Nine Dust Lotuses

Nine is the highest number between Heaven and Earth, hence the supremacy of the Ninth Five.

Ten is transcendence.

The lotus is a noble flower, but no lotus is free from worldly dust.

When nine dust-lotuses are stained black with ink, a tenth dust-lotus is born.

Is it absurdity, or a dream of dust,

or perhaps a dust butterfly?

Yet it became reality.