Pacific Salmon: Photograph by Randy Olson, National Geographic
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There is an island (in the river of being)
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An island which you cannot go beyond.
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It is a place of nothingness,
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A place of non-possession and of non-attachment.
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It is the total end of death and decay,
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and this is why I call it Nibbana (Complete liberation).
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—The Buddha-
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21 Sep