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Sn 5.10
PTS: Sn 1092-1095
Kappa-manava-puccha: Kappa's Question
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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[Kappa:]
For one stranded in the middle of the lake, in the flood of great danger — birth — overwhelmed with aging & death: Tell me the island, dear sir, and show me the island so that this may not happen again.[The Buddha:]
For one stranded in the middle of the lake, in the flood of great danger — birth — overwhelmed with aging & death, I will tell you the island, Kappa. Having nothing, clinging to no thing: That is the island, there is no other. That's Unbinding, I tell you, the total ending of aging & death. Those knowing this, mindful, fully unbound in the here & now, don't serve as Mara's servants, don't come under Mara's sway.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 30 November 2013.
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