德山三世心不可得 déshān sān shì xīn bù kě dé

déshān sān shì xīn bù kě dé phrase Deshan cannot obtain the mind of the past, present, or future
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan
Notes: Refers to a story about the monk Deshan in Koan 4 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 30; T 2003, Scroll 1; FGDB '德山三世心不可得')