4: The Book of the Fours
277–303
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1"Bhikkhus, for full understanding of lust … for the utter destruction … for the abandoning … an.ii.257 … for the destruction … for the vanishing … for the fading away … for the cessation … for the giving up … For the relinquishment of lust, these four things are to be developed."[n.973] As the three fourfold practices are to be developed for direct knowledge of lust, so they are to be developed for each of the other nine purposes. Thus there are a total of thirty suttas with respect to lust.
