SN 35.55Uprooting the Fetters
Pāli / Sanskrit:Saṁyojanasamugghātasutta
A mendicant asks the Buddha how to see so as to uproot the fetters. The Buddha says one should see the six interior and exterior sense fields as not-self.
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– Chapter 35: Linked Discourses on the Six Sense Fields
– I: The Chapter on Ignorance
35.55. Fetters (2)
Vi-n 1-2.…
Vi-n 3—Sir, how does one know and see so that the fetters are uprooted?
Vi-n 4-6.—Mendicants, knowing and seeing that the eye is not-self, the fetters are uprooted … Sights … Eye consciousness … Eye contact … Whatever feeling arises conditioned by mind contact—pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant—knowing and seeing that feeling as not-self, the fetters are uprooted.
Vi-n 10Mendicants, by knowing and seeing in this way, the fetters are uprooted.
This collection was translated into Vietnamese by Venerable Thích Minh Châu and published by Vạn Hạnh Monastery in the early 1980s. It was later republished in 1993 as part of the translation and publication program for the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, where it was numbered from 12 to 16.
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The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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