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### Sutta Nipata II.10

# Utthana Sutta

# Initiative

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Read an alternate translation by John D. Ireland

> Get up!
> Sit up!
> What's your need for sleep?
> And what sleep is there for the afflicted,
> pierced by the arrow,
> oppressed?

> Get up!
> Sit up!
> Train firmly for the sake of peace,
> Don't let the king of death,
> -- seeing you heedless --
> deceive you,
> bring you under his sway.

> Cross over the attachment
> to which human & heavenly beings,
> remain desiring
> tied.
> Don't let the moment pass by.
> Those for whom the moment is past
> grieve, consigned to hell.

> Heedless is
> dust, dust
> comes from heedlessness
> has heedlessness
> on its heels.
> Through heedfulness & clear knowing
> you'd remove
> your own sorrow.

See also: Dhp 21-32; Dhp 315; SN III.17; AN IV.37.

Revised: Sun 14 October 2001