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6. Was That A Fetter Shift? - Simply The Seen

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Home About What's New Start Here Explore Each Fetter Self-Guiding Outlines My Experiences Writings Videos and Links FAQ Log In Was That A Fetter Shift? Determining if a Belief is Gone At each of the steps along the way through the fetters, a longstanding belief about something that “I” supposedly have, am or need disappears.  If that particular belief truly disappears, then the looking for it is over: the idea of it possibly existing no longer even comes to mind, other than as a memory.  For example, if we completely drop the belief that there is a separate “self” who controls and experiences what happens (i.e., the first fetter), the notion or sense that there is such an entity never again arises.  It’s not that we have seen how or why there isn’t one: we have seen that there isn’t one, by which the idea never arises again.  Or, in the case of the fourth and fifth fetters of desire and ill will, the urge to react no longer arises, by which it would never occur to us to look for the r

6. Was That A Fetter Shift? - Simply The Seen Home About What's New Start Here What Is Awakening? The Ten Fetters Explore Each Fetter Self-Guiding Outlines My Experiences Writings The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness Reconciling the Heart Sutra The Three Reminders Going Beyond "I Am" Video, Audio and Links FAQ Contact Home About What's New Start Here What Is Awakening? The Ten Fetters Explore Each Fetter Self-Guiding Outlines My Experiences Writings The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness Reconciling the Heart Sutra The Three Reminders Going Beyond "I Am" Video, Audio and Links FAQ Contact Was That A

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