In case yesterday’s mention of Dogen and the moon left you flummoxed:
‘Enlightenment is like the moon reflected in 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.’ (Genjo Koan)
Shundo David Haye 
I love Dogen for he is always very insightful, to me —’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’. Can we hit the moon with a pole? Can we scratch the itchy foot by rubbing outside our boots?
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You do not hinder the itch, and the itch does not hinder you.
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I’m exhaling; fully all the way out out out out..,
Thanks much Shundo for always holding the base
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I’m not really doing anything…
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I only meant to say thanks for all you do! And helping me to understand as I explore the Essence ‘the Vastness, the Radient Light and the Time Being’.
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