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,
do not serve as Mara's servants,
do not come under Mara's sway.