The "Voice of Hand" by Zen Master Bai Yin

There was a shamananli who watched his senior brothers go to the meditation hall to practice meditation every day, and he was very yearning for it, so he mustered up the courage to ask Zen Master Lei to allow him to enter the meditation hall to practice meditation.Zen Master Molei said: You must be careful when learning Zen, and you must never play or play. It is really not suitable for you at a young age. Let’s talk about it when you grow up a little longer!

Nanlishami refused to give up and repeatedly begged: Zen Master! I must have a beginning and an end, please give me a chance.

Zen Master Molei had no choice but to allow him to say: OK! Listen carefully, you can hear the sound of clapping hands. Now you enter the meditation hall and show me the sound of one hand.

Nan Lishami bowed and left the Dharma Hall, thinking about this issue carefully.He heard the sound of playing instruments from the window and shouted happily: I can do it! So he went to the Zen master to play the sound he heard to the Zen master.

Zen Master Molei instructed: No! No! That is not the sound of a hand.

Nan Li thought: That kind of music might interrupt, so he moved to a remote and quiet place, thinking about what the sound of a hand was. Suddenly, he heard the sound of water drops, and immediately ran to the Zen master and simulated the sound of water drops.

After hearing this, Zen Master Molei said: It was the sound of a drop of water, not the sound of a hand.Re-spect!

Nanlishami could only meditate and listen carefully to the sound of her hands, and gain nothing.Every day he heard the sound of wind, cicadas, insects, and owls. Over the past three years, he ran to Zen Master Mosey more than a dozen times, and was rejected. What exactly is the sound of a hand? He observed the meditation mind and finally entered true meditation and surpassed all sounds.

Nanlishami finally said: It turns out that the sounds in the world are impermanent, only the sound of the hand, and that silent sound is the "sound of the hand".

There will be sounds when you pat your hands together, but what sounds will be with one hand? This is a famous case founded by Zen Master Bai Yin.In other words, when the two palms slap each other, it will make a sound, but for a Zen practitioner, how can I hear the sound of a hand that does not slap?

Zen Master Baiyin’s intention is to use this kind of unrighteous case to make people directly enter a world that cannot be distinguished.Zen Master Bai Yin once handed the Zhaozhou wordless case since the Fifth Patriarch Fayan and Zen Master Dahui to beginners for practice. However, wordless is difficult to cause doubts. Therefore, he proposed a case with one hand so that practitioners can work hard to study, and it is easier to guide the practitioners to reach the state of enlightenment.Zen Master Molei taught his later generations how to enlighten the Tao and finally became practical.