The quote from the Fire Sermon teaches us more about the suffering caused by our attachments, desire, and greed. This quote begins by stating that “all is burning,” in which “all” refers to our six senses. In this course reader, the quote only mentions about why and how seeing and perceiving things causes us to suffer. This quote begins by saying that our eyes are burning. It means that through our eyes we perceive out world, and thus regards them as peaceful, pleasant or neither. And according to the Fire Sermon, this is a cause for our suffering, which leads us to anger, hatred, and/or be delusional. So, the first half of the quote also mentions that suffering not only burns our sense, but it also burns our self-awareness and self-consciousness,
