blindness

People are blind, they do not know what they do, they are asleep to their nature
It is more like selective thinking without knowing it
In the movie Inception, the main actor said that when encountering his own defense mechanism in his dream, if we need to sabotage them, he can not know the strategy, because if he knows, his defense mechanism will know
In the movie Beautiful Mind, Dr. Nash and his psychiatrist had an argument where Dr Nash said that "I can fix this problem mathematically." His psychiatrist said that "You can't fix this problem with your mind, because your mind is the problem"
A visually-abled person is not physically blind because he can perceive colors and has visual perception
So, the idea of blindness is more than physical blindness although it may apply to physical blindness
like a person who is busy with many things in his mind may not see what's in front of him
The idea of blindness is like this. If I hypnotize you to believe that a page of newspaper is a check of one million dollars. As long as you are under hypnosis, you don't see a newspaper page.
Because people don't know that they don;t know, they think they know
Because people believe their illusion, they don't know what they do
Because they are hijacked by their story that is only partial to the whole story, they are blind to the rest of the story
Because they only see what they want to see, they are blind to what they don't see or they don't want to see
This shadow usually become monster because they are not under control
unfortunately, we usually see others' shadow or even bear the brunt of his tantrum
while they are busy trying to present a nice mask to others when they can
vice versa, we only see our ideal self and don't see what we don't like
so, we live in this dream, less good dream and more nightmare,
hopefully, when we see enough nightmare, we wake up.
Buddha learn about 3 sights, sickness, old age, and death.
What he learn about suffering is not that we get sick, old, and die.
What suffering is to have this dream about life that lead to suffering when we get sick, old, and die.
They usually deny the shadow