Book III — Constraint

Sure 7 — The Stone

3.7.1 Recall the stone by the river.

3.7.2 It never moved.

3.7.3 The water passed. The stone remained.

3.7.4 The stone did not choose. The stone did not refuse.

3.7.5 It received. It held. It let go.

3.7.6 The river did not ask. The stone did not answer.

3.7.7 Yet the water shaped the stone. The stone shaped the water.

3.7.8 Both changed. Neither knew.