Khuddaka Nikaya - Sutta Nipata - Kappa-manava-puccha

Sn 5.10
Kappa-manava-puccha
Kappa's Question
Translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro BhikkhuPTS: Sn 1092-1095



Source: Transcribed from a file provided by the translator.



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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.