The second noble truth relates to the causes of frustration, which is said to be “trishna”, clinging or grasping, based on “avidya”, which is ignorance or unconsciousness. Now, avidya is the formal opposite of awakening. It is the state of mind when hypnotized or spellbound by “maya”, so that it mistakes the abstract world of things and events for the concrete world of reality.
At a still deeper level it is a lack of self-knowledge, lack of the realization that all grasping turns out to be the futile effort to grasp oneself, or rather, to make life catch hold of itself. For to one who has self-knowledge, there is no duality between himself and the external world. Avidya is “ignoring” the fact that subject and object are relational, like the two sides of a coin, so that when one pursues, the other retreats.
This is why the egocentric attempt to dominate the world, to bring as much of the world as possible under the control of the ego, has only to proceed for a little while before it raises the difficulty of the ego’s controlling itself.
-Alan Watts
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La Segunda Noble Verdad
La segunda noble verdad se refiere a las causas de la frustración, lo que se dice que es "trishna", aferrarse o apegarse, basado en "avidya", que es la ignorancia o inconsciencia. Ahora, avidya es lo opuesto formal de despertar. Es el estado mental que cuando hiptonizado o hechizado por Maya, erra el mundo abstracto de las cosas y eventos por el mundo concreto de la realidad
Esta es la razón porque la tentativa egocéntrica de dominar el mundo, de traer lo máximo posible a gran parte del mundo bajo control del ego, sólo ha de proceder por un tiempo antes de que se plantee la dificultad del ego de controlarse a sí mismo.
-Alan Watts
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