Aṅguttara Nikāya
Catukka Nipāta
XVII: Paṭipadā Vagga

The Book of the Fours

Chapter XVII: Modes of Progress¹

Sutta 161

[Modes of Progress] In Brief

 

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[153]

'Monks, there are these four modes of progress.

What four?

The painful mode of progress with sluggish intuition,²
the painful mode with swift intuition,
the pleasant mode of progress with sluggish intuition,
the pleasant mode with swift intuition.

These are the four modes of progress.'

 

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¹ Cf. Dial. iii, 101; Buddh. Psych. Eth. 63, 54; Expos. i, 243 f.

² Abhiñña = 'more-knowledge' or 'psychic power.'