Shohaku Okumura

““Neither being nor nonbeing” refers to form and emptiness. There’s actually no such thing as what we call “water”; it is merely a collection of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. When electrolyzed it becomes a vapor of hydrogen and oxygen. Just as a bubble is an event within the interaction between air and water, water is an event in which hydrogen and oxygen are connected. There is no fixed entity called water. And yet, we cannot say a bubble is not there, or water is not there. As an event, each of them is actually there. This is what “emptiness” means.”(Mountains and Waters Sutra)