Right View

amylynn518

So I am sure this question has been asked before, but can someone explain right view to me? What exactly does this mean?:o

Cloud

From AccessToInsight.org through Google:

"And what is right view? Knowledge with regard to stress, knowledge with regard to the origination of stress, knowledge with regard to the cessation of stress, knowledge with regard to the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress: This is called right view."

Basically it's that initial right view or understanding that we have of the Four Noble Truths. Wisdom brings a more true understanding, because it is based on experiential knowledge.

The final Right View is when the Four Noble Truths have been fully penetrated by the mind and Nirvana is realized. It is the beginning and end of the path.

[DeletedUser]

Is about the poke :poke: on internal and external to achieve a delightful view of Wow! :wow: your love! Alas! found it :rocker:

One of many recommended for reading on right view
Five Skandhas
http://www.fodian.net/english/ps.ss.02.v3.020526.screen.pdf

Six Extrances
http://www.fodian.net/english/ps.ss.02.v3.020526.screen.pdf

Telves Places
http://www.fodian.net/english/ps.ss.02.v3.020526.screen.pdf

Eighteen Realms
http://www.fodian.net/english/ps.ss.02.v3.020526.screen.pdf

The seven elements are all pervasive
http://www.fodian.net/english/ps.ss.02.v3.020526.screen.pdf

hermitwin

To believe that I can get away with murder is wrong view.
Other wrong views, life ends when you die ie no afterlife.
2. Greed is good.
3. Enjoy drugs and alcohol. etc.

Cloud

hermitwin wrote: »

Other wrong views, life ends when you die ie no afterlife.

The afterlife thing is a bit misleading. Actually the view that life begins when you're born is just as wrong. It's about the continuity of life, i.e. "life continues", not "my life continues". When we attach a personal component, we fall victim of the eternity view and this is just as bad as nihilism. The Middle Way is selfless.

The drug & alcohol thing is a precept.

Ch-an_noob

What everybody said above are correct, but to make it simple, this sums some basic ones up:

1. Nilhlism is false, we do not end at death
2. Fatalism is false, our path are not pre-determined
4. Eternalism that involves a immortal soul that lives on after death
4. Karma is true

5 Precepts:

Refrain from killing
Refrain from stealing
Refrain from lying
Refrain from sexual misconduct
Refrain from taking intoxicating substances

fivebells

Right view is to hold views in attention without holding them in attachment. There's a good explanation in The Feeling Buddha.

thickpaper

Right View is seeing things as they are.
It is seeing things as empty and interconnected, impermanent, interdependent (kama/DO).
It is seeing how these truths condition suffering by seeing the negative feedback of attachment.
It is seeing the aggregate mind.
It is seeing why the defilements defile, rather than just assuming that they do.
Right View is dharmic ontology, causality, mind and metaphysics.
Right View is the view of right methodology too; the view that is right is the view that is arrived at through questioning, not just swallowing.

namaste