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The Fire Sermon
Aditta-pariyaya Sutta
Thus I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was living,
at Gayasisa together with at thousand Bhikkhus. There he
addressed the bhikkhus:
Bhikkhus, all is burning. And what
is the All that is burning?
The eye is burning,
forms/sights are burning eye-consciousness is burning, eye
contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or
painful or neither pleasant nor painful that arises with
eye-contact for its indispensable condition, that too is
burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust,
with the fire of delusion; I say it is burning with birth,
ageing and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains,
with grief, with despair.
The ear is burning, sounds are
burning, ear consciousness is burning, also whatever is felt
as pleasant or painful or neither pleasant nor painful that
arises with ear contact for its indispensable condition, that
too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of
lust, with the fire of delusion; I say it is burning with
birth, ageing and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with
pains, with grief, with despair.
The nose is burning,
odours are burning, nose consciousness is burning, nose
contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or
painful or neither painful nor pleasant that arises with eye
contact for its indispensable condition, that too is burning.
Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the
fire of delusion; I say it is burning with birth, ageing and
death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains, with
grief, with despair.
The tongue is burning, flavours are
burning, tongue consciousness is burning, tongue contact is
burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or
neither painful nor pleasant that arises with tongue contact
for its indispensable condition, that too is burning. Burning
with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of
delusion; I say it is burning with birth, ageing and death,
with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains, with grief, with
despair.
The body is burning, tangibles are burning, body
consciousness is burning, body contact is burning, also
whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither painful nor
pleasant that arises with body contact for its indispensable
conditions, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning
with the fire of lust, with the fire of delusion; I say it is
burning with birth, ageing and death, with sorrows, with
lamentations, with pains, with grief, with despair.
The
mind is burning, ideas are burning, mind consciousness is
burning, mind contact is burning, also whatever is felt as
pleasant or painful or neither painful nor pleasant that
arises with mind contact for its indispensable condition, that
too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of
lust, with the fire of delusion; I say it is burning with
birth, ageing and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with
pains, with grief, with despair.
Bhikkhus, when a noble follower who has heard (the truth)
sees thus, he finds estrangement in (loses
attachment/affection for) the eye, find estrangement in
forms/sights, finds estrangement in eye consciousness, finds
estrangement in eye contact, and whatever is felt as pleasant
or painful or neither painful nor pleasant that arises with
eye contact for its indispensable condition, in that too he
finds estrangement.
He loses attachment/affection for the
ear, for sounds, for sound consciousness, for sound contact,
and what ever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither
pleasant nor painful that arises with ear contact for its
indispensable condition.
He loses attachment/affection for
the nose, for smells, for nose consciousness, for odour
contact, and what ever is felt as pleasant or painful or
neither pleasant nor painful that arises with nose contact for
its indispensable condition.
He loses attachment/affection
for the tongue, for tastes, for taste consciousness, for taste
contact, and what ever is felt as pleasant or painful or
neither pleasant nor painful that arises with tongue contact
for its indispensable condition.
He loses
attachment/affection for the body, for tangibles, for touch
consciousness, for touch contact, and what ever is felt as
pleasant or painful or neither pleasant nor painful that
arises with body contact for its indispensable
condition.
He loses attachment/affection for the mind, for
ideas, for mind consciousness, for mind contact, and what ever
is felt as pleasant or painful or neither pleasant nor painful
that arises with mind contact for its indispensable
condition.
When he loses attachment, passion fades out. With the
fading of passion he is liberated. When liberated there is the
knowledge that he is liberated; he understands 'Birth is
exhausted, the divine life has been lived out, what can be
done is done, of this there is no more beyond'.
That is what the Blessed One said. The bhikkhus were glad,
and they approved his words.
Now during tis utterance, the
hearts of those thousand bhikkhus were liberated from taints
through clinging no more.
Samyutta Nikaya XXXV, 28
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