截断天下人舌头 (截斷天下人舌頭) jiéduàn tiānxià rén shétou

jiéduàn tiānxià rén shétou phrase cut off the speech of everyone in the world
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Notes: Quote: from koan 7 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (Amies 2021 tr.; see also Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 47; T 2003, Scroll 1)