[76] **"For how could one transcend one's own view?"** (sakañhi diṭṭhiṃ kathamaccayeyya): Those sectarians (titthiyā) who, having murdered the female wanderer Sundarī and proclaimed dispraise of the ascetics, sons of the Sakyan, held such a view, such an acceptance, such a preference, such a doctrine, such a disposition, such an intention: "In this way we shall win back that gain, fame, honor, and esteem." Those sectarians were unable to pass beyond their own view, their own acceptance, their own preference, their own doctrine, their own disposition, their own intention. Rather, that very disgrace came back upon them. Thus too: "For how could one transcend one's own view?"
Or else: one who speaks thus, "The world is eternal; this alone is true, anything else is vain" — how could he pass beyond, transcend, completely transcend, and overstep his own view, his own acceptance, his own preference, his own doctrine, his own disposition, his own intention? For what reason? Because that view has been by him thus fully undertaken, taken up, grasped, adhered to, insisted upon, clung to, and resolved upon. Thus too: "For how could one transcend one's own view?"
One who speaks thus: "The world is not eternal," "The world is finite," "The world is infinite," "The soul and the body are the same," "The soul is one thing, the body another," "The Tathāgata exists after death," "The Tathāgata does not exist after death," "The Tathāgata both exists and does not exist after death," "The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death; this alone is true, anything else is vain" — how could he pass beyond, transcend, completely transcend, and overstep his own view, his own acceptance, his own preference, his own doctrine, his own disposition, his own intention? For what reason? Because that view has been by him thus fully undertaken, taken up, grasped, adhered to, insisted upon, clung to, and resolved upon. Thus too: "For how could one transcend one's own view?"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.