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  The Buddha once taught the Bhikkhus about the All:

"I will teach you the All. Listen closely. What is the All? It is eye and visible object,
ear and sound, nose and scent, tongue and taste, body and feelings, mind and ideas.
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FIRE & HAND
The fire does not intend to come to contact the hand;
The hand does not intend to reach out to contact the fire, either.
But when the man named Woodsman put his naked hand into the fire;
It gets extremely hot like hell and blistered really bad.
In crying, he ran out to share his burned experience with others.
Some would give him a vaseline bandage,
Some would give him a sigh,
Some would give him a laugh.
But none of them wants to have any experience like that,
because they already knew and sweared never touch fire again.

ChonTri 08/10/2004


 



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