White Buffalo Calf Woman Podcast Transcripts

The third poison we are looking at today is ignorance. Many people believe that ignorance leads to the other two poisons of attachment and anger that we previously looked at. We get attached to things or become angry over things because we simply do not understand what life really is. We are ignorant of the truth and therefore continue to behave in ways that cause us more and more suffering in the future. As long as we remain ignorant, we will be trapped here in this cycle of uncontrolled rebirth. Every time we are reborn, we are born into ignorance. We do not know about the lives we have already lived. We do not know what we are supposed to be doing in this life. We are pretty much a blank slate, and due to this ignorance we continuously repeat all the same mistakes over and over again, life after life. This is why we all endure so much suffering. Many people live backwards lives because they are ignorant of the truth, of what life really is. They continue to behave in negativ...

In the last podcast, we learned that we all suffer from three poisons, attachment, anger and ignorance. We looked at the topic of attachment in that podcast. Today we will examine anger and how it poisons our mind and causes us great suffering. We have all experienced anger at different times in our life. Some of us experience this emotion daily. The more familiar we are with feeling this emotion the easier it is for anger to arise within us. You may know of people that get angry at every little thing or people that are so stressed out in their life that they fly off the handle easily. Our anger can consume us. I grew up in a such a dysfunctional family, and I was angry most of my young life at the unfair treatment my brothers and I had to go through. When you grow up in a toxic environment of abuse, it is easy to have a mind familiar with anger. On the other end, I have known people that claim they don't get angry anymore and then watched them get angry at some point later ...

We all suffer from the three poisons. You may have heard me pray to overcome those at the beginning of these podcasts. The three poisons are attachment, anger and ignorance. The three are closely intertwined. Some believe the three are equal in the damage they do, while some believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. They believe that ignorance creates anger and attachment. Today we will be focusing on attachment and the damage it creates, so that you can learn how to free yourself from this poison. Attachment is the feeling we get whenever we desire something. We are attached to things we are afraid of losing. We can be attached to people, animals, spirits, material possessions, places, jobs, ways of being, ways of living, belief systems, expectations and mostly ourselves. We become attached to the idea of wanting to be happy all the time. We can become attached to anything really. We may not think there is anything wrong with feeling attachment, but there is real danger t...