Linked Discourses 1.27

1. A Sword

Streams

“From where do streams recoil?

Where does the cycle spin no more?

Where does name and form

cease with no residue left behind?”

“Where water and earth,

fire and air have no footing—

from here the streams recoil;

in reference to this, the cycle spins no more;

in reference to this, name and form

ceases with no residue left behind.”