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SKILLFUL VIEW
SKILLFUL VIEW
"When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare and to happiness' — then you should enter and remain in them."
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- AN 3.65
The training in wisdom has 2 components: skillful view and skillful intentions. Skillful view was defined by the Buddha as understanding the 4 noble truths and understanding kamma (karma in Sanskrit). The Buddha refers not only to an intellectual understanding of the 4 noble truths, but a profound insight into and an experientially-based realization of the 4 noble truths. When that understanding is fully integrated into one‟s being awakening occurs.
