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   A high-ranking samurai was also a serious Zen student. Fighting broke out all over Japan and he was wounded in battle; in spite of the pain he galloped to a temple to see the teacher there. A tea ceremony was going on, and the teacher put a cup in front of him, asking, “How are things?”
   The warrior immediately crushed the cup under his foot and said, “Heaven and earth completely broken up.”
   The teacher asked, “When heaven and earth are broken up, what’s that like?”
   The warrior stood with his hands crossed over his chest. The teacher hit him, and he involuntarily cried out from the pain of his wounds.
   The teacher said, “Heaven and earth not quite broken up yet.”

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