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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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Sāriputta hears from Assaji the verse on phenomena that arise from a cause, and the dustless Dhamma eye arises. He tells Moggallāna. They leave Sañcaya with two hundred and fifty wanderers and receive the going forth.
King Seniya Bimbisāra of Magadha, with a hundred and twenty thousand brahmin householders, meets the Blessed One at the Sapling Grove. He offers the Bamboo Grove, and the Blessed One allows a park.
With a thousand bhikkhus, all former matted-hair ascetics, the Blessed One goes from Uruvelā to Gayā’s Head. The fire sermon spoken there is SN 35.28. While it is spoken, the thousand are liberated.
At Uruvelā the Blessed One stays in the fire hall of the matted-hair ascetic Uruvelakassapa, masters a serpent king, and shows wonder after wonder until Kassapa and his brothers, with their thousand followers, go forth.
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