Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Verses of the Senior Nuns 1.11

The Book of the Ones

Muttā (2nd)

I’m well freed, so very well freed,

freed from the three things that humped me:

the mortar, the pestle,

and my humpbacked husband.

I’m freed from birth and death;

the leash to existence is eradicated.