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僧問百丈：「如何是奇特事？」丈云：「獨坐大雄峯。」僧禮拜，丈便打。
A monk asked Baizhang, "What's the rare and wondrous thing?"
Baizhang said, "Sitting alone on Great Hero Peak."
The monk bowed.
Baizhang hit him.
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祖域交馳天馬駒，
化門舒卷不同途。
電光石火存機變，
堪笑人來捋虎鬚。
A sky-colt streaks across the patriarchs' ground.
The teaching gate rolls open, rolls shut, never the same road twice.
Lightning, sparks off flint, the pivot turns in a flash.
Here comes a fool to stroke the tiger's whiskers — what a joke.