To hell with the wind!
Confound the rain!
I recognize no Buddha.
A blow like the stroke of lightning -
A world turns on its hinge.

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Notes from Wikiquote

Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen Dust, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World p. 206; cited in Richard Bryan McDaniel (2013)

Variants

/ I rebuke the wind and revile the rain, I do not know the Buddha and patriarchs; My single activity turns in the twinkling of an eye, Swifter even than a lightning flash.

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