Had the good fortune of gazing at the Gayasissa and recollecting the Aditta pariyaya sutta - the fire sermon.
A wrong impression one gets when one reads the suttas are they biased to the negative ? more mention of suffering, lamentation, grief ..
The awareness is the simple awareness. Awareness of the processes occurring in the senses, any thing as occurring as deep is a construct of mind, artificial.
The simile of fire pertains to transience as well as the process of proliferation. Thinking about the burning sensation causes irritation in mind something the mind wants to avoid. But it is to be noted that it is a reaction.
In a deeper perspective, it can be noted that the word 'Dukkha' creates reactions that are of the same nature as one created by 'hatred' - dwesha (dosa). That of pain - mind recoils and wants to avoid. Mind confuses between these two. But Dukkha is translated as unsatisfactoriness - a nature of dhamma and does not pertain to our minds reaction. When one tries to understand the suttas with this impression, the suttas look negative and biased towards the painful. When one notices that this is a reaction and does not address to it, the suttas look very clear and unbiased - as the truth should be.
Again, if one looks at the three roots of existence, raga dosa and moha as liking, disliking and delusion, rather than greed hatred and delusion, it can be seen to address all our types of reactions and is not biased to the painful.
This outlook clears much a mist from reading of the suttas. Suttas can be seen in a very different 'positive' light.
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