No Water No Moon ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 11 Aug 1974 am |
| location | Lao Tzu balcony, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 32min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | NOMOON01 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- The nun Chiyono studied for years, but was unable to find enlightenment. One night, she was carrying an old pail filled with water. As she was walking along, she was watching the full moon reflected in the pail of water. Suddenly, the bamboo strips that held the pail together broke, and the pail fell apart. The water rushed out; the moon's reflection disappeared -- and Chiyono became enlightened. She wrote this verse:
- This way and that way i tried to keep the pail together, hoping the weak bamboo would never break.
- Suddenly the bottom fell out. No more water; no more moon in the water -- emptiness in my hand.
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