Friends:
What
are the Causes of Ignorance?
First: Ignorance is not seeing and
not
knowing the 4 Noble
Truths fully!
The near and proximate cause
is:
Ignorance comes into being caused by the 5 mental
hindrances!
That is right here and now:
Ignorance grows up caused by
desire and lust...
Ignorance arises caused by aversion and
ill-will...
Ignorance emerges caused by lethargy and laziness...
Ignorance
appears caused by restlessness and regret...
Ignorance comes into being
caused by doubt and uncertainty...
All these 5 factors will obscure, obstruct
and distort the 4 truths!
The remote
and subtle cause is fermentation ~ assuming and
supposing:
Conditioned by mental
fermentation (āsava) does
ignorance emerge:
That is multi-factorially, on the
long-term, as a hidden latent tendency:
Ignorance is caused by the mental
fermentation linked to sense-desire.
Ignorance is caused by the mental
fermentation associated with views.
Ignorance is caused by the mental
fermentation coupled with becoming.
Ignorance is caused by the mental
fermentation joined with ignorance itself!
The emotional causal component
is:
Ignorance is caused by a feeling of neutral
indifference, since this absence
of both pleasure
and pain promotes neglect disabling examination, which then
logically
results in not knowing the
specifics of the object = ignorance...
Ignorance
thus grows in a fatal positively self-enhancing
feedback-loop!
The Blessed Buddha said:
Bhikkhus, a beginning of ignorance cannot be pointed out
in this way:
Before this point in time, there was no ignorance, afterward it
came.
But, Bhikkhus, it can be pointed out in this way:
Caused by this,
ignorance comes to be. Bhikkhus, I tell you, ignorance too
has a causing condition! What is the causing condition of
ignorance?
The five mental
hindrances is the correct answer...
Source: AN X 61, AN X 62
What is
ignorance, what is the origin of ignorance, what is the ceasing of
ignorance, and what is the way leading to the ceasing
of ignorance?
Not knowing about suffering, not knowing about the origin of
suffering,
not knowing about the ceasing of
suffering, not knowing about the way
leading to the ceasing of suffering,
this is called ignorance!
With the arising of the mental fermentations,
ignorance also arises.
With the ceasing of the mental fermentations,
ignorance also ceases!
The way leading to the ceasing of ignorance is just
this Noble
8-fold Way:
That is: Right view, right motivation, right speech, right
action, right livelihood,
right effort, right
awareness, and right concentration.
Source: MN 9
More on
Ignorance (avijjā):
Ignorance, What_is_Ignorance,
Whenever_and_Wherever,
The_Causes_of_Ignorance,
Indifference_Creates_Ignorance,
What_is_the_Cause_of_Ignorance,
Because_of_Not_Knowing,
Because_of_Not_Examining,
Indifference_Creates_Ignorance
For
Details on the Mental Fermentations (āsava) please see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
What
Causes Ignorance?
Have
a nice
&
noble
day!
Friendship
is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu
Samāhita
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