Adopting a particular View, Generates a particular Future!
The
Buddha often emphasized that any view leads to a specific future
being:
When one
regards one's own views and opinions as the best, seeing all other
views as inferior, that very tenacious attitude, the experts know as
a knot!
A Bhikkhu should thus not depend upon anything seen, heard or
thought of..
Neither should he form any views based on his knowledge, virtuous
conduct,
or vows. He should not think of himself as neither equal, nor
inferior, nor as
superior to anything or anybody. Having relinquished what had been
taken up,
and not taking anything new up again, not depending even upon
knowledge,
not a member of any faction, he does not believe in any view at
all... They do
neither form or adopt any views, nor do they prefer or select any
opinion,
nor do they cling to any particular dogma. Gone to the far shore,
such a one
does not come back again! For him who has no desire for renewed
existence
neither here nor beyond, for him there are no form of being
whatever, that
he would propel into through having decided among the particular
views...
Sutta-Nipāta 796-803 Edited excerpt.
MAKER OF CATASTROPHES
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy,
or one hater might do to another blinded by hate,
the mind wrongly directed by false or evil view,
may do to oneself, yet even far much worse!!!
Dhammapada Illustration 42
Background Story 42
WRONG
VIEW
Seeing wrong, where there is no wrong,
while ignoring the wrong, when it really is there,
such false views lead to a painful future state...
Dhammapada Illustration 318
Background Story 318+319
HAPPY
VIEW
Knowing the wrong as wrong,
and the right to be right,
such correct view brings one to
a happy future state.
Dhammapada Illustration 319
Background Story 318+319
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