I remember a venerable monk in The Life of Yue Fei)who sat cross- legged and died as soon as a bailiff who was pursuing him reached the gate of the monastery. He left behind this couplet: As from the east the law arrives I seek the Western Paradise.

• 记得 (说岳全传)里讲过一个高僧，当追捕的差役刚到寺门之前，他就“坐化”了，还留下什么“何立从东来，我向西方走”的偈子。