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    EPISODE 52

    This is Just This

    When Master Daibai was about to die, he said to his monks: ‘What comes is not to be avoided, what goes is not to be followed.’ A little afterwards he heard a flying-squirrel screech and said: ‘This is just this, and nothing else. You all keep this faithfully. Now I must depart.’

    When Master Daibai was about to die, he said to his monks: ‘What comes is not to be avoided, what goes is not to be followed.’ A little afterwards he heard a flying-squirrel screech and said: ‘This is just this, and nothing else. You all keep this faithfully. Now I must depart.’

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