1"Bhikkhus, there are these three discriminations. What three?
The discrimination ‘I am superior,’
the discrimination ‘I am equal,’
the discrimination ‘I am inferior.’
These are the three discriminations.

The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these three discriminations,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning.

What Noble Eightfold Path?
Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu develops right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration,
- which is based upon seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, maturing in release;
- which has as its final goal the removal of lust, the removal of hatred, the removal of delusion;
- which has the Deathless as its ground, the Deathless as its destination, the Deathless as its final goal;
- which slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbāna.

This Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for the direct knowledge of these three discriminations,
- for the full understanding of them,
- for their utter destruction,
- for their abandoning."

This sutta may be fully expanded in accordance with the fourfold method employed in SN45.161.

1"Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vidhā. Katamā tisso? ‘Seyyohamasmī’ti vidhā, ‘sadisohamasmī’ti vidhā, ‘hīnohamasmī’ti vidhā – imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vidhā.

Imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tissannaṁ vidhānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo.

Katamo ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sammādiṭṭhiṁ bhāveti … pe … sammāsamādhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ …

imāsaṁ kho, bhikkhave tissannaṁ vidhānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.

(Yathā esanā, evaṁ vitthāretabbaṁ.)

Dutiyaṁ.