A Cloud Never Dies

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A cloud cannot die. It can only become rain, become river, become sea. So with you. The form is borrowed; the water is what you are.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Thích Nhất Hạnh

Lineage: Plum Village

By Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Sources

• contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

  Cuong Tu Nguyen

  pp. 150–175