Nun Esyun was already over sixty when she was about to leave this world. She asked the monks to build a funeral pyre in the courtyard.
Seated firmly in the middle of the wooden pyramid, she set its edges on fire around her.
“Oh, sister,” one of the monks exclaimed, “are you hot?”
“Only a fool like you can worry about this,” Esyun answered.
The flames rose and she walked away.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru