Good morning!
We can see the bright half moon in the clear sky.
Beneath it is the calm clear full moon, the Buddha mind.
The renowned moon,
“Get me it!” say
Crying children.
名月を
取ってくれろと
泣く子かな
Meigetsu-o
Totte-kurero-to
Naku-ko kana
No one can get and give it to others, but each and every one
must get it by actual cultivation and verification.
Otherwise the triple poisons and the triple maladies get us. The great round
mirror mind is always right hereunder, now, underneath apparent changes.
We hope everyone gets it so that all can enjoy total truth and pure peace,
with the great Indra-net giving all the triple learnings and the triple treasures.
4/3/13
Note: The haiku quoted above is made by Issa Kobayashi.
The following is made by Basho Matsuo:
The renowned moon,
Going around the pond,
For the whole night.
名月や
池をめぐりて
夜もすがら
Meigetsu-ya
Ike-o megurite
Yomosugara
The following is made by Dogen Eihei thinking of his parinirvana
with the Buddha mind seven hundred sixty years ago:
Even in the autumn, when
I’d expect see to see it again,
I could not have slept
With the moon of tonight.
又見んと
思いし時の
秋だにも
今夜の月に
ねられやはする
Mata minto
Omoishi toki-no
Aki-danimo
Koyoino tsuki-ni
Nerareyawasuru
