[353] In what twenty aspects is there adherence to the view associated with the doctrine of self (attavāda)?
Here an unlearned ordinary person (puthujjana), who has no regard for the noble ones, is unskilled in the Dhamma of the noble ones, is undisciplined in the Dhamma of the noble ones, who has no regard for good persons, is unskilled in the Dhamma of good persons, is undisciplined in the Dhamma of good persons, regards form (rūpa) as self, or self as possessing form, or form as in self, or self as in form … he regards feeling (vedanā) … perception … volitional formations … consciousness as self, or self as possessing consciousness, or consciousness as in self, or self as in consciousness …
How does he regard form as self? Here someone regards the earth-kasiṇa … the white-kasiṇa as self: "What is the white-kasiṇa, that am I; what I am, that is the white-kasiṇa" — he regards the white-kasiṇa and the self as not two. Just as, when an oil lamp is burning, one regards the flame and the colour as not two: "What is the flame, that is the colour; what is the colour, that is the flame" — even so, here someone regards the white-kasiṇa as self … This is the first view associated with the doctrine of self having form as its basis. A view associated with the doctrine of self is a wrong view … These are fetters, not views. It is in these twenty aspects that there is adherence to the view associated with the doctrine of self.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.