85The Hermit of Tongfeng Roars
Introduction 垂示
把定世界，不漏纖毫，盡大地人亡鋒結舌，是衲僧正令。頂門放光，照破四天下，是衲僧金剛眼睛。點鐵成金，點金成鐵，忽擒忽縱，是衲僧拄杖子。坐斷天下人舌頭，直得無出氣處，倒退三千里，是衲僧氣宇。且道：總不恁麼時，畢竟是箇什麼人？試舉看。
Lock the whole world down and not a hair leaks through. Strike everyone on earth dumb, sword broken, tongue tied: that is a real monk's true command. Light shoots from the crown of his head and blazes across all four corners of the world. That is his diamond eye. He turns iron into gold and gold back into iron, grabs and lets go in the same breath. That is his staff. He cuts off the tongues of everyone alive, leaves them no room even to breathe, sends them stumbling back three thousand miles. That is his nerve. Now tell me: when a man does none of this, what kind of man is he? Let's look.
僧到桐峯庵主處，便問：「這裏忽逢大蟲時，又作麼生？」庵主便作虎聲。僧便作怕勢。庵主呵呵大笑。僧云：「這老賊！」庵主云：「爭奈老僧何？」僧休去。雪竇云：「是則是兩箇惡賊，只解掩耳偷鈴。」
A monk came to the hut of the hermit of Tongfeng and asked, "If a tiger suddenly showed up here, what would you do?"
The hermit growled like a tiger. The monk jumped back, terrified. The hermit roared with laughter.
"You old crook," the monk said.
"And what are you going to do about it?" said the hermit.
The monk gave up and left.
Xuedou said: Both of them are thieves, all right. But all they know how to do is plug their own ears while they steal the bell.