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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Ensign Benson, Time Cadet)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Ancients predict USENET
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 19:28:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 19:28:58 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 03:29:45 EDT
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Organization: The Digital Circus, Sector R
Lines: 40
Keywords: Zen, Tenai, Japan, Buddha, Diddly-thump.
Keychain: Mahatma Ghandi, Benjamin Disraeli, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Chaingang: Chang Kai Shek, Simon Bolivar, Rodney Dangerfield

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> The pupils of the Tendai school used to study
> meditation before Zen entered Japan. Four of
> them who were intimate friends promised one
> another to observe seven days of silence.

> On the first day all were silent. Their meditation
> had begun auspiciously, but when night
> came and the oil lamps were growing dim, one of
> the pupils could not help exclaiming to a servant:
> ``Fix those lamps.''

> The second pupil was surprised to hear the
> first one talk. ``We are not supposed to say
> a word'', he remarked.

> ``You two are stupid. Why did you talk?'' asked
> the third.

> ``I am the only one who has not talked'',
> concluded the fourth pupil.

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#71 in 101 Zen Stories. Paul Reps, editor.

>>> and he was *right* by Jimminy! And not right.



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