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study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』40

「月ハ映リキ 水ヲ染メデ」

           柳宗悦『心偈』

The moon is reflected in water not dyeing it.

 

In "The Heart of the Perfection of Great Wisdom Sutra" there are words of "neither living nor immortality, neither dirt nor clean, neither increasing nor decreasing."

These are the great truth of Buddhism.

In western world they often tell immortality, but they don't tell not living.

If they have a coincidence, the moon appears on the water.

But however the moon reflect clearly, it may not be dyeing.  

If it is cloudy by turns, there is nothing.

 

あけましておめでとうございます。

本年もよろしくお願いします。

年末高熱で寝込みました。

まだまだ追い込み。