Reading guide
The vagga's own name, defined in its own opening discourse
Micchattavagga takes its name directly from this discourse's own central term, confirmed by reading the vagga's own uddāna, which opens by naming “micchattaṁ” first among its ten discourses' own topics.
The first of a five-discourse run, honestly noted
SN 45.21–25 each teach the identical wrong/right eightfold-path pairing, varying only the framing term (the way itself, skillful/unskillful qualities, practice, an untrue/true person), confirmed by reading all five directly — this reading guide notes this repetition honestly rather than inventing distinctions the source itself does not support.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the wrong way and the right way. Listen … And what is the wrong way? It is wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, and wrong immersion. This is called the wrong way. And what is the right way? It is right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. This is called the right way.”
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