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personal connections

3

bluff

5

oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition

1

inevitably; certainly

1

palm (of one's hand)

2

base; mean; vulgar; despicable; low

2

tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; demon; devil

2

exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen); scolding or threatening with a shout

1

to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on

5

empty space; empty sky

1

Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person

1

dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass

1

to do (for someone)

2

patience; forbearance; endurance; forgiveness; pardon

2

from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course

1

being beyond recovery; having no hope of recovery

2

intruder; trespasser

1

carelessly; inattentively

1

Zhou dynasty (China, approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty; perimeter; counter for laps or circuits

11

formation; combination

1

support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

1

to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine

1

fighting spirit; (will to) fight

1

to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)

1

to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain); to pull through; to get over; to surpass; to outdo

3

yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game

7

everything; for (to) everything; (in) anything

2

combination; pair; duo

3

shade; shadow

4

squad; team

1

division into groups; separation into classes (e.g. of schoolchildren according to ability)

1

stealthily; secretly; in secret

3

crime; offence; offense

4

personal feelings; self-interest

2

to not give in; to be obstinate; to be stubborn; to be perverse

1

to narrow; to reduce; to contract

1

even if ...; even supposing that ...

1

period of time; time slot; time zone

1

(my) wife; inside the home; one's family

2

salted kōji (traditional condiment)

1

without

6

sold-out

2

hamachi; young Japanese amberjack; young yellowtail

3

heredity; (genetic) inheritance

1

housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker

3

horse mackerel (Carangidae spp., esp. the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus); jack mackerel; pompano; scad

8

How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

2

wife

2

downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently

1

so far as

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