LIFE AS MYTH
JOURNAL
JOURNAL 2006
Scheherazade Project
Telling untold stories
AUTUMN 2006
Moths and moons and metamorphosis
Moths and moons and metamorphosis
LIFEWORKS
ATLAS
AUTUMN 2006
MOONRISE
Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water.
Enlightenment does not divide you, just as the moon does not break the water. You cannot hinder enlightenment, just as a drop of water does not hinder the moon in the sky.
The depth of the drop is the height of the moon. Each reflection, however long or short its duration, manifests the vastness of the dewdrop, and realizes the limitlessness of the moonlight in the sky.
Dogen (1200-53), Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher
Moonrise. Stanisław Masłowski. 1884. Museo Nacionale de Varsovia.
Moonrise. Usher. 2007.
