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.
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> Ime kho, āvuso visākha, pañcupādānakkhandhā **sakkāyo** vutto
> bhagavatā
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> These five clinging-aggregates are the **self-identification**
> described by the Blessed One.
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> The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion &
> delight, relishing now here & now there — i.e., craving for sensual
> pleasure, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming: This, friend
> Visakha, is the origination of self-identification described by the
> Blessed One
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> Kathaṃ panāyye, **sakkāyadiṭṭhi** hotī ti?
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> But, lady, how does **self-identification view** come about?
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> There is the case, friend Visakha, where an uninstructed,
> run-of-the-mill person — who has no regard for noble ones, is not
> well-versed or disciplined in their Dhamma; who has no regard for men
> of integrity, is not well-versed or disciplined in their Dhamma —
> assumes form (the body) to be the self, or the self as possessing
> form, or form as in the self, or the self as in form.
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> He assumes feeling to be the self...
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> He assumes perception to be the self...
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> He assumes (mental) fabrications to be the self...
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> He assumes consciousness to be the self, or the self as possessing
> consciousness, or consciousness as in the self, or the self as in
> consciousness.
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> This is how self-identification view comes about.
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> [MN 44](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.044.than.html)
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