If the sound is in the piano box, why not ring on the wall?
If the sound of the piano comes from your hands, why can't you hear it?
This is a famous and typical poem about Li Qu and Zen.
Philosophically speaking, the wonderful sound of the piano comes from both the piano and the player's exquisite playing skills, which is an organic combination of the piano and the player. They depend on each other, interact and influence each other, just like the two wheels of a car and the wings of a bird. Wonderful piano sound is a highly democratic unity of subjectivity and objectivity of piano and fingers. Without the objective existence of the piano, there would be no wonderful piano sound. Without the pianist's mastery of music and superb playing skills, and without the active and full play of his subjective initiative, there will be no exquisite music. The poet takes the piano as a metaphor, which shows that all superb art is the result of the interaction between man as the subject and things as the object.
From the perspective of Zen, the poet explained Zen with the sound of the piano. By asking questions, the poet skillfully and vividly explained that the combination of piano and fingers produced beautiful piano sound. On the one hand, it exists objectively, whether from a simple piano or a simple finger. If it exists, it can make a piano sound, which is "you"; But neither the piano nor the fingers can produce wonderful music alone, which is "nothing"; On the other hand, the exquisite piano sound really comes from the piano and fingers, and the piano sound is hidden on the piano and fingers, which is "you". Without any one of the piano and fingers, it is impossible to make a beautiful piano body, which is "nothing" again. It is this kind of "being born out of nothing", "being born out of nothing", "being born out of nothing" and "being combined with nothing" that will produce wonderful piano sounds, thus revealing that the combination of "being" and "nothing" and the unity of "being" and "nothing" can generate the universal truth of everything. It should be noted that the sound of the piano is hidden on the piano, which can only be produced by fingering, that is, by the promotion of "you", but it is useless to have fingers alone, and "you" must rely on "nothing", that is, the sound hidden in the piano body. In short, the existence of mutual existence is the foundation of everything.
The enlightenment of this poem is that whoever wants to achieve something in his career needs his own subjective initiative and efforts to create a bright and beautiful life besides having certain conditions objectively.