The Will of Branches

Shengyun: No two things in this world are really identical. In seeing from a distance, things appear to be the same but upon closer observation, one inevitably finds that they are not. Shengyun then says, the second thing that had a great effect on me was my grandmaster's final comment. Everything is always impermanent. It wasn't just that the will of branches had changed by the second day. At the very moment I took them from the trees they were changing. Of course so is he.