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 ====== Koans ======
+) Manjusri Bodhisattva rides a lion. Sammantabhadra Bodhidattva rides on an elephant.
+What does Shakamuni Buddha ride on?
+) Count the stars in the heavens.
+) How can you rescue a man who fell in the 1000 foot well, without using a rope?
+) The sound if something struck! - and I have forgotten all I knew.
+Training was not even temporarily necessary.
+In movement and deportment I manifest the Ancient way,
+And fall not into a possible pessimism.
+Nothing of me remains when I pass,
+In speech and manner free of dignity.
+All those who have reached this state of knowledge by experience,
+Without exception tell of this supreme activity-potential.
+(Collection of Vines and Entanglements)
+Which line is most important?
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 ) Go straight on the narrow mountain path that has a thousand curves.
+//I stood up, slowly looked around and very slowly took a step. Then I walked as we do in Kinnin.//
 ) Extinguish a candle light a thousand miles away.
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 Sitting in the room in absolute silence:
 Mind source unmoved
 The striking of thunder has opened the gate of the heads crown.
 The beginningless self.nature has been awakened.
 Which line is the most important?
 Present the implication (content) of the line.
 ) A-ji Khan (note; A is the first letter of the alphabet and it also means ‘the beginning of growth, the source of the universe’.