The Sayings - What Is the Self?

The Sayings of Chen Jen

Number Twenty-Three
What is this self
that thinks it is
all there is of me?
What makes this self
if not something else
in me?

A whirlpool, it pulls all things
round and round itself.

Round and round an empty hole
it hungers for what it
can never be.

This post is part of a series. To view the index, go here.