Gorampa contends, citing Candrakīrti, that fully enlightened buddhas have no conceptual content whatsoever; they have completely eliminated ignorance in its entirety, and therefore do not actively engage in the conventional world.
"We have not eliminated the attitudes; ignorance and bigotry are there in society but people know they cannot play it out at football the way they used to.
"We're all humbly enjoying the right to worship, an American tradition that a small minority tried to eliminate out of ignorance and misunderstanding," said Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who flew here from Washington.
In order to eliminate completely the ignorance that causes us to act regrettably, we need to purify the negative potentialities we have placed in our minds by our ignorant actions, and in order to purify the negative potentialities we have placed in our minds by our non-virtuous actions, we must begin by regretting the ignorant actions that placed them there.
His philosophy is based on Nāgārjuna's concepts of emptiness and the two truths, and, like all Buddhists, Gorampa agrees that the elimination of ignorance will eliminate suffering and lead to enlightenment.
If memory serves, he accepts that natural selection offers a plausible explanation for the variety and relatedness of earthly life, understands that eliminating taxes does not necessarily produce budget surpluses, and does not regard ignorance as a source of pride.
If we want to wallow in our own ignorance, then we can try to eliminate the funding pipeline.
The utility of a generalization like (56) is not so much that it eliminates the need to rely on an infinite conjunction, but that it is 'blind' (i.e., made under partial ignorance of what was said).
The second-order ignorance is a consequence of the fact that the blind spot, which is embedded in every observation, cannot be eliminated, even when the observing system performs reflexivity.
