Please tell me about the Buddhist teaching of greed.
Greed is greed, and I think people who don't know Buddhism can understand the meaning of greed and anger even if they hear it, but I don't really understand the meaning of greed and anger. What does ignorance in Buddhism mean?
Desire and hate are certainly easy to understand. That's because it's always easy to see that they are controlled by them. You're right.
What I remember about this is the parable of one of my teachers. When my children were still small, I visited Akiyoshido in Yamaguchi. The eyes of fish that are always in the dark have degenerated and disappeared. Fundamental foolishness always covers us, so we don't have enough power to sense it.
Here are a few things you might find helpful.
1. A story about Elder Sumanasara's ignorance.
http://www.j-theravada.net/qa/gimon71.html
2. Wikipedia's “Ignorance” section
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%84%A1%E6%98%8E
This means that in Mahayana (middle view), emptiness is not understood.
In short, it's the opposite word of wisdom, so contrary to wisdom leading to attaining Buddhism, isn't it a fundamental ignorance of the truth that is the reason for reincarnation?
I don't know the exact thing, but isn't it a foolish heart that doesn't acknowledge the truth and lives as true in the world of thoughts seen through the ego?
What is usually common in my life is that I took up the fact that Mr. A said, “You can't do zero,”
・I was scolded by Mr. A. →I'm sure Mr. A doesn't like me. →Mr. A must have a grudge against me.
All of these thoughts are delusions, and aren't they a sign of ignorance?
The truth is that Mr. A said, “You can't do zero.” That's the only truth. Don't add anything good or bad to that, just listen to it. You haven't even been scolded at, have you? I'm just hearing the sound as it is. That's the truth.
I think it's foolish and ignorant to be deceived by one's thoughts and suffer from it.
In a nutshell, “greed is greed, and anger is anger,” I think “selfishness” is fine. Actually, I want to say “self,” but it would take a long time to convey that way of saying it without misunderstanding.
First, please understand that Buddhism is a teaching for eliminating and controlling worries and suffering.
Then, ignorance (stupidity)
It can be thought of as a general form of foolishness that “interferes with losing or controlling worries and suffering.”
For example, laziness, carelessness, confusion, pride,
Also, not understanding suffering, impermanence, or selflessness, and substantively capturing the mind and body,
Misunderstanding that something that is changing hasn't changed,
Deciding on some kind of information from the beginning and doubting or blindly believing it,
Obsessing over meaningless superstitions and conventions,
Furthermore, my obsession with living as me, and even my obsession with being.
The general way of thinking (foolishness) that increases one's own worries and suffering is nonsense.
This is a “misunderstanding” that life is born with.
The misunderstanding of being stupid (ignorance) is like misunderstanding the shadow of a tree reflected on a shoji as a ghost,
Once you have enlightened and realized the truth, “Why was it a tree?”
Your insanity will go away, and you'll never look like a ghost again.
It is said that you “realized” that you woke up from a misunderstood dream.
Stupidity = ignorance = stupidity.
Foolish means not being able to make correct judgments without wisdom.
It is said that the cause of all worries, including “” and “” is this “.”
We have wisdom, but we don't have wisdom.
That is a major cause of suffering.
Wisdom = human knowledge and thought
Wisdom = Buddha's knowledge and thoughts
It represents.