https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/pages/573-securing-the-irons/
Leg-irons are considered torture by the UN today (although they are used routinely in some countries) and can cause serious injury long term, but this picture and the article were over a hundred years ago. The prisoners wore different coloured hats depending on the length of their sentence.
Used a larger image to see if it comes out better.
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SN 22.89 Khemakasutta: Khemaka | Daily Sutta Reading
Still, in relation to the five aggregates subject to clinging, there lingers in him a residual conceit ‘I am,’…
SN 45.158 Nāvāsutta: The Ship | Daily Sutta Reading
Bhikkhus, suppose there were a seafaring ship bound with rigging that had been worn out in the water for six months…
Ud 7.3 Paṭhamasattasutta: Clinging (1st) | Daily Sutta Reading
Clinging to sensual pleasures, … they’ll never cross the flood so vast.
SN 12.53 Saṁyojanasutta: Fetters | Daily Sutta Reading
There are things that are prone to being fettered.
SN 46.29 Ekadhammasutta: One Thing | Daily Sutta Reading
And what are the things that are prone to being fettered?
“Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel … He wanted to evoke the devil, but was terrified lest he should be successful. However, nobody could be more pedantically pious than he in following out the practical prescriptions of these absurd charm-books.”
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/06/16/arthwait-was-in-the-fetters-of-his-own-egoism-while-he-pronounced-himself-father-and-grandfather-of-all-spiritual-science-in-language-that-would-have-seemed-stilted-and-archaic-to-henry-james-or/
"Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel … He wanted to evoke the devil, but was terrified lest he should be successful. However, nobody could be more pedantically pious than he in following out the practical prescriptions of these absurd charm-books." - The Hermetic Library Blog
… Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel, he was the bondslave of utterly insignificant writers, fakers of magical “grimoires” […]
MN 66 From… Laḍukikopama Sutta: The Quail Simile | Daily Sutta Reading
Suppose a quail were snared by a rotting creeper…
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