Questions tagged [wrongview]
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Is practicing Buddhism to be happy a wrong view?
One of my teachers has said that practicing Buddhism isn't about having a good time. That's always struck me as a bit harsh. If I practice Buddhism to feel a bit better about myself and to be happy is that a wrong view. If it is, then why would…
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What is knowledge?
Understanding that there various kinds of knowledge, could somone please help elaborate on the kind of direct knowledge the Buddha referred to in the context of liberation.
As a conditioned being who tends to base his understanding of the world on…
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What is a 'pernicious' wrong belief?
Under six major wrong doings (Abhithanani) in Buddhism,
(i. matricide, ii. patricide, iii. the murder of arahants (the Consummate Ones), iv. the shedding of the Buddha's blood, v. causing schism in the Sangha, and vi. pernicious false beliefs…
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"No spontaneously reborn beings"
One of the 10 wrong views is the view that there are no spontaneously reborn beings.
The preceding 2 wrong views in the sequence of 10 are "there is no mother" and "there is no father".
Now beings born on earth mostly see beings coming to existence…
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what those wrong views mean?
Middle length suttas often include following descriptions of wrong views (MN 44, MN 109, MN131, MN 138):
regards material form as self, or self as possessed of material form,
or material form as in self, or self as in material form.
(similar…
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