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Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one
master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku.

Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind,
Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist.
... continue...

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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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