Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.
Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
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