【The Origin of Suffering】- the specific definitions of afflictions - an extremist view

【7) An extremist view is an afflictive intelligence that observes the self as apprehended by the view of the perishing aggregates and regards that self either as permanent and eternal, or as subject to annihilation in such a way that there will be no rebirth from this life into a future life.】

So what is an "extremist view"?  An extremist view is such that one holds on to one extreme.  One would either hold this self to be permanent and eternal, or to be subjected to annihilation.  But to hold this view of the self to be permanent and eternal, or to be subjected to the annihilation is not something done without a good reason!  These began with the reifying view of perishing aggregates.  When we look at this "self," some would say that this self is permanent and some would say that it is subjected to annihilation.  What is permanent, and what is annihilation?  Those who hold the view of annihilation, [some of] the scientists in this world [actually] hold the view of annihilation.  They would say that nothing else is left after a person dies.  That it is done, everything stops there.  This is called annihilation.  As for the permanent and eternal, it would be like the Indian non-Buddhists in the earlier days, which is the same case as those who now claim that there is a soul.  To them it would seem as if the soul would move from this house to another.  Even though the house has changed, but this thing remains the same.  I am sorry!  That is the view of the permanent and eternal.  Some who hold this permanent view would go to the extent of claiming that people will always be reborn as people and dogs will always be reborn as dogs.  This is exactly the view of the permanent and eternal.  

SOURCE 来源 :

73A 18’25” Vol 10 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P13 L5
English Lamrim Vol 1 P299

日常师父法语📡73A 18’25”手抄稿第10册P13 L5

希求解脱 : 烦恼别相-边执见 

【边执见者，谓缘萨迦耶见所执之我，计为常恒，或见断灭，无从此没，结生当来，染慧为性。】

什么叫“边执见”呢？通常我们叫“边见”。那么边执见就是执着一边，或者是执常边，或者是执断边。这个执常、执断不是说莫名其妙地瞎执哦！都是从这个上面执起的—─从萨迦耶见。说看这个“我”，有的人说这个我是常的，有的人说断的。什么是常、什么是断呢？说执断的人，现在世界科学家执的就是断，说人死掉了就算没有了，好了，到此为止，这个叫断。执常的呢，印度当年外道，譬如说我们现在有一般的人，说他有一个灵魂，这个灵魂就像搬家一样，从这个房子搬到那个地方，那房子虽然换了，这个东西还在，对不起！这个是常。乃至于常的更是说：人哪生生世世投人，狗啊生生世世投狗，就是这个常。