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DiÂÂhi

Rreferences:

Digha Nikaya #33: Sangiti Sutta 3s#20 PTS: pp288; and The Compilation 3s#20, MO, trans.

The Eighth Lesson

WP, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #9: Right View, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans, pp134

See also: The Cattari Ariya Saccani which is "Samma Ditthi"

PTS, T.W and C.A.F. Rhys Davids, trans., Dialogs of the Buddha III #33 pp 209

WP, Walshe, trans, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, #33, pp484

Puremind, M. Punnaji, Awakening Meditation, pp8-56

All The Asavas Outline of Majjhima I:#2: Sabbasavasutta

AIT: All the Fermentations, MN I:2, Thanissaro, trans.

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, All the Taints, pp 91

PTS: The Collection of The Middle Length Sayings, Translated by I.B. Horner, Discourse on All the Cankers, pp8

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, III, v (75): The Warrior, Hare, trans., pp76

PTS: The Book of the Kindred Sayings, V, The Great Chapter, Kindred Sayings on the Way, iii: Asava, Woodward, trans., pp45

The 10th Lesson: The Destruction of the Asavas


Pali MO Hare Horner Punnaji Bodhi Nanamoli Rhys Davids (Mrs)Rhys Davids Thanissaro Walshe Woodward
DiÂÂhi View, View Theory, Perspective, Working Hypothesis view view Perspective view view view, eroneous opinion view, eroneous opinion view View[ 1 ] view

 

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):

DiÂÂhi: view, belief, dogma, theory, speculation, esp. false theory, groundless or unfounded opinion.

(a) The latter is rejected by the Buddha as p¤pa* (A IV.172) and p¤pik¤ d. ...; whereas the right, the true, the best doctrine is as samm¤ d. the first condition to be complied with by anyone entering the Path. As such the samm¤ d. is opposed to micch¤ d. wrong views or heresy....

(b) Characterized more especially as:

(i) samm¤ diÂÂhi right doctrine, right philosophy Vin I.10; S II.17; V.11, 14, 30 sq., 458 sq., M I.315; II.12, 29, 87; III.72...

(ii) micch¤ d. wrong theory, false doctrine S I.145; II.153 (caused by avijj¤); M III.71;.... -- The foll. theories are to be considered as varieties of micch¤ d., viz. (in limited enumn) akiriyav¤da S III.208; IV.349; a¾¾a¸ a¾¾ena S III.211; antagg¤hik¤ A I.154; II.240; III.130; ant¢nantik¤ D I.22 sq. S III.214, 258 sq.; ass¤da° A III.447; ahetukav¤d¤ S III.210; ucchedav¤d¤ D I.34; S II.20; III.99; 110 sq.; bhava* S III.93; M I.65; A I.83; sakk¤ya* A III.438; V.144...; sassatav¤d¤ D I.13; S II.20; III.98, 213 sq., 258 sq.

(iii) Various theories & doctrines are mentioned & discussed at: Vin I.115; S I.133; II.61 sq., 75 sq., 222; III.215 sq., 258 sq.; IV.286; V.448 (=D I.31); D III.13 sq., 45, 246, 267; M I.40; A I.32; II.252 sq.; III.132, 289, 349....

(iv) Miscellaneous: 4 diÂÂhiyo at Vism 511 (sakk¤ya*, uccheda*, sassata*, akiriya*).... Coupled with v¤c¤ & citta in formula (ta?) v¤ca¸ appah¤ya citta? appah¤ya diÂÂhi¸ appaÂinissajjitv¤ . . . (nikkhitto eva¸ niraye) at S IV.319= D III.13, 15; combd with (& opposed to) s¨la (as p¤paka & bhaddaka). -- diÂÂhi¸ ¤sevati to hold a view M I.323; * bhindati to give up a view J I.273; Davs II.58.

-¤sava the intoxicant of speculation, the 3rd of four ¤sav¤, viz. k¤ma*, bhava*, d.*, avijj¤* Vin III.5; cp. *ogha;

-upad¤n¤ taking up or adhering to false doctrines, the 2nd of the four up¤d¤n¤ni or attachments, viz. k¤ma*, d.*, s¨labbata*, attav¤da* D III.230...

-ogha the flood of false doctrine, in set of four ogha's as under *¤sava D III.230, 276...

-j¤la the net of sophistry D I.46...

-sa¸yojana the fetter or bond of empty speculation (cp. *anusaya) D III.254; A IV.7 sq.;

-samudaya the origin of wrong views A IV.68;

-sampad¤ success in theory, blessing of right views, attainment of truth D III.213; 235 (opp. *vipatti), S V.30 sq.; A I.95, 269; III.438; IV.238...

-sampanna endowed with right views S II.43, 58, 80; V.11; A III.438 sq.; IV.394... Dialogues iii.206, n. 10;

 

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[ 1 ] Samma-ditthi This, or 'Right Seeing' is the literal rendering ('Right Vision' would be an unwise rendering, because liable to be misleading!). Ditthi here is a singular, and denotes 'seeing things as they really are', whereas 'views' in the plural are always wrong. It should be noted that when not prefixed with the word samm¤, ditthi means 'speculative opinions', and the like, which are not based on 'seeing things as they really are'. The formal opposite of samm¤-ditthi is micch¤-ditthi, a term generally reserved for especially pernicious views... Samma-ditthi and the rest are sometimes rendered 'Perfect View', and so on, but this only refers to the supramundane path as described in MN 117.

 

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