I’ve been looking more and more at Buddhism of late, I can certainly see the Buddha’s point with the four truths and in light of that, I’ve decided to give the eightfold path a try.
I was thinking about right view as it seems to underpin the rest of it. It seems that the meaning of “Right view” isn’t quite what we’d think. It’s more like “Accurate View” or “Complete View”, a large part of it is the understanding that everything is in a constant state of change. That the person who started the day isn’t the person who’s reading (or writing) this post, the only truth of any situation or system is change. And that doesn’t even begin to cover it, I’m constantly being amazed at how much depth the Buddha got into just one principle.
So what good is it to hold particular views in light of that knowledge? I can’t see how any given position can be anything more than a temporary reference in light of that, rules that look set in stone are show to simply be flimsy and arbitrary. It seems very wrong to me that we put so much of our faith in such things.
