MICCHATTAVAGGA

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Micchattasutta

SN 45.21

The Wrong Way

The wrong eightfold path is a wrong state; the right eightfold path is a right state.

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Akusaladhammasutta

SN 45.22

Unskillful Qualities

The factors of the wrong eightfold path are unskillful qualities; those of the right eightfold path are skillful qualities.

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Paṭhamapaṭipadāsutta

SN 45.23

Practice (1st)

The wrong eightfold path is the wrong way; the right eightfold path is the right way.

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Dutiyapaṭipadāsutta

SN 45.24

Practice (2nd)

Regardless of whether one is a lay person or a renunciate, the Buddha praises the right way, not the wrong way. The wrong eightfold path is the wrong way; the right eightfold path is the right way.

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Paṭhamaasappurisasutta

SN 45.25

An Untrue Person (1st)

A bad person practices wrong eightfold path; a good person practices the right eightfold path.

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Dutiyaasappurisasutta

SN 45.26

An Untrue Person (2nd)

A bad person practices wrong eightfold path, and a worse person has wrong knowledge and wrong liberation, too; a good person is the opposite.

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Kumbhasutta

SN 45.27

Pots

Someone without the eightfold path is easily knocked over, like a pot without a stand.

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Samādhisutta

SN 45.28

Immersion

The eightfold path is the necessary prerequisite for right immersion (<i lang='pi' translate='no'>samādhi</i>).

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Vedanāsutta

SN 45.29

Feeling

The eightfold path is developed to understand the three feelings.

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Uttiyasutta

SN 45.30

With Uttiya

The Buddha taught the eightfold path in order to give up the five kinds of sensual stimulation.

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