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When we listen subconsciously to the sound of flowing water, does it not seem to create a rhythm? Yet not a single drop of water passes over the same rock twice, and the murmur of water rushing over a rock is constantly changing. Sameness is but an illusion of the human ears, eyes, mind. Water that has once flowed along a riverbed can never retrace its course. Human life is no different. It is only our mundane eyes and minds that see yesterday as being the same as today.
-- Shundo Aoyama. Zen Seeds: 60 Essential Buddhist Teachings on Effort, Gratitude, and Happiness. Translated by Patricia Dai-En Bennage. (p2) Boulder: Shambala (2019).
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