What Are Self-View and Self-Grasping?

In all self-views, there exists self-attachment. Whatever the mind cannot let go of, cannot see through, or cannot relinquish is self-attachment. Self-view is the notion that there exists an "I" that perceives forms, hears sounds, smells scents, tastes flavors; or the notion that the function of perceiving forms, hearing sounds, smelling scents, and tasting flavors belongs to me; the notion that there exists an "I" that thinks, analyzes, and judges; an "I" that feels; an "I" that walks, stands, sits, or lies down; or the notion that all these functions belong to me. It is also the identification of the physical body as the self, or the identification of the functions of the physical body as belonging to the self. All these are the roots of birth and death and should be severed. Among them, the "I" that is conceived is the seventh consciousness, the manas. The "I" that perceives forms, hears sounds, smells scents, tastes flavors, thinks, analyzes, and judges is the six consciousnesses. The manas takes the functions of the six consciousnesses as the self and what belongs to the self. This self-view must be severed.