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 bhikkhu 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.”