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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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See more →The Buddha contrasts an immature person and a wise person by three qualities: whether they recognize a transgression as a transgression, make amends in accordance with the Dhamma when they see it, and properly accept another’s confession.
The Buddha explains the three characteristics, signs, and patterns of conduct by which the wise recognize an immature person or a wise person—how they think, speak, and act.
Just as a fire spreading from a reed or grass hut burns down even well-built gabled mansions, all dangers, misfortunes, and troubles arise from the immature person, not from the wise.
Whether or not Tathāgatas arise, this principle remains—this stability and invariance of the Dhamma: all conditioned phenomena are impermanent, all conditioned phenomena are unsatisfactory, and all phenomena are not-self.
Just as nursing care is prescribed for the patient who recovers only with suitable food, medicine, and an attendant, the Dhamma is taught for the sake of those who awaken through hearing it.
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