
## extinguishing illusions

- the confusion is something that appears one way and exists in another

### root cause

- it is not non existent
- it's mode of existence vs mode of appearance
- immediate condition: attraction & aversion
- root cause is confusion about the nature of reality

### profound confusion on the nature of reality

- first aspect
  - that we can be aware of the contents of our own mind
- second aspect
  - superimposition of a subject object duality on the primordially non dual

### types of confusions

- [impermanent](impermenence.md) & permanent
- conventionally real & [ultimately real](emptiness.md)
- source of [happiness](hapiness.md) & source of suffering
- [independent](self.md) & [interdependent](interdependence.md)
