the depth of the drop is the height of the moon

 

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You are like a dewdrop, on a multidimensional spider's web in the morning. 

And if you look at that thing carefully, you will see in every dewdrop the reflections of all the other dewdrops. 

So the way that dewdrop looks goes with the way all the other ones look, you see.

—Alan Watts

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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 Zenji (1200 - 1253)

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