Daily Zen

Nature may be compared to a vast ocean. Thousands and millions of changes are taking place in it. Crocodiles and fish are essentially of the same substance as the water in which they live.

People are crowded together with the myriad other things in the Great Changingness, and their nature is one with that of all other natural things.

Knowing that I am of the same nature as all other natural things, I know that there is really no separate self, no separate personality, no absolute death and no absolute life.

 - T'ien T'ung-Hsu (8th c.)