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Fri Mar 26 20:14:09 CET 2010

 he added meditatively, "was in my fiftieth incarnation of this
present Round--no, I am thinking of another army--in my
seventy-third."[*] [*] As students of their lives and literature will
be aware, it is common

for Buddhist priests to state
positively that they remember events which occurred during their
previous incarnations.--ed. Here Leo began a great laugh, but I
managed to kick him beneath the table and he turned it into a sneeze.
This was fortunate, as such ribald merriment would have hurt the old
man's feelings terribly. After all, also, as Leo himself had once
said, surely we were not the people to mock at the theory of
re-incarnation, which, by the way, is the first article of faith among
nearly one
quarter of the human race, and this not the most foolish quarter. "How
can that be--I ask for instruction, learned One--seeing that memory
perishes with death?" "Ah!" he answered, "Brother Holly, it may seem
to do so, but
oftentimes it comes back again, especially to

those who are far
advanced upon the Path. For instance,
until you read this passage I had forgotten all about that army, but
now I see it
passing, passing, and myself with other monks standing by the statue
of the big Buddha in fron
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