A. Master: “Before your question.”
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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A. Student: “From home, Sir.”
Master: “What did you see on the way here?”
Student: “I saw sheep.”
Master: “How many sheep did you see?”
Student: “Five sheep.”
Master: “No, you saw ten sheep.”
Student: “Sir, I saw five sheep. Why do you say I saw ten sheep?”
Master: “You still didn’t see the sheep.”
Commentary:
Things go wrong when you look upon an official affair as a personal affair.
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