Dear Dmyro, Rett, and friends,

Thank you very much for the references.

The Maharahulovada sutta (MN 62) and Sangiti sutta (DN 33) do not
indicate how to practise the heat or fire, tejo. They only mention
the term, tejo-dhaatu (in MN 62) or tejo-kasi.na (in DN 33). The
reference in Visuddhimagga that you mentioned here is certainly
interesting about the powers of tejo-kasi.na.

Having read these texts, it is still hard to understand how the
individual can actually control the heat or fire element within his
body, up to the ability of burning the entire body up by himself
(such as in Udana 8. 9: PTS, pp. 92-3)

Regards,

Thomas Law

> "Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko" <aavuso@...> wrote:
>
>
> Rett kindly gave reference to Maharahulovada sutta.
>
> Sangiti sutta, where tejo-kasina is mentioned, is Digha Nikaya 33.
>
> It's interesting that Visuddhimagga (chapter V) gives reference to

the

> case you analyze:
>
> "The fire kasina is the basis for such powers as smoking, flaming,
> causing showers of sparks, countering fire with fire, ability to

burn

> only what one wants to burn (S.iv,290), causing light for the

purpose of

> seeing visible objects with the divine eye, burning up the body by

means

> of the fire element at the time of attaining nibbana (MA.iv,196)."
>
> The tejo-kasina is mentioned in various parts of Sutta-pitaka

about 10

> times.
>