Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Numbered Discourses 10.136

  1. Good

Unskillful

“I will teach you the skillful and the unskillful …

And what is the unskillful?

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 unskillful.

And what is the skillful?

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 skillful.”