Japanese-style bedding / cushion used for Zen meditation

(astronomy) Indus (constellation)

learning by pure classroom instruction without practice

to learn by pure classroom instruction without practice

(Buddhism) Synonym of 獅子座 (shishiza, “lion throne”)

(figuratively) vulgar, tasteless behaviors that spoil elegant or beautiful things

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds

(astronomy) Cygnus

Alternative spelling of おひつじ座 (“Aries”) (constellation)

(astronomy) Apus