Here and There;
Post by Tashi Nyima
As a river, when full, must flow
and reach and fill the distant plain,
so what is given here, indeed,
will reach and bless the beings there.
As water on a mountain top
must soon descend and fill the plain,
so what is given here, indeed,
will reach and bless the beings there.
—Buddha Shakyamuni, Nidhikanda Sutta, Khuddakapatha
Source: Here and There
 A Taoist story tells of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids leading to a high and dangerous waterfall.
Onlookers feared for his life. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. People asked him how he managed to survive… “I accommodated myself to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl. This is how I survived.”
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