booker wrote:Sönam wrote:booker wrote:Hm I think the problem is how is that Primordial Wisdom is obscured in the first place (what gives a rise to sentient beings like us).
may by not (re) cognizing ... that's why there is innate ignorance.
Sönam
Yes, but I guess this boils down to the fact, that since it's a self-aware wisdom, how come the ignorance could possibly happen.
Well, there is one really good reason -- there is no such thing as a "self-aware wisdom" -- it's a translation botch.
so sor rang gyis rig pa'i ye she is the translation of a common term in Mahāyāna Buddhism namely, "pratyatmyavedanajñāna" which means "personally (pratyatmya) intuited (vedana) gnosis (jñāna)" or in simpler terms "wisdom that one knows personally", wisdom that one personally experiences, and so on.
Therefore, contradiction solved.
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