{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.11/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.11","id":"suttacentral_snp5.11","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.11/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cFor those overwhelmed by old age and death,\u201d said Venerable Kappa, \u201cstuck mid-stream as the terrifying flood arises, tell me an island, good fellow. Explain to me an island so this may occur no further.\u201d \u201cFor those overwhelmed by old age and death,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cstuck mid-stream as the terrifying flood arises, I shall tell you an island, Kappa. Having nothing, taking nothing: this is the island with nothing further. I call it extinguishment, the ending of old age and death. Those who have fully understood this, mindful, are quenched in this very life. They don\u2019t fall under M\u0101ra\u2019s sway, nor are they his footmen.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Kappa","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":106}