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The instant Shoju felt the book in his hands he thrust it into the flaming coals. He had no lost for possessions. Mu-nan, who had never been angry before, yelled: "What are you doing!"

Shoju shouted back: "What are you saying!"

Shoju shouldn't have done that should he? I mean burning a valuable book of that kind in which his master had made notes? Or perhaps it never really happened in the first place and it's just another Zen koan which will forever embed itself in my mind, torturing me with its play of opposites... never to be resolved.

The second time I took refuge with my vajra guru and it was a very small group of 25 people. It was all in Tibetan but I had the general idea and was very pleased with it. Thanks for sharing Laura. It sounds very nice indeed.

namaste
kris