{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.69/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.69","id":"suttacentral_an4.69","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.69/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these four efforts. What four? The efforts to restrain, to give up, to develop, and to preserve. And what, mendicants, is the effort to restrain? It\u2019s when you generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that bad, unskillful qualities don\u2019t arise. This is called the effort to restrain. And what, mendicants, is the effort to give up? It\u2019s when you generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that bad, unskillful qualities are given up. This is called the effort to give up. And what, mendicants, is the effort to develop? It\u2019s when you generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities arise. This is called the effort to develop. And what, mendicants, is the effort to preserve? It\u2019s when you generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed. This is called the effort to preserve. These are the four efforts. Restraint and giving up, development and preservation: these are the four efforts taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. Any mendicant who keenly applies these may attain the ending of suffering.\u201d","title":"Effort","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":212}