Wrong collectedness ☁️ dark quality View in explorer
2 discourses
A concentration that steadies the mind upon unwholesome aims—power, sensual pleasure, or self-exaltation. Though appearing calm, it is unpurified by right view or intention. Such collectedness deepens delusion instead of insight.
Also known as: wrong concentration
Pāli: micchāsamādhi
With wrong view, all actions lead to suffering. With right view, all actions lead to happiness. The Buddha explains this with an example of seeds.
Approaching wrongness leads to failure, not success. Approaching rightness leads to success, not failure.