Get smashed
Rocks are inevitable, learn to bounce
Going with the flow is easy in a gentle stream.
In reality, unless you’ve chosen a monastic life, you’ll spend most of your life tumbling around in whitewater, getting smashed into and bouncing off rocks.
Sometimes the river breaks its banks. Then you have no idea where you’re going, and the rocks are replaced with all kinds of painful man-made objects.
Even if you have chosen a monastic life, you’ll still “chop wood, carry water”1. Every. Single. Day. The tediousness of that would become torturous until you learn to surrender to the reality of life.
Smashing into rocks is inevitable. All you can do to help the situation is surrender. At least it’s less painful when you’re limp.
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Zen Proverb with various meanings, including that mindset determines the quality of your experience. See Enlightenment: 3 Meanings of Chop Wood, Carry Water | Sloww