千江有水千江月

千江有水千江月

嘉泰普燈錄卷十八
[宋] 雷庵正受

千山同一月，萬戶盡皆春；千江有水千江月，萬里無雲萬里天 。



Ming's painting by artist Chen Quan

Description:
Inscription by artist: Verse couplet. "I have depicted:
'All the moons in the water are held by a single moon;
One single moon can thus hold all the lakes and rivers'
- an allusion to the Ch'an Buddhist poem: "The moon
imprints itself on a thousand rivers, and yet, in reality,
is a single moon." Translation by Patricia Berger.
(Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive)


I love this late Ming's painting by artist Chen Quan (Ch'en Ch'üan).

The people here and there throughout the picture are all looking
at reflection of the moon. Although they are looking at different
reflection of the moon, there is the real moon in the sky.

What does it mean to you ?

Yeh Tze