" In 1647, a drunken and embittered samurai pillaged a Japanese village. Running amok with his sword, he cut down an old man, a woman, and a child, and set fire to three huts. Glimpsing a larger building off in a bamboo grove, he ran up to it.
Empty - it was empty !
He wanted someone else to attack ! Breaking down an oaken door with the hilt of his sword, he come upon a Zen master, sitting with eyes half-open in the midst of a meditation chamber.
The samurai rushed up to him like a bull in fury, raised his sword above his head, and was about to cut when something in the master's quite presence stilled him.
You !! What's the matter with you ? Don't you see that standing in front of you is a man who can cut you in two in the blink of an eye ?"
And you - the Zen master replied from deep within - don't you see that sitting in front of you is a man who can be cut in two without the blink of an eye ? "
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