Moon of Enlightenment

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Moon of Enlightenment

(Godo no tsuki). 

April 1888

Hotei, one of the deities of good fortune, demonstrates the Zen Buddhist teaching that a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon and, thus, the world’s appearance is not its essence.

 

 

  

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Taiso Yoshitoshi

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