Monks, the All is aflame. What All is aflame?
The body is aflame. Tactile sensations are aflame. Consciousness at the body is aflame. Contact at the body is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the body -- experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain -- that too is aflame.
Aflame with what?
Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging and death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs.
Seeing thus, the instructed noble disciple grows disenchanted with the body, disenchanted with tactile sensations, disenchanted with consciousness at the body, disenchanted with contact at the body. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the body, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: With that, too, he grows disenchanted.
Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is depleted, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'
TheBuddha,The Fire Sermon
Meditation
"I define truth as imperfect by distinguishing it from untruth".
Aleister Crowley,Confessions (London:Penguin,1989)part 4,Chap.58,paragrapgh14,p.512.
The body is aflame. Tactile sensations are aflame. Consciousness at the body is aflame. Contact at the body is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the body -- experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain -- that too is aflame.
Aflame with what?
Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging and death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs.
Seeing thus, the instructed noble disciple grows disenchanted with the body, disenchanted with tactile sensations, disenchanted with consciousness at the body, disenchanted with contact at the body. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the body, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: With that, too, he grows disenchanted.
Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is depleted, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'
TheBuddha,The Fire Sermon
Meditation
"I define truth as imperfect by distinguishing it from untruth".
Aleister Crowley,Confessions (London:Penguin,1989)part 4,Chap.58,paragrapgh14,p.512.
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