The fifth poem in the Book of Eights advocates such a thorough letting go that a person no longer relies on any view, including existential ideas of becoming and nonbecoming—either in this life or the next. If one isn't holding on to views, then one would never have a reason to claim that one's doctrines are the ultimate or that someone else's are inferior. In the same way, one wouldn't think of oneself as superior, equal, or inferior to others. Any view that serves as the basis for such comparisons is called an "entanglement."
---Gil Fronsdale, in "The Buddha before Buddhism"---
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