6.
The Discourse on Being Ablaze
28.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Gayā, at Gayāsīsa, together with a thousand monks.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks, all is burning.
And what, monks, is the all that is burning?
The eye, monks, is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning.
Whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is burning.
Burning with what?
Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, burning with birth, ageing, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish, I say. ...
The tongue is burning, flavours are burning, tongue-consciousness is burning, tongue-contact is burning.
Whatever feeling arises with tongue-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is burning.
Burning with what?
Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, burning with birth, ageing, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish, I say. ...
The mind is burning, mind-objects are burning, mind-consciousness is burning, mind-contact is burning.
Whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant - that too is burning.
Burning with what?
Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, burning with birth, ageing, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and anguish, I say.
Seeing thus, monks, a learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye, becomes disenchanted with forms, becomes disenchanted with eye-consciousness, becomes disenchanted with eye-contact, becomes disenchanted with whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant. Etc.
becomes disenchanted with whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition - whether pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant.
Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate;
through dispassion, he becomes liberated;
when liberated, there is the knowledge: 'Liberated.'
He understands: 'Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being.'"
This is what the Blessed One said.
Delighted, those monks rejoiced in what the Blessed One had said.
And while this explanation was being spoken, the minds of that thousand monks were liberated from the mental corruptions by non-clinging.
The sixth.