快鹞赶不及 (快鷂趕不及) kuài yào gǎnbùjí
kuài yào gǎnbùjí
set phrase
a quick hawk cannot overtake it
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example, in the No. 12 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to something very fast (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 78; FGDB '快鷂趕不及'; T 2003, Scroll 2)