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- ruo
- (as) if, as, assuming, supposing, like
- Buddha held up a flower with his right hand to a small gathering of his disciples. Most of them were perplexed, but Kasyapa smiled and the Buddha handed him the flower, as if he had understood something that everyone else had missed. to this day it remains a mystery what it was that Buddha communicated to Kasayapa, but everyone treats the story as if it is of pivotal importance
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- cao
- grass, herbs
- from very early times, the upper part of the character was connected with herbs like grass
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- yi
- art, skill, craft
- by putting an effort in cultivating one's second nature, a new skill will sprout like a seed
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- ku
- bitter, hardship, suffering
- life is "bitter", full of hardship, is an ancient idea
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- kuan
- wide, broad
- everybody sees that the house of herbs is so wide
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- mo
- do not, none, nothing, no one, nobody
- do not wait until the sun goes below the horizon, once dusk is here no one can push the sun back - there is nothing to do about it
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- mo
- model, pattern, IMITATE, molds
- no one imitates a tree as a model to live
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- mo
- desert; indifferent, aloof (cool and distant)
- when nobody can find water in a desert, no one remains indifferent
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- mu
- grave, tomb
- nobody wants to finish bellow earth - in his grave
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- miao
- seedling (sadnica), sprout (mladica)
- a field needs in its grass (ㄧ) new seedlings ( I I )
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- miao
- to (take) aim (at)
- an eye takes aim at a sprout, because it would be too easy to take a tree as a target
- OR, an eye of a hitman is aiming at a target through the window
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