Responding to the question posed to Goso Konin (fifth leader Konin)'s apprentices, the leading apprentice Shenxiu wrote a poem on a new white wall including the phrase "Bakushisenjinai" (do not let it be in the dust).
五祖弘忍の弟子たちへの問いかけに応じて、新しい白壁に筆頭弟子の神秀が書いた詩に「莫使染塵埃」（塵埃に染さしむること莫かれ）とあった。