike belong to Emptiness.So vast and infinite the azure sky8that no concept of any sort can reach it.Over a blazing ftre a snowflake cannot survive. 9·When this state of mind is realizedcomes at last comprehensionof the spirit of the ancient Patriarchs.

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