Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. — Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
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Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

— Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays
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