As a means to facilitate this journey, the "Kalachakra", "Wheel of Time" has been utilized by Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhists to assist people to find their own unique spiritual path. In a set of rituals, some of which were purportedly performed by the Lord Buddha himself, Mongolian Buddhists continue to engage in a number of activities that include chants, dance, and perhaps most interesting meditations upon fire.

In these sacred fire rituals, rarely known to individuals outside of Mongolian and Tibetan circles, more than twenty types of material including flesh, butter, seeds, and wood are offered to venerable deities who exist within the flames of a fire. The purpose of these activities are not only to please the gods, they increase the probability of a desirable rebirth and in some cases even release the individual from the ceaseless cycle of painful human existence. This is of course a fundamental objective of the Buddhist faith and all of its teachings.

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And while each of these rituals have been devised to bring people closer to a true state of enlightenment, the fire meditations provide people with a unique opportunity to begin to understand key concepts at the heart of Buddhist thought. And while these ideas include a vast number of concepts perhaps none of them are more important than the Buddhist principles of impermanence and emptiness.

Both of these concepts timeless precepts