一いち樹じゅの陰かげ一いち河がの流ながれも他た生しょうの縁えん

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everything is preordained; nothing happens by chance

A Buddhist proverb meaning that even the smallest encounters are the result of karma from past lives; often used to express that meetings and events are not coincidental.

• 「一いち樹じゅの陰かげ一いち河がの流ながれも他た生しょうの縁えん」という言こと葉ばがあるように、人ひととの出で会あいはすべて意い味みがあるのだろう。

  As the saying goes, 'Even the shade of a single tree and the flow of a single river are due to karma from a previous life,' so every encounter must have meaning.