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Hi, Blue,

What I mean is that Chogyam "personifies" ignorance, talking about it like a TV preacher might talk about "the Devil", as if it were in control of us and thinking for itself.

The Buddha did not teach that all things are paradoxes or polarities. He spoke of his "Middle Way" that transcended extremes, mostly in the context of transcending black/white thinking fallacies: "Either there is reincarnation or there is not" -- each is a speculative view that the Buddha rendered irrelevant with his own teachings and practices. The Buddha also did not teach that we have an innate "Buddha Nature".

Do you know much about Chogyam Trungpa's life?

Wikipedia is not a reliable source to discover the teachings of the Buddha. The listings pertaining to Buddhism have been overrun and are controlled by adherents of the tibetan religion, and are skewed terribly with the worldviews of that religion, which bear little resemblance to, and have little in common with, what the Buddha taught.

If you wish to understand paticcasamuppada as the Buddha taught it, go to Phra P. A Payutto's analysis at http://www.buddhanet.net/cmdsg/coarise5.htm