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**Gymnfacymoota** · 10-15-2011, 10:21 PM

Hi Andy,

Views are about wrong believes, opinions or concepts -"ditthi"- as when one holds the idea of a self -"atta-ditthi". So it is imposible that Buddha could have views as holding believes or opinions but just the Noble or Right View. His doctrine is not based on speculative opinions but on the understanding of the source of suffering and its cessation. What happend during his long period of being a Noble Teacher is just that he adapted the teaching of awakening to particular case while developing for some very deep and subtle teachings and for others some that were not so because it seems there is a kind of mundane and supramundane Right View. But even that, if we pay attention, all the discourses are instructions so to abandone views and to shift them into the Right or Noble one; all of them ending in the final result of following them which is awakening.

MN9 can be a good example for this. He offers different ways of developing awareness and to abandon views, which indeed, known as "ditthi" and not having an indication of Noble -"samma"- is considered in most of the cases about holding a wrong one.

"When a noble disciple has thus understood the [unwholesome, nutriment, suffering, etc.], the root of the unwholesome, the wholesome, and the root of the wholesome, he entirely abandons the underlying tendency to lust, he abolishes the underlying tendency to aversion, he extirpates the underlying tendency to the view and conceit 'I am,' and by abandoning ignorance and arousing true knowledge he here and now makes an end of suffering. In that way too a noble disciple is one of right view, whose view is straight, who has perfect confidence in the Dhamma and has arrived at this true Dhamma."

Sammaditthi Sutta
So the only view the Buddha taught was the Right or Noble View exposed in different set of instructions suitable to particular cases.

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Gymnfacymoota Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	Hi Andy, Views are about wrong believes, opinions or concepts -"ditthi"- as when one holds the idea of a self -"atta-ditthi". So it is imposible that Buddha could have views as holding believes or opinions but just the Noble or Right View. His doctrine is not based on speculative opinions but on the understanding of the source of suffering and its cessation. What happend during his long period of being a Noble Teacher is just that he adapted the teaching of awakening to particular case while developing for some very deep and subtle teachings and for others some that were not so because it seems there is a kind of mundane and supramundane Right View. But even that, if we pay attention, all the discourses are instructions so to abandone views and to shift them into the Right or Noble one; all of them ending in the final result of following them which is awakening. MN9 can be a good example for this. He offers different ways of developing awareness and to abandon views, which indeed, known as "ditthi" and not having an indication of Noble -"samma"- is considered in most of the cases about holding a wrong one. "When a noble disciple has thus understood the [unwholesome, nutriment, suffering, etc.], the root of the unwholesome, the wholesome, and the root of the wholesome, he entirely abandons the underlying tendency to lust, he abolishes the underlying tendency to aversion, he extirpates the underlying tendency to the view and conceit 'I am,' and by abandoning ignorance and arousing true knowledge he here and now makes an end of suffering. In that way too a noble disciple is one of right view, whose view is straight, who has perfect confidence in the Dhamma and has arrived at this true Dhamma." Sammaditthi Sutta So the only view the Buddha taught was the Right or Noble View exposed in different set of instructions suitable to particular cases.
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