May I request that further participants to the mind/moon discussion explicitly take note of Jan Gonda's 1986 paper (
'Mind and Moon.'
In: G. Bhattacharya (ed.). Deyadharma: Studies in Memory of Dr. DC Sircar
(Delhi, India : Sri Satguru Publications): 147-160.
) and respond to it, at least to some degree? I'm not saying "Gonda was right" or anything like that. But he was a careful scholar with a lot of experience, and his remarks on this subject
probably form a worthwhile starting point for further discussion. I am recommending this procedure in contrast to the more poetic, and perhaps more charming method of expressing what one spontaneously feels about the moon and the mind.