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  When a monk was traveling on the road, he met an old woman, and asked:
-I would like to know which way that leads to Chao-chou, would you please give me the direction?
The old waman replied:
-Just go straight, don't make any... continue...

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WHEN A FRAGMENTED MAN...
Someone once said something like this:

"When a whole man just hears what is said, he immediately captures it in a flash of lightning, then he walks on and does his creative work.

When a half-n-half man hears what is said, he seems to understand it but actually he does not. He keeps reasoning, arguing, asking and jumping into any conclusion which might come from his memory. With him, there is nothing new. He just bothers himself and others.

When a fragmented man hears what is talked about, the more he listens to it, the more he gets confused and goes into broken pieces of his thoughts, then he askes and asks with frivolous questions or takes it as a joke and laughs as loud as he could. But if he did not laugh at it, how could it be called the way of fragmented men?"

ChonTri 01/16/2008


 



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