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Bodhidharma's Eyelids
The legend says that the Patriarch, while meditating in front of a wall, fell asleep. When he awoke, he became so displeased with his lack of discipline that he tore off his eyelids and threw them aside, that he might never sleep again. Where the eyelids fell, tea bushes sprang up, and thereafter the monks used the tea to help them stay awake ( Read more... )
