Bonfire🌱 simile

The wanderer Vekhanasa praises an undefined supreme beauty. Through graded comparisons of radiance, from a beryl gem to the midday sun, the Buddha exposes the limits of sensual objects and points to the higher pleasure found in release from ignorance.

The Buddha uses the simile of a bonfire to explain how perceiving gratification in objects that can be grasped at leads to clinging, to suffering, and how perceiving drawbacks in objects that can be grasped at leads to the cessation of clinging, to the cessation of suffering.