“By what is the world tightly fettered?
What is its means of travelling about?
What is it that one must forsake
In order to say, ‘Nibbāna’?”“The world is tightly fettered by delight;
Thought is its means of travelling about.
Craving is what one must forsake
In order to say, ‘Nibbāna.’”
sn.1.64 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
Fetter
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh
Fetter
“What fetters the world?How does it travel about?
With the giving up of what
is extinguishment spoken of?”
“Delight fetters the world.
It travels about by means of thought.
With the giving up of craving
extinguishment is spoken of.”