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study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』50

「打テヤ モロ手ヲ」 

          柳宗悦『心偈』

Why don't you clap your hands?

 

You had better always see a charming thing before your eyes.

There isn't happiness more than that.

"Morote" means both hands.

Why aren't you pleased clapping your hands?

Don't you eulogize?

When you come to think of it, how many the scene that you should praise it for us will be prepared?

A brilliant thing appear herein right now.

Why don't you see it?

Anytime men should have a principal image in your mind.

You had better have objects of that.

In the upper part Shakamuniーbutsu, in the bottom part there is a cloth or a vase.

If you can have a thing that you praise and clap your hands, your life is shining.

Because from this people connect closely with relations of those are modesty, reflection, devotion, cleanness and a lot of virtue.