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**!!!maryann!!!** · 07-26-2010, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by stuka Originally Posted by ulman Just enough to believe so there is such a thing

Even that is not necessary. Faith in law of action is part of right view and it cannot be separated from rebirth. So why not to believe in it?
Its very sportive in practice. How to develop faith and about dangers of being without faith: http://www.mahindarama.com/e-tipitak...kaya/mn-60.htm The Buddha called that "right view with defilements", i.e., a view that leads one toward moral behavior, but based in greed, fear, and ignorance. He described it as inferior to his own superstition-free, liberative Noble Right View of discernment.

The Buddha did not deal in "faith", he dealt in "saddha", which means "confirmed confidence", not blind faith.

MN 60 treats a gaggle of competing superstitions with discernment. Ultimately, all of these superstitions are discarded in favor of the Buddha's own teachings of disenchantment with forms, and with cessation of becoming. These are the practices that the hypothetical "wise person" the Buddha postulates chooses and embraces.The various superstitions are rightly discarded.

07-26-2010, 12:32 AM	#31
!!!maryann!!! Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 346 Senior Member	Originally Posted by stuka Originally Posted by ulman Just enough to believe so there is such a thing Even that is not necessary. Faith in law of action is part of right view and it cannot be separated from rebirth. So why not to believe in it? Its very sportive in practice. How to develop faith and about dangers of being without faith: http://www.mahindarama.com/e-tipitak...kaya/mn-60.htm The Buddha called that "right view with defilements", i.e., a view that leads one toward moral behavior, but based in greed, fear, and ignorance. He described it as inferior to his own superstition-free, liberative Noble Right View of discernment. The Buddha did not deal in "faith", he dealt in "saddha", which means "confirmed confidence", not blind faith. MN 60 treats a gaggle of competing superstitions with discernment. Ultimately, all of these superstitions are discarded in favor of the Buddha's own teachings of disenchantment with forms, and with cessation of becoming. These are the practices that the hypothetical "wise person" the Buddha postulates chooses and embraces.The various superstitions are rightly discarded.
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