<P> According to other accounts, the monkeys caused the Sanshi and Ten - Tei not to see, say or hear the bad deeds of a person . The Sanshi (三 尸) are the Three Corpses living in everyone's body . The Sanshi keep track of the good deeds and particularly the bad deeds of the person they inhabit . Every 60 days, on the night called Kōshin - Machi (庚申待), if the person sleeps, the Sanshi will leave the body and go to Ten - Tei (天帝), the Heavenly God, to report about the deeds of that person . Ten - Tei will then decide to punish bad people, making them ill, shortening their time alive, and in extreme cases putting an end to their lives . Those believers of Kōshin who have reason to fear will try to stay awake during Kōshin nights . This is the only way to prevent the Sanshi from leaving their body and reporting to Ten - Tei . </P> <P> An ancient representation of the "no see, no hear, no say, no do" can be found in four golden figurines in the Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum . These golden statues date from the 6th to 8th century . The figures look like tribal human people with not very precise body carvings and strong phallic symbols . This set indicates that the philosophy comes from very ancient roots . </P> <P> It is not clear how or when the saying travelled; in Ethiopia the Ge'ez language has the saying "Let the eye fast, let the mouth fast, let the ears fast ." </P> <P> Just as there is disagreement about the origin of the phrase, there are differing explanations of the meaning of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". </P>

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