A translation and explanation of the Ten Fetters, the Buddha's teaching on what binds living beings to the Sangsara and suffering.

If we have succeeded in releasing ourselves from all ten fetters we are Arahats. If we haven't, we can use them as a tool to see and identify those things which arise in the mind and keep us trapped in a world of suffering. We can patiently weaken their hold on us (which is our hold on them) and, ultimately, free ourselves from them forever.

A world in trouble? War in the Far East and the Middle East. Suicide bombers. Riots on the streets. Gaols and Psychiatric hospitals full. Soaring crime. Racial hatred. Violence in the schools and in the home. Economic Meltdown. Yes. A world in trouble. Everywhere man is striving for Freedom. But he understands freedom as freedom to do what he wants. But a man who does what he wants is often not free at all. He is the slave of his desires. Real freedom is not freedom to but freedom from. Freedom from suffering. Here is the answer. Simple, straightforward. Open to any man whatever his...