Buddha Teaching about Fire: Los Angeles WildFire
And what is the fire element? The fire element may be internal or external. And what is the internal fire element? Anything internal, pertaining to an individual that’s fire, fiery, and appropriated. This includes: that which warms, that which ages, that which heats you up when feverish, that which properly digests food and drink; or anything else internal, pertaining to an individual, that’s fire, fiery, and appropriated. This is called the internal fire element. And what is the external fire element? There comes a time when the external fire element flares up. It burns up houses, villages, towns, cities, countries, and regions until it reaches a green field, a roadside, a cliff’s edge, a body of water, or cleared parkland, where it’s extinguished due to not being fed. There comes a time when they go looking for a fire, taking just a chicken feather or a scrap of sinew as kindling. This is called the external fire element. The internal fir...