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Ah Sahm: Why do you do that?

Cord: Do what?

Ah Sahm: Chew twenty-one times on the left side of your jaw, twenty-one times on the right, before you swallow.

Cord: I was taught that in the monastery.

Ah Sahm: Does it serve a purpose?

Cord: It exercises the jaw. It prepares the stomach to receive the food. It extracts the essence of each mouthful.

Ah Sahm: Yet a hungry man, disciplining himself in this manner, might starve to death while still counting.

On why man is always more important than any established style

Man is always in a learning process. Whereas “style” is a concluding, established, solidified something, you know? You cannot do that because you learn every day as you grow on, grow older.

The way of “no way”

When there is a Way, therein lies the limitation. And when there is a circumference, it traps and if it traps, it rottens; and if it rottens it is lifeless.

Man is constantly growing. And when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or Way of doing things, that’s when he stops growing.