"My late master Tiantong…ascended the seat and taught the assembly: Tiantong's first phrase of mid-winter: Old plum tree bent and gnarled All at once opens one blossom, two blossoms, Three, four, five blossoms, uncountable blossoms, Not proud of purity, Not proud of fragrance;"
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"This old plum tree is boundless. All at once its blossoms open, and of itself the fruit is born."
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"It forms spring; it forms winter. It arouses wind and wild rain. It is the head of a patch-robed monk; it is the eyeball of an ancient buddha. It becomes grass and trees; it becomes pure fragrance. Its whirling, miraculous transformation has no limit."
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"Furthermore, the treeness of the great earth, high sky, bright sun, and clear moon derives from the treeness of the old plum tree. They have always been entangled, vine with vine."
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"When the old plum tree suddenly opens, the world of blossoming flowers arises. At the moment when the world of blossoming flowers arises, spring arrives. There is a single blossom that opens five blossoms."
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"At this moment of a single blossom, there are three, four, five blossoms, hundreds, thousands, myriads, billions of blossoms—countless blossoms. These blossomings are not-being-proud-of one, two, or countless branches of the old plum tree."
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"An udumbara flower and blue lotus blossoms are also one or two branches of the old plum tree's blossoms. Blossoming is the old plum tree's offering."
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"The old plum tree is within the human world and the heavenly world. The old plum tree manifests both human and heavenly worlds in its treeness. Therefore hundreds and thousands of blossoms are called both human and heavenly blossoms."
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"Myriads and billions of blossoms are buddha-ancestor blossoms. In such a moment, 'All the buddhas have appeared in the world' is shouted: 'The ancestor was originally in this land' is shouted as well."
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