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"There are these five, monks, higher fetters. Which five? Craving for form, craving for the formless, conceit, restlessness, ignorance – these, monks, are the five higher fetters. For the direct knowledge, for the full understanding, for the utter destruction, for the abandonment of these five higher fetters, the Noble Eightfold Path should be developed, monks. What is the Noble Eightfold Path? Here, monks, a monk develops right view dependent on seclusion... ...he develops right concentration dependent on seclusion, dependent on dispassion, dependent on cessation, culminating in relinquishment. For the direct knowledge, for the full understanding, for the utter destruction, for the abandonment of these five higher fetters, this Noble Eightfold Path should be developed. "There are these five higher fetters, monks. Which five? Craving for form, craving for the formless, conceit, restlessness, ignorance – these, monks, are the five higher fetters. For the direct knowledge, for the full understanding, for the utter destruction, for the abandonment of these five higher fetters, the Noble Eightfold Path should be developed. What is the Noble Eightfold Path? Here, monks, a monk develops right view... ...he develops right concentration culminating in the discipline of lust, culminating in the discipline of hatred, culminating in the discipline of delusion... ...immersed in the Deathless, with the Deathless as its destination, with the Deathless as its culmination... ...inclining to Nibbāna, tending to Nibbāna, leading to Nibbāna. For the direct knowledge, for the full understanding, for the utter destruction, for the abandonment of these five higher fetters, this Noble Eightfold Path should be developed." The Tenth. The Chapter on Floods, the Eighth. Its summary: Flood, yoke, clinging, knot, and latent tendencies; Sense pleasures, hindrances, aggregates, and lower/higher fetters. Chapter Summary: The Chapter on Ignorance is the first, the second is called Dwelling; Wrongness is the third chapter, the fourth is just "One Who Has Entered the Path". Sectarians is the fifth chapter, the sixth is with the sun; Much Done is the seventh chapter, Arising is with the eighth. The Chapter on Day is the ninth, and the tenth on Heedfulness; The eleventh is the Chapter on Powers, the twelfth on Search in the Pali; The Chapter on Floods is the thirteenth, thus. The Connected Discourses on the Path, the first.