Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ignorance; specifically, in Buddha's metaphysical system, the ignorance which mistakes the illusory phenomena of this world for realities. It is the first of the 12 nidānas, or links in the closed chain of cause and effect, in the whole range of sentient existence.
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"avidya" or ignorance on the part of the soul of its own real nature and being, whereby it fails to recognize that this material life is "maya" or illusion.
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect William Walker Atkinson 1897
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These are abhivinesh (fearful clinging to life); raga and dvesha; (attraction and repulsion.); asmita (false placement of our sense of identity); and avidya (ignorance of our real nature.)
Thomas Amelio: New Year's Spiritual Renewal: Transform Your Identity Thomas Amelio 2011
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These are abhivinesh (fearful clinging to life); raga and dvesha; (attraction and repulsion.); asmita (false placement of our sense of identity); and avidya (ignorance of our real nature.)
Thomas Amelio: New Year's Spiritual Renewal: Transform Your Identity Thomas Amelio 2011
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These are abhivinesh (fearful clinging to life); raga and dvesha; (attraction and repulsion.); asmita (false placement of our sense of identity); and avidya (ignorance of our real nature.)
Thomas Amelio: New Year's Spiritual Renewal: Transform Your Identity Thomas Amelio 2011
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Yogis are seekers of some higher truth, and the greatest obstacles to realizing this is our own ignorance (avidya) and ego (asmita).
Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher Alanna Kaivalya 2012
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Yogis are seekers of some higher truth, and the greatest obstacles to realizing this is our own ignorance (avidya) and ego (asmita).
Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher Alanna Kaivalya 2012
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These are abhivinesh (fearful clinging to life); raga and dvesha; (attraction and repulsion.); asmita (false placement of our sense of identity); and avidya (ignorance of our real nature.)
Thomas Amelio: New Year's Spiritual Renewal: Transform Your Identity Thomas Amelio 2011
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Yogis are seekers of some higher truth, and the greatest obstacles to realizing this is our own ignorance (avidya) and ego (asmita).
Alanna Kaivalya: 3 Qualifications of a Yoga Teacher Alanna Kaivalya 2012
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A lot of people simply translate it as ignorance, which does not differentiate it from the mental factor of unawareness – in Tibetan marigpa (ma-rig-pa), in Sanskrit avidya.
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Persons or souls suffer through repeated rebirth (Skt. samsara) due to unawareness (Skt. avidya, ignorance) that the person or soul is not the same as the physical faculty for sentience – the physical medium through which a person manifests.
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Philosophy 2008
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