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AN 4.275 Right Efforts

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AN 4.275 - Right Efforts
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Numbered Discourses 4.275
28. 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 fully developed. For insight into greed, these four things should be developed.”