Freedom Dawns

Were mind and matter me,

I would come and go like them.

If I were something else,

They would say nothing about me.

What is mine

When there is no me?

Were self-centeredness eased,

I would not think of me and mine--

There would be no one there

To think them.

What is inside is me,

What is outside is mine--

When these thoughts end,

Compulsion stops,

Repetition ceases,

Freedom dawns.

---Nagarjuna---