For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of grow…

Gautama Buddha
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For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.
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This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging. ✨ Gautama Buddha (2017). Zen Kittens, p.145, Mango Media Inc.

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

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