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The five higher fetters or hinderances are abandoned or overcome at the arahant stage of the four planes of liberation.

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The Five Higher Fetters - List

Progress on the Path can be seen through the ten hindrances to enlightenment and our destruction of them as a fetter.
The five higher fetters are part of the the Saṃyukta Nikāya/Samyutta Nikaya which is a Buddhist scripture, the third of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the three baskets that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada.

The Five Higher Fetters

01. Craving for fine-corporeal or material existence (passion for form). (Rūparāgo)

The arahant will have abandoned this fetter.
Rupa jhana is a Buddhist term that refers to four successive levels of meditation. These meditations are all meditations of form which may lead to abandonment of this fetter, or meditations on material or mental objects; as such, they are considered less challenging to attain than the non-material meditations, the arupa jhanas. The arupa jhanas are higher levels of meditation that can only be attained once the rupa jhanas have been mastered.

02. Craving for incorporeal existence (passion for what is formless). (Arūparāgo).

The arahant will have abandoned this fetter.
Arupa jhana is a Buddhist term that refers to four successive levels of meditation which assist with abandonment here. These meditations are all formless meditations, or meditations on non material objects, and, as such, are considered more challenging to attain than the rupa jhanas. They can only be attained once the rupa jhanas have been mastered. Some say that the arupa jhanas lead to rebirth in the realm of the gods, which have the same name.

03. Conceit. (Māna)

The arahant will have abandoned this fetter.

04. Restlessness. (Uddhacca)

The arahant will have abandoned this fetter.

05. Ignorance. (Avijjā)

The arahant will have abandoned this fetter.

Synonyms/tags: Buddhist hindrances, five higher mental chains, Buddhist fetters, the ten hinderances




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