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'A Buddhist monk and Zen poet named Huineng wrote a gatha, or poem, more than a thousand years ago. The poem, 'There Was no Tree to the Bodhi', was essentially about how the purity of enlightenment would not be corrupted by the dust particles of life. The four-line poem ends by asking, 'Where then was the dust?'' (Publication abstract)
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