Instruction:

What does Heaven say? [Yet] the four seasons run their course. What does Earth say? [Yet] the ten-thousand creatures are born. Facing the direction in which the four seasons run their course, you must see the reality. At the place where the ten-thousand creatures are born, you must see the function. Just say now. Facing toward what place can you apprehend a patch-robed monk? Having turned away from speaking, acting, moving, sitting and lying down, having closed up your mouth and lips, can you still speak about it?

Case:

A monk asked Unmon, "What is the Dharma-body?" Unmon said, "Six do not gather it in."

Verse:

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Even the blue-eyed barbarian monk cannot count it completely.

The hermit of Shôrin deceptively says that he transmitted it to Shinkô.

Rolling up his robe he also says that he is returning to India.

India is endlessly distant; there is no way to ask about it.

As of last night he is facing Nyû Peak and pitching his tent.

Links:

List of posted koans, and introduction to Hekiganroku

Extended commentary on verse, case and introduction.