Sammaditthi Sutta - Post-canonical Commentary - Supramundane Right View

Supramundane Right View


Persons of Right View

type of
right view
type of person understanding
mundane
right view
(lokiya)
"worldling"
(puthujjana)
Buddhists &
non-Buddhists
believes in
one's own
kamma
Buddhists
only
does not
hold to a
"view of self"
supra-
mundane
right view
(lokuttara)
disciple in higher training
(sekha): stream-enterer,
once-returner, non-returner
"fixed"
right view
one beyond training
(asekha): arahant
right view
"beyond
training"

The Papañcasūdani identifies different types of right view contingent on one's breadth and depth of understanding (see the table to the right). According to this commentary, when Ven. Sariputta discusses one "who has perfect confidence in the Dhamma and has arrived at the true Dhamma," he is referring to one who has attained "supramundane right view," thus holding out this higher achievement as a milestone for his audience.

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