Fire Sermon

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To me this wholeness, ground, or All is just a

sensation of infinity that we infer as a comprehensive

" All. " If I affirm this All, I'm affirming only the

inference I make, If I deny this All, I'm denying

said inference made by others. I can only say I have

sensations, and ideas about these sensations. The

Buddha seems to say that consciousness itself is the

cause of dukkha and the wise should seek estrangement

from this consciousness:

 

 

From Wikipedia

 

n a discourse entitled, " The All " (Sabba Sutta, SN 35.23),

> > the Buddha states that there is no " all " outside of the six

> > pairs of sense bases (that is, six internal and six external

> > sense bases).[5] The " To Be Abandoned Discourse " (Pahanaya

> > Sutta, SN 35.24) further expands the All to include first

> > five aforementioned sextets (internal sense bases, external

> > sense bases, consciousness, contact and feeling).[6][7]

> > In the famed " Fire Sermon " ( & #256;dittapariy & #257;ya Sutta, SN 35.28)

> > the Buddha declares that " the All is aflame " with passion,

> > aversion, delusion and suffering (dukkha); to obtain release

> > from this suffering, one should become disenchanted with the

> > All.[8]

 

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He finds estrangement in the mind, finds estrangement in ideas,

finds estrangement in mind-consciousness, finds estrangement in mind-contact,

and whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that

arises with mind-contact for

its indispensable condition, in that too he finds estrangement.

 

" When he finds estrangement, passion fades out. With the fading

of passion, he is liberated. When liberated, there is knowledge

that he is liberated. He understands: 'Birth is exhausted, the holy life has

been lived out, what can be done is done, of this there is

no more beyond.' "

 

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