見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、
思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。
Miru tokoro hana ni arazu to iu koto nashi,
omou tokoro tsuki ni arazu to iu koto nashi
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #172 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/172 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth)
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Variant: There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;
There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
“Can you look at a flower without thinking?”
4th Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (23 May 1968)
1960s
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