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The Buddha on fire worship
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| Clinging to useless rites and rituals is an impediment to letting go and enlightenment. |
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While Diwali (Dipawali), India's ancient Festival of Lights, has many candles and Buddhism itself recognizes the usefulness of candles, incense, and lights in one's spiritual practice, there was a misuse of fire.
At the time of the Buddha there was an ancient custom of worshipping fire or using fire for worship. One day the Buddha met 1,000 yogis, wandering ascetics sporting long dreadlocks. This gave rise to a famous Buddhist sutra called "The Fire Sermon" (Ādittapariyāya Sutta).
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| Meditators, all is burning. And what is the all? |
- ALL is burning: the eye, eye-consciousness, contact of the eye with objects, and the sensations that arise (and similarly the other senses). They are aflame with lust, annoyance, ignorance, and the anxieties of birth, decay, death, and so on. Realizing this, the follower of the Ennobling Eightfold Path experiences revulsion (the strong wish to let go) towards them and relinquishes passion for them and thereby ultimately attains supreme freedom.
The Fire Sermon is the third sutra delivered by the Buddha several months after his great awakening, on top of the Gaya Hill, near Gaya, India.
He delivered it to a thousand newly converted wandering ascetics who formerly practiced the sacred fire ritual (Pali aggihutta, Sanskrit agnihotra) [7].
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| Who would still worship a holy votary fire? |
The 5th-century CE post-canonical Pali language commentary called the Sāratthappakāsini thought to have been written by Buddhaghosa, draws a direct connection between the ascetics' prior practices and this discourse's main rhetorical device: fire.
Having led the 1,000 ascetics Gayā's Head, the Buddha reflected, "What kind of Dhamma talk would be suitable for them?"
He then realized, "In the past they worshipped fire morning and evening. I will teach them that the 12 sense bases are burning and blazing. In this way they will be able to attain full awakening and liberation" [8].
The Buddha describes our sense bases and the resultant mental phenomena as "burning" with passion, burning with aversion, burning with delusion and disappointment (dukkha, suffering).
Seeing this, a noble disciple becomes disillusioned, disenchanted with, and dispassionate toward the senses and illusory pleasure one formerly clung to.
Thus one is temporarily liberated from clinging to the sense bases and the mind/heart, in a moment of clarity is able to let go and see the Truth. The Truth sets one free, leading to the achievement of enlightenment. This is described in more detail... [9] More
- CNN-News18, May 4, 2024; Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit The Fire Sermon
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