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Q366. Student: “At what point does a dead sheep decomposing in a field become the field?”

A. Master: “Before your question.”

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Commentary:

Why are you tearing one into two while trying to make them one?

A dead sheep was neither different nor separate from the field until you thought of them as different and separate.

 

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