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Mahāmālukya Sutta

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 absorptions (jhāna) (M.i.432‑7).

The Sutta is so called because it was taught in contradiction of a wrong answer given by Māluṅkyāputta to a question of the Buddha. The Buddha pointed out his error, and Ānanda requested the Buddha to give the correct answer.

This is one of the suttas that teach samatha-vipassanā. MA.ii.572.