NOBLE RIGHT VIEW, WHICH LEADS onward to nibbāna, is described in two ways in the suttas. First, it is described as the wisdom factor of mind. It illuminates what arises so that we can know and understand things as they really are. The arising of wisdom is like turning on a light in a darkened room. In the Abhidhamma, the Buddhist psychology, wisdom is one of the twenty-five beautiful mental factors. Second, noble right view is described in terms of its objective content — that is, what wisdom discovers as it illuminates our experience. And in the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the Buddha equates this
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