be soft in your practice

the highest good is like water

 

Be soft in your practice.

Think of the method as a fine

silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.

Follow the stream, have faith

in its course.

 

It will go its own way,

meandering here, trickling there.

It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices.

Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight.

It will take you.

 

Sheng-yen