Moon Viewing

If there is no self,
there will be no samsara.
Why then do you have to dissolve the self?
Why do you have to stop samsara?
There is no self,
but there is the belief in a self.
There is no samsara,
but there is the idea of samsara.
Is the full moon tonight a self?
No, it is not a self.
Is the moon viewer a self?
No, he is not a self.
How then can the moon viewer enjoy the moon?
It is precisely because the moon has no self
and the moon viewer has no self
that both moon and moon viewer are wonderful,
and that moon viewing is a wonderful thing.
Moon viewing is our practice.

From: ‘my true names – collected poems’ by Thich Nhat Hanh

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