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     Zhaozhou entered the hall and said, “It’s like a lustrous pearl in your hand. If a foreigner comes a foreigner reveals it. If a native person comes a native person reveals it.
      “This old monk uses a blade of grass as a sixty-foot golden statue. I also use a sixty-foot golden statue as a blade of grass.
     “Buddha is affliction. Affliction is Buddha.”
     A student said, “I don’t understand who is afflicted by Buddha.”
     Zhaozhou said, “All people are afflicted by Buddha.”
     The student asked, “How can affliction be avoided?”
     Zhaozhou replied, “Why avoid it?”

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