1. Padhána Sutta

The four kinds of effort: to restrain, to abandon to develop, and to preserve. A.ii.74.


2. Padhána Sutta

Four qualities which show that their possessor has entered on the path to surety, and that he is definitely bent on the destruction of the ásavas: virtue, learning, ardent energy, wisdom. A.ii.76.


3. Padhána Sutta

The Buddha describes how, when he gave himself up to meditation in order to win Enlightenment, Mára (Namuci) came to tempt him with his eightfold army of lust, discontent, hunger and thirst, craving, cowardice, doubt, hypocrisy and stupor. But the Buddha was firm, and Mára retired discomfited. SN.vs.425 49.


4. Padhána Sutta

The four right efforts: for the non arising of evil, for the abandoning of evil, for the arising of profitable states, and for the increase and fulfilment of such states. A.ii.15; cp. D.ii.120; M.ii.11, etc.


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