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The Discourse in Detail
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"There are, monks, these four practices.
What are the four?
The difficult practice with sluggish direct knowledge, the difficult practice with quick direct knowledge, the easy practice with sluggish direct knowledge, the easy practice with quick direct knowledge.
"And what, monks, is the difficult practice with sluggish direct knowledge? Here, monks, someone is by nature of intense lust, and he constantly experiences suffering and displeasure born of lust. He is by nature of intense hate, and he constantly experiences suffering and displeasure born of hate. He is by nature of intense delusion, and he constantly experiences suffering and displeasure born of delusion. For him these five faculties become manifest as soft - the faith faculty, the energy faculty, the mindfulness faculty, the concentration faculty, the wisdom faculty. He, due to the softness of these five faculties, slowly attains the immediacy condition for the elimination of mental corruptions. This is called, monks, the difficult practice with sluggish direct knowledge.
"And what, monks, is the difficult practice with quick direct knowledge? Here, monks, someone is by nature of intense lust, and he constantly experiences suffering and displeasure born of lust. He is by nature of intense hate, and he constantly experiences suffering and displeasure born of hate. He is by nature of intense delusion, and he constantly experiences suffering and displeasure born of delusion. For him these five faculties become manifest as exceeding - the faith faculty, the energy faculty, the mindfulness faculty, the concentration faculty, the wisdom faculty. He, due to the exceeding nature of these five faculties, quickly attains the immediacy condition for the elimination of mental corruptions. This is called, monks, the difficult practice with quick direct knowledge.
"And what, monks, is the easy practice with sluggish direct knowledge? Here, monks, someone is by nature not of intense lust, and he does not constantly experience suffering and displeasure born of lust. He is by nature not of intense hate, and he does not constantly experience suffering and displeasure born of hate. He is by nature not of intense delusion, and he does not constantly experience suffering and displeasure born of delusion. For him these five faculties become manifest as soft - the faith faculty, etc. the wisdom faculty. He, due to the softness of these five faculties, slowly attains the immediacy condition for the elimination of mental corruptions. This is called, monks, the easy practice with sluggish direct knowledge.
"And what, monks, is the easy practice with quick direct knowledge? Here, monks, someone is by nature not of intense lust, and he does not constantly experience suffering and displeasure born of lust. He is by nature not of intense hate, and he does not constantly experience suffering and displeasure born of hate. He is by nature not of intense delusion, and he does not constantly experience suffering and displeasure born of delusion. For him these five faculties become manifest as exceeding - the faith faculty, the energy faculty, the mindfulness faculty, the concentration faculty, the wisdom faculty. He, due to the exceeding nature of these five faculties, quickly attains the immediacy condition for the elimination of mental corruptions. This is called, monks, the easy practice with quick direct knowledge. These, monks, are the four practices." The second.