What is ignorance

Ignorance: I am not an eternal being.

Manifestation of ignorance: living in fear but not feeling fear.

That is, not knowing that all of one's motivations for action are to escape fear. In layman's terms, it is not known that all of their actions are dominated by emotions, thinking that it is only a small part. Many times they don't think they have emotions, or even think they have managed their emotions well.

The definition of falsehood is: untrue. Therefore, there is no falsehood in the truth, and there is no truth in the falsehood.

If the Creator refers to eternal existence, then the world was not made by it. For there can be no non-eternity in eternity. If eternity = true, then non-eternity = false.

The real feeling is peace, it is love; the false feeling is fear, it is hate. Falling into confusion means that you agree with the recognition that "I am not an eternal being", and then you will always feel the fear of death (not only the disappearance of the body, but the complete extinction of the self), and do not know it. This realization is the origin of the world. So the world is an illusion, and all the essences in the illusion are suffering. That is, all the feelings you feel are derived from the fear of death, so how can it not be bitter?

In short, the world was not created by the Creator, and He could not have identified himself as not an eternal being. The world you created to experience fear, and it is you who pretend to identify with it because you want to see what non-eternals will feel like. But you forget that. It's like a child who wants to go to the outside world, and is very excited at first, but finally finds that the outside world is not fun at all. But because he had been out for so long, he had forgotten his own home, and he even thought he had been kicked out. Otherwise, why don't you stay in a good home and have to go outside to suffer?

Let's explain it from another angle.

The world is a big dream, and there are two layers of dreams:

The first level: the dream of enlightenment, that is, I know that I am dreaming.

I wanted to experience what dreams were like, so I identified with false perceptions and started dreaming.

It's like I want to ride a roller coaster, I want to go bungee jumping, I want to experience the thrill of that fear.

The second level: the dream of ignorance, that is, I forgot that I was dreaming, so I took the dream seriously and was controlled by fear.

It's like I forgot to go on a roller coaster for thrills, to go bungee jumping, so I was in the car, on the jumping stage, shouting: It's terrible, who made me do this? Who is harming me?

From the dream of ignorance to the dream of enlightenment is divided into the following stages:

1 I have no idea who I am, what I want, what I am doing, but I think I know.

"Forgive them, they don't know what they're doing" refers to you at this time. You think that you are a body, that you can only satisfy yourself by having external substances, that you are doing what is supposedly right and proper.

At this stage, you are asking outward.

2 From external to internal.

Waking up from a dream is inevitable, so one day you will begin to feel that you can't satisfy yourself, so there will be an opportunity, in layman's terms, it is a slap in the face by fate, because people who do not experience pain are not willing to change. So a new choice arises before you: ask inward.

3 Recognize new cognitions.

When you are willing to seek inward through the acceptance of feelings, you will gradually realize that you are a consciousness that can choose, that your feelings are always in fear, that your only need is to be at ease and no longer fear, and finally to realize the idea of ignorance. In the end, this step is the most difficult, because to bear the monstrous fear, you must have a very strong will to rush through.

The process of accepting feelings is actually enlightenment. Enlightenment is the attainment of true knowledge through fear, because true knowledge is behind fear. Enlightenment enduring fear, and any other way to get is not true knowledge.

The so-called enlightenment refers to the realization of ignorance and the recall of dreams that were originally created by oneself. So the second layer of dreams disappeared and entered the dream of Ariake. The Dream of Enlightenment is the embodiment of these statements:

Go with the flow. No, no refusal. Everything was the best arranged. I live here but not here...

In the dream of Ariaki, you are a spectator, watching your body do what you should do, watching others do what he should do, and watching the outside world constantly change. You are no longer struggling with other people's external objects, because you have made it clear that your suffering has nothing to do with the outside. It's like no longer yelling on the roller coaster that someone else has hurt you, just as the vehicle drives, you bear all kinds of feelings that should come, silently waiting for the end point to come.

This stage is preaching. (Enlightenment, by contrast, can be called hearing the Tao.) ）

When you finally realize that you are an eternal being, that is, when you wake up, the dream will disappear completely. So as long as we are here, as long as the world exists, we are in a dream, on our way home. There is no reality, no eternity, no consummation, it's all outside the dream.

Someone once said that he was perfect and then went back to his dream to save others. This statement is illogical. Like do you still have a dream after you wake up? Can you go back to last night's dream?

From ignorance to enlightenment is the only way for all people, and there is only a difference in time between people, but there is no distinction between high and low. The person in the dream of ignorance is equivalent to the ignorant child; the person in the dream of ignorance is equivalent to the mature adult. Adults can see everything about children, but children cannot fully understand adults. Many of the questions the child asks are beyond his comprehension, and the adult can only say: Don't worry, you will know everything when you grow up. But can it be said that adults are better than children? There is absolutely no comparison between the two. And children will always grow up.

Finally, it's important to remember:

The purpose of our coming to this life is to experience fear, to experience suffering, to experience... This statement is a metaphor, just for the convenience of communication. Just as an adult sometimes has to answer a child's question in words that he can understand, but you only know that the answer is false, just a temporary stopgap measure.

Ignorance never exists, and the world never exists, only "existing" in my cognition. Just as dreams are only true to the dreamer who does not know that he is dreaming. So there is no need to ask "where does the idea of ignorance come from", where does something that does not exist come from?

This kind of question is like asking: How did what didn't happen? It is illogical. Asking a question shows that you have taken the world seriously, that you have fallen into ignorance: you do not know that this world never existed, so you ask how the world came into being.