Fire Sermon

Fire Sermon - the Ādittapariyāya Sutta taught by Buddha on top of Gayasisa Hill near Gaya, India. Teaches that, "Everything is Burning". The six internal sense faculties are burning. Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind are burning with the three poisons; Ignorance, Greed and Anger. Their external phenomena, all that is perceived, comes into contact with and thus all resulting consciousness is burning with the fuel of the three poisons. To attain liberation, one must transmute the fuel with which they burn from the three poisons into their equal opposites, the three jewels. Ignorance into Wisdom, Greed into Generosity and Anger into Compassion. So I ask you, with what fuel are your burning; the three poisons or the three jewels? 35mm - Minolta X-370. Heart lake, Applegate, Oregon.