The Brahmajāla Sutta, the first discourse of the Dīgha Nikāya (Long Discourses), opens with a deceptively simple scene: two travellers on the same road, following the same procession, arriving at opposite conclusions about what they see. The wanderer Suppiya disparages the Buddha throughout the journey from Rājagaha to Nālanda; his young disciple Brahmadatta praises him at every step. From this single contradiction, the Buddha draws out the central question of the entire discourse — how beliefs and views are formed, and why the same reality produces radically different convictions in different minds. The sutta then maps sixty-two speculative positions held by the ascetics and philosophers of the Buddha's time, covering every major theory about the self, the world, and what follows death: Eternalism, Partial Eternalism, Annihilationism, Fortuitous ...