The Sixth Patriarch, Dajian
Huineng, once came upon a group of monks observing and discussing a flapping
pennant.
The first monk said, “It’s the
pennant that moves.”
Another objected,
“The pennant is an inanimate object and has no power to move; it is the wind
that moves.”
Then a third said, “The
flapping of the pennant is due to the combination of flag and wind.”
The Sixth Patriarch interrupted
the discussion, telling the monks, “It’s neither wind nor pennant that moves,
rather it’s your own minds that move.”
[Dajian Huineng – Zen Masters of China: 59-67, 72-73, 74, 78, 79, 80,
94; The Story of Zen: 136-42]
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