The ignorance of our own ignorance

If we realized and came to grips with the impermanence of all things, it would make no sense to become attached to them. 

Ignorance of the impermanence of all things, especially our own life, leads to craving happiness through things that will all come to an end. Thus, we are like zo...

To overcome the paradox of overcoming our own ignorance is itself a contradiction due to the fact that we need to look for something that we cannot see.

This is the same contradiction experienced by any conspiracy theorist: The basic premise of their belief (even if it is right) is ...

• Marcus Aurelius used to say that we don't own anything and that even our lives are held in trust.
• We may claw and fight and work to own things, but those things can be taken away in a second. The same goes for other things we like to think are "ours" but are equally precarious: our ...