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To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Shunryu Suzuki

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Shunryu Suzuki
Age: 67 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 18
Died: 1971
Died: December 4
Bhikkhu
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Atlanta
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Sheep
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Spacious

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