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101 Zen stones - If you love, love openly
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"If You Love, Love Openly"
Twenty monks and one nun who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master.
Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her.
One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.
Eshun did not reply.
The following day the master gave a lecture to the group, and when it was over, Eshun arose.
Addressing the one who had written her, she said: 'If you really love me so much, come and embrace me now.’