Right view

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mjaviem
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Re: Right view

Post by mjaviem »

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“And what, bhikkhus, is right view that is affected by the taints, partaking of merit, ripening in the acquisitions?
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Perhaps it means...
... ‘There is what is given and what is offered and what is sacrificed;...
to understand suffering and renunciation,
... there is fruit and result of good and bad actions; ...
that speech, actions and livelihood bring consequences,
... there is this world and the other world; ...
that liberation is possible which is where there's no more suffering,
... there is mother and father; there are beings who are reborn spontaneously ...
that suffering has a clear origin or may have no apparent origin
...there are in the world good and virtuous recluses and brahmins who have realised for themselves by direct knowledge and declare this world and the other world.’...
and that there are those who developed the Noble Eightfold Path and realized Nibbana

Perrhaps this is the right view affected by taints, parking of merit, ripening in the acquisitions.
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammā Sambuddhassa
thomaslaw
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Re: Right view

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According to SN and SA suttas, 'right view' is not only referring to knowledge of the four noble truths, but also referring to fully knowing and seeing phenomena or sense objects as: (1) impermanence, suffering, and not-self, and (2) the middle way (empty of the two extremes: existence (eternalism) and non-existence (nihilism)).

See Choong Mun-keat, The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism: A Comparative Study Based on the Sūtrāṅga portion of the Pāli Saṃyutta-Nikāya and the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama (Series: Beitrage zur Indologie Band 32; Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2000), pp. 53, 60-2, 91, 192-5, 207-8, 210-1.

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Ontheway
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Re: Right view

Post by Ontheway »

I will follow this passage from Maggavibhanga Sutta for Sammaditthi practice:

"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, sammādiṭṭhi? Yaṁ kho, bhikkhave, dukkhe ñāṇaṁ, dukkhasamudaye ñāṇaṁ, dukkhanirodhe ñāṇaṁ, dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ñāṇaṁ—ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, sammādiṭṭhi."

- Bhagava Gotama Buddha
Hiriottappasampannā,
sukkadhammasamāhitā;
Santo sappurisā loke,
devadhammāti vuccare.

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