Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 197.7

197.7

教誡示現者，如世尊說：「諸比丘！一切燒然。云何一切燒然？謂眼燒然，若色、眼識、眼觸、眼觸因緣生受，若苦、若樂、不苦不樂，彼亦燒然。如是耳、鼻、舌、身、意燒然，若法、意識、意觸、意觸因緣生受，若苦、若樂、不苦不樂，彼亦燒然，以何燒然，貪火燒然、恚火燒然、癡火燒然，生、老、病、死、憂、悲、惱、苦火燒然。」

When demonstrating instruction, the Bhagavān would say, “Monks, everything is burning. How is everything burning? This means the eye is on fire. Whether it’s forms, visual awareness, visual contact, or painful, pleasant, and neither painful nor pleasant feelings that arise from visual contact, they are burning, too. Thus, the ear … nose … tongue … body … mind are burning. Whether it’s ideas, mental awareness, mental contact, or painful, pleasant, and neither painful nor pleasant feelings that arise from mental contact, they are burning, too. By what are they burned? They are burned by the fire of craving, the fire of hate, and the fire of delusion. They are burned by the fires of birth, old age, illness, death, sorrow, lamentation, trouble, and suffering.”