Numbered Discourses 5.52

1. Hindrances

A Heap of the Unskillful

“Mendicants, rightly speaking, you’d call the five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.

For these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.

What five?

The hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.

Rightly speaking, you’d call these five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.

For these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.”