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Taoist
12th Century

About Sun Buer

Timeline (1124 - 1182?)

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English version by
Thomas Cleary

Original Language
Chinese
Gathering the Mind

Themes
  Birth, Rebirth
  Death
  Fire
  Water
  Womb

 

Recommended Books

Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

Before our body existed,
One energy was already there.
Like jade, more lustrous as it's polished,
Like gold, brighter as it's refined.
Sweep clear the ocean of birth and death,
Stay firm by the door of total mastery.
A particle at the point of open awareness,
The gentle firing is warm.

 

 

-- from Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary

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