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title: An Intensive Course
description: "Good people, scholars of sorts,Gather here for an intensive course:Study of the unconditioned.In this arena, Buddhas com"
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Good people, scholars of sorts,
Gather here for an intensive course:
Study of the unconditioned.
In this arena, Buddhas come forth.
Whoever awakens earns honors.
Verse for starting the Chan session
Buddhist Lecture Hall, San Francisco
December 1969