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One day a girl in geisha house hailed the Japanese Zen master Mokudo by name.
He went inside and discovered that the girl was a childhood acquaintance.
The crops had failed one year in their village, and she had become a courtesan... continue...

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HOT OR COLD
When it's hot or cold, one's body feels hot or cold, and it needs to undressing some clothes to cool itself down or putting on some more clothes to warm itself up, that is its intelligence.

When one's mind or soul gets hurt and it looks for some place that, it thinks, would be neither hot nor cold to abide, this is its ignorance. And with this action of looking for a place like that, it is going into one more layer of ignorance.

Visitor:

What is the mind's or soul's intelligence?

CT:
When it suddenly realizes that looking for something like that is its ignorance and stops looking for it, at that moment, that's is its intelligence.

CT & Visitor

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