{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.206/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.206","id":"suttacentral_an5.206","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.206/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five shackles of the heart. What five? Firstly, a mendicant isn\u2019t free of greed, desire, fondness, thirst, passion, and craving for sensual pleasures. This being so, their mind doesn\u2019t incline toward keenness, commitment, persistence, and striving. This is the first shackle of the heart. Furthermore, a mendicant isn\u2019t free of greed for the body \u2026 They\u2019re not free of greed for form \u2026 They eat as much as they like until their belly is full, then indulge in the pleasures of sleeping, lying down, and drowsing \u2026 They lead the spiritual life hoping to be reborn in one of the orders of gods, thinking: \u2018By this precept or observance or fervent austerity or spiritual practice, may I become one of the gods!\u2019 This being so, their mind doesn\u2019t incline toward keenness, commitment, persistence, and striving. This is the fifth shackle of the heart. These are the five shackles of the heart.\u201d","title":"Shackles","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":155}