Reading guide
The teaching in one sentence
The principle not to make much of is the ten wrong factors from wrong view to wrong freedom; the principle to make much of is the ten right factors from right view to right freedom.
The compound's second half, delivered separately
Where most of this project's discourses say “developed and cultivated” (bhāvitā bahulīkatā) as a single fused phrase, this chapter's structure splits the pairing across two consecutive discourses — AN 10.151 taking bhāveti alone, this discourse taking bahulīkaroti alone, each given the full ten-factor treatment independently.
Literally, making much or plentiful
Bahulīkātabba derives from bahula, abundant or plentiful — the verb suggests not merely growing the right factors once but making them abundant, a frequency and thoroughness of practice beyond a single act of development.
Four verbs down, one to go
With this discourse, the chapter has now supplied four of its five closing practice-verbs (activate, cultivate, develop, make much of); only anussaritabba, “should be recollected,” remains before the chapter turns to its final, tenth discourse.
Key terms
The text
Not to be made much of, and to be made much of
§1“I will teach you the principle to make much of and the principle not to make much of. … And what is the principle not to make much of? Wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, wrong immersion, wrong knowledge, and wrong freedom. This is called the principle not to make much of. And what is the principle to make much of? Right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom. This is called the principle to make much of.”
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