Nanquan's Flower Plant
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As spring flowers begin to bloom around town, we gather with the old teacher Nanquan to look at a flower plant in the front garden. “People of the present day see this one flower plant as though they were in a dream,” he sighs. So what kind of a dream is this? And how might we wake up from the small dream of alienation into the great dream of seamless belonging?
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