本经论述四种正勤：律仪勤、断勤、修勤与随护勤。

A discourse on the four kinds of right effort: to restrain, to abandon, to develop, and to preserve.

本经论述戒、多闻、精进与智慧四种特质，具此四者即已入决定之道、志在断尽诸漏。

A discourse on four qualities — virtue, learning, ardent energy, and wisdom — that show one has entered the path to certainty and is bent on destroying the corruptions.

《经集》大品第二经，描述菩萨禅修时魔罗以贪欲、不乐、饥渴、渴爱、怯懦、疑惑、虚伪、昏沉等八军相试，终被佛陀击退。

The second discourse of the Mahā Vagga in the Suttanipāta, describing how Māra tempted the meditating Buddha-to-be with his eightfold army of lust, discontent, hunger, craving, cowardice, doubt, hypocrisy, and stupor, only to retire in defeat.

本经论述四种正勤：令未生恶不生、已生恶断除、未生善生起、已生善增长圆满。

A discourse on the four right efforts: for the non-arising of unwholesome states, for their abandoning, for the arising of wholesome states, and for their increase and fulfilment.