When we usually look at objects, such as woods, rocks, plants, winds, and earth, we do not pay attention to the water within them.
Yet, they contain water for sure. For that reason, they can keep their shapes.
If they are dehydrated using high-speed centrifugal machine, a rock becomes sand.
Every single object on the earth is submerged in the water.
When the water inside changed, the object is transformed into a different thing accordingly. For example, it cracks, sprits up, dies, decays, or breaks due to the water within.
In Buddhism teaching, the concept or condition that all the objects is constantly changing is called Mujo, or impermanence. The everlasting change, I think, is the flux of time itself.
Flux of time comes with the change of water. Therefore, this earth is constantly changing without resting even for a moment. When the water ceases changing and transforming, then, the time stops. That means a death. The water never stays the same even for a moment.
In that way, the water gives lives to everything. At the same time, the water shows its fleeting which lies at the other end of the spectrum of “time”.
