Numbered Discourses 4.275

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1. Numbered Discourses 4.275
2. 28. Abbreviated Texts Beginning with Greed
3. Right Efforts
4. “For insight into greed, four things should be developed.
5. What four?
6. Firstly, a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise.
7. …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.
8. For insight into greed, these four things should be developed.”