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
mindÃs 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.