Right View
The Buddha recommended the virtues conducive for the development in wisdom, called " Vuddhi - dhamma 4 " ; 1. Association with a good and wise man. 2. Listening to the good teaching. 3. Having critical reflection or analytical thinking. 4. To practice in perfect conformity to the Dhamma principle under summathitti.
Summathitti means right vision, right opinion, right theory and right understanding, in the cause and effect of wholesome and unwholesome deeds based upon Buddhadhamma such as the Four Noble Truths; the Principle of the Three Existence; and the Interdependent process of the mind and matter. Right view is regarded as the first and cardinal path of training on " Wisdom ", which is one of the threefold path of the middle way, using which we can develop an intellectual understanding of the truth. The truth of all lives that are interdependent and interrelated, we must exist as a personal benefits, One, who cannot see or understand the process of Dependent Origination, is identified as ignorant.
There are two sources or conditions that give rise to the right view.
1. The external factor - Paratoghosa, means another utterance, inducement or hearing. It is associating with the virtuous and others though the process of learning in a favorable environment from teachers, texts, literatures or other medias.
2. The internal factor - Yonisomanasikara, means analytical thinking by reason or thinking through the causal relationship in order to solve the problem. To achieve goal by analytical thinking is dependent on 2 factors: personal background and the individual factors belonging to the category of insight or wisdom.
In addition, Buddhism considers 4 factors to be beneficial to promoting the right view, known as " The Four - Paths of Accomplishment " :
1. Chanda : the will or aspiration. This is compatible with the faith that leads to achieving wisdom.
2. Viriya : the effort, the energy which one exerts in the right way to accomplish the right view.
3. Citta : thoughtfulness, i.e. making a conscious effort to think analytically in order to achieving the right view.
4. Vimamsa : analysis of all information collected through paratoghosa and reasoning by means of Yonisomanasikan as mentioned above.
According to Buddha's teaching, Right View is classified as wisdom in the Three - fold training , developed from the right faith and right belief. The Buddha taught how to deal with matters of doubt through the way of paratoghosa and advised on how to investigate the truth by means of analytical thinking in the manner of yonisomanasikhara. The Buddh suggested the criteria for belief and non - belief to be the way of Paratoghosa and Yonisaomanasikara in Kalama sutta
The Right view in Buddhist terms can be classified into 2 senses - the mundane sense with worldly influxes and the supra mundane sense without defilement. In the first sense, one who has such vision will live the daily life with wholesome motivation. Contrarily, one who has the right view without canker will live it for the sake of Dhamma, that is for the good and righteous, out of love and compassion, not for personal gains or for any selfish motives, out of greed, hatred, loathing and delusion. Instead, they will perform good deeds for goodness and for mental liberation.
The prerequisite to developing wisdom in order to to achieve right view is faith. There are two kinds, one leads to developing wisdom while the other is a creed, a kind of mental attachment to one;s beliefs, Buddhism considers only that first kind of faith beneficial to promoting of the law of nature. This kind of faith according to Buddhism, is characterized as follows :
1. It is merely used as the starting point to develop right effort and wisdom.
2. It must be logical based upon wisdom that leads to analytical thinking for a learning process of Yonisomanasikara.
3. It is not a creed, made and taught in some theistic religion that the people are supposed to accept without question.
As a consequence of such dogma, Galileo was put on trial by the Holy Inquisition. He was sentenced to house arrest for life and forced to retract his belief that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe. He argued that he Bible was not intended to tell us anything about scientific theories, and that it was usual to assume that, where the Bible conflicted with common sense, it was being allegorical. Galileo contended :
" I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use. "
The BUDDHA'S Core Teachings
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