Aṅguttara Nikāya
Catukka Nipāta
XVII: Paṭipadā Vagga

The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Fours
Chapter XVII: Modes of Progress^[1]

Sutta 161

[Modes of Progress] In Brief

Translated from the Pali by f. L. Woodward, M.A.

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[1][than] '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.'