Numbered Discourses 4.275

1. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed

Right Efforts

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

What four?

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

…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.

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