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 +68) Manjusri Bodhisattva rides a lion. Sammantabhadra Bodhidattva rides on an elephant.
  
 +What does Shakamuni Buddha ride on?
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 +67) Count the stars in the heavens.
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 +66) How can you rescue a man who fell in the 1000 foot well, without using a rope?
  
  
  
 65) The sound if something struck! - and I have forgotten all I knew. 65) The sound if something struck! - and I have forgotten all I knew.
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 Training was not even temporarily necessary. Training was not even temporarily necessary.
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 In movement and deportment I manifest the Ancient way, In movement and deportment I manifest the Ancient way,
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 And fall not into a possible pessimism. And fall not into a possible pessimism.
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 Nothing of me remains when I pass, Nothing of me remains when I pass,
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 In speech and manner free of dignity. In speech and manner free of dignity.
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 All those who have reached this state of knowledge by experience, All those who have reached this state of knowledge by experience,
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 Without exception tell of this supreme activity-potential. Without exception tell of this supreme activity-potential.
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 (Collection of Vines and Entanglements) (Collection of Vines and Entanglements)
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 Which line is most important? Which line is most important?
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