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The Noble Eightfold Path

# Right effort

Prevent and abandon unskillful states; develop skillful ones.

Right effort has four tasks: prevent unarisen unskillful states, abandon arisen unskillful states, develop unarisen skillful states, and sustain arisen skillful states.

It is purposeful cultivation, guided by right view.

## Relevant suttas

- MN 117 — The Great Forty (Candana Bhikkhu audio · 23:15)
- SN 45.8 — Analysis of the Path (external text; Candana audio not currently found)

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