“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
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.
The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five lowers fetters.”