Beating the Drum

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A monk asked Heshan, "How can one hear the soundless teaching?" Heshan said, "When the wooden man beats the drum at midnight, the stone woman gets up and dances."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Heshan Wuyin

Lineage: Yunmen

From Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues

• My Mind Is Not at Peace
• Thinking of Not-Thinking
• Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
• The Boat Monk's Transmission
• The Sound of Bamboo
• Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy
• Ordinary Mind Is the Way
• Nanquan Kills the Cat
• Wash Your Bowl
• The Oak Tree in the Garden

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Wudeng Huiyuan, Heshan Wuyin chapter

  Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues: Beating the Drum