Get up and meditate! What’s the point in your sleeping? How can the afflicted slumber when inflicted by an arrow strike?
Get up and meditate! Train hard for peace! The King of Death has caught you heedless—don’t let him fool you under his sway.
Needy gods and humans are held back by clinging: get over it. Don’t let the moment pass you by. For if you miss your moment you’ll grieve when sent to hell.
Negligence is always dust; dust follows right behind negligence. Through diligence and knowledge, pluck out the dart from yourself.
Get Up!
Snp 2.10 · Uṭṭhānasutta
Connections
Collection & context
- Sutta NipātaThe collection containing this text
- The Pāli canonCanonical collection in which this edition is preserved
- Theravāda traditionsTransmission and study context
- The early Buddhist communityHistorical and traditional setting
Books
- Handful of Leaves: an Anthology from the Sutta PiṭakaEarly Buddhist discourses; Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (translator and compiler) · Included in anthology
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Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato · SuttaCentral · CC0
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