“We’ll walk a burning world where the sun shines darkness”
― Swans, Mona Lisa, Mother Earth (The Burning World, 1989)
Around two-and-a-half millennia ago in what is now Bodh Gaya, sometime after breakfast*, the Buddha spoke what has become known as The Fire Sermon**, or Adittapariyaya Sutta in Pali.
The beginning of that sutta (or sutra in Sanskrit), runs as follows:
“Bhikkhus (monks), all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? “The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its indispensable condition, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion. I say it is burning with birth, aging and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains, with griefs, with despairs.”
He goes on to say the same about each of the other five consciousnesses (Buddhism has mind as a sense consciousness as well as the five we would usually consider), the ears, nose, tongue, body and mind.
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