071-The ignorance - Buddhism in daily life

The ignorance


Buddhists know about the unwholesome effect of the three mind
poisons, namely greed, hatred and delusion (ignorance). In the
Buddhist wheel of life, the animals pig (ignorance), snake
(hatred) and cock (greed) are assigned to these three mind
poisons.


But how do these poisons arise in our minds, why does ignorance
rule mankind? Because it is ignorance that brings insecurity,
from which greed and hatred then arise.


The human ignorance towards the destiny, towards the
transitoriness, that brings a strange karma over the times,
because the constant wanting and wishing, that brings no
satisfaction, the desire never stops, the longing is not
satisfied, only repressed for a short time, that is the simple
truth.


Experiences of any kind (briefly) displace thoughts, distract us,
but then the human senses come back to the satisfaction of
physical needs, and to desires, which are a constant wanting.


He who is knowledgeable knows that only reflection can replace
ignorance, that distraction and diversion must come to their
bitter end, because at the end of the day we are just alone, all
attachments then finally show themselves as illusions.


As long as we are attached, as long as we suffer, whoever does
not want to (or cannot) overcome ignorance, cannot ascend to an
enlightened being, is born again and again, goes through the
suffering again and again.


A main part of our time we are busy thinking about what is wrong,
why it should be different, that there is a mistake, because it
is not the way we want it. This is the increase of ignorance, we
get into know-it-all-ness, because we don't want to accept things
as they are, but imagine that we know everything better. How
should it be, how is it?


The ever blazing fire of ignorance is extinguished by
"enlightenment", which then finds its final state in Nirvana. The
state that is reached when reaching Nirvana, we call
"enlightenment", because we are then no longer ignorant, but know
very well about the true connections.


As a logical consequence, there can be no other mental poisons
then, because hatred and greed have become as unnecessary as a
rash on the skin.


Whoever may spend his life in ignorance, simply not willing to
think about the connections, must live through further
incarnations because of his weakness of will.


Ignorance as a symbol must be destroyed, then "enlightenment" is
possible.


Because my listeners know: The way is the goal!


Wise know: Desire saturates even no golden rain.





The pleasures taste insipid, they are sorrowful all the way.


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before
the year zero





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