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agility and balancing a tin on his outstretched hand.
He said, "what is it that boys cry out when they play
this Chinese game? 'Harmonized, harmonized.' In
every square, they must land upon its center without
looking at the ground or touching the chalk
lines—all the time they must be centered; also, they
may not lose their balance and let the tin fall into
the extremes without harmonizing them. There is the
Middle Way, this is the center, this is the playing
samadhi of the Buddha, this is Chan."
Chan, or the Dharmakaya, is unbounded in any circle,
though for convenience of explanation one has been
shown in our diagrams. There is really no circle there at
all; there is no circumference, no centrifugal nor
centripetal tendency. Yet within this circle of no circle,
our lines merely indicate myriads of factors for the
convenience of talking about meditations other than
Chan. Chan, therefore, is not included.
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