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Lesson 3.2.6 Sammādiṭṭhisuttaṃ – Who Is One Safeguarding Right View?
Venerable Sāriputta provides in this sammādiṭṭhisutta a full exposition of the teaching of the Buddha including his approach to the Dependent Origination. He begins by first pointing out to his listeners that someone ‘safeguards right view’ if one upholds the base of sīla by understanding that all wholesome or unwholesome actions performed have their results in profitable or unprofitable future existences, stressing the right understanding of kamma (kammassakatā sammādiṭṭhi). Sāriputta then continues directly by pointing out that all breakage of sīla is based on the unwholesome roots of lobho, doso and moho, while further maintaining sīla is fostered by strengthening the wholesome roots of alobho, adoso and amoho. He then resumes with an extended list of fundamentals that are to be properly understood in their true nature by fully comprehending their arising, vanishing and the way leading to their complete elimination.