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# 虛堂和尚語錄 6.330

虛堂和尚語錄 6.330

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [6.330](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.6.330)

行脚不到大徹堂前，剛要凌滅應庵門戶，指柳罵楊，  
吹沙嗅土，却笑謝郎眉忒竪，欲識中峯箇裏人，  
無尾大蟲不是虎。

> On his itinerant pilgrimage he never reached the front of Dache Hall, / yet he insisted on eclipsing the portal of Ying'an. / Pointing at the willow and cursing the poplar, / blowing sand and sniffing dirt, / he chuckled instead at Brother Xie's eyebrows knit so steeply. / If you wish to know the person inside Zhongfeng: / a tailless big bug is not a tiger.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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