ings conducive to the fetters. "And what are the things conducive to the fetters? The eye is a thing conducive to the fetters. It is here that these fetters, shackles, & graspings arise. "The ear⦠the nose⦠the tongue⦠the body⦠the intellect is a thing conducive to the fetters. It is here that these fetters, shackles, & graspings arise. These are called the things conducive to the fetters." Note 1. Saā±ā±ojanīyṅ dhammṅ. NDB mistakenly translates this as "things that fetter." But as SN 35:191 makes clear, the senses are not fetters. The fetter lies in the desire-passion that arises in dependence on each sense organ and its appropriate object. See also: SN 4:19; SN 35:117 - --> - - - -