本經論述四種正勤：律儀勤、斷勤、修勤與隨護勤。

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

本經論述戒、多聞、精進與智慧四種特質，具此四者即已入決定之道、志在斷盡諸漏。

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.

《經集》大品第二經，描述菩薩禪修時魔羅以貪慾、不樂、飢渴、渴愛、怯懦、疑惑、虛偽、昏沉等八軍相試，終被佛陀擊退。

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.

本經論述四種正勤：令未生惡不生、已生惡斷除、未生善生起、已生善增長圓滿。

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.