![[info icon]](./../../../img/question_16.gif "Summary: A lovely short teaching on the rarity and value of conscientiousness.")
Who in the world
is a man constrained by conscience,
who awakens to censure
like a fine stallion to the whip?
Those restrained by conscience
are rare —
those who go through life
always mindful.
Having reached the end
of suffering & stress,
they go through what is uneven
evenly;
go through what is out-of-tune
in tune.
©1998 Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 14 June 2010.
How to cite this document (a suggested style): "Hiri Sutta: Conscience" (SN 1.18), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), 14 June 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn01/sn01.018.than.html .