What are the Causes of Ignorance?
First: Ignorance is not seeing and not knowing the 4 Noble Truths fully! The near and proximate cause is: Ignorance comes into being caused by the 5 mental hindrances! That is right here and now: Ignorance grows up caused by desire and lust… Ignorance arises caused by aversion and ill-will… Ignorance emerges caused by lethargy and laziness… Ignorance appears caused by restlessness and regret… Ignorance comes into being caused by doubt and uncertainty… All these 5 factors will obscure, obstruct and distort the 4 truths! The remote and subtle cause is fermentation ~ assuming and supposing: Conditioned by mental fermentation (āsava) does ignorance emerge: That is multi-factorially, on the long-term, as a hidden latent tendency: Ignorance is caused by the mental fermentation linked with sense-desire. Ignorance is caused by the mental fermentation associated with views. Ignorance is caused by the mental fermentation coupled with becoming. Ignorance is caused by the mental fermenta
