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lack of access to wikipedia and google? just kidding. I have no answer to that question other than if we do not open to that which is frightening or unknown or whatever. The nature of mind is vidya and not opening is avidya. Much needs to be said about what 'opening' is and the dharma is practiced at different levels by different people.
One of Shakyamuni buddha's student named Culla Panthaka was not bright at all he couldn't memorize one simple verse. Buddha one day explained that Culla Panthaka was a monk who made fun of other monk who was not so bright in his previous life, and because of that karma Culla Panthaka was born slow in that life. and he gave Culla Panthaka a white cloth to wipe the floor with it . Culla Panthaka wiped the floor with the cloth and the cloth became dirty. Shakyamuni buddha explained that " not only the cloth but human mind is the same. Greed, anger, hatred, yearning, foolishness becomes dirt of ignorance of human mind. When one shed this dirt of mind through practice, the one becomes arhat."
( i've read this somewhere in korean site so I don't remember what sutra it was and my translation might be off bit but you get the idea I hope)
@Tony_A_Simien said: It doesn't matter if it's called, Buddhism or Advaita or whatever. Those systems or traditions are merely tools to discover your true nature. The final results are the same. Only the method of realizing it is different.
That's a whole different discussion, and again you sound like you're preaching.
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No, it's not. Please don't confuse the issue.
lack of access to wikipedia and google? just kidding. I have no answer to that question other than if we do not open to that which is frightening or unknown or whatever. The nature of mind is vidya and not opening is avidya. Much needs to be said about what 'opening' is and the dharma is practiced at different levels by different people.
Meaning.... it can not be found, and by "trying to find' the root cause, is in itself ignorance (not knowing itself)...
Realise this....and the quest for the root cause drops away ...
My apologies if some found the post confusing...
One of Shakyamuni buddha's student named Culla Panthaka was not bright at all he couldn't memorize one simple verse. Buddha one day explained that Culla Panthaka was a monk who made fun of other monk who was not so bright in his previous life, and because of that karma Culla Panthaka was born slow in that life. and he gave Culla Panthaka a white cloth to wipe the floor with it . Culla Panthaka wiped the floor with the cloth and the cloth became dirty. Shakyamuni buddha explained that " not only the cloth but human mind is the same. Greed, anger, hatred, yearning, foolishness becomes dirt of ignorance of human mind. When one shed this dirt of mind through practice, the one becomes arhat."
( i've read this somewhere in korean site so I don't remember what sutra it was and my translation might be off bit but you get the idea I hope)
That's a whole different discussion, and again you sound like you're preaching.
Well said. An important point. It is also true that our inner mandala/selves may be at different levels at different times, in various settings.
It takes considerable skill and experience to communicate across this diverse and at times divisive landscape.
Our personal ignorance we can own and share solutions for.
As I said to the Buddha only this morning, 'Dude, if we keep meeting like this one of us will have to die.'
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2658
I didn't find it confusing, I found it incomplete. Thanks for clarifying.
Ignorance has support, but it doesn't have a cause.