A story

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There was an old lady who lived in a cave . She had been one of the

first disciples of Gautama Buddha.After her time with him she took off

into the woods and later made a home in the hole of a rock. She lived

there austerely--austerely because for one thing she was poor and for

another she liked it that way--for many years and word got around that

there was a holy hermit so people came to hear what she had to say.

She was the laconic type and gave them the thundrous silence

treatment.Finally some guy came and asked her what the Buddha had

taught her that had allowed her to drop the world and be happy

hunkered down in a rock without so much as a pot to piss in. She

looked at him for a moment and seeing that he was in the burning hair

stage she gathered up a a handful of the dust that was conveniently

lying on the floor of her cave and very quickly threw it into the air--

where it dispersed.