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44. Basho’s Staff

Basho said to his disciple: “When you have a staff, I will give it to you. If you have no staff, I will take it away from you.” Mumon’s comment: When there is no bridge over the creek the staff will help me. When I return home on a moonless night the staff will accompany…

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Twelfth Annotation. The twelfth: As he who is receiving the Exercises is to give an hour to each of the five Exercises or Contemplations which will be made every day, he who is giving the Exercises has to warn him carefully to always see that his soul remains content in the consciousness of having been…