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What is abandonment of the body? What is fasting? What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is temporary escape from the torment of Self… The driver of oxen makes this same flight, takes this temporary drug when he drink a few bowls of rice wine… he then no longer feels his Self No longer feels the pain of life; he then experiences temporary escape
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