It is said that in Suzan Shorin-ji Temple, Daruma faced the wall and continued meditating for nine years; however, there is also a theory that this legend resulted from a misperception of Daruma's hekikan (literally, "staring at the wall").
達磨は嵩山少林寺において壁に向かって9年坐禅を続けたとされているが、これは彼の壁観を誤解してできた伝説であると言う説もある。