Several months after his Awakening, the Buddha delivers this sermon to an audience of 1,000 fire-worshipping ascetics. I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying in Gaya, at Gaya Head, with 1,000 monks. The eye is aflame.
Forms are aflame.
Consciousness at the eye is aflame. Contact at the eye is aflame. Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging and death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs. The ear is aflame.