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When invading soldiers burnt down the room in which they had locked Kaisen, Master of a Zen monastery in Japan, he said, "The practice of Zen does not necessarily require the beauty of landscape. When one puts out all thoughts even fire is cool to him."

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 4 : China, Japan, Tibet > # 178