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Phap Hien was a Vietnamese Zen master. He lived in the late 5th century and early the 6th century.
When he was a young monk at the Phap Van Temple he met Vinitaruci (?-594) who was one of the
successors of Seng-tsan, the Third Patriarch... 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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