The Buddha’s First Teaching : หน้า 150/263 A moral tale demonstrating how Right View leads to protection and success while False View leads to failure.
In this narrative, the contrast between Right View and False View highlights that those who hold Right View, symbolized by the boy from the family of Right View, always prevail. Through various incidents, such as winning games of dice and surviving dangers, it's shown that adherence to Right View provides protection from malevolent forces. A key moment includes the boy sleeping alone in a cart while his father searches for a buffalo. Even as ogres prowl the night, the boy recites the virtues of the Buddha, ensuring his safety against malevolent spirits. Ultimately, this story underscores the importance of Right View in overcoming challenges and dangers in life.
หัวข้อประเด็น
-Right View vs False View -The impact of belief on outcomes -The role of virtue and morality in protection -Application of teachings from the Buddha
ข้อความต้นฉบับในหน้า
so bhagavā" and "Namo buddhassa" before throwing the dice. By contrast, the boy from the family of False View would recollect the virtue of various heretics before throwing the dice with the words "Namo titthiyanam." (Praise be to the heretics!) It turned out that the son from the family of Right View won every single game of dice—and the son from the family of False View lost every game.
This tale has the moral that anyone established in Right View will always conquer those of False View.
1.1 Right View helps us to escape all danger
It is said that those of Right View are protected from all danger, with protection against malevolent spirits as a case in point. The same tale continues the previous tale of the boy of Right View with the following account:
One day the father of the boy of Right View took the boy in the cart to gather kindling wood outside the city gates. Having loaded the kindling onto the cart, they made their way home. On the way, they stopped to let the buffalo graze near a cemetery. The buffalo escaped and made its way back through the city gates. The father pursued the buffalo on foot, leaving the boy asleep alone in the cart, thinking to come back for him as soon as he could find the buffalo. However, by the time he managed to catch the buffalo inside the city, it was already dark and the guards had closed the gates. Not seeing his father return, the boy recollected the virtue of the Lord Buddha with the words "Itipiso bhagavā..." until falling asleep.
Two ogres prowled in the night looking for prey. One of the ogres was of Right View, the other was of False View. Seeing the boy asleep in the cart, the False View