Quote from Daughters of Emptiness
This
body without a self
Can be compared to floating duckweed.
This body with its troubles
Is exactly like a leaf in the wind.
This cycle of life and death
Is just like that of night and day.
-- Fayuan (601-63)
from Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns by Beata Grant
Can be compared to floating duckweed.
This body with its troubles
Is exactly like a leaf in the wind.
This cycle of life and death
Is just like that of night and day.
-- Fayuan (601-63)
from Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns by Beata Grant