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On the five bonds that chain uninstructed men to the lower
life: delusion as to personality, doubt, attachment to rites, lusts of the
flesh, and malevolence. The path to the destruction of these bonds is the
cultivation of the jhānas (M.i.432-7).
The Sutta is so called because it was preached in
contradiction of a wrong answer given by Mālunkyāputta to a question of the
Buddha. The Buddha pointed out his error, and Ananda requested the Buddha to
give the correct answer.
This is one of the suttas which teach samatha-vipassanā.
MA.ii.572.

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