师父领进门，修行在个人
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- 1. the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you
- 2. you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
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Child Words of 师父领进门，修行在个人
person; people
to decorate
(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
individual
to exist; to be alive
used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan)
row
to walk
to go forward
neck
to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism)
teacher
father
to enter a door
gate