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# Cetokhilasutta 8.4

Cetokhilasutta 8.4

- **Language:** Pāli

### [8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16.8.4)

Yassa cittaṃ na namati ātappāya anuyogāya sātaccāya padhānāya, evamassāyaṃ paṭhamo cetasovinibandho asamucchinno hoti.

> This is the first shackle of the heart they haven’t severed.  
> — Hard-heartedness

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## Translations (6)

- [Il discorso sulla durezza di cuore](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16~it-giovannizappa.8.4) — Italian
- [Požari u srcu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16~sr-brankokovacevic.8.4) — sr
- [Seelische Öde](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16~de-sabbamitta.8.4) — German
- [Умственное бесплодие](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16~ru-sv.8.4) — Russian
- [Hard-heartedness](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16~en-sujato.8.4) — English
- [Barrenness and Bondage (Ketokhila-sutta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.16~en-rhysdavids1881.1.8) — English

## Linked texts (2)

- [增壹阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ekottaragama*zh-sanghadeva.51.4.9) — Classical Chinese
- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.206.5) — Classical Chinese

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