{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an9.82/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an9.82","id":"suttacentral_an9.82","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.82/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. \u2026 These are the five shackles of the heart. To give up these five shackles of the heart you should develop the four right efforts. What four? It\u2019s when a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don\u2019t arise. \u2026 so that unskillful qualities are given up \u2026 so that skillful qualities arise \u2026 They generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed. To give up these five shackles of the hearts you should develop these four right efforts.\u201d","title":"Shackles of the Heart","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":137}