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at last I am a woman free!
No more tied to the kitchen,
no more bound to the husband
who thought me less
than the shade he wove with his hands.
No more anger, no more hunger,
I sit now in the shade of my own tree.
Meditating thus, I am happy, serene.
Sumangalamata (600 BC?)
"'Sumangala's Mother,' the wife of a maker of hats and
shade-umbrellas, was a member of the earliest community of women
followers of (Shakyamuni) Buddha.
Many of these Pali-speaking women left accounts of their practice in
poems, which were then collected in a volume known as the
Therigatha."
No more tied to the kitchen,
no more bound to the husband
who thought me less
than the shade he wove with his hands.
No more anger, no more hunger,
I sit now in the shade of my own tree.
Meditating thus, I am happy, serene.
Sumangalamata (600 BC?)
"'Sumangala's Mother,' the wife of a maker of hats and
shade-umbrellas, was a member of the earliest community of women
followers of (Shakyamuni) Buddha.
Many of these Pali-speaking women left accounts of their practice in
poems, which were then collected in a volume known as the
Therigatha."
—Louisa May Alcott |
