Enkô ga tsuki wo toran to suru ga gotoshi.
Like monkeys trying to snatch the moon's reflection on water.
Allusion to a parable, said to have been related by the Buddha himself, about some monkeys who found a well under a tree, and mistook for reality the image of the moon in the water. They resolved to seize the bright apparition. One monkey suspended himself by the tail from a branch overhanging the well, a second monkey clung to the first, a third to the second, a fourth to the third, and so on,--till the long chain of bodies had almost reached the water. Suddenly the branch broke under the unaccustomed weight; and all the monkeys were drowned.
Listen here!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)