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what my body was resting on, or what was under my feet.I was borne this way and that on the wind, like dry chaffor leaves falling from a tree. In fact, I knew not whetherthe wind was riding on me or I on the wind.“Now, you have not spent one whole season in yourteacher's house, and yet you have lost patience two orthree times already. Why, at this rate, the atmospherewill never support an atom of your body, and even theearth will be unequal to the weight of one of your limbs![2]How can you expect to walk in the void or to becharioted on the wind?"Hearing this, Yin Sheng was deeply ashamed. He couldhardly trust himself to breathe, and it was long ere heventured to utter another word.notes[1] Cf. Chuang Tzu, ch. 1: “There was Lieh Tzu again. He could ride upon the wind,and travel wherever he wished, staying away as long as fifteen days."[2] The only way to etherealize the body being to purge the mind of its passions.Perfect TrustMR FAN had a son named Tzu Hua, who succeeded inachieving great fame as an exponent of the black art, andthe whole kingdom bowed down before him. He was in