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Numbered Discourses · AN 4.273

  • Numbered Discourses 4.273Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.273
  • 27. Ways of Performing Deeds27. Kammapathavagga

Wrong ViewMicchādiṭṭhisutta

“… They themselves have wrong view ……pe… Attanā ca micchādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca micchādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti, micchādiṭṭhiyā ca samanuñño hoti, micchādiṭṭhiyā ca vaṇṇaṁ bhāsati—imehi …pe….

They themselves have right view; they encourage others to have right view; they approve of right view; and they praise right view.Attanā ca sammādiṭṭhiko hoti, parañca sammādiṭṭhiyā samādapeti, sammādiṭṭhiyā ca samanuñño hoti, sammādiṭṭhiyā ca vaṇṇaṁ bhāsati— Someone with these four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”imehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ saggeti.

Similar passages elsewhere

Found by meaning, not by citation: the passages in other texts whose wording sits closest to a passage here.

  1. AN 3.163–182 Untitled Discourses on Three Qualities 0.58near 0.1They themselves have right view. They encourage others to have right view. And they approve of right view. Someone with these three qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”…
  2. MN 117 The Great Forty 0.53near 0.1This is wrong view. And what is right view? Right view is twofold, I say. There is right view that is accompanied by defilements, partakes of good deeds, and ripens in attachments. And there is right view that is noble,…
  3. AN 10.173 Bad Principles (3rd) 0.50near 0.1Ill will is a bad principle. Good will is a good principle. … Wrong view is a bad principle. Right view is a good principle. And the many bad, unskillful qualities produced by wrong view are bad results. And the many ski…