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In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the morning.... continue...

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ONE & MANY (GRAGON HEAD SNAKE TAIL)
If one views things and himself as many, and maintains that things and people are many, then he will get black-n-blue.

If one views things and himself as one, and maintains that things and people are one, then he will get black-n-blue, too.

Question:
So, how could one view and say about things and people in order to not get black-n-blue?

Answer:
Just see things and people as-they-are.

Question:
How could one see things and people as-they-are?

Answer:
Dragon's head snake's tail.

ChonTri

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