"She saw that all phenomena arose, abided, and fell away
she saw that the knowing of all this arose, abided, and fell away
then she knew there was nothing more than this
no ground, nothing to lean on stronger than the cane she held
nothing to lean upon at all, and no one leaning
and she opened the clenched fist in her mind and let go
and fell into the midst of everything."

-On the moment of enlightenment of the 19th century Japanese Zen nun Tejitsu,
from the text Women of the Way by Sallie Tisdale