The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman
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When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on any one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.
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Although it does not mindfully keep guard, In the small mountain fields the scarecrow does not stand in vain.