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Old 12-26-2012, 09:13 AM   #1
Trilby
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Buddha would allow the tennis racket to experience it's racket-ness and then teach it to detach...hitting the ball or not hitting the ball....it is all the same. And there is no ball. It is an illusion. And it makes you suffer; so forget the ball already.
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Old 12-26-2012, 09:22 AM   #2
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Buddha would allow the tennis racket to experience it's racket-ness and then teach it to detach...hitting the ball or not hitting the ball....it is all the same. And there is no ball. It is an illusion. And it makes you suffer; so forget the ball already.
That's a type of tennis even I could play!
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