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    Smokey The Bear Sutra
    - Gary Snyder

    A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind
    legs, showing that he is aroused and watchful.

    Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath
    appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings
    damp sand on the fires of greed and war;

    His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating
    that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and
    that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards
    all grow in the realm of the Dharma...



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