[james] wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 2:21 am
Why do people see in themselves the possibility of ignorance, I wonder. Can a bee or a horse or a bonobo be ignorant? I would say that there is no ignorance outside of the word itself and the concepts we attach to that word. What are we ignoring? Do we live much of our lives in a mode of “ignoring”?
A surprising question, James.
When I bump against the sharp corner of my kitchen table, in that moment I was ignorant, or unaware, of the relevant physical dimensions and positions of the two objects.
And it seems to me in life this lack of awareness resulting in bumping against some aspect of our lives, happens pretty often, almost constantly to a greater or lesser extent, as we wish things or ourselves to be other than they are, or to stay the same. The chief of them, possibly, the mental cramp of hanging on to an identity, things, people, circumstances, a sense of me and mine, while ignorant that this seeming security blanket is the very cause of our suffering.
I take it you see this matter very differently?
Joe,
