Sun Buer: Gathering the Mind

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Gathering the Mind

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by Sun Buer
(1124? - 1182?) Timeline

English version by
Thomas Cleary

Original Language
Chinese

Taoist

12th Century

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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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

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