Chapter 9 - Right View

Question 1

define:

Right View

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Answer 1

• deep understanding of 4NT
• faith and confidence suffering can be transformed
• knowing which ingested nutriments have caused what has come to be
• ability to distinguish wholesome from unwholesome roots
• selective seed watering
• acknowledging seed of Buddhahood in others
• practice of 5MT, especially 5th
• cannot be described, only pointed to like the moon, has to be tasted for oneself
• not an ideology or even a path, but an insight into reality
• looking deeply all views are wrong views
• Right View in the ultimate is absence of all views

Question 2

What kind of question should we ask to a teacher about the Dharma?

Answer 2

• one that can change our life

Question 3

define:

Practice of No Idea

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Answer 3

• to practise is to go beyond ideas to arrive at the suchness of things
• path of non-conception
• as long as there is an idea, there is no reality, no truth
• no idea does not mean “no mindfulness”

Question 4

What is there where there is perception, according to the Buddha?

Answer 4

• deception

Question 5

Two types of teaching

Answer 5

1. image teaching
2. substance teaching

Question 6

define:

image teaching

Answer 6

via words and ideas

Question 7

define:

substance teaching

Answer 7

communicated by way of living

Question 8

What does mindfulness do for our Right View?

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Answer 8

• helps to identify all seeds in our store consciousness
• when something is right, we know it’s right and vice versa

Question 9

What can we say about perceptions in terms of Right View?

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Answer 9

• illusory, erroneous, deceptive
• ask often: “Am I sure?”
• object of our perception is us
• coming into existence of perceiver and perceived
• carry errors of subjectivity i.e. praising, blaming, condemning, complaining
• sources lie in store consciousness, important to identify them by looking deeply
• looking deeply at perceptions frees us from them
  ex: often our very idea of happiness prevents us from happiness
• happiness of self and others depends on our degree of Right View
• we can’t tell others what to do but we can water their seeds of Right View
• caught in perceptions, reality gets lost