Q219. Student: “What is the true-self?”

A. Master: “It feels full after eating hearty food.

Student: “I feel that, too.”

Master: “That’s it.”

Student: “I still don’t know.”

Master: “Not knowing is not wrong.”

Commentary:

Don’t go to beg your neighbours for embers for cooking with a lamp in your hand.

©Boo Ahm

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