“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 faculties should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five higher fetters. What five? It’s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. These five faculties should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five higher fetters.” (Tell in full as in the Linked Discourses on the Path, SN 45.171–179, with the above as the final discourse.)

Floods, yokes, grasping, ties, and underlying tendencies, kinds of sensual stimulation, hindrances, aggregates, and fetters high and low.

Linked Discourses 48.125–136 13. Another Chapter of Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges Another on Sloping East, Etc.

“Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. How so? It’s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which culminate in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. That’s how a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”

Six on slanting to the east, and six on slanting to the ocean; these two sixes make twelve, and that’s how this chapter is recited.

Linked Discourses 48.137–146 13. Another Chapter of Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges Another Chapter on Diligence

(This text consists of the title only. Tell in full as in SN 45.139–148, removal of greed version.)

Linked Discourses 48.147–158 13. Another Chapter of Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges Another Chapter on Hard Work

(This text consists of the title only. Tell in full as in SN 45.149–160, removal of greed version.)

Linked Discourses 48.159–168 14. Another Chapter on Searches Another Chapter on Searches

(Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170, removal of greed version.)

Linked Discourses 48.169–178 15. Another Chapter on Floods Another Series on Floods, Etc.