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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
IV, 16.
Said, 'Some great change has happened,' and deeply pained, were restlessly (concerned). The two, each with five hundred followers, going up the stream to seek their brother, 1323
Seeing him now dressed as a hermit, and all his followers with him, having got knowledge of the miraculous law-strange thoughts engaged their minds— 1324
Our brother having submitted thus, we too should also follow him (they said).' Thus the three brothers, with all their band of followers, 1325
Were brought to hear the lord's discourse on the comparison of a fire sacrificel: (and in the discourse he taught), How the dark smoke of ignorance arises ?, whilst confused thoughts, like wood drilled into wood, create the fire, 1326
'Lust, anger, delusion, these are as fire produced, and these enflame and burn all living things. Thus the fire of grief and sorrow, once enkindled, ceases not to burn, 1327
Ever giving rise to birth and death; but whilst this fire of sorrow ceases not, yet are there two kinds of fire, one that burns but has no fuel left; 1328
So when the heart of man has once conceived distaste for sin, this distaste removing covetous desire, covetous desire extinguished, there is rescue ; 1329
If once this rescue has been found, then with it is born sight and knowledge, by which distinguishing
1 So I translate i sse fo pi; it may mean, however, 'in respect of the matter of the fire comparison.'
· This is the sermon on The Burning :' see Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii, p. 135.
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