Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

The way you write ronin is 浪人 with the character for wave and the character for person, which is pretty much how I feel, like a little wave person, floating around on the stormy sea of life.

Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing.

I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you cannot hold on to water, still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.

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Именно в этой главе он хвалит молодых монахов за упорство на пути к пробуждению и объясняет гранулярную природу времени: 6 400 099 980 моментов составляют один день. Цель его рассуждений — показать, что каждый из этих моментов дает возможность для волеизъявления. Даже щелчок пальцами, говорит он, предоставляет нам шестьдесят шесть возможностей для пробуждения и выбора действий, которые создадут нам благоприятную карму и возможность изменить жизнь.

..I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.