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)

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• Scroll 2 The Blue Cliff Record (Biyanlu) 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 — count: 1 , has English translation