When Right View is solid in us, we have Right Thinking (samyak samkalpa). We need Right View at the foundation of our thinking. And if we train ourselves in Right Thinking, our Right View will improve. Thinking is the speech of our mind. Right Thinking makes our speech clear and beneficial. Because thinking often leads to action, Right Thinking is needed to take us down the path of Right Action. Right Thinking reflects the way things are. Wrong thinking causes us to see in an “upside-down way” (viparyasa). But to practice Right Thinking is not easy. Our mind is often thinking about one thing
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