in an article by : yoichi kawada , director of oriental philosophy , soka gakkai international , senji read : the core of shakyamunis enlightenment was his awakening to the law of dependent origination ignorance , ( the opposite of enlightenment ) is considered fundamental among those deluded impulses precisely because it blinds people to the reality of dependent origination , the unavoidable and all encompassing interrelatedness within which we live .