Hekiganroku - Case 42: Ho Koji's "Beautiful Snow"

Ho Koji [1] was leaving Yakusan. The latter ordered ten of his Zen students
to see Koji off at the temple gate. Koji pointed to the falling snow in the
air and said, 
  "Beautiful snow-flakes! -- they don't fall on any other place."
At that time there was a student named Zen, who said,
  "Where then do they fall?"
Koji gave him a slap. Zen said, 
  "Koji, don't be so rough."
Koji said, 
  "If you name yourself Zen student in such a condition, Old En [2] will
   never release you!"
Zen said,
  "What then would you say, Koji?"
Koji slapped him again and said,
  "You see with your eyes but you are just like a blind man. You speak with
   your mouth, but you are just like a dumb man."

(Setcho added his comment, "At the first words, I immediately would have
 made a snowball and threw it against him.") 


[1]: Koji is an honorific for a lay practitioner of Buddhism.
[2]: Usually named Emma-Daio (the King of hell Emma). He is supposed to be the
     fearful judge at the entrance of the realm of the dead.