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Someone with No Shadow or Form Is Drawing the Water

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KOAN:

In a well that was never dug
water ripples from a spring that doesn’t flow.
Someone with no shadow or form
is drawing the water.

—PZI Miscellanous Koans, Case 22 (from a poem by Ikkyu)