Ignorance
Learned ignorance has to do with our previous experience, the accumulated knowledge and impressions and influences from past experiences. We can understand and work through learned ignorance, which includes the beliefs and ideas we have accumulated from having lived. Our past experiences influence us in all sorts of ways. Much of what people work on, in terms of the content of issues, conflicts, and obstacles is the accumulated ideas, beliefs, and knowledge from our past.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 352 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 352 • discuss »
The second kind of ignorance is called innate or basic. This primordial ignorance is something we are born with, something inherent to the soul that isn’t mature. So waking up is seeing through not only learned ignorance but also innate ignorance, the unclarity or the lack of understanding of what reality is. Innate ignorance has two sides: one to do with recognizing the ground of reality, the other with understanding the relationship of particulars to this ground.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 353 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 353 • discuss »
By seeing through the innate ignorance about the underlying ground of what we experience, we arrive at this paradoxical mystery of the totality and the fullness and the emptiness of this ground. Enlightened awareness, the Kernel of the Kernel, seamlessly includes everything we know about our True Nature, all of what we know at once together, without being a collection of things or qualities. The complete stillness and privacy of the emptiness adds to the clarity a searing, sharp, smooth quality. And the clarity and the fullness add to the emptiness a kind of brilliance, a kind of shine—a shine made more intensely luminous by its total emptiness. This full, luminous emptiness has a kind of lightness, a kind of freedom that is beyond the idea of freedom, a kind of total relaxation and ease.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 357 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 357 • discuss »
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- Id
- Idealization
- Idealizing Transference
- Ideals
- Identification
- Identity
- Identity Attachment
- Image
- Impeccability
- Impersonal Witness
- Impressionability
- Individuality
- Individuation Narcissism
- Inertia
- Infant Soul
- Inner development
- Inner Journey
- Inner Mother
- Inner Realization
- Inner Space
- Innocence
- Inquiry
- Insecurity
- Insight
- Instinct
- Instinctual Drives
- Integration
- Intelligence
- Interference
- Introjection
- Intuition
- Ipseity
- Issues
- Ignorance
- Integrity
