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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.

The Buddha corrects Ānanda’s assumption that dependent co-arising is easily understood. He provides a profound, detailed exposition of causality, tracing both the cycle of existential rebirth and the moment-to-moment roots of human conflict back to craving and felt experience. The discourse explores the intricacies of self-designation, the seven planes of consciousness, and the eight liberations.

The Buddha explains how to completely comprehend the gratification, drawback, and escape in the case of sensual pleasures, form, and feeling.

Using the role of food as nutriment that sustains and endures the body, the Buddha describes the nutriments for the arising and growth of the five hindrances and the seven factors of awakening.

The Buddha offers a stark contemplation of the human body, detailing its internal parts, secretions, and ultimate decay. Recognizing this reality dismantles the illusion of physical beauty constructed by ignorance, leading the wise practitioner to the deathless peace of Nibbāna.

The Buddha explains that ignorance regarding the six sense fields fuels infatuation, craving, and the five aggregates, leading to distress. Conversely, knowing and seeing the senses truly abandons craving and fulfills the Noble Eightfold Path. By coupling tranquility with penetrative vision, the practitioner comprehends the aggregates, abandons ignorance, and realizes true knowledge and liberation.

The Buddha systematically deconstructs sensory experience into six sets of six. By demonstrating the constant arising and passing away of the sense bases, consciousness, contact, felt experience, and craving, he dismantles the illusion of self, revealing the path to liberation.

The Buddha explains how the notion of a personal existence emerges from the process of perception. A wide range of phenomena are considered, embracing naturalistic, cosmological and sense experiences. An uninstructed ordinary person interprets experience in terms of a self, while those who have understood the Dhamma have the same experiences without attachment.

Only after fully understanding the gratification, drawback, and escape in the case of form, feeling, perception, intentional constructs, and consciousness, the Buddha declared that he had attained the unsurpassed perfect awakening.

The Buddha describes how beings only become disenchanted with and escape from the five aggregates only when they have directly known their gratification, drawback, and escape as they truly are.

The Buddha describes the nutriments for the sustenance of the five hindrances and the seven factors of awakening.

The Buddha shares the four kinds of persons — those who cultivate the first jhāna, the second jhāna, the third jhāna, and the fourth jhāna while perceiving gratification — and the difference in their rebirths.

The Buddha shares the four kinds of persons — those who cultivate loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity while perceiving gratification — and the difference in their rebirths.

The Buddha expands on stream-entry, stating that a disciple must discern as they truly are the arising, passing away, gratification, drawback, and escape in regard to the five faculties.

The Buddha expands on the Arahant, stating that a bhikkhu achieves liberation through not clinging by discerning as they truly are the arising, passing away, gratification, drawback, and escape in regard to the five faculties.

Using the simile of a great tree nourished by sap, the Buddha explains that perceiving gratification in graspable objects fuels craving and perpetuates suffering, whereas seeing their drawbacks leads to the cessation of craving and the cessation of suffering.

Beings are infatuated with the four great elements because of the gratification found in them, become disenchanted with them because of the drawbacks found in them, and escape from them because there is an escape.

If the four great elements were exclusively unpleasant, beings would not be infatuated with them. If they were exclusively pleasurable, beings would not become disenchanted with them.

The Buddha describes his quest for gratification in the five aggregates, drawback in the five aggregates, and the escape from them. He subsequently experientially realized gratification, drawback, and escape as they truly are, leading to his unshakable liberation.

A stream-enterer discerns as it truly is the arising, the passing away, the gratification, the drawback, and the escape regarding the five aggregates subject to clinging.

The Buddha expands on stream-entry, stating that a disciple must discern as they truly are the gratification, drawback, and escape in regard to the five faculties.

The Buddha describes the Arahant, stating that a disciple achieves liberation through not clinging by discerning as they truly are the gratification, drawback, and escape in regard to the five faculties.

In this teaching, the Buddha succinctly shares the allure and the drawbacks of desiring sensual pleasures.

Eight verses on overcoming the mire of delusion by avoiding attachment to sensory pleasures, discerning their causes, and practicing for being free of ‘mine’.

Before his awakening, the Bodhisatta reflected on the gratification in the world, the drawback in the world, and the escape from it.

The Buddha describes his quest for gratification in the world, drawback in the world, and the escape from it. He subsequently experientially realized gratification, drawback, and escape as they truly are, leading to his unshakable liberation.

Beings are infatuated with the world because of the gratification found in it, become disenchanted with it because of the drawback, and escape from it because there is an escape.

After King Udena's palace burns down and five hundred women headed by Sāmāvatī die, the Buddha confirms their spiritual attainments and expresses an inspired verse about the world in bondage to delusion.