It shouldn't surprise you that I'm drawn to a song titled Everything Happens To Me after the water-logged week I've had.
Zen Master Dogen once said that:
The way of water is not something water is aware of, yet water is fully capable of functioning. Water ascends to ever so many lofty places in the heavens above to form rain and dew, and rain and dew take a variety of forms according to the worlds in which they appear. To say that there is some place that water does not reach is incorrect. Water exists in the tongues of flames, and in our thoughts and deliberations and distinctions, and in our perceptions, and in our nature. When water descends to earth, it becomes rivers and streams. In the opinion of the ordinary and the befuddled, water is that which exists in rivers, streams, oceans, and seas, but this is not so, for the rivers and seas have come into existence along with the water. Thus, there is water even in places where there are no rivers or seas. It is just that when water descends to earth, it creates the effect of ‘rivers and seas'.
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