Reading guide
A genuine repeat, confirmed rather than assumed
Read side by side, this discourse's own text matches SN 45.23's own “wrong practice... right practice” definition exactly, confirmed by direct comparison of both discourses' own wording — the two are not merely similar in theme but identical in content.
Why the repetition may still make sense
This vagga's own name, Paṭipattivagga (“the chapter on practice”), takes its own theme directly from paṭipadā/paṭipatti (practice); opening with the identical definition already given once in Micchattavagga may function as this vagga's own foundational restatement before its own genuinely new material begins at SN 45.33, though this discourse itself offers no explicit comment on why the repetition occurs.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the wrong practice and the right practice. Listen … And what’s the wrong practice? It is wrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, and wrong immersion. This is called the wrong practice. And what’s the right practice? It is right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. This is called the right practice.”
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