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Sixty-two views

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sixty-two views (六十二見). The wrong views held by ancient Indian philosophers.

One set of 62 views argues about each of the five aggregates of a sentient being: in the past it is permanent, impermanent, both, or neither; in the present it is with boundary, without boundary, both, or neither; in the future it is going, not going, both, or neither.

To these 60 views, two polar opposites, perpetuity and cessation of existence, are added to make a total of 62.

Another set of 62 views includes 56 views of self and 6 views of existence.

They hold that each of the five aggregates of a sentient being in the desire realm and the form realm, and each of the four aggregates of a god in the formless realm is a self, not a self, both, or neither, totaling 56 views.

In addition, one’s perpetuity and cessation of existence in the Three Realms come to 6 views.

Source

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