Peeter Laurits 1962 When A Person Achieves Enlightenment. 2024

When a person achieves enlightenment, it is just as the moon is reflected in the water. The moon does not become wet, the water is not broken into pieces. Even though the reach of moonlight is broad and wide, it can dwell in a tiny drop of water. The whole moon, the entire sky, all contained in a dewdrop on a blade of grass or a drip from an icicle. Enlightenment does not break a person into pieces, just as the moon does not make a hole in the water. A person does not interfere with enlightenment, just as drips and drops do not interfere with the sky and the moon. Deep things have a high reach. As to whether a moment is long or short, you might just as well find out whether “water” is big or small or reach a decision on whether the moonlit sky is broad or narrow.

—The Challenge of Becoming-Immanent (Genjōkōan)