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It All Starts with Your Right View

People often wonder how do we live a life of happiness and fulfilment. Politicians often talk about human rights, but we know that humans need to live lives in certain right ways for human rights to be productive.  For example, everyone has the right to talk freely, but if one talks in not right ways that harm others, that human right has to be modified. In our teachings we teach people the Eight Human Rights.  It all starts with the Right View , which is to view things from the right angle. We know that all views are perception, and with perception there is deception .  To perceive something is to perceive it as it is and not let ourselves (the perceiver) affect the perception .   For example, if you have biasness against someone, your view of him would be distorted and not right. Only with the Right View can you start to have Right Thinking .   Thinking is the speech of our mind .  Because thinking often leads to action, Right Thinking is needed for us to take the right path of