Know all things to be like this

The other night the harvest moon was reflected in a mirror, its bright light captured in the room, of course the moon moved on, but the poem below seems to echo ones thought when contemplating a moon in a mirror........

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Know all things to be like this;

A mirage, a cloud castle,

A dream, an apparition,

Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

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Know all things to be like this;

As the moon in a bright sky

In some clear lake reflected,

Though to that lake the moon has never moved.

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Know all things to be like this;

As an echoe that derives

From music, sounds and weeping,

Yet in that echo is no melody.

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Know all things to be like this;

As a magician makes allusions

Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,

Nothing is at it appears.

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Samadhirajasutra