sn47.5:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
sn47.5:1.2 There the Buddha said:
sn47.5:1.3 “Rightly speaking, mendicants, you’d call the five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.
sn47.5:1.4 For these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.
sn47.5:1.5 What five?
sn47.5:1.6 The hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.
sn47.5:1.7 Rightly speaking, you’d call these five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.
sn47.5:1.8 For these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.