The Mother of Wisdom ''No thing anywhere is ever born from itself, from something else, from both or without a cause." Nagarjuna - ' Root Verses on the Wisdom of the Middle Way ' For there to be a Birth-day there must be a 'mother' and 'child' but who causes who to arise? For something to be 'born' there must be a 'cause' but when does the 'seed' become the 'tree' ? For the 'seed' to 'grow' there must be 'conditions' but when do the sun, earth and air become 'growing'? For something to 'die' there must be 'change' but when does the 'change' become the 'death'? For there to be 'objects' there must be 'words' but when did the 'words' become the 'objects''? All I know is, when I watch you sleep, even the words 'love' and 'compassion' fall away; like countless tears from a billion mothers...
Women's Spiritual Poetry