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• One day it was announced that the young monk Kyogen had reached an enlightened state.
  Much impressed by this news, several of his peers went to speak with him....
• Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers.
  One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing....
• Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers.
  One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing....
• In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
  "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe....
• George's friend Sam had a dog who could recite the Gettysburg Address.
  Let me buy him from you," pleaded George after a demonstration....
• A certain monk had a habit of pestering the Grand Tortue (the only one who had ever reached the Enlightenment 'Yond Enlightenment), by asking whether various objects had Buddha-nature or not.
  To such a question Tortue invariably sat silent....