"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
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The title of the section "The Fire Sermon" alludes to a Buddhist speech known as [[Pāli Canon Aditta-pariyaya-sutta: The Fire Sermon]]. In this speech, Buddha relates the burning of fire with sinful passions such as lust, hatred, and sorrow. The sermon is so powerful it frees the Bhikkhus from their passions. The section concludes along the same lines, tying in the burning of passions with the feeling of despair so prevalent in modernist literature. | The title of the section "The Fire Sermon" alludes to a Buddhist speech known as [[Pāli Canon Aditta-pariyaya-sutta: The Fire Sermon]]. In this speech, Buddha relates the burning of fire with sinful passions such as lust, hatred, and sorrow. The sermon is so powerful it frees the Bhikkhus from their passions. The section concludes along the same lines, tying in the burning of passions with the feeling of despair so prevalent in modernist literature. | ||
