Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saɱyutta
§ I: Mūla-Paññāsa
3. Sabba Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Six Sense Bases
35: Connected Discourses on the Six Sense Bases
The Root Fifty
3. The All
Sutta 28
Āditta-Pariyāya Suttaɱ
Burning
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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[1][pts][than][nymo][olds] On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Gayā, at Gayā's Head, together with a thousand bhikkhus.
There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus thus:
"Bhikkhus, all is burning.
And what, bhikkhus, is the all that is burning?
The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, and whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is burning.
Burning with what?
Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion; burning with birth, aging, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair, I say.
"The ear is burning ... [20] ...
The mind is burning ... and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is burning.
Burning with what?
Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion; burning with birth, aging, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair, I say.
"Seeing thus, bhikkhus, the instructed noble disciple experiences revulsion towards the eye, towards forms, towards eye-consciousness, towards eye-contact, towards whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant; experiences revulsion towards the ear ... towards the mind ... towards whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition. ...
Experiencing revulsion, he becomes dispassionate.
Through dispassion [his mind] is liberated.
When it is liberated there comes the knowledge:
'It's liberated.'
He understands:
'Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more for this state of being."
This is what the Blessed One said.
Elated, those bhikkhus delighted in the Blessed One's statement.
And while this discourse was being spoken, the minds of the thousand bhikkhus were liberated from the taints by nonclinging.
