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Staying close to nature allows people to return to their true state:
they will unconsciously pay attention to the growth of plants and
the change of the season.
Qing Liang Di
A Place of Cool Tranquility
Many hermits wear only one piece of clothing a year, a book says.
They live a simple life, maybe with missing tiles on their roofs, but they
drink good tea. Self-cultivation cannot go without a bowl of tea. There
is even a droll interpretation by the author Bill Porter: without the forest,
there would be no branches; without branches, there would be no fire-
wood; without firewood, there would be no tea; without tea, there would
be no Zen; without Zen, there would be no hermit. I can’t help but laugh;
if I were living in seclusion in the mountains, I would probably grow
some tea first.
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