{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti93/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti93","id":"suttacentral_iti93","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti93/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, there are these three fires. What three? The fires of greed, hate, and delusion. These are the three fires.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cThe fire of greed burns a mortal, lustful, infatuated by sensual pleasures; while, fallen in the fire of hate, a person kills living creatures; and, bewildered by the fire of delusion, they miss the teaching of the noble ones. Not recognizing these three fires, people are caught up in substantial reality. They fill the ranks of hell, of birth as an animal, or of titans and ghosts, not freed from M\u0101ra\u2019s bonds. But as to those committed day and night to the teaching of the Buddha: they extinguish the fire of greed, always perceiving ugliness; while those supreme men extinguish the fire of hate with love; and the fire of delusion with the wisdom that leads to penetration. Having extinguished these fires, alert, tireless all day and night, they become fully extinguished, completely transcending suffering. Seers of the noble truths, knowledge masters, the astute, understanding rightly, directly know the ending of rebirth, they come not back to future lives.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Fire","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":220}