Another Chapter on Floods

Linked Discourses 50.99–108

9. Another Chapter on Floods

Another Series on Floods, Etc.

“Mendicants, there are five higher fetters.

What five?

Desire for rebirth in the realm of luminous form, desire for rebirth in the formless realm, conceit, restlessness, and ignorance.

These are the five higher fetters.

The five powers should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five higher fetters.

What five?

A mendicant develops the powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which culminate in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion.

These five powers should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five higher fetters.”

Floods, yokes, grasping,

ties, and underlying tendencies,

kinds of sensual stimulation, hindrances,

aggregates, and fetters high and low.

The Linked Discourses on the Powers, the sixth section.