Human perception is limited within the restriction of nature. Even nature itself is man made, but it gives us a basic idea of what “things” are and identity of things that we cannot really explain. As a Buddhist, we believe that you are your own enemy. Many might not agree with this philosophy, but I believe that I am my own worst enemy.
As a human, we rely strongly on our perceptions and senses. Way we explain reality is depended upon our own conception facts. If we think really through with the idea of reality, everything that we know and do is based on theory. Which sometimes come back as a question against the religion I grew up in. Fires die after certain time and the heat from the fire dies at the same time. Similarly, we are restrained and constrained under the idea of time and energy. Due to that reason, we are unable to attain the knowledge to acquire truth. Truth that we always wait and strive for, but we never attain it. In fact we theorize the truth and take it as it is the fact. Due to that reason we are always in conflict with the environment and self.
Ignorance, attachment and aversion is known as the three poison in Buddhism. In order to achieve enlightenment or extreme realization of knowledge, you have to be clean from these three poison. These poison is the source of all the suffering and the burden that kept us under "Wheel of suffering" and the system of karma. These poisons constrain everyone from knowing the truth, similarly, danger yourself to suffering. Our ignorance made us to believe that we are different from everything else, because of this reason we separate “self” from everything else. I believe that we are so attach to things that we desire and we forget our own nature. Since we do not see ourselves as connected and similar to other things, we take things for granted. Our ability to dislike and like things made things made it hard for us to see everything as similar. Blinded by these poison, we are harming ourselves in a worst way ever. For example, there is racism because you see everyone as different, not similar to you. Separating everything from self and have no connection to others. We are too attach to things that we see everything as advantage to better yourself with materials. We create plastics, cars and phones etc, to make our own life better, forgetting what we need to want. Destroying the basic resources to survive with our wants. Pollution and wars are destroying the world that we all live in. Somehow, all of our actions will get ourselves into sufferings and destruction of our only home.
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