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Moth Not Caterpillar
#FanFiction #AliceInWonderLand #Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆
#Wss366 Flower #Hanamatsuri #BuddhasBirthdayIt was raining #flowers when Alice reentered the clearing. A second mushroom, a stinkhorn, has sprung up. Atop the stinkhorn was a pot covered with fine, hair-like moss, and from it grew a thistle. But what caught Alice’s eye was a huge Japanese luna moth hovering where the Caterpillar had once been.
“Excuse me, Moth. Were you once Caterpillar?” Alice asked.
She couldn’t hear the reply over the thistle's screeching: “It is still a caterpillar! As you once were, you shall always be.”
The girl looked between them. “What is the thistle thinking?" she thought to herself. "It’s obviously a moth.”
Thistle continued, “I shall speak to the Red Queen, and we’ll have its wings off in an instant. It must be banned from the garden.”
Moth continued to float, unperturbed. Its wings fluttered as they slowly dried from its metamorphosis.
“Doesn’t it bother you, Moth dear, that she says such awful things?” Alice asked.
“It is all maya, illusion,” Enlightened Moth said. “I am and have always been as you see me now, yet I have never been as I seem. Substance is nothing, and nothing is substance.”
“Lies, all lies! Rip off its wings!” Thistle screamed.
Alice shook her head. "It's very cruel to pull the wings off a moth or a butterfly."
The moth floated higher in the air. “I have transcended earthly attachments. Until all creatures are enlightened, I bid you farewell. But look, my master #Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ approaches. They will guide you to the tea party.”
Alice turned to look as the baby otter fairy took a pratfall.
“Let me help you up,” she said, running forward.
Delighted to see Alice, the fairy bounced and danced after getting to their feet.
With one last glance at the Hateful Thistle, they left the screeching behind.
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Hydrangeas are generally poisonous, but the leaves can be fermented to make a special kind of tea called 'amacha' (甘茶).
As the name suggests, it is incredibly sweet, and is typically drunk on special occasions.
On Buddha's Birthday people soak small statues of Buddha in amacha.
#Kyoto #BuddhasBirthday #amacha #甘茶 #hydrangea #hydrangeatea
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Thanks to the many sweet hydrangeas that bloom in its gardens, Reigen-in (霊源院) is commonly known as the 'Amacha Temple' (甘茶の寺).
The Kennin-ji sub-temple was founded between 1394-1428 by Ichian Ichirin (一庵一麟). First named 'Reisen-in' (霊泉院), a few years later Kennin-ji's abbot, Zaisen Kijō (在先希譲), renamed it Reigen-in.
#BuddhasBirthday #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #Kenninji #建仁寺 #Reigenin #霊源院
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Although not a national holiday, most temples hold celebrations for Kanbutsu-e.
It's customary to pour 'ama-cha' (甘茶), a herbal tea made from the fermented leaves of a type of hydrangea, over small Buddha statues decorated with flowers...as if bathing a newborn baby.
#Japan #Buddha #BuddhasBirthday #HanaMatsuri #FlowerFestival #甘茶 #amacha #Kanbutsue #灌仏会
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🙏BUDDHA'S BIRTHDAY🎂
anointing the heads
of children too...
Buddha's birthday tea
子どもらも天窓に浴る甘茶哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1818.
Trans. David Lanoue.On April 8th Buddha's Birthday, known as 'Kanbutsu-e' (灌仏会) or 'Hana-matsuri' (花祭り 'Flower Festival'), is celebrated at many temples.
#Nara #Japan #BuddhasBirthday #灌仏会 #花祭り#HanaMatsuri #奈良 #FlowerFestival #Kanbutsue #deer
