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sn.1.27 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Streams

“From where do the streams turn back?
Where does the round no longer revolve?
Where does name-and-form cease,
Stop without remainder?”

“Where water, earth, fire, and air,
Do not gain a footing:
It is from here that the streams turn back,
Here that the round no longer revolves;
Here name-and-form ceases,
Stops without remainder.”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh