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Shôyôroku (Book of Equanimity) <strong>69</strong>anything else. If his nose is so big that it’s hanging down to his mouth, he’s no ordinaryperson. Nevertheless, “he seems perfectly satisfied.” This is truly the “leisurely person of theTao, who has exhausted study and is without doing” as it says in the Shôdôka. Please set yoursights again on the previous line: “In silence he knows that his own state of mind is nothing butpeace.” I want to tell all of you: Please become such a person. But it’s quite difficult to becomelike this.8

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