<p>Yes according to the Suttas one can develop concentration separate or in tandem with wisdom.</p>
<p><a href="https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.170.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AN 4.170</a></p>

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Remyla
<p>You can't have wisdom apart from vipassana either.  Think of samadhi as the ingredients, vipassana as the blender, and prajna as the milkshake.</p>

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Terrible and incorrect metaphor.
Remyla
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Care to elaborate?  Samadhi creates the potentiality for insight ("When my concentrated mind was thus purified, bright, unblemished, rid of imperfection, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability..."), vipassana is the act of directing that mind; it's the mechanism in this process ("I directed it to"), and prajna is the fruit of that direction ("knowledge of the destruction of the taints. I directly knew as it actually is: ‘This is suffering’..." (MN 4)
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user23600
<p>Can you develop Samadhi (concentration) and Pañña (wisdom) exclusively from one another (according to the suttas)?</p>
<p>I am under the impression that a meditator cannot develop one without developing the other.</p>

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2022-04-23T11:29:37.740Z
my answer is here: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/33157/8157
Dhamma Dhatu
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Thank you very much 
PDT
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But my question is not distinguishing Vippassana as opposed to Samatha but wisdom as opposed to samādhi instead.
PDT
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Right Samadhi is lead by Right Wisdom (Panna). Wrong Samadhi is not lead by wisdom. Refer to MN 117: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.117.than.html, which says: "Any singleness of mind equipped with these seven factors — right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, & right mindfulness — is called noble right concentration with its supports & requisite conditions."
Dhamma Dhatu
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But can't you, in the 5 faculties, develop wisdom exclusively.
PDT
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2022-04-25T12:34:48.207Z
Question reopened based on "But my question is not distinguishing Vippassana as opposed to Samatha but wisdom as opposed to samādhi instead".
ruben2020
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Can concentration and wisdom be developed exclusively from each other?
# Can concentration and wisdom be developed exclusively from each other?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-04-23)

Can you develop Samadhi (concentration) and Pañña (wisdom) exclusively from one another (according to the suttas)?

I am under the impression that a meditator cannot develop one without developing the other.

**Tags:** practice, samadhi, wisdom, panna

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: my answer is here: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/33157/8157  
> **username_0**: Thank you very much   
> **username_0**: But my question is not distinguishing Vippassana as opposed to Samatha but wisdom as opposed to samādhi instead.  
> **username_1**: Right Samadhi is lead by Right Wisdom (Panna). Wrong Samadhi is not lead by wisdom. Refer to MN 117: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.117.than.html, which says: "Any singleness of mind equipped with these seven factors — right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, & right mindfulness — is called noble right concentration with its supports & requisite conditions."  
> **username_0**: But can't you, in the 5 faculties, develop wisdom exclusively.  
> **username_2**: Question reopened based on "But my question is not distinguishing Vippassana as opposed to Samatha but wisdom as opposed to samādhi instead".  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2022-04-25. Score: 1

Yes according to the Suttas one can develop concentration separate or in tandem with wisdom.

[AN 4.170](https://accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.170.than.html)


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### Answer by username_4 on 2022-04-25. Score: -3

You can't have wisdom apart from vipassana either. Think of samadhi as the ingredients, vipassana as the blender, and prajna as the milkshake.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Terrible and incorrect metaphor.  
> **username_4**: Care to elaborate?  Samadhi creates the potentiality for insight ("When my concentrated mind was thus purified, bright, unblemished, rid of imperfection, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability..."), vipassana is the act of directing that mind; it's the mechanism in this process ("I directed it to"), and prajna is the fruit of that direction ("knowledge of the destruction of the taints. I directly knew as it actually is: ‘This is suffering’..." (MN 4)  

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