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sn.35.55 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Uprooting the Fetters

… “Venerable sir, how should one know, how should one see, for the fetters to be uprooted?”

“Bhikkhu, when one knows and sees the eye as nonself, the fetters are uprooted. When one knows and sees forms as nonself … all as above … When one knows and sees thus, bhikkhu, the fetters are uprooted.”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh


Uprooting the Fetters

“Sir, how does one know and see so that the fetters are uprooted?”
“Mendicant, knowing and seeing the eye as not-self, the fetters are uprooted …”