The monk Soreyya replies that his attachment is stronger for the sons of which he is the mother.

A (transgender?) parent and monk overcomes their attachments and gains enlightenment in a famous story that Dhammadinnā Bhikkhunī shows is not devaluing “motherly love” so much as “super-valuing” equanimity towards all.

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