(A series)

Before attaining enlightenment,mountains are mountains, rivers are rivers.

At the moment of enlightenment,mountains are no longer mountains,nor are rivers rivers.

After attaining enlightenment,mountains are mountains, rivers are rivers.

"There was a time when, for me, a camel's whinnying was nothing more than whinnying. Then it became a signal of danger. And, finally, it became just a whinny again."

Aphorisms of 18th-century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.