Originally Posted by ulman Although regress of ignorance is infinite, still it has a cause otherwise there would be no escape from ignorance.
Originally Posted by plogsties #15: If ignorance doesn't have a cause, how are we to eliminate it?
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.