Human Development
Afflicted views
Description:
The following are listed as afflicted views, leading to behaviour which is unwholesome and therefore rebirth which is not fortunate.(i) [Transitory collection], or a belief in the existence of illusory mental and physical aggregates - that is, belief in the individuality of the self.
(ii) [Extremes], that the self viewed in the transitory sense is permanent and unchanging - that is, that after death and the dissolving of the [skandha] there is an eternal individual remaining; or that it is subject to complete annihilation rather than rebirth in another lifetime.
(iii) That bad ethics and wrong modes of conduct are supreme; that is, observing false laws or [sila];
(iv) Perverse denial of cause, effect or function - refusal to believe the law of [karma]. (v) That wrong conduct is supreme - that is, that the karma arising from wrong conduct is good.
(vi) That a wrong view is [supreme] - that is, doubting the laws of Buddhism.
Other sources list false views as follows:
(i) Belief that existence is without a cause and a fatalism which denies a cause for purity or impurity.
(ii) Belief that existence is without a purpose and that good or bad deeds have no effect on [karma].
(iii) A nihilistic attitude that on death a being merely dissolves into the physical elements.
Context:
One of the six [root afflictions] referred to in Tibetan Buddhism; also one of the seven tendencies or latent passions; also (as belief in the existence of the separate individual) the first of the ten fetters of Hinayana Buddhism said to bind a being to [samsara], the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.< Broader:
Ten fettersRoot afflictions Related:
Wrong view