![It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-related-that-sakyamuni-the-historical-buddha-once-dismissed-as-of-small-c.jpg)
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