You can’t eat the rice cake in the picture.
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Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.
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To draw water into one's own rice field.
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The cat is a saint when there are no mice about.
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The clog and amida are both from the same piece of wood.
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The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
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