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Let me tell you about the middle path.

Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted,
abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not clean the one who is deluded.
Mortifying the flesh through excessive... continue...

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WHO AM I?
Another day, in the back yard of the Zen teacher's monastery, another learner asked him:

-Master, I would like to know who I am.
-What for is it to know something like that?
-Please teach me.
-Do you see the oak tree over there?
He asked back while looking at the tree.
-Yes, I do.
-It got the answer, go and ask it.

ChonTri 11/06/03

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