25Yanguan's Rhino Fan鹽官犀扇
Introduction 示眾
剎海無涯，不離當處；塵劫前事，盡在而今。試教伊覿面相呈，便不解當風拈出。且道：過在什麼處？
The ocean of worlds has no edge, yet it never leaves the spot where you stand. Everything from a thousand ages back is here in this very moment. Try making it show you its face straight on. Still you can't pluck it out of the wind that's blowing. So tell me: where does the mistake lie?
鹽官一日喚侍者：「與我過犀牛扇子來。」者云：「扇子破也。」官云：「扇子既破，還我犀牛兒來。」者無對。資福畫一圓相，於中書一牛字。
One day Yanguan called his attendant: "Bring me the rhino-horn fan."
The attendant said, "It's broken."
Yanguan said, "If the fan's broken, then bring me back the rhino."
The attendant had nothing to say.
Zifu drew a circle and wrote the word "rhino" inside it.
Verse 頌
扇子破索犀牛，
棬攣中字有來由。
誰知桂轂千年魄，
妙作通明一點秋。
The fan is broken, so he asks for the rhino;
the word inside the circle has its reasons.
Who knows the moon's dark thousand-year self,
working one bright point of autumn into light?