Fetters. There are Ten Fetters binding beings to the Wheel of Becoming. (1) Belief in a permanent self (Sakkāya-ditthi), (2) Sceptical Doubt (Vicikicchā), (3) Clinging to Rules and Ritual, a special form of Upādāna, (4) Sensuous...

Derivation disputed but used in Pali Canon as collective name for five Skandhas (q.v.). Sakkāya-ditthi is the false view that this Sakkāya or group of components is permanent and unchanging, an ‘immortal soul’. (See Anattā.)...

The Ten Fetters are erroneous mental conceptions and desires which have to be cast off as the Path is followed to the Goal. For details see Four Paths and...

Lit. reaction, as distinct from indifference to stimulus. Dislike, almost coterminous with Dosa, hatred (q.v.). One of the Three Fires of hatred, lust and...

In Buddhism, a mental fetter or "chain" or "bond" (Pāli: samyojana, saŋyojana, saññojana) shackles a person to samsara, the cycle of endless suffering. By completely cutting through all fetters, one attains Nibbana (Skt.: Nirvana). In comparison to...