Question: I have read about sakkayaditti

<https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sakkayaditti>

Sakkayaditti means something in Buddhism, Pali.
please help me to clarify

Answer: 
This is a key concept in the Early Buddhist Texts:

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> [MN 64](https://suttacentral.net/mn64/en/sujato#mn64:3.4): Anusetvevassa sakkāyadiṭṭhānusayo.
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> [MN 64](https://suttacentral.net/mn64/en/sujato#mn64:3.4): Yet the underlying tendency to ***identity view*** still lies within them.
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Identity View is the view that "I am". For example, we say, "I am Chinese" or "I am educated" or "I am poor", etc.

These personal perspectives contribute to suffering. If "I am poor", then "I want to be rich". If "I am ugly" then "I want to be beautiful". Through study and practice, we step away from personal perspectives and abandon Identity View as not satisfying, not conducive to happiness. To be an Arahant, to be a Realized One, Identity View is abandoned entirely.

Sakkāyadiṭṭhi is the [heresy of individuality](https://suttacentral.net/define/sakk%C4%81yadi%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADhi)

To be clear, that does not mean that Buddhists are all alike. The Buddha in fact insisted that each of us find the truth for ourselves. What it means is that Buddhists are alike in dismissing personal cravings as unskillful and unwholesome.
This is misunderstood by many people today. They say sakkaya ditti means: self view. According to dhamma, when a peraon become 1st entrant (sotāpanna) he uproots the sakkaya ditti. So if sakkaya ditti means self view, then that person no need to go beyond that point, since there's noone (no self view) to attain nibbana.
So please think wise and don't get to the trap of self view.

Sakkaya diiti means: giving values to the things (in mind). Eg: Ferrari is a very good car, so its valuable (in mind). The food in ABC restaurant is very tasty so its worth going to that restaurant or eating that food. This view is called sakkaya ditti. When someone become 1st entrant; he understand that its a lie. Its not true. So he uproots the sakkaya dittia and become to samma ditti. Which is knowing that nothing is valuable but the Nirvana.
How to understand / realize that things doesn't have a value is a different topic.