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In order to arrive at an understanding of the book and its teachings,we must first of all boldly strip away the dense overgrowth of interpretations that have read into it all sorts of extraneous ideas

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为了达到理解本书内容及其教学的目的,首先我们要大胆的去掉众多的以前就形成的对外来观点的曲解.