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Numbered Discourses 4.275 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.275

28. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed – 28. Rāgapeyyāla

AN 4.275 Right Efforts – Sammappadhānasutta

 

1.1

“For insight into greed, four things should be developed.

“Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya cattāro dhammā bhāvetabbā.

1.2

What four?

Katame cattāro?

1.3

Firstly, a bhikkhu generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise.

Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anuppannānaṁ pāpakānaṁ akusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ anuppādāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati;

1.4

…so that unskillful qualities that have arisen are given up … so that skillful qualities arise … so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fulfilled by development.

uppannānaṁ pāpakānaṁ akusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya …pe… anuppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ uppādāya …pe… uppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ ṭhitiyā asammosāya bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya bhāvanāya pāripūriyā chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.

1.5

For insight into greed, these four things should be developed.”

Rāgassa, bhikkhave, abhiññāya ime cattāro dhammā bhāvetabbā”ti.

1.6

 

Dutiyaṁ.