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Book 18 Page 8
When the house burned down
He had been a priest for thirty years,
he had seen many troubles and battled many spiritual dilemma’s.
But watching the house burn down was the hardest of them all,
to see his toils and struggles taken away in just a few short minutes.
Although he was a Christian and not a Buddhist,
he was learning one of the hardest lessons in Buddhist doctrine.
Not to be attached.
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