{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp2-10.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp2-10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp2-10.htm","text":"From The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata (WH 82), translated by John D. Ireland (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).\n\"Rouse yourself! Sit up! Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.[1] Do not let the king of death,[2] seeing you are careless, lead you astray and dominate you.\n\"Go beyond this clinging,[3] to which devas and men are attached, and (the pleasures) they seek. Do not waste your opportunity. When the opportunity has passed they sorrow when consigned to Niraya-hell.\n\"Negligence is a taint, and so is the (greater) negligence growing from it. By earnestness and understanding withdraw the arrow (of sensual passions).\"\n-- vv. 331-334\n1. \"Peace\" is a synonym for Nibbana, the final goal. [Go back]\n2. The king of death (maccuraja), or Mara (death), is the personification of everything that binds us to this world and prevents the gaining of deliverance. [Go back]\n3. This clinging to pleasures of the senses. [Go back]","title":"Sn II.10: Utthana Sutta","type":"page"}