Hello Mark,
"As we’ve seen, there is a second type of view, that the Buddha called right
view. Right view is not a concept or belief. In fact, it’s no particular
thing at all. Right view is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now,
moment after moment. It’s relying on bare attention --- naked awareness of
what is before conceptual thought arises. It’s relying on what we actually
experience rather than on what we think.
"If we are to ever find certitude --- real _knowledge_ that is beyond all
doubt and misunderstanding --- it’s clearly not going to come from our vying
concepts and beliefs. Rather, true knowledge must appear before all our ideas
and opinions. In other words, it’s nothing other than immediate, direct
experience of the world in and of itself. True knowledge is seeing thus.
"Seeing thus is the unshakable ground we long for simply because it cannot be
doubted. Herein lies freedom of mind. And herein lies fearlessness as well."
(Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, pp. 112-113)
Cheers,
Marsha
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