{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.168/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.168","id":"suttacentral_an4.168","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.168/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na went up to Venerable S\u0101riputta, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na sat down to one side, and said to S\u0101riputta: \u201cReverend S\u0101riputta, 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 Moggall\u0101na \u2026 I relied on the pleasant practice with swift insight to free my mind from defilements by not grasping.\u201d","title":"S\u0101riputta\u2019s Practice","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":111}