1"Bhikkhus, there are these three stains. What three?
The stain of lust, the stain of hatred, the stain of delusion.
These are the three stains.

The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these three stains,
- 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 direct knowledge of these three stains,
- 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"Tīṇimāni, bhikkhave, malāni. Katamāni tīṇi?
Rāgo malaṁ, doso malaṁ, moho malaṁ – imāni kho, bhikkhave, tīṇi malāni.

Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, tiṇṇannaṁ malānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya … pe …

ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.

Sattamaṁ.