Cerita Zen
No Water, No Moon
When the nun Chiyono studied Zen under Bukko of Engaku she was unable
to attain the fruits of meditation for a long time.
At last one moonlit night she was carrying water in an old pail bound
with bamboo. The bamboo broke and the bottom fell out of the pail, and
at that moment Chiyono was set free!
In commemoration, she wrote a poem:
In this way and that I tried to save the old pailSince the bamboo
strip was weakening and about to breakUntil at last the bottom fell
out.No more water in the pail!No more moon in the water!