“Bhikkhus, there are these five lower fetters. What five? Identity view, doubt, the distorted grasp of rules and vows, sensual desire, ill will. These are the five lower fetters. This Noble Eightfold Path is to be developed for direct knowledge of these five lower fetters, for the full understanding of them, for their utter destruction, for their abandoning.”
sn.45.179 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)
Lower Fetters
- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Editor: Blake Walsh