sn49.35-44:1.1 “Mendicants, there are these three searches.
sn49.35-44:1.2 What three?
sn49.35-44:1.3 The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path.
sn49.35-44:1.4 These are the three searches.
sn49.35-44:1.5 The four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.
sn49.35-44:1.6 What four?
sn49.35-44:1.7 It’s when a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise. …
sn49.35-44:1.8 so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed.
sn49.35-44:1.9 These four right efforts should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three searches.”
sn49.35-44:1.10 (Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170.)