What face did you have before your mother and father were born?

A koan to ponder.

I answer this:

If you just turn around and look you can see it in the outline of a leaf or in cloud formations.

The face of an electron orbiting around a nucleus, the face of the rain falling in giant puddles, the face of the stars, the face of the universe.

無

Mu.


My face was spread amongst the cosmos
and across the face of the sun.

It lept into the face of a tree, only to become the face of
the earth; the face of wheat, or perhaps an animal.

It became my face through my mother's mother and then my
mother herself.

Soon it will be but a part of the face of another.