Sutta Nipāta 22

Anthology of Discourses 2.10

Get Up!

1 Get up and meditate!

What’s the point in your sleeping?

How can the afflicted slumber

when inflicted by an arrow strike?

2 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.

3 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.

4 Negligence is always dust;

dust follows right behind negligence.

Through diligence and knowledge,

pluck out the dart from yourself.