The Zen Master Hoshin lived in China many years. Then he returned to the northeastern part of Japan, where he taught his disciples. When he was getting very old, he told them a story he had heard in China. This is the story:
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One day, when the brilliant Chinese Cha'n master Chao-chou was sweeping the court of the monastery, a man asked him: -Ch'an monastery supposed to be clean and pure. Why is there dust to sweep? Chao-chou replied: -It came trom outside. On another day, when the same thing happening, a monk asked him: -Sir, you are a man of good understanding, why do you still have dust? Chao-chou replied: -Look! another dust again.
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