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## Fivefold Restraint 5.165
**The restraint of the fivefold restraint is to be understood as follows:**
**416.** Restraint in the activities of the two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed, and five-sensed living beings.
**417.** Restraint in the form of non-inscription, improper inscription, disregard, and removal, as well as restraint of mind, speech, and body, are to be known as the seventeen types of restraint.
**Meaning:**
Protecting the five types of living beings - earth-bodied, water-bodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied, and plant-bodied - constitutes the fivefold restraint. Furthermore, protecting the two-sensed, three-sensed, four-sensed, and five-sensed living beings results in four categories. Additionally, refraining from cutting dry grass and other similar actions, which constitutes the protection of non-living beings, adds another category, making a total of ten categories. Combining the seven categories of non-inscription, improper inscription, disregard, removal, restraint of mind, restraint of speech, and restraint of body, results in seventeen types of restraint.
**Further Explanation:**
The restraint of non-inscription refers to the purification of substances. The restraint of improper inscription refers to the careful and mindful purification, free from carelessness. The restraint of disregard refers to the daily inspection of tools and equipment to ensure they are free from living beings. The restraint of removal refers to the removal of two-sensed and other living beings from tools and equipment. These seventeen types of restraint protect the virtue of non-violence.
**416.417.** The five tastes, five colors, two scents, eight touches, and seven sounds, as well as the fourteen types of living beings that are perceived by the senses, are all subject to restraint.