True opinion and right thought of the Eight Shodō

because humans are imperfect in everything
The right or wrong is judged by comparing it with the teachings of the Buddha.
It is a standard for properly seeing and thinking
There is no other way but to learn to “teach.”
In terms of ethics and morality, it depends on the times, countries, and cultures
The correctness will be different.
That's why we need religion.

No thank you

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

In fact, I've wondered a long time ago about the question of what is “right” in the “Eightfold Path.”

It's something I wrote about eight years ago, and there are a lot of embarrassing things I would like to revise/correct/supplement, but please take a look at the contents of the following page.

Book “Buddha's Path” Chapter 7 “The Eightfold Path and Middle Path”
http://www.hide.vc/hotokenomichi7.html

Here, it is written that “correct” is a “middle path” without prejudice, discrimination, or arbitrariness, but even so, I know you might feel that it is ambiguous or abstract.

Also, if you argue and define it as such, and it is said that it is not your subjectivity, prejudice, selfishness, self-convenience, or complacency, it will go that far...

Now, when it comes to what correctness should be used as the basis for correctness, I also think that it must be based on the teachings of the truth by Nyorai and Kakusha, as the four-dimensional Hokke Tower said.

Also, I believe that by putting those teachings into practice, we must move towards definite enlightenment by walking the unmistakable Buddhism.

However, since Shakyamuni has already died out, and there are currently no Buddha or sakuji in this world, it is necessary to search for the teachings of the truth by relying on Buddhist scriptures, scriptures, or treatises compiled by the disciples in the later generations of Shakyamuni.

Also, as the other name for the “Eightfold Path” is called “Nakamichi,” I believe that thinking about what kind of situation “Nakamichi” is also important for understanding what is “right.”

If you are further interested, I think it would be a good idea to learn the details of Master Ryuki (Nagarjuna)'s “Middle Discussion.”

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

The function of your eyes accurately reflects an object as it is when you touch it. There is no such thing as a false projection. There are no likes or dislikes, and they accept everything as it is. The importance of learning and practicing through such work is probably “right opinion.”

We think about things and immediately add value judgments such as profit and loss, right and wrong, etc. However, before you think about things, they properly exist. The coffee I'm drinking now existed before I thought that it would be delicious, bad, or that I wouldn't be able to sleep, and when I drank it, it tasted like that. That's the right way things are. That's before I even think about it. It's probably “right thinking.”

The basic teachings of Buddhism are the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What are the Four Quintees
① Suffering (there is always suffering and dissatisfaction in life),
② Gathering (the cause of suffering is affliction such as greed, anger, stupidity, etc.),
③ Extinction (if you destroy worry, you can destroy suffering and dissatisfaction),
④ These are the four truths of decency (there are ways to destroy suffering).
So, the Eightfold Path is ④ Dosho, that is, a method for destroying worries and suffering.
So, “positive” in the Eightfold Path means a direction that erases worries and suffering. It's “good.”
If it deviates from that direction, it is “bad” and “evil.”
For example, when you kill a person, it's an “evil” that reinforces your own afflictions, and other people who have been killed and their families suffer, so it's “evil.”
The more evil you do, talk, and think, the more bad habits develop in your heart, your worries are strengthened, and your suffering does not decrease.
The more you do, talk, and think about the right things, the better habits your heart will develop, your worries will weaken, and your suffering will decrease.

The Liberal Democratic Party thinks they are right.
The Democrats think they're right.
The Komeito Party thinks they're right.
The Communist Party thinks they're right.
Below, all political parties think they are right.
Also, all the religions that exist in the world think that their own religion is the most “correct.”
Also, if I were to mention one forbidden word,
Even many Japanese Buddhist sects are the same.
Sects that have fallen into ideas that don't understand the true meaning of Buddhism Buddhism, or monks stuck in thought will think that their sect is correct.
Originally, there should have been no sectarian divisions during the Buddha's time.
In other words, they are interpretations and opinions that are “correct” = “just,” and they are not “correct” opinions based on orthodoxy or correct thinking.
The Buddha's “right opinion” is “correctness” that does not belong to human [ideological/relative] correctness.
It's not about correctness centered around who I am.
This is because only the word “correct” was found in Japanese at the time, so the character “correct” was applied, but as a meaning, “seeing it as something before thought” is correct.
The world before my own values and judgments.
Looking only at the real thing is right and right.
For example, the Senkaku Islands and Takeshima are not originally Japanese, Korean, or Chinese.
However, the fact that there is an island is right in the Buddha's opinion.
Correctness for humans is a way of looking at things centered around oneself.
This is true when placed on top of notions.
It's nothing but “right” for me.
Ideological justice causes contention.
Baikinman becomes the villain in Anpanman.
Justice for someone, and “right opinion” for someone is false justice.