We often say "snap your fingers". How long does it take to "snap your fingers"

People often use "a flick of a finger" to describe how fast time is, but how long is it? Have we calculated how long it takes to flick our fingers and swing our arms? In India, "snapping your fingers" is a custom, which is used to express preference or epiphany. "Ji Zang Yi Shu" said: "Those who snap their fingers show the feeling of all beings." So when using it, no one will calculate its real time. But in Buddhism, "snapping your fingers" does have a specific time.

The Bhikkhu Law explains: "Twenty thoughts are a moment, twenty hours are a moment, twenty fingers are a Luo Yu, twenty Luo Yu are a moment, and there are thirty hours a day and a night."

According to Buddhism, there are as many as 86,400 seconds a day and a night, and a moment is equivalent to 2,880 seconds. So, it takes only 7.2 seconds to snap your fingers.

In Buddhism, it is often said that "once you become a Buddha, once you become a demon". It has always been a Buddhism that cares for compassion and pursues universal life, and every minute embodies the essence of goodness. Therefore, words such as "a flick of a finger", "place" and "an instant" are widely used in allusions to express the meaning of short time.

With the infiltration and migration of culture, "a flick of a finger" began to be often used to express time. Although it uses vague concepts, its meaning is almost the same.

In some literary works, we will see "twenty years in a blink of an eye" and "sixty years in a blink of an eye", all of which contain the vicissitudes of lamenting how time flies. In some martial arts novels, "a flick of the finger" is often used to express the sharp change of the situation.

Summary: "Moment" and "Moment" both come from Sanskrit and belong to foreign words. There are many explanations for moments in Buddhist scriptures: one says that sixty moments are a flick of a finger; The second is a moment between words, and there are 900 lives and deaths in a moment; The third explanation is that an instant is a short time that cannot be described by numbers.

There are also many explanations about a moment. In Yili Liyan, there is a sense of leisure; In the golden mean, a moment means leisure and lingering; In Xunzi's exhortation to learn, there is a concept of time, which refers to an instant; There is also a view that a moment is the divination of the ancient yin and yang family.

Nowadays, people have forgotten many uses of "a moment" in Sanskrit, which only means that time is short.