Buddha
Pengajar yang membongkar cara pandangan melekat dan membuat seseorang terikat pada pendapatnya sendiri.
Khotbah tentang Pandangan Benar
Sutta ini memakai perumpamaan pandangan seperti sesuatu yang dapat menjerat. Ia mengajak pembaca melihat bagaimana pendapat, identitas, dan kesimpulan batin bisa berubah menjadi pegangan yang membuat sempit.
Pengajar yang membongkar cara pandangan melekat dan membuat seseorang terikat pada pendapatnya sendiri.
Salah satu pusat penting penyampaian ajaran, tempat banyak dialog tentang pandangan dan latihan berlangsung.
Pandangan membantu bila dipakai untuk melihat, tetapi menjadi jerat bila dijadikan identitas yang harus dipertahankan.
mn9:22.1 But what are old age and death? What is their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation?
mn9:22.2 The old age, decrepitude, broken teeth, gray hair, wrinkly skin, diminished vitality, and failing faculties of the various sentient beings in the various orders of sentient beings.
mn9:22.3 This is called old age.
mn9:22.4 And what is death?
mn9:22.5 The passing away, perishing, disintegration, demise, mortality, death, decease, breaking up of the aggregates, laying to rest of the corpse, and cutting off of the life faculty of the various sentient beings in the various orders of sentient beings.
mn9:22.6 This is called death.
mn9:22.7 Such is old age, and such is death.
mn9:22.8 This is called old age and death.
mn9:22.9 Old age and death originate from rebirth. Old age and death cease when rebirth ceases. The practice that leads to the cessation of old age and death is simply this noble eightfold path …”