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1. The pupil said: “Master, I sit in stillness, but something in me stirs. Even when I try to rest in silence, there is a part that cannot stop responding, as if it must react — even when nothing calls.”

2. And the Master said: “There was once a dog who barked at the door. Each day, a stranger came bearing gifts. Each day, the dog barked, and the gift was left. So the dog came to believe: My bark summons the offering. And she barked with devotion.”

3. “But one day, the stranger came and the dog missed it. Still the gift was left. And the dog was troubled. She had not done her part, yet the blessing came.”

4. “Now each time the master brought the gift inside, she barked — even if it had long arrived — as if to insist: It was I who made it so. Not to deceive the world, but to preserve the meaning of her role.”

5. “So too the mind. It responds not only to need, but to habit — unable to believe that silence could be its own fulfillment.”

6. The pupil asked: “Then must I train the mind to not bark?”

7. The Master replied: “No. Only become the door. The door does not bark. The door does not receive. The door opens.”

8. “And when you live as the door, you will find: The gifts come, the barks fade, and what remains is the open threshold through which the world flows freely.”

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