"Subhūti, if someone claims that I teach the view of self, view of person, view of sentient being, or view of life span, what would you say? Has this person understood the point of my teaching?"
"World Honored One, this person has not understood the point of the Tathāgata's teaching. Why? What the World Honored One has explained as the view of self, view of person, view of sentient being, and view of life span, are actually not a view of self, view of person, view of sentient being, or view of life span. Therefore they are called view of self, view of person, view of sentient being, and view of life span."
"Subhūti, the person who gives rise to the aspiration for peerless perfect enlightenment, should, in regard to all phenomena, think like this, discern like this, and believe and understand like this. One should not give rise to signs for phenomena. Subhūti, the Tathāgata has explained that these so-called signs of phenomena are precisely not signs of phenomena. Therefore they are called signs of phenomena."
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