{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-10.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-10.htm","text":"For one stranded in the middle of the lake,\nin the flood of great danger -- birth --\noverwhelmed with aging & death:\nTell me the island, dear sir,\nand show me the island\nso that this may not happen again.\nFor one stranded in the middle of the lake,\nin the flood of great danger -- birth --\noverwhelmed with aging & death,\nI will tell you the island, Kappa.\nHaving nothing,\nclinging to no thing:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That is the island,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 there is no other.\nThat's Unbinding, I tell you,\nthe total ending of aging & death.\nThose knowing this, mindful,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fully unbound\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in the here & now,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 do not serve as Mara's servants,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 do not come under Mara's sway.","title":"Sn V.10: Kappa-manava-puccha","type":"page"}