I did the boy wrong . He lent thee his strength ? It is true that the old eat the young daily . Stands now we must restore him . ' ` Thou hast many times acquired merit -- ' ` My merit . What is it ? Old bag of bones making curries for men who do not ask `` Who cooked this ? '' Now if it were stored up for my grandson -- ' ` He that had the belly-pain ? ' ` To think the Holy One remembers that ! I must tell his mother . It is most singular honour ! `` He that had the belly-pain '' -- straightway the Holy One remembered . She will be proud . ' ` My chela is to me as is a son to the unenlightened . ' ` Say grandson , rather . Mothers have not the wisdom of our years . If a child cries they say the heavens are falling . Now a grandmother is far enough separated from the pain of bearing and the pleasure of giving the breast to consider whether a cry is wickedness pure or the wind . And since thou speakest once again of wind , when last the Holy One was here , maybe I offended in pressing for charms . ' ` Sister , ' said the lama , using that form of address a Buddhist monk may sometimes employ towards a nun , ` if charms comfort thee -- ' ` They are better than ten thousand doctors . ' '
I XXXXX , if they comfort thee , I who was Abbot of Such-zen , will make as many as thou mayest desire .
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