Four Wrong Views
Gyurme (1987: p. 1431) in his treatise on the principal Nyingma Mahayoga tantra, the Guhyagarbha Tantra and its detailed Dzogchen commentary by Longchenpa, conveys the following 'four false views' (Tibetan: ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་བཞི, Wylie: phyin ci log bzhi) they are inappropriate subtle 'activities' (Wylie: phyin) of the mindstream formed from 'habitual patterns' (Sanskrit: vāsanā) that collapse the 'expanse of possibility' or 'openness' (Sanskrit: sunyata) into structures of fixed views or 'formations' (Sanskrit: saṅkhāra) in regards to 'purity of conduct' (Wylie: Śīla), 'suffering' (Sanskrit: dukkha), 'selflessness' (Sanskrit: anatman) and 'impermanence' (Sanskrit: anitya):
The '"four erroneous views" (phyin ci log bzhi) are to apprehend impurity as purity, to apprehend selflessness as self, to apprehend suffering as happiness, and to apprehend impermanence as permanence.
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