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Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen, was not the only person who nourished himself with dried tea leaves. A few years after the end of the American Civil War, John Muir--geologist and genius, nature lover and explorer--carried for food only bread and dried tea leaves while climbing the high Sierra Nevada Mountains overlooking the Yosemite valley. He did this quite often and kept a sturdy health, which shows that the legend about Bodhidharma's diet may not have been so mythical after all.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 52