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Kappa-manava-puccha: Kappa's Question

Kappa-manava-puccha

Summary: url=index.html#snp.5.10.than Is there anywhere safe to stand where we won't be swept away by aging and death.

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 <span anchor #mara>Mara</span>'s servants,
don't come under Mara's sway.


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en/tipitaka/sut/kn/snp/snp.5.10.than.txt · Last modified: 2019/10/30 13:27 by Johann