“Mendicants, without being keen and prudent a mendicant can’t 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.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

“Neither 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.”

This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.

So It Was Said 35 The Book of the Twos Chapter One Fawning and Flattery

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

“Mendicants, this spiritual life is not lived for the sake of fawning or flattering people, nor for the benefit of possessions, honor, or popularity, nor thinking, ‘So let people know about me!’ This spiritual life is lived for the sake of restraint and giving up.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

“The Buddha taught the spiritual life not because of legends, but for the sake of restraint and giving up, and because its objective is extinguishment.

This is the path followed by the great souls, the great seers. Those who practice it as it was taught by the Buddha doing the Teacher’s bidding, make an end of suffering.”