1sn.v.59"Bhikkhus, there are these four floods. What four?
The flood of sensuality,
the flood of existence,
the flood of views,
the flood of ignorance.
These are the four floods.

The Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed
- for direct knowledge of these four floods,
- 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 four floods,
- 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.

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Cattārome, bhikkhave, oghā. Katame cattāro?
Kāmogho, bhavogho, diṭṭhogho, avijjogho – ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro oghā.

Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ oghānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya … pe …

ayaṁ ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo bhāvetabbo"ti.

(Yathā esanā, evaṁ vitthāretabbaṁ.)

Paṭhamaṁ.