{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.166/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.166","id":"suttacentral_an4.166","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.166/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are four ways of practice. What four? Painful practice with slow insight, painful practice with swift insight, pleasant practice with slow insight, and pleasant practice with swift insight. Of these, the painful practice with slow insight is said to be inferior in both ways: because it\u2019s painful and because it\u2019s slow. This practice is said to be inferior in both ways. The painful practice with swift insight is said to be inferior because it\u2019s painful. The pleasant practice with slow insight is said to be inferior because it\u2019s slow. The pleasant practice with swift insight is said to be superior in both ways: because it\u2019s pleasant, and because it\u2019s swift. This practice is said to be superior in both ways. These are the four ways of practice.\u201d","title":"Both","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":129}