Q0414

Wumen Huikai

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Spring has a hundred flowers, autumn the moon; summer a cool breeze, winter the snow. If no idle affairs hang in the mind, every season is a fine season in the human world.
Thinker Wumen Huikai
School Zen
Source Gateless Gate (popular verse)
Theme Self
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Gateless Gate (popular verse), within the tradition of Zen. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of self, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Wumen Huikai's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Wumen Huikai. (n.d.). Spring has a hundred flowers, autumn the moon; summer a cool breeze, winter the snow. If no idle affairs hang in the mind, every season is a fine season in the human world. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0414

MLA: Wumen Huikai. “Spring has a hundred flowers, autumn the moon;….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0414.

Chicago: Wumen Huikai. “Spring has a hundred flowers, autumn the moon;….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0414.

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  1. The Great Way has no gate; there are a thousand paths. Once you pass this checkpoint, you walk alone between heaven and earth.

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  1. A friend is another self.
  2. A person's character is their destiny.
  3. I searched for myself.
  4. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  5. Claim yourself for yourself.

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