Day One Hundred and Forty Three

I consider ignorance. It seems to be some factor of individuality, or self-posessive individuality. The Buddha says it is lack of restraint of the senses and lack of attention that provide the fuel for it, that we cannot know of its origin. And so insight and ignorance are both waiting for their food. They are brought about by a combination of factors.

I touch a hundred thousand things with my senses to wrap around or away from, to fashion ignorance from. I touch the stone and have restraint. Yet it is gentle and never forced; it fights with nothing. Awareness has such availability.