If anyone imagines they can criticize and reject these four footprints of the Dhamma, they deserve rebuttal and criticism on four legitimate grounds in this very life. Even those who were loud and bold advocates of the doctrines of no-cause, inaction, and nihilism didn’t imagine that these four footprints of the Dhamma should be criticized or rejected. Why is that? For fear of being blamed, provoked, and faulted.

One who has good will, ever mindful, serene within, training to remove desire, is called ‘a diligent one’.”

Numbered Discourses 4.31 4. Situations Situations

“Mendicants, there are these four situations. When these situations come about, any god or human who takes advantage of them will soon acquire great and abundant wealth. What four? Living in a suitable region, relying on true persons, being rightly resolved in oneself, and past merit. These are the four situations. When these situations come about, any god or human who takes advantage of them will soon acquire great and abundant wealth.