Non-ignorance (Buddhism)

The ascetic states of effacement and seclusion that go with volition of ascetic practices bring absence of delusion, so that the dangers of forbidden things are no longer hidden; and there is no indulgence of self-mortification through excessive self-effacement in ascetic practice.

In Tibetan Buddhism it is said that application of hearing, thinking or meditating allows the knowledge of individual analysis to arise; or this may be present from birth as the fruition of actions of previous lives. Together with non-attachment and non-hatred, non-ignorance is the basis of all paths, of all virtuous practices and all means of ceasing wrong behaviour.

In Hinayana Buddhism, it is also related to non-attachment or non-greed and to non-hatred as the roots of all that is profitable or moral. Its characteristic is penetration of the intrinsic nature of things, of their individual essences. Its function is to illuminate the objective field and it manifests as non-perplexity, non-bewilderment.

One of the eleven virtuous mental factors referred to in Tibetan Buddhism. One of the formations aggregate (mental coefficients) of Hinayana Buddhism, being listed among the constant states which appear in their true nature, and as profitable secondary (sometimes present in any profitable or profitable-resultant consciousness).