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Old 07-25-2010, 08:16 PM   #24
Aleksis

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Originally Posted by ulman Although regress of ignorance is infinite, still it has a cause otherwise there would be no escape from ignorance.
Your point has been addressed in posts Reply #18 and Reply #19 above.

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Originally Posted by plogsties #15: If ignorance doesn't have a cause, how are we to eliminate it?
Ye dhammā hetuppabhavā
Tesam hetum Tathāgato āha
Tesañ ca yo nirodho
Evamvādī mahāsamano.

Of things originating with conditions,
The Tathāgata has told the condition,
And what their cessation is.
The Great Recluse speaks thus.

http://nanavira.xtreemhost.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemi d=62#p23"[/url] target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nanavira Thera: ]
§23 ...To see the Dhamma is to see paticcasamuppāda (as noted in §7), and avijjā is therefore non-seeing of paticcasamuppāda. Avijjāpaccayā sankhārā will thus mean 'paticcasamuppāda depends upon non-seeing of paticcasamuppāda'. Conversely, seeing of paticcasamuppāda is cessation of avijjā, and when paticcasamuppāda is seen it loses its condition ('non-seeing of paticcasamuppāda') and ceases. And this is cessation of all hetuppabhavā dhammā. Thus tesam yo nirodho is cessation of avijjā.
This quotation is quite right But it does not justify your statement that avijja has no cause

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