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Zen Stories
when tired
A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is
enlightenment?"
The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep."
(In other versions of this story, one disciple is bragging about his
master to the disciple of another master. He claims that his teacher
is capable of all sorts of magical acts, like writing in the air
with a brush, and having the characters appear on a piece of paper
hundreds of feet away. "And what can YOUR master do?" he
asks the other disciple. "My master can also perform amazing
feats," the other student replies. "When he's tired, he
sleeps. When hungry, he eats"........... or simply, "When
he sleeps, he sleeps. When he eats, he eats.")
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