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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.