SN 1.6Awake
Pāli / Sanskrit:Jāgarasutta
How many are awake while others are asleep?
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– Chapter 1: Linked Discourses with Deities
– I: A Reed
1.6. Awake
… Standing to one side, that deity recited this verse in the presence of the Blessed One:
How many are asleep
When the others are awake?
How many are awake
When the others are asleep?
How many actions
Lead us to gather dust?
How many actions
Cause us to be purified?
(The Blessed One):
Five are asleep
When the others are awake;
Five are awake
When the others are asleep.
Five actions
Lead us to gather dust;
Five actions
Cause us to be purified.
These discourses were translated into Vietnamese by Venerable Thích Minh Châu and published by Vạn Hạnh Meditation Monastery in the early 1980s. Later, as part of the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon translation and publication program, the collection was reprinted in 1993 and assigned sequence numbers 12 through 16.
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The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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