Ven Buddhadasa's definition of "true Buddhists"

[thomaslaw]

At least, I think, one should have some understanding of ‘right view’ for being a ‘true Buddhist’:

How to get Right View?

Right view in the noble eightfold path is knowledge (ñāṇa) of suffering (dukkha), knowledge of the arising of suffering, knowledge of the ceasing of suffering, and knowledge of way leading to the ceasing of suffering. It also in the Saṃyutta-nikāya/Saṃyukta-āgama refers to fully knowing (jānāti) and seeing (passati) phenomena (the five aggregates/sense objects) as: (1) impermanent (anicca), suffering (dukkha), not-self (anatta) (or anicca, dukkha, suñña (empty), anatta) and (2) the middle wa…