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an.9.67 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Lower Fetters

“Mendicants, there are five lower fetters.
What five?
Identity view, doubt, misapprehension of precepts and observances, sensual desire, and ill will.
These are the five lower fetters.
To give up these five lower fetters you should develop the four kinds of mindfulness meditation. …”