Right View Sutta (Sammaditthisutta) (Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta)
First published: February 19, 2026
What you learn
The Sammādiṭṭhisutta (Right View Sutta) teaches the importance of right view as the foundation of the Noble Eightfold Path. It explains how understanding the Four Noble Truths, dependent origination, and the nature of wholesome and unwholesome actions leads to liberation.
Where it sits
This sutta is part of the Majjhima Nikaya (Middle-Length Discourses) and is significant as it provides a detailed explanation of right view, a core aspect of Buddhist practice and wisdom.
Suggested use
Practitioners can use this text to deepen their understanding of right view and reflect on how their actions and understanding align with the path to liberation.
Guidance
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MN 9 — Right View Sutta (Sammaditthisutta) (Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta)
mn9:gu:0001Guidance (not part of the sutta)
mn9:gu:0002This discourse presents Sāriputta's systematic explanation of right view through sixteen different frameworks, including understanding wholesome and unwholesome actions, the Four Noble Truths, and dependent origination. Right view serves as the foundation that guides all other aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path, providing the correct understanding necessary for liberation from suffering.
mn9:gu:0004- Right view encompasses understanding the moral consequences of actions - knowing what is wholesome and unwholesome, beneficial and harmful
- The Four Noble Truths form the core of right view: recognizing suffering, its cause in craving, the possibility of its cessation, and the path to that cessation
- Dependent origination reveals how ignorance leads to formations, consciousness, and the entire cycle of rebirth and suffering
- Right view includes understanding the Four Nutriments that sustain existence and how their cessation leads to freedom
- Thinking right view is merely intellectual knowledge rather than direct, experiential understanding that transforms how one sees reality
- Believing that understanding one aspect (like the Four Noble Truths) is sufficient, when right view requires comprehensive understanding across multiple frameworks
- Assuming right view is static rather than a dynamic understanding that deepens through practice and direct experience
- Before making decisions, pause to consider whether your actions stem from greed, hatred, or delusion, or from their opposites
- When experiencing dissatisfaction, trace it back to its root in craving and attachment rather than blaming external circumstances
- Practice seeing the interconnected nature of events in your daily life, noticing how conditions give rise to experiences
- Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dhamma - The Buddha's first teaching on the Four Noble Truths
- Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving - Detailed explanation of dependent origination
- Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing - Practical meditation instructions grounded in right view