{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti34/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti34","id":"suttacentral_iti34","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti34/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, without being keen and prudent a mendicant can\u2019t achieve awakening, extinguishment, and the supreme sanctuary from the yoke. But if a mendicant is keen and prudent they can achieve awakening, extinguishment, and the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cNeither keen nor prudent, lazy, lacking energy, full of dullness and drowsiness, unconscientious, lacking regard for others, such a mendicant is incapable of experiencing the highest awakening. One who is mindful, alert, meditative, keen, prudent, and diligent, having cut the fetter of birth and old age, would experience supreme awakening <j>in this very life.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Keen","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":134}