The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

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It losess its meaning if you don't know what The Thathagata meant by "Ignorance": the inherent quality of anything that exist is the absence of independent existance, this is the way of existance. The mere unfindibity of this independent quality is emptyness, to perceive that there is independent inherent existance therefore independent inherent causation is "Ignorance".

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