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**Dodoerabe** · 12-04-2011, 09:06 PM

Is illusion (the ego) caused by tanha?

If by illusion you mean ignorance (not realizing anicca, dukka and anatta) this quote from AN will help:

"A first beginning of ignorance cannot be conceived,[58] (of which it can be said), 'Before that, there was no ignorance and it came to be after that.'

Though this is so, monks, yet a specific condition[59] of ignorance can be conceived. Ignorance, too, has its nutriment,[60] I declare; and it is not without a nutriment. And what is the nutriment of ignorance? 'The five hindrances,'[61] should be the answer.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/a.../wheel238.html

12-04-2011, 09:06 PM	#19
Dodoerabe Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	Is illusion (the ego) caused by tanha? If by illusion you mean ignorance (not realizing anicca, dukka and anatta) this quote from AN will help: "A first beginning of ignorance cannot be conceived,[58] (of which it can be said), 'Before that, there was no ignorance and it came to be after that.' Though this is so, monks, yet a specific condition[59] of ignorance can be conceived. Ignorance, too, has its nutriment,[60] I declare; and it is not without a nutriment. And what is the nutriment of ignorance? 'The five hindrances,'[61] should be the answer. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/a.../wheel238.html
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