Fetter 10: Ignorance | Ferdinand

Review of the path with fetters and how removing them also eradicates ignorance. This leads to knowledge of the distruction of the taints.

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00:00:00 Something clicked for Ferdinand, Right Effort & Right Attitude, VISAs and worldly duties
00:08:48 Eradication of doubt, real freedom
00:11:58 The fetter of ignorance, the first eradication of doubt: we can clean the mind out
00:15:24 Second eradication of doubt: we can sustain a clean mind, the mind is fit for work
00:17:28 Third: we pay attention and investigate the four noble truths
00:18:47 Forth: am I actually up for the dhamma's high standards? I've got no choice!
00:24:28 Generosity, the gift of the dhamma
00:25:56 Fifth: Can I actually follow the path? What's it all about? Suffering and no suffering—the path
00:27:10 The fruit of the sotapanna (MN 24, MN 64), delight with the dhamma
00:28:38 Why is ignorance the last fetter if doubt is eradicated at the stage of sotapanna?, working with the feelings (fetters 4 & 5)
00:35:32 Eradication of ignorance of things we didn't know we didn't know; the mountain top—dukkha, dukkha nirodha; I'm just like everyone else
00:38:31 The arupa asava (higher fetters), aruparaga (managing one's death), there's nothing left to live for, reasons to live
00:41:53 Some things we will never know (the four imponderables or unthinkables): what happens to a Buddha after death?, what is the extent of the human mind? (calculators, AI, neuro-implants), what is the beginning of it all?, what will happen in the future?
00:57:28 Restlessness can be used as a tool for good
01:00:06 The holy life is now being lived; nothing is perfect, but pure is good enough
01:04:56 The asavas that are removed through seeing (MN 2) at the level of sotapanna, the final ignorance: the last real freedom
01:09:10 We will never understand the vastness of it all—there is so much we won't know
01:11:50 Concluding thoughts