I took this one in Budapest,
by the time
of the big flooding in the summer of 2002.
"How, dear sir, did you cross the flood?"
"By not halting friend,
and by not straining I crossed the flood."
"But how is it, dear sir,
that by not halting and by not straining
you crossed the flood?"
"When I came to a standstill,
friend, then I sank; but when I struggled,
then I got swept away.
It is in this way, friend,
that by not halting and by not straining
I crossed the flood."
-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"
photo by: Hilgert Istvan (2002)
