{"id":1766,"date":"2013-04-25T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:26:22","slug":"reflecting-the-full-pink-moon-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2013\/04\/reflecting-the-full-pink-moon-tonight.html","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting the Full Pink Moon Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been enjoying the run-up to the full moon. Both of the last two nights, the almost-full moon played with the clouds so full of life and beauty.<\/p>\n

The April full moon, as you may know, is the pink moon \u2013 and isn\u2019t exactly pink.<\/p>\n

The moon in Zen-ese, as you may know, is often used as a metaphor for enlightenment. Ah, the soft light of illumination. And it also isn\u2019t what it might seem.<\/p>\n

For me, it\u2019s a good time for a full moon \u2013 I\u2019m in the thick of developing a Genjokoan<\/em> course for the Vine of Obstacles: Support for Online Zen Training<\/a>, and have been digging into the famous passage by Dogen,<\/p>\n

\u201cEnlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReflecting on Dogen Zenji\u2019s teaching can educate consciousness,\u201d I wrote in Keep Me In Your Heart Awhile<\/a>, \u201cand be solace at those times that we fear the moon. Making fear itself the practice through thorough intimacy with the bodily sensations of fear is actualizing the moon in a dewdrop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The moon, as we know, isn\u2019t as big as it seems. And I learned from students recently that science cannot explain that illusion. I checked their understanding (as usual) in Wikipedia (not as usual) and found this: \u201cAfter reviewing the many different explanations in their 2002 book The Mystery of the Moon Illusion<\/em>, Ross and Plug conclude \u2018No single theory has emerged victorious\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our fear of enlightenment is also based on an illusion.\u00a0 The water doesn\u2019t get broken. Enlightenment (and delusion) go on and on.<\/p>\n

Like Dogen writes in this poem:<\/p>\n

\n
\n
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Contemplating a clear moon
\nReflecting mind as empty as the open sky \u2013
\nDrawn by its beauty,
\nI lose myself
\nIn the shadows it casts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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