Song Chan master of Liangshan in Dingzhou, in the Caodong line: a dharma heir of Liangshan Yan, himself an heir of Liangshan Yuanguan, placed at the tenth generation below Qingyuan. Asked 'when you brush away the dust and see the Buddha, what then?' he said 'don't let your eyes flower'; asked when he would become a buddha, 'don't press a free man into slavery.' His verse on Luzu facing the wall runs: 'Luzu's samadhi was the least effortful — the moment a monk came, he faced the wall. For one who knows mind and has reached the Way, it takes no raised eyebrow to be understood.'
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