14Kuo Serves Tea to Deshan廓侍過茶
Introduction 示眾
探竿在手，影草隨身。有時鐵裹綿團，有時錦包特石。以剛決柔則故是，逢強即弱事如何？
A probe-pole in your hand, decoy-grass at your back. Sometimes iron wrapped in cotton, sometimes a brick dressed in brocade. Hard breaking soft is easy enough. But when you meet the strong by turning soft, what then?
廓侍者問德山：「從上諸聖向什麼處去也？」山云：「作麼？作麼？」廓云：「勅點飛龍馬，跛鼈出頭來。」山便休去。來日山浴出，廓過茶與山，山撫廓背一下。廓云：「這老漢方始瞥地。」山又休去。
Kuo the attendant asked Deshan, "Where did all the old sages go?"
Deshan said, "What? What's that?"
Kuo said, "I called for a flying dragon-horse, and out crawls a lame turtle." Deshan let it drop.
Next day Deshan came out of the bath, and Kuo brought him tea. Deshan gave him a pat on the back.
Kuo said, "So the old man's finally waking up." Again Deshan let it drop.
Verse 頌
覿面來時作者知，
可中石火電光遲。
輸機謀主有深意，
欺敵兵家無遠思。
發必中，
更謾誰？
腦後見腮兮，人難觸犯；
眉底著眼兮，渠得便宜。
The master knows it the instant it shows its face;
even spark and lightning-flash come too slow.
Yielding the upper hand has a plan running deep;
baiting his enemy, the general looks no further than the next move.
Loose the arrow, and it lands.
So who is fooling whom?
Cheekbones behind the skull: no one dares touch him.
Eyes set under the brows: he is the one who comes out ahead.