If a master slaps his student, and you should say, he should say, excuse me, to himself, excuse me. And he will be tired out. And that is not so good. Some other question? You suggested to us that as students we should try to steal our teacher's wife.

[01:12]

Did I? Did I say so? No. I have no idea of being stolen my wife. Okay. Would you please explain How we commit that crime? Do you want to commit that crime? It is still your way. Huh? Way. Your way. Oh, I thought you said wife. How should I steal my teacher's wife? Where? I shall be very glad to be told my way.

[02:33]

How you still teach us may be not difficult, but may take a pretty long time. But even though you are If you are patient enough, or if you like him, naturally, eventually you will steal his way completely. That is true. It happens in that way, even though you don't try to imitate his way, or even though you hate to you know, to steal his way. It is quite... I don't know why it happens in that way. So, you know, to be a teacher is awful, you know.

[03:48]

don't know, because we don't know who is stealing, who or when stealing our way. You should, you reminded me an awful thing. I was almost forgotten. And students will learn something a teacher, you know, we want him not to, not to still go around. If his teacher is forgetful, his student may be forgetful easily, quite easily.

[04:58]

But even though his teacher is patient, it may be difficult. It may take a long time when his student becomes patient as his teacher. So, something that the teacher wants his student to steal something, he may not steal it. So we say, Dongen Zen said, we must practice hard for our descendants, for our disciples, you know. Not for himself, but if he... if we know how important it is to have good disciples, then he must practice very hard.

[06:09]

That is very true. When we come to this point, our practice is not just for us. Our practice is just for disciples or for others, rather than for ourselves. So when we have real relationship of teacher and disciple, that relationship is much deeper than the relationship between your children and you, or your wife and you, or husband and you. It is much deeper than that.

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