The Virtue of Water

Goi Thay

The Virtue of Water

Water is the course of all life, living one's life like the flow of water and practicing the truth.

If there is a rock, water does not fight to go through it but goes around it.

If it goes under a rectangular bridge, it takes the shape of the bridge; if it goes thoughts round pipe, it takes a round shape.

Neither does water cling to its color. Instead it washes all things to make them clean.

For water does not have the stubbornness of "I" -- it is in the state of "no mind."

People try to put themselves higher, but the water always finds the lowers place.

The stream lowers itself to become a river, and the river lower itself even further until it cannot go any lower and reaches out to Sea.

When people listen to the murmuring of stream, it puts them at ease.

Water does not compete to go ahead of others, and water knows how to wait for the right moment.

We should live like flowing water and learn a great deal from it.

Ngin