Do you know the meaning of the Japanese proverb, “Peaches and chestnuts take three years to bear fruit, persimmons take eight years”? This phrase means that peaches and chestnuts bear fruit after three years and persimmons after eight years from the time of budding, and it includes the teaching that “a reasonable number of years is necessary for anything to…
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