Jiun, a Shingon master, war a well-known Sanskrit scholar of the Tokugawa era. When he was young he used to deliver
lectures to his brother students.
His mother heard about this and wrote him a letter:
'Son, I do not think you become a devotee of the Buddha because you desire to turn into a walking dictionary for others.
There is no end to information and commentation, glory and honor. I wish you would stop this lecture business. Shut
yourself up in a little temple in a remote part of the mountain. Devote your time to meditation and in this way attain hue
realization.'
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