In Search of Emptiness

There is no mental pain to one with no expectations. All fears transcended by one whose fetters are extinct. It does not occur to me, "I am" nor that I live or exist, so what is there to lament? All afflictive formations are destroyed when one sees with uncoupled wisdom the world as empty, substanceless-- seeking nothing to own as "mine"--no "I" or "me" one does not desire nor grieve--arrive or leave there is---no loss no gain, no ego no pain such is the power of mind liberating itself from all manufactured sufferings of a cyclic existence. Seek out the waiting, awakening path--the true one with the karmic stairway to nirvana. (*An expansion/variation on a Buddhist passage by the arahant monk Adhimutta)