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Inch Time Foot Gem

A lord asked Takuan, a Zen master, how to pass the time.

“All day long, I sit stiffly, very bored, to receive people.”

 

Takuan replied with eight written characters:

 

Not Twice This Day

Inch Time Foot Gem