禅Heshan Wuyin

dialogue

Beating the Drum

Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues

Five Dynasties

Traditionally attributed

Encounter dialogue · Mondō

Heshan Wuyin

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.”

Attribution

Lineage: Yunmen

From Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues

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