As we look out at the world the first thing we realize when thinking deeply about it is that each time we move to another place, each time we see the world from a new perspective the world looks and feels different. If I look out my front window I see the ocean, out the back window are the mountains. Asking 'which is right' is a very silly and naive question, of course they are both 'right'. As I move from home to work, or from Bellingham to India what I see and think and feel about the world changes. When I come to understand what another person thinks and feels I can see the world differently, sometimes very differently. 
Our view of the world is just one view, it is very incomplete. When we understand that our view is just one aspect of a complex whole we are better able to understand why others views seem wrong to us. When time passes or our our station in the world changes we almost always see the world differently. The right view, is not to hold a view, to embrace having no point of view, so that we can see what is really there..... I grew up as a child on the NW corner of Yellowstone Park in rural Montana, my wife, Jiasong, grew up in Hong Kong. We have very different views of the world now. Who is right? We both have part of the truth that the other can not even imagine. Only when we really listen to others and only when we understand not just their words but their understanding of the world can we see another view. Every person has a small slice of the Truth, when we share them and understand another person then we know, see, and comprehend more. Until we stop believing that we believe is the whole picture, the Truth, and start to understand others points of view, we are trapped in a very small world indeed.
Right View is no point of view.
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