“There are Eighty-eight Deluded Views, which are suddenly eradicated, and eighty-one cognitive delusions, which are gradually eliminated.

“There are ten basic deluded views which manifest themselves in relation to the Four Holy Truths in each of the Three Worlds—desire, form, and formless. The ten are greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, doubt, the view of (bodily) self, one-sided views, deviant views, the view of being attached to views, and the view of grasping (nonbeneficial) prohibitive precepts.

“In the world of desire, all ten operate in relationship to the Truth of Suffering, while seven (all except the view of self, one-sided views, and the view of grasping prohibitive precepts) operate in relation to the Truths of Accumulating and Cessation, and eight (all except the view of self and one-sided views) operate in relation to the Truth of the Path.

In the form and formless worlds the relationship of the delusions to the Truths follows the same order with the exception of hatred in relation to all four Truths, since hatred must be eliminated before one can enter samadhi.

Thirty-two deluded views in the world of desire, twenty-eight in the world of form, and twenty-eight in the formless world total eighty-eight.

“Upon eliminating the Eighty-eight Deluded Views, one becomes a first-stage Arhat (Skt. śrotaāpanna, Stream-winner).” (HS 123-124)

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