INDEX to the Ninety Erroneous Views

The following is a complete listing of the latest translations of the titles to the ninety erroneous views contained in the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation. However not all of the links to the related BLOG articles have been established yet or those articles revised to reflect these titles.

Erroneous Views:

  1:  Acknowledging the Shifting the Mind Practice as a meditation practice

  2:  Acknowledging sitting meditation as cultivating oneself

  3:  Acknowledging that forming mudras and chanting mantras is doing a dharma practice

  4:  Acknowledging that doing a dharma practice is cultivating oneself

  5:  Acknowledging that studying the teachings of the sutras is learning from Buddha

  6: Acknowledging that one who has fallen into evil or erroneous views can still successfully cultivate realization powers  

  7:  Acknowledging that a master may make unreasonable demands upon disciples

  8:  Acknowledging the existence of evil doctrines but not informing living beings about them

  9:  Acknowledging that one’s illness can be cured by requesting empowerment but without cultivating oneself

10:  Acknowledging that Buddhist pills can cure all illnesses

11:  Acknowledging that after one may eat meat after one is tonsured and becomes a monastic

12:  Acknowledging it is acceptable not to practice bodhicitta after one receives an initiation in a great dharma

13:  Acknowledging it is acceptable not to practice the six paramitas

14:  Acknowledging that there exists a highest dharma that corresponds to all living beings

15:  Acknowledging the validity of initiations remotely controlled from another place

16:  Acknowledging that if one merely does good deeds but does not do a dharma practice, one can still attain liberation

17:  Acknowledging that cutting off self-attachment entails not caring about the suffering of others

18:  Acknowledging that realizing emptiness is unrelated to the extent of one’s virtue and meritorious resources

19:  Acknowledging that holders of a legitimate lineage are all upright great masters 

20:  Acknowledging it is acceptable to perform an initiations in a Buddha-dharma whenever money is given

21:  Acknowledging that the successor to the highest dharma position in a large temple is definitely a holy person

22:  Acknowledging that small temples do not have eminent monastics

23:  Acknowledging that after one has illuminated one’s mind and seen one’s original nature, one may slack off in one’s practice

24:  Acknowledging to may postpone learning from Buddha until one is less busy with worldly matters

25:  Acknowledging that having numerous disciples makes one a holy and virtuous person

26:  Acknowledging someone without holy realization or bodhicitta as a true holy person

27:  Acknowledging a terma as a holy object when it is not a terma in the definitive sense

28:  Acknowledging that one may intentionally deny what one has said or done 

29:  Acknowledging that one may intentionally conceal matters from one’s guru of great holiness and virtue

30:  Acknowledging that by possessing the five great pills, such as the vajra pill, one can attain accomplishment

31: Acknowledging that you yourself do not have the seed to become a Buddha because your karmic forces are heavy.

32:  Acknowledging that living beings in other realms do not have Buddha-nature

33:  Acknowledging that as long as one has dharma, one will attain realization powers

34:  Acknowledging that one may make mistakes without immediately correcting oneself

35:  Acknowledging that one who does good deeds and gives to others is definitely an eminent monastic or person of great virtue

36:  Acknowledging that one may alter a dharma manual, mudra, or mantra

37:  Acknowledging that Bodhisattvas do not have to acquire the five vidyas

38:  Acknowledging that a master may demand and take property from disciples

39:  Acknowledging that one may use one’s position of lineage holder as a device to obtain offerings from disciples

40:  Acknowledging as a virtuous person and paragon of holiness one who praises oneself and shows off

41:  Acknowledging that sons or daughter need not kindly guide their parents toward correct views

42:  Acknowledging the false claim that a mandala is a holy mandala when it was not made with colored sand that penetrated through a boulder  

43:  Acknowledging that the protective powers of a great Bodhisattvas are not as strong as those of mountain deities

44:  Acknowledging pills made of ordinary medicine as authentic holy nectar

45:  Acknowledging that the light one sees when one’s eyes are closed is a manifestation of the power of Buddha-dharma  

46:  Acknowledging those who speak of their mysterious wonders and preach hollow dharma theories without testing their Vajra powers 

47:  Acknowledging that one who has not received an initiation cannot attain accomplishment through learning dharma and cultivation

48:  Acknowledging as a Vajra Bodhi initiation master one who does not make the  predictions associated with that initiation

49:  Acknowledging that taking refuge and receiving precepts is the refuge state

50: Acknowledging an unreal and illusory image, sound, or form as a holy miracle

51:  Acknowledging that esoteric dharma is the highest dharma

52:  Acknowledging that exoteric dharma is the lowest dharma

53:  Acknowledging that there is no need for sick people to take medicine

54:  Acknowledging that the only way to ascend to the pure land is by chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha

55:  Acknowledging that only through the Zen sect can one illuminate one’s mind and see one’s original nature

56:  Acknowledging as a crown opening the insertion of an auspicious straw is inserted into the top of their head without seeing real fruits of realization

57:  Acknowledging that after one has received dharma and attained realization, one need not make offerings to one’s master

58:  Acknowledging one of insignificant achievements in the five Vidyas as a person of great holiness and virtue

59:  Acknowledging one with the mind and conduct of an icchantika as an eminent monastic

60: Acknowledging that one who has illuminated one’s mind and seen one’s original nature through experiential realization does not have to be respectful to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and make offerings to Their images

61:  Acknowledging that great Bodhisattvas do not get sick

62:  Acknowledging that disciples may be seated higher than the seat of their master of holy virtue

63:  Acknowledging that Buddhist texts and images of Buddhas may be placed at a height lower than the seat of an eminent monastic or person of great virtue

64:  Acknowledging that a person of holy virtue need not respectfully make offerings to local deities and land deities

65:  Acknowledging that whose status is that of Buddha or Bodhisattva need not worship images of  holy beings upon entering a temple

66:  Acknowledging that certain living beings do not have Buddha-nature

67:  Acknowledging a prediction that a great global disaster will occur in a particular year

68:  Acknowledging that those who wear the clothing of a monastic or rinpoche  are all holy people

69:  Acknowledging that one who expounds dharma in a gentle voice is definitely a Bodhisattva

70:  Acknowledging that using the Vajra voice to expound dharma and remove karmic hindrances is not compassionate

71:  Acknowledging that one who uses Vajra bodhi conduct to benefit others is not one of holy virtue

72: Acknowledging a conceited, arrogant, and overbearing person as a Vajra master 

73:  Acknowledging that following the “Fifty Stanzas of Guru Devotion” requires one to pay respect to a fake holy master

74:  Acknowledging acceptance of a master who has forsaken bodhicitta  

75:  Acknowledging that one who holds a recognition certificate issued by a great dharma king is definitely an authentic holy person

76:  Acknowledging that one must not raise the consciousness of a vicious ghosts to a higher realm of existence

77:  Acknowledging that demons are not to be edified but must be punished or killed

78:  Acknowledging that one need not make food offerings to yakshas and hariti

79:  Acknowledging that people must pay money in exchange for learning dharma or listening to dharma

80:  Acknowledging that listeners of the dharma mat treat audio dharma recordings with disdain

81:  Acknowledging that a master is able to transfer part of his lifespan to a disciple

82:  Acknowledging that someone who received teachings at a famous temple is definitely an eminent monastic

83:  Acknowledging that one who learned under many masters is definitely a holy person

84:  Acknowledging that the spiritual capacity of females is not as good as that of males

85:  Acknowledging that small living beings are inferior to large living beings

86:  Acknowledging that one may engage in the hollow practice of chanting the text of a sutra without understanding its meaning

87:  Acknowledging that one may use the pretext of building a temple, building a stupa, or conducting a dharma assembly to secretly accumulate money for oneself 

88:  Acknowledging that one may utilize charitable or disaster relief funds for one’s own greedy purposes

89:  Acknowledging that cultivating oneself and learning from Buddha must require giving up work

90: Acknowledging that after taking refuge. one indeed is a Buddhist

CLICK for link to introduction to these erroneous views provided by the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and the Buddha Master’s comments. Please note that the translation of the titles given here will differ slightly from what has been revised in this blog. Neither translation reflects official approved translations and should be used for reference only.