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Reflection of the Day
“I do not see any other form that so completely obsesses a man’s mind as the form of a woman.”
— AN 1.1·
Fire: Investigating Recurrent Experience
The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.
Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.
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When wanderers dispute the Buddha’s virtues, he guides the Saṅgha beyond praise and blame into a profound analysis of human thought. Classifying sixty-two views about self and cosmos, the Buddha reveals how flawed assumptions stem from meditative visions or logic conditioned by feeling, while awakening transcends all mental constructs.
Just as one rescues valuables from a burning house, what is given away in a world ablaze with aging and death is truly saved.
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