Posts Tagged ‘vipassana’
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Kisagotami, the Mother With the Dead Child
This is an excerpt of the story of a woman whose child died and then came in contact with Dhamma in the time of Buddha (2,500 years ago). It’s inspiring that 2,500 years ago there was already progressive thinking in women’s outlook toward personal liberty.
When Mara (temptation), as he had done so often before with other nuns, came to tempt her, to distract her from meditation and asked her whether she was lusting for man now that her child was dead, she immediately replied, discerning the ruse:
“Passed is the time of my child’s death
and I have fully done with men;
I do not grieve, nor do I weep,
and I’m not afraid of you, friend.
Sensual delight in every way is dead,
for the mass of darkness is destroyed.
Defeating the soldiery of death,
I live free from every taint.
— S 5,3
About me
I live in Denver, Colorado and work as a contractor for HAIKU Learning Systems, Inc., an online learning company. I did my Master's in Music Informatics at Indiana University and got a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics, with a minor in Music from Carroll College in Helena, Montana.
