By The 17th Karmapa, Teachings on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path

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When ignorance is defined as the root of samsara, and it becomes something we talk about and discuss, we are actually distancing ourselves from our own ignorance. Why?

Because in thinking of ignorance as an object to discuss, we are distancing ourselves from it, setting it apart in some place over there.

Meanwhile, we are not looking at our ignorant mind that is right here in front of us. If in this way, we separate ignorance from our present mind, our study and practice will not reduce self-fixation, because we are not paying attention to its real source—our present mind.

Ignorance is just this mind. Self-fixation is just this mind. The accumulator of karma is just this mind. And it is only on the basis of encountering this mind directly that we can effect real change.

~By The 17th Karmapa, Teachings on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Day Two, June 7, 2018.

source: The Official Website of the 17th Karmapa

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By The 17th Karmapa, Teachings on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path

When ignorance is defined as the root of samsara, and it becomes something we talk about and discuss, we are actually distancing ourselves from our own ignorance. Why? Because in thinking of

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