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Before Enlightenment, One Carries Water And Chops Wood.
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Before enlightenment, one carries water and chops wood.
After enlightenment, one carries water and chops wood.
-- Zen Proverb
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Boat: A hole in the water, surrounded by wood, into which one throws money.
Water over wood: the image of The Well. Thus the superior man encourages the people at their work, And exhorts them to help one another.
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Three. Two to fetch the wood and one to enlighten the novice....
Miso with the smell of miso is not good miso. Enlightenment with the smell of enlightenment is not the real enlightenment.
-- Zen saying...
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No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist Proverb...
Water flows on uninterruptedly and reaches it goal
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Rotten wood cannot be carved. Chinese Proverb