What is view-craving?

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Re: What is view-craving?

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rowyourboat wrote:Hi TMingyur

Why cant we cling to right view?
The contradiction that appears to me between the explanation of the cause of right view "occurs with direct experiencing" given by you and the asserted possibility to cling to it does not negate our habits. A contradiction that appears between two concepts of course refers to these static concepts only.
It depends what you refer to with "can" in "why can't we". Of course someone who is ill can display symptoms of this illness.
rowyourboat wrote: But obtaining right view (as in the case of the stream entrant) does not, in one sweep, eliminate clinging,
So you seem to refer to "can" as implied: Taking the medicine only once does not necessarily eliminate the illness although the medicine and the illness appear to be incompatible (i.e. "contradictory").

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