Purification of view (Buddhism)

Correct seeing of mentality materiality or discernment of name and form is the purification or purity of view. In calm and serenity the person emerges from a jhana of the fine-material or immaterial spheres (except from neither-perception-nor-non-perception), discerns the jhana factors and the states associated with them. This is mentality or name. Scrutiny of the mentality or name reveals from whence it proceeds or by what it is supported. This is revealed as the heart basis or matter of the heart. The heart's support is revealed as primary elements. The remaining (derived) kinds of materiality or form have these elements as their support. All that defined as mentality or name - 'nama' - has the characteristic of bending upon the object. All that defined as materiality or form - 'rupa' - has the characteristic of being molested or changing (by the action of cold, for example). It is then possible to further discern materiality and mentality by different aspects, and this is the purification of view.

One of the five purifications or purities which constitute the trunk or body of understanding according to Hinayana Buddhism, the others being: purification or purity of overcoming doubt; purification by knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path or purity of knowledge and discernment of the right path and the wrong path; purification by knowledge and vision of the way or purity of knowledge and discernment of the middle way; purification by knowledge and vision or purity of knowledge and discernment.