Ignorance perverts our desire to improve ourselves. When I talk of ignorance, it has nothing to do with stupidity. In a way, ignorance is very intelligent, but it is an intelligence that works exclusively in one direction, that is, we react exclusively to our projections instead of simply seeing what there is.

Ignorance is the ability to recognise the true nature of things and the law of cause and effect which governs happiness and suffering. Supporters of ethnic cleansing for instance, claim that they want to build the best of all possible worlds, and some appear to be deeply convinced of the rightness of their abomination. As unhealthy as it seems by sowing death and destruction those who satisfy their selfish impulses at the expense of others expect their actions to bring them a certain degree of gratification.

Those who are cruel, obsessed, self-righteous or conceited are still blindly pursuing happiness while being completely unaware of its true nature.

The only way to dispel this basic ignorance is through opening our minds to knowledge. It also involves the application of that knowledge, to begin to understand which thoughts, words, and actions inevitably lead to pain; and which contribute to well-being.

Of course, such an approach requires that we first come to see that something is not quite right with our way of being and acting. We then need to feel a burning desire to change.

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