p332 Inappropriate attention is a mind that focuses on the qualities of a contaminated object and exaggerates them.

Inappropriate attention is a mind that focuses on the qualities of a contaminated object and exaggerates them. It is what actually generates delusions. For example, if we remember how someone harmed us in the past and we dwell on this, exaggerating the harm that was done, inappropriate attention will cause hatred to arise strongly in our mind. If we dwell on the good qualities of an object and exaggerate them, inappropriate attention will cause desirous attachment to arise strongly in our mind.