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  "text": "\"What kind of a person does Enlightenment produce?\"\n\nSaid the Master:\n\n\"To be public-spirited and belong to no party,\n\nto move without being bound to any given course,\n\nto take things as they come,\n\nhave no remorse for the past,\n\nno anxiety for the future,\n\nto move when pushed,\n\nto come when dragged,\n\nto be like a mighty gale,\n\nlike a feather in the wind,\n\nlike weeds floating on a river,\n\nlike a mill-stone meekly grinding,\n\nto love all creation equally\n\nas heaven and earth are equal to all\n\n— such is the product of Enlightenment.\"\n\nOn hearing these words one of the younger disciples cried, \"This sort of teaching is not for the living but for the dead,\" and walked away, never to return.",
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      "text": "The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing.\n\nHis disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.\n\nThat transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.",
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