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Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha
Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses Text 2
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Canonical reference sn9.2
English
Bhikkhu Sujato
Linked Discourses 9.2
1. In the Woods
Application
At one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.
Now at that time that mendicant went for the day’s meditation, but fell asleep.
The deity haunting that forest had sympathy for that mendicant, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse:
“Get up, mendicant! Why lie down?
What’s the point in sleeping?
How can the afflicted slumber,
inflicted by an arrow strike?
You should amplify the faith
that led you to go forth
from the lay life to homelessness.
Don’t fall under the sway of slumber.”
“Sensual pleasures are impermanent and unstable,
but dullards still fall for them.
Among those who are bound, <j>they’re free and unattached:
why bother a renunciate?
By removing desire and greed,
by going beyond ignorance,
that knowledge has been perfectly cleansed:
why bother a renunciate?
By breaking ignorance with knowledge,
by the ending of defilements,
they’re sorrowless, unstressed:
why bother a renunciate?
Energetic, resolute,
always staunchly vigorous,
aspiring to extinguishment:
why bother a renunciate?”
Pali
Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.2
1. Vanavagga
Upaṭṭhānasutta
Ekaṁ samayaṁ aññataro bhikkhu kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.
Tena kho pana samayena so bhikkhu divāvihāragato supati.
Atha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tassa bhikkhuno anukampikā atthakāmā taṁ bhikkhuṁ saṁvejetukāmā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā taṁ bhikkhuṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:
“Uṭṭhehi bhikkhu kiṁ sesi,
ko attho supitena te;
Āturassa hi kā niddā,
sallaviddhassa ruppato.
Yāya saddhāya pabbajito,
agārasmānagāriyaṁ;
Tameva saddhaṁ brūhehi,
mā niddāya vasaṁ gamī”ti.
“Aniccā addhuvā kāmā,
yesu mandova mucchito;
Baddhesu muttaṁ asitaṁ,
kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.
Chandarāgassa vinayā,
avijjāsamatikkamā;
Taṁ ñāṇaṁ paramodānaṁ,
kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.
Chetvā avijjaṁ vijjāya,
āsavānaṁ parikkhayā;
Asokaṁ anupāyāsaṁ,
kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.
Āraddhavīriyaṁ pahitattaṁ,
Niccaṁ daḷhaparakkamaṁ;
Nibbānaṁ abhikaṅkhantaṁ,
Kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape”ti.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Discours reliés 9.2
1. Dans les bois
L’application
Un jour, l’un des mendiants séjournait au pays des Kosalans, dans un certain bosquet forestier.
Or, à cette époque, ce mendiant partit pour sa méditation du jour, mais s’endormit.
La divinité qui hantait cette forêt éprouvait de la sympathie pour ce mendiant et voulait son bien. Elle s’approcha donc de lui afin de le stimuler et s’adressa à lui en vers :
« Lève-toi, mendiant ! Pourquoi rester couché ?
À quoi bon dormir ?
Comment celui qui est affligé peut-il sommeiller,
frappé par la blessure d’une flèche ?
Tu devrais accroître la foi
qui t’a conduit à quitter
la vie laïque pour la vie sans foyer.
Ne tombe pas sous l’emprise du sommeil. »
« Les plaisirs sensuels sont impermanents et instables,
mais les sots se laissent encore séduire par eux.
Parmi ceux qui sont liés, <j>ils sont libres et sans attachements :
pourquoi importuner un renonçant ?
En supprimant le désir et l’avidité,
en dépassant l’ignorance,
cette connaissance a été parfaitement purifiée :
pourquoi importuner un renonçant ?
En brisant l’ignorance par la connaissance,
par la fin des souillures,
ils sont sans chagrin, sans tourment :
pourquoi importuner un renonçant ?
Énergique, résolu,
toujours fermement vigoureux,
aspirant à l’extinction :
pourquoi importuner un renonçant ? »
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