The Fire Sermon

“Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?

The eye is burning, the ear is burning, the nose is burning, the tongue is buring, the body is burning, the mind is buring; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasa

nt that arises with contact as its condition, that too is burning.

Burning with what? Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion. I say it is burning with birth, ageing and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, grief and despair.”


~Buddha