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

The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these three kinds of trouble,
- 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 kinds of trouble,
- 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"Tayome, bhikkhave, nīghā. Katame tayo?
Rāgo nīgho, doso nīgho, moho nīgho – ime kho, bhikkhave, tayo nīghā.

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

ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.

Aṭṭhamaṁ.