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“Two came here, Two flew off,— Butterflies. Chora3 In this verse, the ordinary poetical meaning is discarded; what remains is that dark flame of life that burns in all things. It is seen with the belly, not with the eye; with "bowels of compassion.”
― R. H. Blyth, Zen and Zen Classics 1: From the Upanishads to Huineng