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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.
