Juzhi raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Chan. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger.

 

Juzhi heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Juzhi called and stopped him. When the boy turned his head to Juzhi, Juzhi raised up his own finger. In that instant the boy was enlightened.

 

When Juzhi was about to pass from this world, he gathered his monks around him. `I attained my finger-Chan,' he said, `from my teacher Tianlong, and in my whole life I could not exhaust it.' Then he passed away.

 

Wumen's comment: Enlightenment, which Juzhi and the boy attained, has nothing to do with a finger. If anyone clings to a finger, Tianlong will be so disappointed that he will annihilate Juzhi, the boy and the clinger all together.