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**flnastyax** · 06-04-2010, 09:17 AM

Kaarine, dear, might you re-phrase your question, as I am not sure I quite understand what it is you are asking. It seems to me you might have mentioned that you are a native German-speaker, and if I might be able to get it if you say it in German, too.

So sorry of my lack of fluent english. No, I am not a native German sepaker. My grandmother was. So I learnt a little of German when a child but I have forgoten much of it.

Anyway, thanks for answering...

I will try to re-phrase my question:

Does the aproach of Bikkhu Bodhi to Right View (given in the ]discernment, as the Buddha taught?[/i]

Now,

It is rather illuminating to look at Bodhi's criticism of Nanavira's exposition of paticcasamuppada, in light of Mettiko Bhiokkhu's analysis of the two. Bodhi concerns himself primarily with "right view with asavas" and sees it as the highest thing": he sees "dukkha" as equating "round of reincarnations/re-births", and sees the ultimate goal of the Buddha's teachings as being annihilation, as "hopping off that round", while the Buddha clearly deleneates what "duhhka" is (not getting what one wants, getting what one doesn't want, etc), and...

but then...

declares, as Bodhi even admits above, that "What he teaches, he says, is just suffering and the ending of suffering, dukkha and its cessation." This, the Buddha's concern with dukkha and its extinguishment, is the concern of "Noble Right View".

So, does Bikkhu Bodhi finaly understands the essence of a Noble Right View"?

06-04-2010, 09:17 AM	#26
flnastyax Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 454 Senior Member	Kaarine, dear, might you re-phrase your question, as I am not sure I quite understand what it is you are asking. It seems to me you might have mentioned that you are a native German-speaker, and if I might be able to get it if you say it in German, too. So sorry of my lack of fluent english. No, I am not a native German sepaker. My grandmother was. So I learnt a little of German when a child but I have forgoten much of it. Anyway, thanks for answering... I will try to re-phrase my question: Does the aproach of Bikkhu Bodhi to Right View (given in the ]discernment, as the Buddha taught?[/i] Now, It is rather illuminating to look at Bodhi's criticism of Nanavira's exposition of paticcasamuppada, in light of Mettiko Bhiokkhu's analysis of the two. Bodhi concerns himself primarily with "right view with asavas" and sees it as the highest thing": he sees "dukkha" as equating "round of reincarnations/re-births", and sees the ultimate goal of the Buddha's teachings as being annihilation, as "hopping off that round", while the Buddha clearly deleneates what "duhhka" is (not getting what one wants, getting what one doesn't want, etc), and... but then... declares, as Bodhi even admits above, that "What he teaches, he says, is just suffering and the ending of suffering, dukkha and its cessation." This, the Buddha's concern with dukkha and its extinguishment, is the concern of "Noble Right View". So, does Bikkhu Bodhi finaly understands the essence of a Noble Right View"?
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