Time and Space

A stream flowed in a valley in between the mountains from north to south. The stream was wide and its water flowed at a fast speed.

There was also an echo and noise in the valley created by the flow of water.

Every day many trees broke from the ridges of the mountains fell down in the stream, and flowed with the water from north to south.

However; a big tree was standing firmly on the right shore of this stream. Every day this tree saw his broken fellow trees flowing from north to south but he himself stood independent and unharmed from the clutches of this stream.

Hints:

Stream: This world.
Water flow: The flow of time.
Width of stream: Space.
North to south: The time frame of an individual’s life.
Flowing in the stream: Being occupied in and by time and space.
Standing outside the stream: To rise above this grip of time and space.

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