Un-knowing the delusion until one clearly experiences

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> Dalai Lama wrote that delusion is the source of suffering. I have, as I was

soon

> to conclude, mistakenly thought that ignorance is the source of suffering.

> There is a significant distinction between delusion and ignorance.

>

> Ignorance implies that one is overlooking (missing) a piece of knowledge. The

> solution is to experience the missing piece of

> knowledge. Then one may, in turn, share this knowledge with others merely by

> manifesting, through deed or speech, the truth. So I

> thought the world to be. But, upon reflection, this does not correspond to the

> world I experience, as one cannot share this knowledge with others merely by

> manifesting the truth.

>

> Delusion implies a mistaken knowing (as in the analogy of mistaking a rope for

a

> snake). The solution is un-knowing until one clearly

> experiences. Then one may merely share the solution, not the experience.

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>GG: One of the analogies given in

> Tibetan

> Buddhism refers to a white

> snowy mountain. Let's say a person doesn't know what a white snowy

> mountin looks like. So that's a kind of ignorance. But there's a

> difference between (a) being merely unacquainted with how a white

> snowy mountain looks, and (b) seeing a blue mountain and thinking

> that it's a white snowy mountain.

> (a) is a case of ignorance. (b) is a case of ignorance caused by a

> kind of optical delusion.

>

> In the case of suffering, it is caused by the delusion of experiencing that

the

> self and others exist in a way that they do not exist.

>

> So it's more like the blue snowy mountain or the rope/snake case than the

" I've

> never seen snow " case.

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> One ought not mistake delusion for ignorance, nor miss the distinction.

>

> from NDP

>

> Era

 

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> > One ought not mistake delusion for ignorance, nor miss the distinction.

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> > from NDP

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> > Era

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The " one " referred to is itself the gravitational center of delusion.

 

It doesn't matter one wit if it mistakes one of its own concepts for another.

 

It cannot correct its own supposed condition by adding to its self.

 

 

toombaru

 

 

 

 

 

 

toombaru

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" toombaru2004 " <cptc@w...> wrote:

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> > > One ought not mistake delusion for ignorance, nor miss the distinction.

> > >

> > > from NDP

> > >

> > > Era

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> > .

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> The " one " referred to is itself the gravitational center of delusion.

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relax Tommy, You are the One.

;-))

 

 

> It doesn't matter one wit if it mistakes one of its own concepts for another.

>

> It cannot correct its own supposed condition by adding to its self.

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>

> toombaru

toombaru

 

 

what are these duplicate toombarus?

 

Era

 

 

 

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