illusion

illusion

Catching the moon in the water is a Chinese idiom, and its pinyin is Shu ǐ zh ō ngzhu ō Yu è, which means to compare emptiness and fantasy, which cannot be realized. It comes from Zen master Zhenjue of Yongjia, a biography of lanterns in Jingde.

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It is a metaphor for empty fantasy, which cannot be realized.

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"It's not difficult to see the form in the mirror, but to catch the moon in the water." example: ～ things are the same, every step is the same. --Wang Jie, Yuan Dynasty