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**BaselBimbooooo** · 03-07-2010, 10:05 AM

The largest problem English users will have with this sutta is the word "view".

A view, for 99.9% of us is an opinion or a philosophy.

Not only English users, Thai users also understand word "Ditthi" is opinion. (We use pali word for the name of dhamma.) Then we have the same largest problem.

So, to study Sutta is so important to understand what the Buddha teaching. The same words for 2500 years ago may different meaning with the present.

The Right view or "Samma Ditthi" is the first one in Eightfold Noble Path. Then this is the tool, not the result.

03-07-2010, 10:05 AM	#6
BaselBimbooooo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 646 Senior Member	The largest problem English users will have with this sutta is the word "view". A view, for 99.9% of us is an opinion or a philosophy. Not only English users, Thai users also understand word "Ditthi" is opinion. (We use pali word for the name of dhamma.) Then we have the same largest problem. So, to study Sutta is so important to understand what the Buddha teaching. The same words for 2500 years ago may different meaning with the present. The Right view or "Samma Ditthi" is the first one in Eightfold Noble Path. Then this is the tool, not the result.
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