Fire Sermon / Ādittapariyāya Sutta
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Sights are burning. Eye consciousness is burning. Eye contact is burning. The painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact is also burning. \r\nBurning with what? \r\nBurning with the fires of greed, hate, and delusion. Burning with rebirth, old age, and death, with sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe ear … nose … tongue … body … \r\n\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe mind is burning. Ideas are burning. Mind consciousness is burning. Mind contact is burning. The painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact is also burning. \r\nBurning with what? \r\nBurning with the fires of greed, hate, and delusion. Burning with rebirth, old age, and death, with sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress, I say. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSeeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye, sights, eye consciousness, and eye contact. 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