or Analytical thinking
The Threefold Path of the middle way or " Trisikka " wisdom is regarded as the most significant training. Moral and spiritual practice with ignorance will lead to false faith and distort the Buddha's teachings.
Rational attention is the way to achieve wisdom with the right view, both in scientific and mental processes. Analytical thinking or reasoning develops an intellectual understanding of the truth - that all things are interdependent. We do not exist apart from the rest of creation with some special right to exploit nature for our personal benefit. Let us first consider Thich Nath Hanh's view on the nature.
" If you are a right view Buddhist, when you are concentrating on reading a paper on Dhamma under a big tree, and look at a white cloud floating slowly through the blue sky, you will also see that cloud on your paper. You will think in the dependent way that - without cloud, there would be no rain, without rain, there would be no tree, so we could, not make paper. The could is essential for the tree, and the tree is essential for paper to exist. If the could were not here, the three and the sheet of paper you read could not be here either. So we can see that the cloud, the tree and the paper are interdependent.
If we look into the sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine were not there, the forest could not grow, so we know that the sunshine is also part of this sheet of paper. If we continue to look further, we can see the logger who cut the three in the forest and brought it in to the mill to be transformed into paper, and we see the rice field nearby. Without rice our mental processes, are conditioned and interdependent. "
Comprehending this analytical thinking is the activity of " Right View "in the Buddhist concept. According to the higher analytic doctrine of the Buddhist canon, " causal condition " is classified as one of those 24 co - factors.
By critically examining the Dependent Origination, or Paticcasamupada, we can understand the dependent cycle of the Triple Round...
This Interdependent process, according to the Buddha's teaching, is interrelated in both forward or reverse sequence. The main factors of this process can be summarized into 4 categories as follows ;
Ignorance and Karma - formation are the past - causes, while Consciousness, Mind and Matter, the six Sense - Bases, Contact and Feeling are the present results. Craving Clinging, and Becoming are the present causes while Birth, Decay, Death, Sorrow, Lamentation, Pain, Grief, Despair and the whole mass of Suffering will be the future - results.
According to the Buddha's teaching, the right view can be more developed through analytic insight and discrimination called the Patisamphida 4 these are :
1. Discrimination of meanings and consequences.
2. Discrimination of ideas and analytic insight of origin.
3. Analytic insight of philology.
4. Discrimination of sagacity and applicative insight.
By THE BUDDHA'S Core Teachings
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