Not the Flag, Not the Wind

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Two monks argued: one said the flag moves, the other said the wind moves. I said: it is not the flag and not the wind — it is your minds that move.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Dajian Huineng

Lineage: Early Chan

By Dajian Huineng

• A Beardless Foreignerkoan
• Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Goodkoan
• Not The Wind, Not The Flagkoan
• Your Original Faceproverb
• It Is Your Mind That Movesproverb

From Platform Sutra

• Your Original Face
• It Is Your Mind That Moves
• Platform Sutra: On Self-Nature
• Platform Sutra: No-Thought, No-Form, No-Abiding
• The Robe and Bowl Transmission to Huineng
• Think Neither Good Nor Evil
• There Is No Mirror Stand
• Without Thinking Good or Evil
• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liùzǔ Tánjīng)

Sources

• contentSeeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism

  John R. McRae