Where Does the Bell Sound Go?

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A student asked Buddhanandi: 'When the bell is struck, where does the sound go?' Buddhanandi said: 'Ask where it came from.' The student was silent. Buddhanandi said: 'You hear the silence now. Has it gone anywhere?'

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Buddhanandi

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Buddhanandi

• The Star That Does Not Movedialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 1, Buddhanandi chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: Where Does the Bell Sound Go?