曹源一滴水 cáo yuán yī dī shuǐ

cáo yuán yī dī shuǐ set phrase one drop from the spring of Cao
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: name of a koan mentioned in the No. 7 Koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; here 曹 is 曹溪 Caoqi, the home of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 50; FGDB '曹源一滴水'; T 2003, Scroll 1)