The Buddha never asserts that the fire is real unreal both or neither

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The Buddha never asserts that the fire is real unreal both or neither.

The Buddha never says that the cardinal directions are real unreal both or niether.

The Buddha never asserts that the extinguished fire is real…

The Buddha never asserts that the fuel…

The Buddha does say the cardinal directions don’t apply to the extinguished fire in any case.

Granting Spinoza and Descartes and Plato all thier Ethics as Geometry, the Buddha suggests putting out the fire.

Metta.

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The only things real:

""Monks, these four things are real, not unreal, not otherwise. Which four?

"‘This is stress,’ is real, not unreal, not otherwise. ‘This is the origination of stress,’ is real, not unreal, not otherwise. ‘This is the cessation of stress,’ is real, not unreal, not otherwise. ‘This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress,’ is real, not unreal, not otherwise.

"These are the four things that are real, not unreal, not otherwise.

“Therefore your duty is the contemplation, ‘This is stress… This is the origination of stress… This is the cessation of stress… This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress.’”

—Samyutta Nikaya 56.20

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The sutta does not say that ONLY these things are real, just that they are.