The "Connected Discourses on Views" contains discourses examining how wrong views arise from grasping and insisting on the five aggregates. These teachings catalog a wide range of speculative views — including eternalism, annihilationism, and nihilistic doctrines — showing how each view depends on clinging to form, feeling, perception, intentional constructs, or consciousness. By analyzing the conditions that give rise to such views and demonstrating their impermanent and unsatisfactory nature, these discourses offer insight into the dangers of dogmatism and the importance of seeing things as they truly are.
Diṭṭhisaṁyutta - Connected Discourses on Views
Sotāpatti vagga - The Chapter on Stream-Entry
The first chapter of the Connected Discourses on Views, containing discourses 1–18.
The view ‘This is my self’ arises from clinging to the five aggregates. Recognizing any arising clinging to these and seeing the aggregates as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and subject to change leads to stream-entry.
PTS 3.203The Buddha explains that the materialist view—which denies kamma, giving, and the afterlife—arises from clinging to the five aggregates. By seeing all phenomena as impermanent, a noble disciple abandons doubt and secures their destiny as a stream-enterer.
PTS 3.206–3.207The view ‘There is no evil or outcome of evil, no merit or outcome of merit’ itself arises from clinging to the five aggregates. Recognizing any arising clinging to these and seeing the aggregates as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and subject to change leads to stream-entry.
PTS 3.208