Peeter Laurits 1962 A Fish Goes Through Water. 2024

A fish goes through water, but no matter how far it goes, it won’t reach the water’s end. A bird flies through the sky, but no matter how far it flies, it won’t reach the sky’s end. While this is so, the fish and the bird have never left the water and the sky. But although it cannot be said that the fish and the bird do not reach all the limits they have or fail to make their way to all places in their world, if a bird were to leave the sky or a fish leave the water, they would die. You should know: it is through water that fish have life, it is through water that birds have life. It is through birds there’s life, it is through fish there’s life. it is through life there’s birds, it is through life there’s fish.

—The Challenge of Becoming-Immanent (Genjōkōan)