The Parayana Vagga - Kappa's Question

22. For one stranded in the middle of the lake, in the flood of great danger — birth — overwhelmed with aging & death: Tell me the island and show me the island so that this may not happen again.

A: Having nothing, clinging to no thing: That is the island, there is no other. That's Unbinding, 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.

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu