This sermon deals with basic Ignorance caused by the
first dim thought of self-awarene
ss as subject and its counter-
part, dull emptiness, as object. The dimness so created by
mindís separateness is called
Primordial Darkness by non-
Buddhist philosophers in the East and is the origin of creation
according to the Buddha's teaching which then explains the
three subtle causes of unen
lightenment: basic ignorance,
subject and object, and its six coarse conditions: knowledge,
responsiveness, attachment, assigning names to objects,
karmic activity and suffering. These six conditions result in
the manifestation of different
forms, such as the world and
living beings in the store cons
ciousness. Here begins the law
of continuity: that of the ph
ysical world resting on the four
wheels of wind, water, meta
l and space which spring from
the illusion thus created; that of living beings of the four types
of birth; and that of karmic retribution caused by carnality,
killing and stealing, the three