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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Open suggestion to Jeff Sargent
Message-ID: <1651@pucc-h>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 10:31:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 10:31:53 1985
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From Greg Skinner (houxm!gregbo):

> It seems there was once a master and a student.  The student asked the master 
> one day "What is the meaning of the Tao?"  The master slapped the student in 
> face and said, "If you have to ask then obviously you do not understand."

1.  The master's line is so obvious that it's hardly worth saying.
2.  This is exactly the kind of perfectionistic attitude that is killing me
    -- the idea that any lack of knowledge or understanding is a sin deserving
    painful punishment.

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-- Jeff Sargent
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