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When Gensha Shibi, a Chinese Zen master, and a general were eating cakes together,
the general asked:
- What is it that's used everyday but not known?
The master handed a piece of cake to the general and said:
- Eat this... continue...

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BODY-N-MIND AS BODY-N-MIND
Apart from this body-n-mind, nowhere else the consciousness can be.

When one is in ignorance, his body-n-mind is the one of ignorance.
When he's indulging in desires, his body-n-mind is the one of desires.
When he is in anger or hatred, his body-n-mind is the one of anger or hatred.
When he is awakened, his body-n-mind is the one of awakening.

What one needs to do is to be aware and awake at every moment.
When the mutation occurs in him, everything immediately falls in its place.

ChonTri

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