THE MIND LIKE FIRE UNBOUND:
               AN IMAGE IN THE EARLY BUDDHIST DISCOURSES
                                           
                                   by
                                           
                           Thanissaro Bhikkhu
                                           
    
                        Dhamma Dana Publications
                          Barre, Massachusetts
    
    
                  Copyright 1993  Thanissaro Bhikkhu  
                                           
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                Printed in the United States of America
                                           
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    Early Buddhism borrowed two of its central terms from the workings 
  of fire.  Upadana, or cling-ing, originally referred to the fuel that 
  kept fire burning; nibbana, the name of the goal, to a fire's going 
  out.  This is the first book to exam-ine these terms from the 
  perspective of how the early Buddhists them-selves viewed fire_what 
  they saw happening as a fire burned, and what happened to the fire 
  when it went out_to show what light this perspective throws on 
  Buddhist doctrine in general, and the practice of meditation in 
  particular.  
    With extensive quotations from the Pali Canon, newly translated, 
  this is also a useful sourcebook for anyone who wants to encounter 
  Buddhist teachings in their earliest known context.
    
    
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