{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.167/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.167","id":"suttacentral_an4.167","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.167/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable S\u0101riputta went up to Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, S\u0101riputta sat down to one side and said to Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na: \u201cReverend Moggall\u0101na, 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. These are the four ways of practice. Which one of these four ways of practice did you rely on to free your mind from defilements by not grasping?\u201d \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta \u2026 I relied on the painful practice with swift insight to free my mind from defilements by not grasping.\u201d","title":"Moggall\u0101na\u2019s Practice","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":111}