Tiantong's Poem:
The unique breeze of reality - do you see? Continuously creation runs her loom and shuttle, Weaving the ancient brocade, incorporating the forms of spring, But nothing can be done about Manjusri's leaking.
Wansong's Comment on last line: Yin and Yang have no irregular succession; seasons do not overlap.
My musings:
I recently started looking into the Chinese 5 elements/phases theory, essentially there are 5 elements: fire, water, wood, metal, earth. They all have various correspondences, one of which being the seasons, and another being directions. Now you may be thinking, "but there are 4 seasons, not 5!", and the ancient Chinese also grappled with this. Wood:Spring:East:Yang Fire:Summer:South:Yang Metal:Autumn:West:Yin Water:Winter:North:Yin but what to do about earth? so they devised a scheme where the last 9 days of one season and the first 9 of the next, were also an intermediate period.
Earth:Overlap:Centre:Yinyang
What was it Wansong said again?
Submitted April 22, 2023 at 03:50AM by gasmask_funeral https://ift.tt/pxbDc8f
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