Verses of the Senior Nuns 2.8

The Book of the Twos

To Abhayā’s Mother From Her Daughter

My dear mother, examine this body,
up from the soles of the feet,
and down from the tips of the hairs,
so impure and foul-smelling.

Meditating like this,
all my lust is eradicated.
The fever of passion is cut off,
I’m cooled and quenched.