"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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"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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