Chapter 2: Pairs of Verses

Thig 2

(excerpt)

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

II.3 — Sumangala's Mother {vv. 23-24}

So freed! So freed! So thoroughly freed am I — from my pestle, my shameless husband & his sun-shade making, my moldy old pot with its water-snake smell. Aversion & passion I cut with a chop. Having come to the foot of a tree, I meditate, absorbed in the bliss: "What bliss!"

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