Thich Nhat Hanh said, “Our happiness and the happiness of those around us depend on our degree of Wise View. Touching deep reality, knowing what is going on inside and outside ourselves is the way to liberate ourselves from Dukkha which is caused by wrong perceptions. Right View is not an ideology, a system or even a path. It is the insight we have into the reality of life, a living insight which fills us with understanding, peace, and love.”

The Noble Eightfold Path is the Buddha’s treatment for the problem of suffering, and it works really well, if we choose to practice it. In the time he spent learning about the causes of suffering he also learned about its cure and in his great compassion for us, taught it for 45 years. Of course, it’s up to us. We are responsible for our practice. He said, “You yourselves must strive.  The Buddhas are only teachers.”

He said that Wise View view means: first, to see and to understand things as they really are; second, to realize the Four Noble Truths; third, to see life through the Dharma—to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of life, to understand “not self and inter-being,” and, fourth: to understand nirvana. In its fullest sense, Wise View involves a “wise understanding” of the entire Dharma itself.