What is right view?

    What is right view?

Right understanding or view means correct understanding, the best understanding it is true but it is not no half true or false . if it is less than our best then it is not right understanding . this means that each one  of us must try hard to get a really good understanding of the Buddha’s path. If we fail to  make a good start, then we are like the man lost in the desert.

Right View supports wisdom. Wisdom in this sense is the understanding of things as they are, as explained in the teachings of the Four Noble Truths. This understanding is not mere intellectual understanding. It is instead a thorough penetration of the Four Noble Truths. 

For example, last us pretend we have just bought a moter car and have filled the tank with petrol. They are new and the motor car has plenty of oil. We have a road map and know very well where we wish to go. There is only one thing to keep us from starting our trip at once . we do not know how to drive and until we gain the proper understanding of how to drive, the car is useless to us. If we try to drive without knowing how , we place ourselves in great danger. It is alos like this with the eightfold path. Unless we first get right understanding we cannot make right use of the other seven points.  

It is important to understand that the Eightfold Path is not a series of progressive steps to be mastered one after another. Each of the steps is to be developed and practiced together with the other steps, because they all support each other. Strictly speaking, there is no "first" or "last" step then we can understand clearly the right view.

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