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As he aged, he felt the need to pass Pa-kua on and so he retired and began to teach Pa-kua to a few select students. Although Tung gradually withered, the stories about him did not. One tells of how he once found himself surrounded by a group of thugs trying to kill him—but he not only emerged unscathed; he actually defeated the whole band of attackers. Another relates that once Tung was sitting in a chair leaning against a wall when the wall collapsed. His disciples, fearing that he has been buried alive, rushed in looking for him, and found him sitting in the same chair, leaning against another wall! A similar anecdote tells of how he was napping one autumn day and, as the air was quite chilly, his disciples picked up a sheet and quietly tried to cover him. When they put the sheet down, however, there was no one there! “What’s the matter with you?” asked Tung’s voice from where he was sitting near the window. “Why did you try to startle me?”
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