Discussion on Right View

[Jundo]

Re: Discussion on Right View

Can you explain this more? If there is "right view", is there also not "wrong view"? Isn't the Buddha's teaching of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path inherently dual? That is, you must choose a path, and choice implies duality.

Oh, I think there is most clearly "wrong views" ... meaning views driven by greed, anger, ignorance (and their subsets such as division, jealously, bigotry, addiction, attachment and clinging and excess and the like).

Our way is not "dualistic", for "All paths on the mountain are just the mountain" ...

nonetheless, some lead off a cliff or into the poison ivy! :shock:

Gassho, J

[Kaishin]

Re: Discussion on Right View

Hi Matt,

What is generally translated by right ( as opposed to wrong) comes from a Sanskrit word which means one with.

Ah... that helps!

Of course, one way to look at it is that we have to make a good choice, a choice that benefits ourselves and the world. This understanding is absolutely fine until you realize that you are not facing here a list of things that should be done and how they should be done, but the very flowers of sitting itself...What I simply want to emphazise is that one should be very careful not to boil this reality down to a set of rules and principles.

I see what you mean now. Thank you very much for the further commentary!

Our way is not "dualistic", for "All paths on the mountain are just the mountain" ...

nonetheless, some lead off a cliff or into the poison ivy!

Ha! I see what you mean. But then I start overthinking it and suddenly it no longer makes sense. Think less, sit more...maybe I should adopt that as my mantra

Gassho,
Matt

[Shokai]

Re: Discussion on Right View

then I start overthinking it and suddenly it no longer makes sense

Ah, the demon "Thinking" :shock:

[Taigu]

Re: Discussion on Right View

Glad it helps, Matt.
Yes, practice first, think after. the opposite of what is taught at school...

gassho


Taigu