Podcast Moments: Gil Fronsdal, “The Ten Fetters”

In a relatively recent dharma talk entitled “The Ten Fetters,” Gil Fronsdal speaks about a series of fetters that need to be let go in order to release us from attachment. Despite the title of the talk, Gil often prefers to think of the fetters as knots, which need to be untied. And the way I understand attachment, it’s not that one doesn’t engage in the world and care deeply for others, but the idea is about releasing the clinging — that kind of overattachment where both the hugger and hugged suffer. I tend to think of Hugo, the Abominable Snowman in Looney Tunes.

HUGO: I will hug him and stroke him and cuddle him and sing to him and call him George.

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