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One day Yao-shan Wei-yen (750-834), one of the well-known Chinese Ch'an master,
was asked by the host of the monastery to give his sermon to the assembly who
for a long while was expecting his teaching. Yao-shan said: "Strike the bell."

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DID ANYONE BIND YOU OR PUT YOU IN JAIL?
CT: Friends,
Did anyone bind you or put you in jail and you want to be freed?

Justin: I think I put myself in jail sometimes I miss the simplest things.
Miss as i do not realise or remember to be freed.
Thanks "
.........
CT: You are the one who answers CT's question.
If you understand your answer completey, then you can
be called the man of independence. This means when
you put yourself in jail, you know it, and when you don't
put yourself in jail, you also konw it.

ChonTri 12/08/2010

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