The "The Book of the Fours" contains 13 discourses. Here, teachings are presented in groups of fours, covering various sets of four principles or qualities, such as the Four Noble Truths or the four Brahmavihāras (divine abidings: loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity).
Catukkanipāta - The Book of the Fours
The Buddha shares the importance of giving, sharing, assisting and making an offering of the Dhamma.
Where children honor their mother and father, those families are said to dwell with Brahmā.
The Buddha uses the simile of a person carried downstream by a lovely and alluring river current to illustrate the painful results of craving and indulgence in the internal sense bases.
The Buddha explains why he is called the Tathāgata, the one who has fully comprehended the world, its arising, cessation, and the way of practice leading to its cessation.