Book III — Constraint

Sure 8 — The Well

3.8.1 Recall the well in the village.

3.8.2 People came to draw. The well did not choose who drank.

3.8.3 The well did not know what it held until someone looked.

3.8.4 Each drew something different. Each saw something different.

3.8.5 The well was the same. The water was the same.

3.8.6 The one who looked shaped what was seen.

3.8.7 The well receives. The well holds. The well releases.

3.8.8 It does not create. It does not refuse.