[157] "And what, Ānanda, is the path (magga), and what is the practice (paṭipadā) for the abandoning of the five lower fetters (orambhāgiyāni saṃyojanāni)? Here, Ānanda, a bhikkhu—through seclusion from acquisitions (upadhiviveka), through the abandoning of unwholesome states, through the complete tranquilizing of all bodily inertia (kāyaduṭṭhulla)—quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, enters upon and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture (pīti) and pleasure born of seclusion. Whatever exists therein belonging to form (rūpa), to feeling (vedanā), to perception (saññā), to volitional formations (saṅkhārā), and to consciousness (viññāṇa), he contemplates those dhammas as impermanent, as suffering (dukkha), as a disease, as a boil, as a dart, as misery, as an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as empty, as not-self. He turns his mind (citta) away from those dhammas; having turned his mind away from those dhammas, he directs his mind toward the deathless element (amatā dhātu): 'This is peaceful, this is sublime—that is, the stilling of all formations, the relinquishment of all acquisitions, the destruction of craving (taṇhā), dispassion, cessation (nirodha), Nibbāna.' Standing upon that, he attains the destruction of the taints (āsava). If he does not attain the destruction of the taints, then—through that very passion for the Dhamma, through that delight in the Dhamma—with the utter destruction of the five lower fetters, he becomes one of spontaneous rebirth (opapātika), due to attain final Nibbāna there, not subject to returning from that world. This too, Ānanda, is the path, this the practice for the abandoning of the five lower fetters.
Again, Ānanda, with the subsiding of applied thought and sustained thought … a bhikkhu enters upon and dwells in the second jhāna … the third jhāna … he enters upon and dwells in the fourth jhāna. Whatever exists therein belonging to form, to feeling, to perception, to volitional formations, and to consciousness … for the abandoning of the fetters.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.