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 ===== The definition =====
+<div excerpt>"...There is the case where a certain person is not covetous. He does not covet the belongings of others, thinking, 'O, that what belongs to others would be mine!' He bears no ill will and is not corrupt in the resolves of his heart. [He thinks,] 'May these beings be free from animosity, free from oppression, free from trouble, and may they look after themselves with ease!' He has right view and is not warped in the way he sees things:
+<blockquote>'There is what is given, what is offered, what is sacrificed. There are fruits & results of good & bad actions. There is this world & the next world. There is mother & father. There are spontaneously reborn beings; there are brahmans & contemplatives who, faring rightly & practicing rightly, proclaim this world & the next after having directly known & realized it for themselves.'</blockquote>...
+<cite> [[en:tipitaka:sut:an:an10:an10.176.than|AN 10.176]]</cite>
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 <div excerpt>"And what is right view? Knowledge with regard to [[..:..:sacca1:index|stress]], knowledge with regard to the [[..:..:sacca2:index|origination of stress]], knowledge with regard to the [[..:..:sacca3:index|cessation of stress]], knowledge with regard to the [[..:index|way of practice leading to the cessation of stress]]: This is called right view."
 <cite> [[en:tipitaka:sut:dn:dn.22.0.than|DN 22]]</cite>
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+===== Right view: a safe bet =====
+<div excerpt>“...Now, householders, of those contemplatives & brahmans who hold this doctrine, hold this view — 'There is nothing given, nothing offered, nothing sacrificed. There is no fruit or result of good or bad actions. There is no this world, no next world, no mother, no father, no spontaneously reborn beings; no brahmans or contemplatives who, faring rightly and practicing rightly, proclaim this world and the next after having directly known and realized it for themselves' — it can be expected that, shunning these three skillful activities — good bodily conduct, good verbal conduct, good mental conduct — they will adopt & practice these three unskillful activities: bad bodily conduct, bad verbal conduct, bad mental conduct. Why is that? Because those venerable contemplatives & brahmans do not see, in unskillful activities, the drawbacks, the degradation, and the defilement; nor in skillful activities the rewards of renunciation, resembling cleansing.
+“Because there actually is the next world, the view of one who thinks, 'There is no next world' is his wrong view. Because there actually is the next world, when he is resolved that 'There is no next world,' that is his wrong resolve. Because there actually is the next world, when he speaks the statement, 'There is no next world,' that is his wrong speech. Because there actually is the next world, when he is says that 'There is no next world,' he makes himself an opponent to those arahants who know the next world. Because there actually is the next world, when he persuades another that 'There is no next world,' that is persuasion in what is not true Dhamma. And in that persuasion in what is not true Dhamma, he exalts himself and disparages others. Whatever good habituation he previously had is abandoned, while bad habituation is manifested. And this wrong view, wrong resolve, wrong speech, opposition to the arahants, persuasion in what is not true Dhamma, exaltation of self, & disparagement of others: These many evil, unskillful activities come into play, in dependence on wrong view.
+“With regard to this, an observant person considers thus: 'If there is no next world, then — with the breakup of the body, after death — this venerable person has made himself safe. But if there is the next world, then this venerable person — on the breakup of the body, after death — will reappear in a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower realm, hell. Even if we didn't speak of the next world, and there weren't the true statement of those venerable contemplatives & brahmans, this venerable person is still criticized in the here-&-now by the observant as a person of bad habits & wrong view: one who holds to a doctrine of non-existence.' If there really is a next world, then this venerable person has made a bad throw twice: in that he is criticized by the observant here-&-now, and in that — with the breakup of the body, after death — he will reappear in a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower realm, hell. Thus this safe-bet teaching, when poorly grasped & poorly adopted by him, covers (only) one side, and leaves behind the possibility of the skillful..."
+<cite> [[en:tipitaka:sut:mn:mn.060.than#a1|MN 60]]</cite>
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-==== A thicket of wrong views ====
+===== A thicket of wrong views =====
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-===== Abandoning the unskillful, cultivating the skillful =====
-<div excerpt>"Don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by [[kalyanamittata|the wise]]; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' — then you should abandon them...
-"When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by [[kalyanamittata|the wise]]; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness' — then you should enter & remain in them."
-<cite> [[en:tipitaka:sut:an:an03:an03.065.than|AN 3.65]]</cite>
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