Fire Sermon Recitation Adittapariyaya Sutta | Buddhist Pali Chanting | Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage

Ajahn Moneyyo leads the community at Dhammagiri on the Full Moon Practice Day in chanting the 'Ādittapariyāya Sutta' / 'Fire Sermon' in the original Pali language.

This is a stereo recording, and you can get quite an immersive experience if you switch on 'surround sound' / '3D' on you loudspeakers, or use good around-the-ears headphones 🔊👂😊👂🔊

The 'Discourse on Burning' is considered the third formal teaching of the Buddha. It is distinguished by the highest reported number of attainments:
1,000 monks attained total release, Nibbāna, while listening to the Buddha teaching.

"Evaṃ me sutaṃ:
Ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā gayāyaṃ viharati gayāsīse saddhiṃ bhikkhu-sahassena.
Tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:
Sabbaṃ bhikkhave ādittaṃ.
Kiñca bhikkhave sabbaṃ ādittaṃ.
Cakkhuṃ bhikkhave ādittaṃ,
rūpā ādittā,
cakkhuviññāṇaṃ ādittaṃ,
cakkhusamphasso āditto,
yampidaṃ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṃ
sukhaṃ vā dukkhaṃ vā adukkhamasukhaṃ vā,
tam pi ādittaṃ.
Kena ādittaṃ?
Ādittaṃ rāgagginā dosagginā mohagginā,
ādittaṃ jātiyā jarāmaraṇena,
sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi ādittan’ti vadāmi."

(Same for all six senses 👀 👂 👃 👅 🤸‍♂️ 💭 )

Sotaṃ ādittaṃ, Ghānaṃ, Jivhā, Kāyo, Mano...

"Evaṃ passaṃ bhikkhave sutvā ariyasāvako
cakkhusmiṃ pi nibbindati,
rūpesu pi nibbindati,
cakkhu-viññāṇe pi nibbindati,
cakkhu-samphasse pi nibbindati,
yam-p'idaṃ cakkhu-samphassa-paccayā uppajjati vedayitaṃ
sukhaṃ vā dukkhaṃ vā adukkhamasukhaṃ vā
tasmiṃ pi nibbindati."

Nibbindaṃ virajjati,
virāgā vimuccati,
vimuttasmiṃ vimuttam iti ñāṇaṃ hoti,
khīṇā jāti,
vusitaṃ brahmacariyaṃ,
kataṃ karaṇīyaṃ,
nāparaṃ itthattāyā ti pajānātī ti.

Idam-avoca Bhagavā.
Attamanā te bhikkhū Bhagavato bhāsitaṃ abhinanduṃ.
Imasmiñca pana veyyākaraṇasmiṃ bhaññamāne
tassa bhikkhu-sahassassa
anupādāya āsavehi cittāni vimucciṃsū ti.

Ādittapariyāya-suttaṃ niṭṭhitaṃ.

"Thus have I heard:
At one time the Blessed One was staying near Gayā at Gayā Head togetherwith a thousand bhikkhus.
There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus thus:
‘Bhikkhus, the All is burning.
And what, bhikkhus, is the All that is burning?
‘The eye, bhikkhus, is burning,
forms are burning,
eye consciousness is burning,
eye contact is burning,
the feeling that arises from eye contact,
whether it is pleasant, painful, or neutral,
that too is burning.
Burning with what?
I declare that it is burning with the fire of desire, the fire of hatred, and the fire of delusion;
it is burning with birth, ageing, and death,
with sorrow, frustration, pain, depression, and despair!"

(Same for all six senses 👀 👂 👃 👅 🤸‍♂️ 💭 )

Disenchanted with the ear...
Nose, Tongue, Body, Mind...

‘Seeing thus, bhikkhus,
the wise noble disciple
becomes disenchanted with the eye,
disenchanted with forms,
disenchanted with eye consciousness,
disenchanted with eye contact,
and the feeling that arises from eye contact
whether it is pleasant, painful, or neutral,
that too they become disenchanted with.

Becoming disenchanted, their passions fade away;
with the fading of passion the heart is released;
Released, there comes the knowledge of release:
'Birth is destroyed,
the goal of the holy life has accomplished,
the job is done,
there is no more rebounding to this world.'

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Full text available here, page 24:
https://amaravati.org/dhamma-books/chanting-book-volume-two/

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