Reading guide
The compressed style, confirmed as this vagga's own default
Where SN 45.161 wrote out four separate verb-parts each with four formula-variants, this discourse folds all four verbs into one sentence (“for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up”) and pairs it only with the base formula — confirmed by an explicit “tell in full as in the section on searches” instruction to be this vagga's own standard presentation for every discourse from here through SN 45.169.
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, there are three kinds of discrimination. What three? One discriminates, thinking that ‘I’m better’ or ‘I’m equal’ or ‘I’m worse’. These are the three kinds of discrimination. The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three kinds of discrimination. What is the noble eightfold path? It’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. This is the noble eightfold path that should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three kinds of discrimination.” (Tell in full as in the section on searches.)
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