It's not about lacking emotion; rather, one could say that they have mastered their emotions because they do not fight them and in this way they are free from them. There is an old Zen story about a student with an anger problem that illustrates this perfectly. The story goes that when the student expressed concern about his own bad temper to his master, the master said, “Show it to me.” Of course, the student couldn't and explained that it wasn't within his control to produce it at will, but rather it just happened. The master replied that if it wasn't within his control, then it was not part
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