You stop to point at the moon in the sky, <br />but the finger's blind unless the moon is shining. <br /> <br />One moon, one careless finger pointing -- <br />are these two things or one? <br /> <br />The question is a pointer guiding <br />a novice from ignorance thick as fog. <br /> <br />Look deeper. The mystery calls and calls: <br />No moon, no finger -- nothing there at all.<br /><br />Taigu Ryokan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-stop-to-point-at-the-moon-in-the-sky/
