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One day a girl in geisha house hailed the Japanese Zen master Mokudo by name.
He went inside and discovered that the girl was a childhood acquaintance.
The crops had failed one year in their village, and she had become a courtesan... continue...

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Dropping the views of being but clinging to the views of nothing,
this is like the sun in the east that gets clouded on itself. [Hui-neng]
Dropping the views of nothing but clinging to the views of being,
this is like the moon in the west that gets clouded on itself.
When mixing the views of being with the views of nothing,
the sun and the moon get double clouded.

Note: The sun shines at midnight, no place is not bright.

ChonTri 03/06/2009

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