The different stages of open mind

One of the important key words in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is open mind.

There are some misunderstanding in certain minds towards open mind, that give rise to aversion, or rejection, or fear towards open mind, especially in the prideful egoistic impure restless minds that have certain individual and/or community agenda/aspiration to be manipulating and controlling the others or the members of the community to think, believe, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way, in accordance to their particular likes and dislikes, desires and don't desires, agreements and disagreements. Because the mind that is opened, that is mentally and emotionally independent, cannot be influenced or manipulated by anyone or anything.

To know what is open mind, one can inquire towards what is closed-mindedness.

The minds that are closed-minded, they are unwittingly being conditioned and over-powered by the selfless survival instinct that exists in all living organisms for basic life maintenance, as well as being manipulated and conditioned by their elders/parents/guardians/teachers/leaders/members of their particular community to think and believe that their particular personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, and the desires or don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements (based on their particular belief, values, and practices that are being generated under the influence of survival instinct on top of the influence of ignorance) are somehow more authentic, good, right, pure, superior, or true than all the other types of personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, and the desires or don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements that are different from theirs, that are contradicting with theirs, that appear to be intimidating towards their particular belief, values, practices, desires, visions, and aspirations, where they have the ambitious vision or aspiration to conquer the world and build a world that they prefer based on their particular personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices.

They strongly think and believe that the world, or the surrounding living environment, or the land and space with all kinds of natural resources for life maintenance, where they and their ancestors were born, where they live on, or occupy, or claimed ownership and possession, is something that rightfully/automatically/naturally belonged to them, that is theirs, personally and/or communally (only limited to their particular family/community). And if there are some other land and space that they haven't claimed ownership or possession, authorization, control, and occupation yet, they will want to invade, conquer, occupy, and claim ownership or possession, to take authorization and control over those land and space that come with the natural resources that don't belong to anyone or anything.

Meanwhile, these minds will be determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire, that they think and believe, or judge and recognize as opposing, or disrespectful, or offensive, or intimidating towards their particular personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices, that are intimidating and hindering their ambitious vision and aspiration for conquering the world and building a world that they prefer under their particular personal and/or community desires and don't desires.

People, or the minds of human beings, would like to think and believe that, (or even, some of the biologists say,) "This human's selfish and possessive behavior pattern is conditioned by the internal genetic traits (genes) inheritance and survival instinct governed by glands and hormones under the nature's law of cause and effect, that all human beings and some other living organisms are genetically being engineered to behave in certain way and not in certain way, and there is no freewill to be liberated from all that. Even if there is evolution or changes towards better or worst, it is also evolving under the effect of the pre-existing cause/genes from birth. If people think and behave in certain way and not in certain way, whether they are wise or ignorant, selfish or unselfish, peaceful or peaceless, kind or unkind, what they like and don't like, what they desire and don't desire, whether they will be successful or failed in everything, healthy or unhealthy, long-lived or short-lived, determined or non-determined, resilient or non-resilient, good or evil, greedy or not greedy, hurtful or not hurtful, and etc, it is because they were born/destined/conditioned to be in such way."

Because the passionate impure egoistic restless prideful minds would like to be able to justify and prove that, it is not their responsibility towards all their thinking, desires, and actions, as well as the consequences of all their thinking, desires, and actions. That they have no freewill at all, but all their thinking, desires, and actions that are being generated either consciously or unconsciously, are all being conditioned and influenced by the underlying subconscious/unconscious survival instinct, or urge, or cause/genes/glands/hormones/energy/elements. That there is no conscious freewill of conscious choice making to choose, to over-come, to transcend, to think or don't think, to understand or don't understand, to feel or don't feel, to desire or don't desire, to improve or don't improve, to behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way. And even if there is limited conscious choice making, thinking, desire, and action, it can never over-ride the underlying genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct.

That is their freedom of thinking and understanding.

The minds that know Thyself, will also know and understand that, "Even the underlying genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. Human's way of thinking/desiring/behavior/action/reaction, or the modification/state of the mind, is merely the indication/reflection of whether the minds are functioning under the influence of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that can be annihilated/transcended through certain self-initiated, non-violent, genuine, persevered, and determined observations and practices, under intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, initiated by the coming in contact with the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self that exists in all and everyone and everything and everywhere, where the modification/state of mind is occupied by disturbance, dissatisfaction, restlessness, impurities, painful sorrow, and suffering upon coming in contact with the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but the annihilation of ignorance upon the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, condition, and non-self will liberate the modification/state of mind from disturbance, dissatisfaction, restlessness, impurities, painful sorrow, and suffering.

Under a disturbed, churning, restless, impure, egoistic, and suffering modification/state of mind, the mind would think, desire, behave, act, and react in the way that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment. While under the undisturbed, calm, quiet, pure, ego-less, and peaceful modification/state of mind, the mind doesn't think, desire, behave, act, or react in the way that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment."

While yes. If you are being conceived and born under specific parental inheritance of specific characteristics/qualities/names and forms, and physical/mental/emotional health condition/limitation being conditioned and limited by internal genetic traits inheritance by birth that are fixed, that is what you are, that you cannot change or modify, even if there is the conscious freewill.

But nope. Your 'conditional habitual' way of thinking, belief and disbelief, values, practices, reasoning, understanding, learning, doubting, investigating, inquiring, intentions, and aspirations that are influencing your thinking, desires, behaviors, actions, and reactions are mostly being conditioned and influenced by the external influential conditions/situations/experiences/affairs/relationships/interactions/activities/food consumption after birth that are not fixed, that you can choose what type of condition, situation, experience, affair, relationship, friendship, interaction, activity, or food consumption that you want to be engaging with, or not.

You can over-ride or transcend the underlying survival instinct and the genetic traits inheritance that is what it is, that you can't change, and not being determined by all that internally of all kinds of characteristics/traits/qualities and physical/mental/emotional conditions and limitations under certain names and forms that are fixed, not to say, you can transcend and not being determined by all your external experiences/affairs/relationships/interactions/activities under any kind of surrounding environment, condition, or situation, that are pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable/painful, physically/mentally/emotionally.

Because all that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All the thoughts, feelings, emotions, that are coming and going in the modification of the mind either being generated consciously or unconsciously, are not you, they are not part of you, and they don't belong to you, and vice versa.

You don't have to live, think, believe, reason, understand, desire, behave, act, or react like your ancestors, your parents, your siblings, your family, your community, your friends, your favourite idols, your highly respected leaders and teachers, your highly admired influencers, or anyone.

You don't have to fit in, or be qualified to fit in, or to please anyone, and you don't need to be receiving attention, acknowledgement, recognition, approval, agreement, acceptance, understanding, friendship, love, liking, mental/emotional support, encouragement, companionship, admiration, praise and compliment, from anyone, not even from yourself, or your own immediate family/parents/siblings, not to say, all the others or the leader and members of the particular community, to be what you are, and you don't even need to have, not to say, to develop and empower the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, pride, confidence, goodness, righteousness, positiveness, joyfulness, deserving, accomplishment, or meaningfulness deriving from the achievement, attachment, identification, or possession towards certain qualities of names and forms, if you know Thyself, if there is mental and emotional independence. Although you can be kind, friendly, helpful, and understanding towards all and everyone unconditionally and indiscriminately, without the idea of 'I' and egoism, because you understand (that many other minds might not understand what you understand, and it's okay).

Being what you are as you are, that you don't need to become or pretend to be the same like all the others, that you don't need to fit in, or even, distancing/retreating yourself from the worldly minded egoistic society to be looking after your own well-being, it doesn't mean that you are deliberately making yourself to be distinctive and separated from all and everyone, but in contrary, you understand that beyond all the differences in all and everyone for being what all and everyone are, being uniquely different from one another, it is the one same universal essence/nature/truth in all and everyone and everything - Selfless, Impermanent, Limited, Conditional, and Non-self. That allows you to be able to respect all the differences in all and everyone and everything, as they are, unconditionally and indiscriminately, and it is okay that all are imperfect, limited, and impermanent.

It is only the minds that haven't attain direct self realization towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, will think and believe that there is no conscious freewill/awareness/understanding in the selfless mind, that is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, to have conscious choice making that can activate the conscious mind evolution to transcend all that selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self restless impure egoistic mind stuff that is merely existing and functioning being part of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mortal physical body that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, not to say, none and nothing belongs to anyone or anything.

Only the prideful mad minds functioning under the influence of ignorance would think and believe that they own and possess all and everyone and everything, either by education/temptation/manipulation or by force/violence/bully/threat/intimidation, under their boundless and endless greedy ambitious desires and aspirations.

No doubt that all and everyone are having their own particular not by choice underlying genetic traits inheritance and physical/mental/emotional condition and limitation that are fixed, that cannot be changed, even if all and everyone have the conscious freewill towards many other things that are not fixed. There is nothing bad or wrong with that, and it doesn't need to be changed into something else that it is not, at all.

The momentary mortal existence and the different functions/mechanisms of the body and mind (and all and everything) is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that is the truth of everything, that is permanent, that cannot be changed, and it doesn't need to be changed to become something else that is NOT what it is, that is NOT selfless, NOT impermanent, NOT limited, NOT conditional, and NOT non-self.

The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, appears to be something unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, and painful to the minds that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, that haven't attain direct self realization towards all THAT.

The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, is just what it is, neither liberating nor binding, but the direct self realization towards all THAT is absolutely liberating to the minds upon the direct self realization towards all THAT, where the liberation is not about be free from the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, but it is about the liberation from ignorance, and the by-products or consequences of ignorance, of all kinds of suffering, restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I'.

This liberation is available to all minds effortlessly, and most importantly, without force, or violence, or threat, or judgment, or punishment. And the presence of force, or violence, or threat, or manipulation, or story telling, or hypocrisy, or judgment, or punishment, is the greatest hindrance towards the realization of this liberation.

It is only the minds that are still functioning under the influence of ignorance, that are being conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that strongly think and believe that they have an immortal permanent independent infinite individual self existence or identity, that have the ambitious desire, or aspiration, or wishful thinking to defy/deny/modify/change/be liberated from/transform what they are, to become something else that they are not, to be liberated from selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, to become or transform into something else that has an infinite immortal individual existence/identity that is non-selfless, non-impermanent, non-limited, non-conditional, and non-non-self.

Under the influence of such intentional ignorance on top of the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, these minds, individually and/or communally, regardless of whether they are from which particular family/community or parental lineage genetic traits inheritance, they all have the similar desire or aspiration to interfere, to conquer, to convert, to change, to educate, to manipulate, to threaten, or to control all the others to live life, to think, to believe/disbelieve, to desire, to aspire, to evaluate, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way, to build a world or community (that begins in the personal relationship/family ties and connections) that is in accordance to their particular vision or ambition under their particular desire and don't desire.

That is what has been happening in the world of human beings, the existence of all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, greed, hoarding, exploitation, cruelty, hatred, jealousy, discrimination, separation, defensiveness, offensiveness, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, hypocrisy, story telling, manipulation, intimidation, bullying, oppression, occupation, aggression, fighting, killing, hurtful destructive ideas and behaviors, unrest, or violence, that exists within one's mind, among different individual minds, among different communities, that impact all and everyone and everything in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The world of human beings doesn't have to be like that, at all.

 

How you (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty) react and feel towards all that (that is fixed, that you can't change), or deal with all that, or live with all that, as well as what you can learn (know and understand) and do (act) about many other things that are not fixed, that are conditional and impermanent, that are possible to be strengthened or weakened within your limited physical/mental/emotional ability, is at your own conscious choice making in NOW upon the presence or absence of certain conscious perception, experience, knowledge, and understanding, and under certain conducive/easy or detrimental/challenging condition and situation in NOW.

Knowledge and understanding are not fixed. One can be constantly learning, inquiring, accumulating, and improving one's knowledge and understanding, if one desires and has the opportunity to do so. None and nothing can stop you from ceaselessly learning, inquiring, knowing, and understanding, unless the selfless body and mind ceased functioning and ceased existing, or there is some damage/injury/dysfunction/malfunction/deformity in the selfless functions/mechanisms of the body and mind.

The thinking, the emotions, the desires, the behaviors, the actions, and the reactions are very much being influenced by the existing knowledge and understanding in the mind, under the presence of conscious mind awareness, under the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping. And hence, there is conscious freewill towards all that, towards choosing what one thinks and desires, and how one feels, behaves, acts, and reacts, either constructively or destructively, unselfishly or selfishly, wisely or ignorantly, to hold on or to let go.

Genetically/physically/mentally/emotionally, we all are uniquely different from one another. Our physical/mental/emotional characteristics, condition, limitation, ability, and disability are different from one another. But, beyond the differences under the many different genetic traits inheritance, we all are the same - Selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. All sentient and non-sentient living organisms and all non-living objects are the same - Selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Unless the body and mind is completely functioning unconsciously under the instinctive autonomous function of the bodily systems under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements for life maintenance, but without any conscious awareness or response towards one's own existence/function/modification and the surrounding environment, that one doesn't even have the basic function to perceive, or understand, or recognize what is this or what is that, if it is not like that, then, you have the conscious freewill/awareness/basic understanding during the state of conscious wakefulness and semi-conscious/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dream state, to choose what you desire or don't desire, and how you want to think, feel, behave, act, and react towards all and everything that you perceive and experience, internally upon the selfless impermanent changes that are happening ceaselessly within the body and mind, and externally upon coming in contact with the objects of the senses, even if your existence and function are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, non-self, and only existing and functioning momentary for a short duration.

Not all minds, but there are some minds can be aware of, or know that there is dreaming during the sleep state, they know that whatever they perceive during the sleep state is just dreaming, that it is not real, and they can remember all or some of the contents of the dreams, they can even control the dreams/pause the dreams/continue the dreams/replay the same dreams/change the contents of the dreams, and wake themselves up during sleep state or dreaming, or even, from the deep sleep state. These minds are also having high degrees of creativity/imagination/visualization/image memory, that is not necessarily beneficial to oneself and the world, if the minds are still functioning under the influence of ignorance.

If these minds can have certain degrees of self control or conscious freewill during sleep/dream state, not to say, of course they have high degrees of self-control or conscious freewill during the state of wakefulness, even though all states (conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious) are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and there is no grasping, or attachment, or identification being generated towards all states, including the state of changeless timeless attributeless thoughtless actionless Turiya/Atman, or the selfless silent witness of all states, beyond the impermanent states of conscious wakefulness/semi-conscious sleep or dreaming/unconscious deep sleep or coma, of ceaseless conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious physical and mental activities happening and changing under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements for life maintenance.

This precious conscious mind awareness of self-awareness and self-control can be developed and enhanced via the regular practice of concentration and meditation and silence, that is beneficial for conscious mind evolution to know Thyself.

That is why it is so important for having doubt, open mind, and self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, regardless of all kinds of information/knowledge that are coming from anyone or anywhere, including all the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism that are existing under many different names and forms coming from everyone and everywhere.

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An open mind, is a mind that is devoid of grasping and identification.

There are different stages of open mind. Just like there are different degrees or stages of partial/incomplete understanding that lead towards complete/absolute understanding under the different degrees of calmness and clarity.

The beginning stage of open mind, is about the mind is consciously aware of and understand that there are many different types of living organisms/non-living objects/people/communities in this world sharing the surrounding living environment that comes with the intentionless indiscriminate natural resources for life maintenance, that don't belong to anyone or anything, where there are many different types of personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, as well as different types of desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements existing in the world of many diversities, and it is inevitable and essential to be respecting and non-interfering towards one another among the many diversities individually and/or communally for being different from one another, to be maintaining peace and harmony (the essential inevitable elements for a conducive living environment for maximal survival/wholesomeness and/or minimal unnecessary evitable destruction/difficulty) among the many diversities.

Although the mind might still be conditioned by its own personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, as well as the specific desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, where the mind would be determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire based on its particular way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices.

 

Then, even though the mind might still be having particular personal and community likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, based on the particular type of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices, to live life, think, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, aspire, behave, act, and react in certain way, however, the mind is less and less, and/or not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire, because it starts to understand that all and everyone have the freedom to be what they are and what they are not, being different from oneself and/or one's particular community. It starts to respect all and everyone as they are, to be different from one another. Not trying to interfere, or convert, or change, or control the others to be or not to be in certain way, in accordance to one's personal and community likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires.

Then, it is about the absence of blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-agree/disagree, and blind-propagate towards anything, as well as the presence of intense yearning towards absolute knowledge, correct understanding, liberation from ignorance, freedom of existence, and unconditional peace, to be performing self-inquiry or self-investigation to be inquiring/investigating towards the truth of all and everything in oneself, towards all the likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires in one's mind, including the particular existing way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices, that are influencing the thinking, feeling, behavior, action, and reaction in one's mind and/or one's particular family/community.

The mind begins to doubt and realize that the particular existing personal and/or community way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices, that give rise to personal and/or community vision or aspiration to conquer the world (interfere, convert, change, and control the others), and to build a desirable world or community based on that particular personal and/or community desire and don't desire, in itself, are not necessarily (completely) true and beneficial to oneself individually, one's community, and all the other different individuals and communities in the world of many diversities, but that 'urge'/'desire'/'aspiration'/'ambition'/'action' to conquer/interfere/covert/control others, is actually hurting and destroying all and everything, impacting its own momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to itself, that inevitably depends on the availability of a conducive living environment under the selfless existence and function of all and everyone and everything that work together selflessly and indiscriminately (the selfless power of compassion) that enables all and everyone and everything being what they are, as they are.

Just like within the selfless physical structure where the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under the presence and/or absence of conscious awareness, is merely part of the functions/mechanisms of the selfless physical structure, that depends on the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements/functions/mechanisms/systems/components/organs/glands/hormones/cells/atoms/neutrons/protons/neurons that all work together selflessly and indiscriminately that enabling the selfless body to be existing and functioning as what it is, momentarily, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body itself, not to say, it doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The presence of breakdown/malfunction/dysfunction/corruption/to be fighting or interfering against one another in any particular element/function/mechanism/system/component/organ/gland/hormone/cell/atom/neutron/proton/neuron is impacting and detrimental to the selfless existence and function of the selfless physical structure.

One who hurts others and the surrounding environment, is actually hurting oneself. 

 

Then, it is about activating the conscious mind purification and silencing process of freeing the selfless modifications/functions/mechanisms of the mind from ignorance, restlessness, or impurities, by letting go the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that leads the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness towards transcending or not being determined and influenced by the existing particular personal and community's habitual mind thinking and behavior pattern being conditioned by the internal parental family lineage genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct by birth, the selfless impermanent desirable or undesirable changes in the body and mind, the different impermanent modifications/states of mind, the ongoing external surrounding parental/family/community/school/work/social network/political/spiritual/religious/cultural/commercial conditioning and influential influences, the instinctive unconscious random autonomous desires/urges, and the conscious by choice built up/accumulated habitual likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, based on the particular type of personal and/or family/community/political/spiritual/religious/cultural/commercial thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices in oneself and/or in one's particular family/community, a little by a little, step by step, stage by stage, without rushing, forcing, or violence, without grasping, association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

In this stage, the observation of renunciation and dispassion, solitude and seclusion, and the practice of silence, for a prolonged extended duration, is highly important and effective and helpful.

 

Then, it is about the presence of mental and emotional independence, or the liberation from the influence of ignorance and its by-products or the restless impure egoistic mind stuff, where the selfless mind effortlessly respecting the nature's law of cause and effect, accepting the body and mind being what it is, inevitably having certain parental lineage genetic traits inheritance and physical/mental/emotional conditions and limitations that cannot be changed or modified, under the momentary existence and function of a mortal body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that requires ceaseless effort for ceaseless maintenance, that is subject to hunger and thirst, that is subject to aging, weakness, stiffness, injury, and illness, that is subject to fragility and mortality, that is subject to decay and disintegration, or ceased function and ceased existence, as well as, respecting and allowing all the others/living organisms/non-living objects/nature/the world of many diversities/selfless impermanent changes to be what they are, as they are, while not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by all and everyone and everything being what they are, that are not necessarily pleasant, or agreeable, or desirable, or beneficial, that might be unpleasant, or disagreeable, or undesirable, or hurtful.

Respecting the perceived reality (internally and externally) in the present moment now as it is, and it is impermanent, while not being determined or disturbed by all that, devoid of grasping, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

The personal and/or community ambitious vision or aspiration to build a desirable world or community based on that particular personal and/or community desire and don't desire disappears from one's mind.

The mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment.

The mind fully understands that the world of many diversities, or the surrounding living environment, or the land and space with the natural resources for life maintenance, as well as all and everyone and everything, doesn't belong to anyone or anything, not to say, it doesn't belong to itself and/or its particular family/community, even if they have been born and living on that land and space for a prolonged duration, or they have been discovering, occupying, and claiming ownership/possession towards any particular land and space earlier than many others who came later.

The open mind is not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind perceives/recognizes as the absence of pleasant, agreeable, desirable, or enjoyable experiences/names and forms/interactions/activities/relationships/conditions/opportunities, or the presence of painful inevitable and evitable experiences/situations/conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering and all kinds of ignorance, hurtful behaviors, and ill treatments deriving from the many minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance.

The mind understands that there are inevitable painful or unpleasant conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering just by being existing and functioning as what it is, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and momentarily, and there are many unnecessary evitable unpleasant/disagreeable/undesirable/painful experiences/situations/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering, under the presence of all kinds of ignorant egoistic impure selfish thinking/ideas/beliefs/reasoning/understanding/desires/aspirations/values/practices in the many different individuals and communities, that give rise to all kinds of incorrect thinking, hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions, defensiveness, offensiveness, selfishness, possessiveness, discontentment, greed, admiration, jealousy, fear, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, deserving and non-deserving, low and high self-esteem/self-worth, sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness/goodness and badness/righteousness and wrongfulness/positiveness and negativeness, discrimination, separateness, unjust, prejudice, hatred, corruptions, exploitation, desperation, cruelty, violence, conflicts, and ill treatments deriving from the minds functioning under the influence of ignorance, existing in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, impacting and hurting all and everyone and everything in certain way.

Above all that, there are also many constructive wholesome beneficial ideas/actions/activities in the world deriving from the selfless minds that are functioning under the absence of ignorance and its by-products.

The mind understands that all those unpleasant/undesirable/disagreeable/painful/difficult evitable affairs/activities/conditions/situations deriving from the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, are all merely because of the presence of ignorance and the by-products or side-effects of ignorance, that is not what they are, that is not part of them, and that doesn't belong to them, that can be eliminated (only) by themselves, willingly and wittingly (consciously) out of their own self initiation and self effort.

Just like the selfless natural disasters being what they are, that inevitably cause certain types and certain degrees of damages or destructions unto lives and objects and nature or the surrounding environment.

Just like there are minds/people that are suffering from certain form of insanity due to certain malfunctioning, or dysfunction, or deformity, or damage of the brains/glands/hormones/nerves/systems by birth or developed/encountering some time later in life, where they have very little or no conscious mind awareness, or self-control, or conscious freewill over their own modification of the mind and behavior, that might or might not cause random damages or destructions unto themselves, and/or others and the surrounding environment.

Just like all kinds of obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters being there as they are. One can only try to avoid or move around the obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters, as much as possible, to minimize unnecessary evitable direct or indirect coming in contact with the potential effects/damages/destructions that come along with the obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters being what they are, as they are.

The mind that understands all that, it understands that it doesn't need to be 'determined by', or 'disturbed by', or 'suffer' for the 'ignorance' and the 'effects/consequences of ignorance' deriving from the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance.

It allows all the other minds to take their own pace under their own cause, to evolve as they are, to inquire and realize towards the truth of all that, or not.

Unless there is serious deformity/dysfunction/damage/illness/injury in the body and mind that there is absolutely no conscious mind awareness/freewill/self-control to be aware of its own internal modification/function and the external surrounding environment, all selfless minds under the presence of selfless conscious awareness can be free from the influence of ignorance, however, it has to come from the mind itself to be aware of the presence of ignorance/impurities/hurtful thinking, intention, desire, behavior, action, and reaction in itself, to have the self-initiation to help itself to be free from the influence of ignorance, to annihilate restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism all by itself under right effort, right attentiveness, right attitude, perseverance, and determination, to inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, to be resting in unconditional peace, to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, to stop hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function in the world of many diversities, where all and everyone and everything don't belong to anyone or anything.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind agree/disagree, or blind propagate anything from anyone, including all that is here. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.

You can attain direct self realization towards all these.

There is nothing spiritual, religious, mystical, supernatural, or unreachable in the path of yoga and/or buddhism, or meditation. It is pure solid knowledge and understanding that unveil the unconditional peace in the mind, in NOW, even if all and everyone and everything are existing and functioning momentarily, selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional and non-self.

The yoga class beyond the yoga asana and pranayama practice

Let go of the past.

Whether the past is something happy or not happy, it is not important. 

Let go of the future.

The future doesn't exist.

The future is just some wild imagination, anticipation, projection, wishful thinking, fearful thinking, expectation, and uncertainty, in NOW, that are not real, that don't exist in NOW.

The only reality, the only existence, is the present moment NOW, and it is impermanent. 

Be aware of the present moment now.

Be aware of where you are and what you are doing.

Be aware of the breath coming and going.

Be aware of the movements of the abdomen expanding and relaxing. 

And everything in NOW is impermanent, constantly changing.

The breath is impermanent.

Every breath coming and going is a different breath, there is never the same breath, even though they might appear to be the same.

Every thought/feeling/emotion arising and passing away is a different thought/feeling/emotion, there is never the same thought/feeling/emotion, even though they might appear to be the same.

Every idea of 'I' is a different idea of 'I', even though they might appear to be the same, and they appear to be one single idea of 'I' under a continuous stream of countless ideas of 'I' (self acknowledgement) arising and passing away, and they appear to be the one same 'I' under the function of memory where the perceptive mind remembering some or all of the different states of mind/perceptions/experiences/learning/knowledge/understanding/ideas/desires/aspirations/ties and connections/relationships/interactions/activities/affairs/duties/responsibilities/plannings/thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations/sights/smells/sounds/tastes/dreams/imagination/anticipation/expectation/likes and dislikes/agreements and disagreements, and etc (as they are, or distorted/corrupted/not as they are).

Just like a stream of continuous motion movie (film or digital) is manifested under a continuous stream of countless different individual images or pixels. Each image or pixel is a different image or pixel.

Just like each sunset is a different sunset, there is never the same sunset, even though they might appear to be the same. 

The sensations are impermanent.

The thoughts, the feelings, and the emotions are impermanent.

The state of mind is impermanent.

The physical internal and external condition and appearance is impermanent. 

The strength, the flexibility, the stamina, and the ability and disability are impermanent.

The limitation and condition is impermanent. 

The surrounding environment is impermanent.

The life existence is impermanent.

Allow all kinds of impermanent changes to be there, as they are.

 

Let go all kinds of identifications under different qualities of different names and forms.

All kinds of identifications are not you.

All kinds of qualities are not you. 

You are not all these names and forms.

They are not what (you think) you are.

They don't belong to you, and you don't belong to them. 

 

What is your given name or your family name is not important, although the existence of the many different names for addressing the many different individuals and things is merely existing for the purpose of convenience of having the specific names to address someone or something in this world of many diversities, or else there will be many confusion or misunderstanding arise in all kinds of communication and interaction in everyday life.

Whether other people remember you or your name, or not, is not important.

Whether other people pronounce your name correctly, or not, is not important.

Whether other people call and address you by your name with certain title in a specific way, or not, is not important.

Similarly,

What you recognize, identify, and think is your background, belief, values, and practice, is not important. 

What you do or don't do in life, what you can do or cannot do, and what or who you think you are and you are not, is not important.

Not to say, 

How other people look at you, or how other people perceive or judge you, or how other people think and feel about you, is not important.

How other people behave, act, and react towards you, or treat you, is not important.

 

You have the freedom to be what you are.

Other people also have the freedom to be what they are.

Regardless of what is your given name and your family name,

Whether people remember and recognize you, or not, 

Whether people remember your name, or not,

Whether people pronounce your name correctly, or not,

Whether people call and address you by your name with certain title in a specific way, or not,

Whether people call and address you with many different kinds of names or labels with different meanings or qualities,

And, 

What you recognize, identify, and think is your background, belief, values, and practice, 

What you do or don't do in life,

What you can do or cannot do, 

What or who you think you are and you are not,

Not to say, 

How other people look at you, perceive and judge you, or think and feel about you,

And how people behave, act, and react towards you, or treat you,

It doesn't determine you,

It cannot affect or destroy the peace and freedom in you for being what you are, as you are.

 

More importantly, is what and how you choose to think, feel, reason, understand, desire, behave, act, and react towards yourself and other people, and all and everything in this world.

 

In the beginning,

You think and believe that the given name and the family name that you carry is highly important,

You think and believe that what you think and identify as what and who you are, as well as what you think and believe is where you belonged to and what belonged to you, are highly important,

You expect and desire other people to know you and your name, and remember you by your name,

To call and address you by your name correctly with certain title in a specific way, and not to call and address you with some other different names or labels with different meanings or qualities,

To acknowledge and appreciate you and your effort, achievement, and contribution,

To understand you, to agree with you, to praise and compliment you, to be attentive to you, to be kind to you, to be friendly to you, to be thoughtful of you, to be helpful to you, to be agreeable to you, to be respectful to you, to be true to you, to be faithful to you, to admire you, and to look up to you.

That's okay.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative. 

In the beginning,

You might be unwittingly thinking, feeling, reasoning, understanding, desiring, behaving, acting, and reacting under the influence of ignorance, being conditioned and influenced by the internal biological genetic traits inheritance and/or the external influential and conditioning influences and conditions.

You might be consciously and unconsciously reacting towards all and everything that you experience under the influence of ignorance, and generate all kinds of impurities wittingly or unwittingly reacting towards the names and forms that you like and dislike, agree and disagree with, desire and don't desire, feel pleased or annoyed, and enjoy or don't enjoy.

There are clinging, craving, passion, possessiveness, and greed towards the names and forms that you like, agree with, desire, feel pleased, and enjoy.

There are aversion, dissatisfaction, hatred, violence, vandalism, and destruction towards the names and forms that you don't like, don't agree with, don't desire, feel annoyed, and don't enjoy.

There are longing, clinging, admiration, disgust, jealousy, defensiveness, offensiveness, aggressiveness, bullying, manipulation, exploitation, sabotage, mischievousness, vengeance, bitterness, resentment, anger, ill will, superiority, inferiority, pride, arrogance, anticipation, imagination, anxiety, insecurity, fear, worry, disappointment, shame, guilt, regret, urge to control or over-power, and etc, reacting towards the presence or absence of certain names and forms or experiences that you like or dislike, agree or disagree with, desire or don't desire, feel pleased or annoyed, and enjoy or don't enjoy.

There are constant comparison, judgment, and expectation being generated towards oneself, and towards others and all and everything.

There are constant conflict, argument, justification, hypocrisy, story telling, or lies, within oneself, and towards others.

There are boundless desires waiting to be fulfilled or gratified.

There are endless ambitious personal and community aspirations waiting to be accomplished.

There is constant physical, mental, or emotional tension, fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout.

There are vain talk, boasting, scheming, slandering, gossiping, politicking, day-dreaming, wishful thinking, hopeful anticipation, and building castle in the air.

There are perishable momentary sense of goodness, righteousness, happiness, joyfulness, positiveness, success, and meaningfulness, that will also inevitably give rise to the sense of badness, wrongfulness, unhappiness, joylessness, negativeness, failure, and meaninglessness.

You are constantly acknowledging and telling yourself and others that you love all and everyone and everything very much, but you are also constantly generating ongoing hurtful possession/interference/plotting/politics/slandering/behavior/action/reaction unto all and everyone and everything that you think you love very much out of ungratified desires, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, possessiveness, obsessiveness, selfishness, greed, discontentment, dissatisfaction, disappointment, jealousy, lust, insecurity, fear, anger, bitterness, resentment, vengeance, disturbance, hostility, animosity, offensiveness, defensiveness, or feelings of annoyed, irritated, humiliated, belittled, intimidated, hurt, and so on.

You are constantly longing for receiving ongoing acknowledgement, attention, love, support, encouragement, liking, agreement, recognition, praise, and compliment from all and everyone, to feel good, confident, happy, meaningful, powerful, and high self-esteem or high self-worth, or else, you will feel bad, not confident, unhappy, meaningless, powerless, and low self-esteem or low self-worth.

You constantly think and feel that you are in competition with all and everyone, with yourself, with your friends, with your parents, with your siblings, with your relatives, with the members of your community, with your partner/spouse/lover, with your children, or with your classmates/colleagues/co-workers/neighbours/teachers, and constantly feel inferior/envious/jealous towards (or feel disturbed, offended, intimidated, and belittled by) others who appeared to be more intelligent, or more knowledgeable, or more talented, or more skillful, or more successful, or more accomplished, or happier, or friendlier, or kinder, or stronger, or wiser, or even, more evil and cruel than you, and you would feel proud in oneself and more superior towards the others who appeared to be not as 'good', or not as 'evil' as yourself.

You constantly think and believe that you are the victim of the bad and wrongful behaviors or treatments of the others, and if you behave hurtfully unto yourself and others and the surrounding environment out of feelings of hurt, is because all those bad people and all those bad things that have been happening unto you, that you don't deserve.

You strongly think and believe that you are thinking, feeling, reasoning, understanding, desiring, behaving, acting, and reacting in certain way, is the respective effect of the existing inherited cause deriving from your genetic traits inheritance from your parental lineage, that you are born like that, that it is not your responsibility, and that you have no freewill to be free from all that no matter what and how, just because some biologists say so.

Out of self-righteousness, you are hurting all kinds of names and forms that you think and believe as bad and wrong based on your particular personal and community belief, values, and practice, while you think and believe that you are doing something good and right, and that you are doing all that as a favour, or service, or heroic act to all and everyone.

Most of the time, under the influence of ignorance, you are wittingly or unwittingly and intentionally or unintentionally hurting yourself and others and the surrounding environment.

You might be aware or unaware towards all THAT.

You might be wittingly or unwittingly being the slave of all THAT.

The presence and absence of all THAT, is affecting and determining you for what and how you perceive, think, feel, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, behave, act, and react towards yourself, others, and all and everything in this world.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative.

It doesn't mean that you are bad, or evil, or sinful, or bound by bad karma. You are not any of that.

It doesn't mean that you deserve all kinds of ill treatment, bad happening, punishment, cruelty, bullying, or painful suffering. You don't deserve any of that.

 

All THAT are not what or who you are.

They are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, 

They are not you or part of you, and they don't belong to you.

Regardless of how bad, evil, sinful, or bad karma that other people tell you that you are or have been, or that you yourself think and believe that you are or have been, you can be free and have peace.

None can take away or destroy the wisdom and compassion, or the freedom and peace that is always there in you. 

You can stop hurting yourself and others and the surrounding environment, if you want, and only if you want.

Wisdom and compassion, or freedom and peace, is always there in you and in all and everyone, never increase or decrease, regardless of what you think you and everyone are, or no matter how good and right or how bad and wrong that you think you and everyone are.

It is merely the presence of impurities and restlessness and egoism and the idea of 'I'/the ego, that is absolutely possible to be eliminated from your selfless modifications or the selfless mind stuff, that doesn't belong to you, that are not you, where even what you think is you, also doesn't belong to you, and that is what hindering you from realizing all that within you.

There is needless of guilt, or shame, or regret, or repent, or punishment towards all THAT.

Guilt, or shame, or regret, or repent, or punishment, cannot undo or erase the past and the effect or impact of the actions/causes being generated. Let it go.

All kinds of past pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, enjoyable and non-enjoyable, or easy and difficult experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/relationships/interactions, what you have been doing and didn't do, what you could do and couldn't do, what you have and didn't have, how you behaved, acted, and reacted, what you achieved and didn't achieve, what you think and believe is good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, meaningful and meaningless, joyfulness and joylessness, perfect and imperfect, or deserving and non-deserving, and all your accumulated memory remembering towards all your learning, understanding, knowledge, accomplishment and non-accomplishment, success and failure, gain and loss, possession, identity, inherited and adopted belief, values, and practices, and all kinds of ties and connections, backgrounds and lineages, are not important.

They are not you, or part of you, and they don't belong to you.

What matters, is your action/desire/intention/understanding, in NOW.

 

You don't need to know about all the others and all and everything in this world.

You just need to know yourself. 

It is merely because you haven't know yourself, or understand about yourself, and hence, you don't know the others, and don't understand about the others, or you don't know and don't understand about all and everything internally and externally in this world of names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that don't belong to anyone or anything, that don't even belong to the names and forms themselves.

It is merely because you have been unwittingly being conditioned and influenced by the worldly egoistic impure restless thinking, ideas, beliefs, desires, aspirations, values, and practices, to think, to believe, to feel, to reason, to understand, to desire, to aspire, to evaluate, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way.

It is merely because you have been told/conditioned by everyone from everywhere since birth, about not only that you need to be aggressive and possessive and ambitious and powerful, but that you also need to be more aggressive and possessive and ambitious and powerful than all and everyone else, to over-power all the others, in order to survive.

Nope. You don't have to.

Even the most powerful, or the strongest, or the most energetic, or the most intelligent, knowledgeable, experienced, skillful, and talented, or the most influential human beings, or living organisms, or non-living objects in the world, also cannot defy or escape the selfless impermanent changes of decay, weakness, illness/disease/damage/injury, fragility, malfunctioning, inevitable limitation and condition, ceased functioning, ceased existing, or disintegration and decomposition, or death, under the influence of the nature's law of cause and effect.

One can be using the power, or strength, or energy, or intelligence/knowledge/experience/skill/talent, or influence that is available to oneself to be doing something that give rise to constructive or destructive impact unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment during one's momentary mortal existence and function, depending on whether the mind is functioning under the absence or presence of ignorance.

More importantly, 

One can be using the power, or strength, or energy, or intelligence/knowledge/experience/skill/talent, or influence that is available to oneself to be helping oneself and all the others that are less power, less strength, less energy, less intelligent, less knowledgeable, less experienced, less skillful, less talented, less influence, or less opportunity than oneself, to improve, to evolve towards clarity and correct understanding, or peace and freedom.

 

None can tell you or advice you to let go all THAT.

None can tell you or advice you about what and how you should and shouldn't think, or believe, or feel, or understand, or desire, or behave, or act, or react.

Not even the buddhas, or the gurus, or the yoga teachers, not to say, the elders, the parents, the friends, or the leaders of any kind.

But, only yourself.

You can.

You have the will and effort to let go all THAT.

As long as you have the selfless functions of perception/cognition/intellect/emotion/memory under the presence of selfless conscious awareness being aware of all these, and you have the perception or experience of enjoyment and suffering, happiness and unhappiness, and the presence of doubts and unknown, and as long as you have the desire to know, to understand, to be free, to have peace,

You have the selfless conscious choice making (conscious freewill) to choose and act responsibly for yourself and others (self-awareness and self-control) and you have the intentionless indiscriminate influential power of conscious awareness to be perceiving, experiencing, learning, reasoning, inquiring, knowing, understanding, and remembering what you know and understand, that can influence what and how you live life, maintain life, think, feel, reason, understand, desire, interact, behave, act, and react.

All and everything that you need, all the dharma, all the teachings, all the guidance, all the tools, or all the knowledge, that can help you, that can liberate you, that most probably you don't even know what you need, are all within you.

You are your own one and only teacher. You are the dhamma. You are the teachings. You are the guidance. You are the tools. You are the knowledge. You are the truth seeker. You are the realization. You are the peace. You are the freedom. You are the wisdom. You are the compassion. You are the answer to all your doubts.

You are not even whatever you think you are. Whatever you think and acknowledge as 'this' and 'not that', are all merely momentary qualities of names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that don't even belong to the names and forms themselves. You don't and can't exist or function if without the selfless support of the selfless energy and the countless different selfless elements that all work together selflessly that give rise to the existence and function of you, the selfless impermanent limited conditional non-self perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty being part of the many different selfless mechanisms of the mortal physical body that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

You don't even belong to you.

What you (the thinking) think is you (the idea of 'I'/self acknowledging) are merely part of the selfless impermanent limited conditional non-self selfless manifestation of thought process and memory/imprint under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements.

Without the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements/systems/components that all work together selflessly and intentionlessly that enabling you to be existing and functioning as what you are, you don't exist. What are you? Who are you? You are nothing.

Beyond the limited and conditional mortal existence and function of the selfless impermanent body and mind,

Beyond the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mechanisms of the mind stuff, the conscious mind awareness that can be present or absence (the different state of consciousness/semi-consciousness/unconsciousness), the perception of names and forms, the perceiver that perceives inputs, the thought processor that processes inputs/information/experience/names and forms, the action performer that generates/delivers reflexes/responses/outputs/actions/reactions, the senses and the organs of the senses, the organs of action, the cognition, the memory storage/the accumulation of learning and experience and knowledge/the imprint of perception/experience/names and forms/thought process/inputs and outputs, the intellect, the reasoning/discrimination/understanding, the emotion, the sensation, the thinking or the thought process/activity/current, the conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious actions and reactions, the fruit/effect/consequences of action and reaction, the internal genetic traits inheritance, the external influential conditions, the ties and connections, the ongoing experiences and interactions, the personal and collective affairs/events, the wakeful conscious state, the semi-awake/sleep/conscious or dream state, the deep sleep or unconscious/coma state, the purity or impurity/restlessness or calmness/known or unknown/correct understanding or incorrect understanding/selfishness or unselfishness in the modification of the mind, of what you think and acknowledge is you, or part of you, or that belongs to you,

Is the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is unlimited and unconditional (independent and permanent), devoid of 'birth and death or changes and decay', 'quality', 'name and form', 'thinking/thought', 'action/reaction', not to say, 'acknowledgement', 'attachment', 'identification', 'self-ness', 'I-ness', 'mine-ness', 'internal and external', 'discrimination', 'condition', 'judgment', 'myself and not myself or others', 'agreeable and disagreeable', 'desirable and undesirable', 'positive and negative', 'meaningful and meaningless', 'good and bad', 'right and wrong', 'perfection and imperfection', 'healthiness and unhealthiness', 'heaven and hell', 'past and future', or 'enjoyment and suffering' (that are all MERELY part of the momentary selfless manifestation within the selfless modification of the selfless mind), that pervades the entire space within and without all and everything, that hosts all kinds of selfless manifestations of you and all and everything that are all momentary, selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, to be momentarily existing/functioning/being what you and all and everything are/changing/decaying/disintegrating/ceased existing.

Keep practicing, keep going until you know yourself and understand about yourself, and then, you will also know and understand about all the others, and all and everything in this world that you perceive or experience. It is okay that you don't know many things, that you don't know everything. What you don't perceive or experience, is unknown to you, and that's okay.

It is to know all and everything that you perceive and experience of what you know, as what they are, as they are, under clarity, under the absence of impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I', or the ego, not being influenced or contaminated by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure restless thinking, ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, and practices.

The more you understand, the less disturbed you are.

The less disturbed you are, the more you understand.

And more importantly,

It is okay,

If after you exert continuous effort and would like to be able to let go all THAT, but somehow, you are aware of you still can't let go all THAT.

You are aware of you are unwell, unsettled, disturbed, confused, hurt, insecured, restless, exhausted, in doubt, in painful sorrow, in suffering, lost, or in need of help and guidance.

The presence of the precious selfless conscious awareness of being aware of you (a.k.a. the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind stuff, or the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind) can't let go even if you have tried your best, but without judging or punishing yourself, is indicating the presence of the precious correct understanding and non-grasping, or the presence of wisdom and compassion, and that is already a great liberation.

The presence of non-grasping is more relevant than the complete annihilation of all THAT, or the state of absolute Silence/Samadhi.

While without attachment or expectation, the persist presence of non-grasping will eventually and naturally/effortlessly lead towards the annihilation of all THAT, without forcing, without struggling, without violence, without controlling.

And it's okay, if the mind still can't let go certain things, or still haven't attained direct self realization, or still have doubts at the end of life existence, but having the conscious awareness being aware of all that without grasping, without attachment, without identification, without judgment, without expectation. That is already served the purpose of the entire effort of practice. It really doesn't matter.

What matter is, before the selfless impermanent momentary life existence come to an end, when the selfless body and mind still have the energetic energy and endless possibility to be performing certain actions/activities via the selfless organs of action and expression, under specific conscious intention/aspiration and/or under random intentionless instinctive urge, that can impact all and everyone and everything in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, either destructively or constructively, that are being performed under the presence or absence of impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I', a.k.a. the veil of ignorance.

That is why it is so highly important for activating the conscious mind purification and silencing process, or the conscious mind evolution, to thin-out and eliminate impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I' or the ego from the selfless modification of the mind or the selfless mind stuff, even if it is selfless, impermanent, and momentary, because there are so much damage can be done via the selfless organs of action and expression during the short duration of the momentary existence and function of a selfless mind that is functioning under the influence of ignorance, that can impact all and everyone and everything for a prolonged extended duration, even after the ceased functioning and ceased existence of the momentary selfless body and mind.

So that the mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment out of disturbance/suffering/all kinds of impurities in the selfless modification of the mind under the influence of ignorance during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

So that the mind can make use of the existing knowledge, understanding, talent, skill, experience, ability, and opportunity to be doing something beneficial for oneself and all and everyone and everything in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, under the presence of the selfless wisdom and compassion, or peace and freedom, devoid of ignorance a.k.a. impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I'.

Never give up.

You can understand, if you want.

You don't have to become like the many other minds that don't understand, that are confused, that are being determined, influenced, and disturbed by all and everything that they come in contact with/perceive/experience, that are wittingly or unwittingly hurting all and everyone and everything out of the disturbed, disappointed, discontented, confused, violent, restless, insecured, exhausted, desperate, painful, prideful, and suffering state of mind.

It's okay, if you don't, and can't (fully) understand, in NOW.

This is also impermanent.

Just keep letting go, until there is nothing there that need to let go.

No judgment. No expectation.

Purify. Meditate. Inquire. Realize.

Even the most restless impure suffering minds also can realize peace and freedom that is always there in them, if they want, and only if they want (the indication of the presence of conscious mind awareness that is essential for activating the conscious mind evolution).

Peace and freedom, or wisdom and compassion, or liberation from ignorance and suffering, are irrelevant and don't exist, upon the ceased functioning and ceased existence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal body and mind. All that are only relevant and exist along with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the mortal body and mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The selfless universal consciousness is attributeless, neither pure nor impure

When the mind is still functioning under the veil of ignorance, where the mind is still being conditioned by the mind perception of duality and 'I-ness' and 'mine-ness' under the influence of worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, aspirations, and practices, where the mind couldn't perceive, or grasp, or understand the teachings about 'The conscious mind evolution' and 'The mind purification and silencing process', and the one same essence in all and everything, about 'Selflessness', 'Oneness', 'Non-separateness', 'Non-self', 'Timelessness', as well as 'The timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness', or 'The silent witness', it is normal and common that the mind will think and believe that there are many different individual consciousness under different degrees of impurities that exist in the many different bodies and minds respectively under different realms/conditions/qualities/traits, that there is different quality or attribute in the consciousness, that there is the higher pure consciousness and the lower impure consciousness, where there are different degrees of impurities existing in the different individual consciousness, where the mind thinks that the mind purification process is about purifying and removing the impurities in the contaminated corrupted impure consciousness, to make the consciousness to become pure, to regain its original state of purity, that is identical with the universal pure consciousness.

There is nothing wrong, and it's common and natural that the mind will think and understand in such way under the influence of ignorance.

Upon the annihilation of ignorance after engaging in the genuine and persevered mind purification and silencing process, the same mind will realize that it is not what it thought it is, but there is also nothing wrong, because the presence of that impure incorrect understanding in the mind, where the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness is aware of the presence of ignorance/unknown/impurities in itself, and hence, there is the intense yearning towards liberation, knowledge, purity, and peace, that activates the mind purification and silencing process to be annihilating the veil of ignorance, of restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism, and to be engaging in the self inquiry process to inquire towards the truth of everything.

That incorrect understanding of 'Purifying the inferior lower impure consciousness to regain the state of purity and become one or identical with the superior highest pure universal consciousness', which has been the main conscious desire/motivation that motivates the mind to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process diligently and determinedly, even though it is not at all about purifying the consciousness that is neither pure nor impure, that doesn't need to be purified, but then, eventually the engagement in all kinds of genuine persevered practice and observation will lead towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the silence of the restless egoistic impure mind stuff/thought current/thought activities/restless modification of the mind, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that enables the mind to realize or see the truth of all that.

Because the mind couldn't grasp something that the mind doesn't know, that is unknown to the mind.

The mind might be able to perceive, know, and understand towards, "I am aware of/experiencing/conscious towards this or that, I know and understand and remember this and that, or I am not aware of/not experiencing/unconscious towards this or that, I don't know and don't understand and don't remember this or that."

Under certain innovative scientific tools or machines deriving from advanced science and technology, where the tools/machines can detect certain gross and subtle conscious and unconscious brains activities/thought current, of thinking, emotions, restlessness, calmness, sleep state, dreaming, or deep sleep state, of the state of consciousness (wakeful state/conscious activities), the state of semi-consciousness (semi-awake/sleep state and dreaming/semi-conscious activities), and the state of unconsciousness (deep sleep state/coma/autonomous selfless operation of the selfless bodily systems ceaselessly operating for basic life maintenance even under complete absence of conscious awareness or conscious physical and mental activities, that is highly essential for life maintenance/regeneration/rehabilitation/recuperation).

But then, "The selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness? Selflessness? Timelessness? Attributelessness? Universal consciousness?" The mind puzzled.

Just as the infinite space, that is nameless/formless/shapeless/sizeless/weightless/tasteless/soundless/smell-less/attributeless/substanceless/motionless/timeless/limitless, that doesn't increase of decrease regardless of all kinds of names and forms under different qualities ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the infinite space, that one cannot see, cannot touch, cannot feel, cannot hear, cannot smell, cannot taste, cannot imagine, cannot hold, cannot keep, cannot measure, and cannot destroy, but one cannot deny that it is here and there and everywhere, within and without all and everything that are under certain names and forms of certain qualities.

Before the mind attains direct self realization towards the all pervading infinite timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything selflessly, it is normal and nothing wrong that the mind might understand and refer 'the selfless universal consciousness' that is being mentioned in both the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism as something of pure quality, or of the highest purity, that 'belongs to' the highest 'authority' of the universe a.k.a. the 'creator of the universe', that is distinct and separated from the many different 'individual consciousness' that are impure, that 'exist' in the many different individual sentient living organisms respectively, that 'belongs to' each of the many different individual impure bodies and minds respectively, where after engaging in the mind purification process to be purifying the impure consciousness that is being contaminated by all kinds of impurities, the individual consciousness will regain its original state of purity, which will then become one and identical with, or non-distinctive from the superior highest and purest consciousness of the 'creator of the universe', that 'belongs to' the 'creator of the universe'. And hence, there is the proclamation of, "I am THAT."

The mind might misunderstand that the mind purification process or the path of yoga/buddhism/meditation, is about purifying the lower impure individual consciousness (some minds might refer that as the permanent independent immortal individual soul) to be free from impurities to regain the original state of purity, to become pure again, to become one and identical with the superior highest and purest universal consciousness that 'belongs' to the 'creator of the universe', and hence, some minds refer that as, "I am the immortal pure soul," or "I am the infinite pure consciousness," or "I am THAT."

The selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness doesn't belong to anyone or anything, not even 'belongs to' the universe, no to say, the so called 'creator of the universe' that 'exists in' and 'belongs respectively to' the many different worldly beliefs under different names and forms.

It is the selfless universal consciousness, because it is the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space, that pervades and exists within and without all and everything, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects that had existed, that are existing or have been existing, that are constantly changing and decaying, and that are disintegrating and ceased existing, in NOW.

It is all pervading within and without all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary names and forms that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away under the influence of the intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Under the absence of the selfless conscious mind awareness, or under the state of semi-conscious, or being unconscious, where the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is semi-conscious/unconscious towards anything, there are still some semi-conscious physical and mental activities (such as dreaming and/or sleep walking during sleep, or wild imaginations and hallucinations under the influence of substances, or under certain physical condition and mental state), or there are ceaseless subtle autonomous life maintenance activities ceaselessly receiving inputs and/or releasing outputs operated under the different selfless autonomous bodily systems, even though the selfless universal consciousness is always here and there and everywhere, as it is, never appear or disappear, never increase or decrease.

Just as the sun is always there as it is, never appear or disappear. However, under the movement of the earth (just like the inter-changing conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious states and activities of the body and mind) and the various elements in the atmosphere (just like the impurities and restless thought activities in the modification of the mind), the sun (just like the selfless universal consciousness) appears to be appearing and disappearing, generating the false impression of day and night, or sunrise and sunset, or the light and heat appears to be mild or intense.

Just like the body and mind being fully aware (wakeful), or semi-aware (sleep/dream), or unaware (deep sleep, or coma), of the different states/degrees of conscious awareness (just like the movements of the earth and the various elements in the atmosphere that are ceaselessly changing) generating the false impression of the consciousness appears to be coming and going (just like the sun appears to be rising and setting), while it is actually the selfless mind conscious awareness that is changing, that is presence or absence, that appears or disappears, that appears to be strong or weak, and hence, there is the practice of developing and empowering the limited and conditional degrees of awareness, or alertness, or focus, or attentiveness.

That is also why, after a prolonged duration of wakefulness/alertness or intense focus on something, the mind will become tired, and needs to take rest/momentarily shut-off. Just like the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and the different functions of the body and mind, the conscious mind awareness/focus/attentiveness, or the willpower/patience/forbearance/endurance/energy level is also limited and conditional.

The only 'thing' that is unlimited and unconditional, is the infinite independent permanent timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness.

 

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional world of names and forms, of inevitable ceaseless maintenance during the momentary existence and function, of non-satisfactory momentary perishable goodness or pleasurable enjoyment, and the inevitable/evitable impermanent painful suffering that is being perceived/experienced by the selfless mind under the presence of the conscious mind awareness, don't exist, if without the selfless function of the selfless mind functioning under the existence of the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the conscious mind awareness to the mind, to be conscious towards itself internally (the physical structure) and externally (the surrounding environment).

Whether the selfless body and mind is living/activating/functioning consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously, or not, and is 'being aware of' the ceaseless changes in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the selfless body and mind that has a beginning of existence and an end of existence, or not, it doesn't affect the timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness.

There might be certain illness/injury/damage happening to the brains, or the nerves, or the senses, or the organs of the senses, where there is certain partial dysfunction or complete dysfunction of the brains, or the nerves, or the senses, or the organs of the senses, where the body and mind might not be able to function as it is, but that also doesn't affect the selfless universal consciousness.

Just as there are all kinds of activities that are happening in the universe, of countless names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, but all that don't affect, or damage, or contaminate the infinite space, that is always there, as it is.

 

The selfless universal consciousness doesn't increase or decrease, and doesn't come and go, even if the energy level can be high or low, or the body and mind can be functioning efficiently or inefficiently, or the body and mind is fully conscious/aware, or semi-conscious/aware, or unconscious/unaware, or whether there is the presence or absence of ignorance, restlessness, or impurities in the modification of the mind, or the different states of mind, as well as upon the body and mind ceaselessly decaying, weakening, and disintegrating, or completely ceased existing and functioning.

The selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, that enables the living organisms to have the conscious awareness to be aware/conscious of its selfless impermanent momentary existence and function as well as the surrounding environment, is the one same consciousness in all and everything.

There are many different individual selfless bodies and minds that have their own particular cause and effect and traits/qualities/conditions/abilities/disabilities/limitations to be existing and functioning as what they are, but there is no different separate individual consciousness of specific permanent independent immortal individual self identity, that belongs to each particular individual selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary living being or non-living object respectively, not to say, there is no 'lower impure individual consciousness'.

It is attributeless. It is permanent and unchanging. It is infinite, limitless, and unconditional. It is neither superior nor inferior. It is neither pure nor impure. There is neither pure consciousness nor impure consciousness. There is neither higher consciousness nor lower consciousness. There is neither my consciousness nor your/his/her/its consciousness.

The selfless universal consciousness is the selfless actionless timeless silent witness that has been witnessing all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away upon it, that is untouched, uncontaminated, undetermined, unaffected, uninfluenced, unchanged, or undamaged by all THAT as well as the presence or absence of all kinds of impurities, restlessness, the idea of 'I', and egoism, of all kinds of physical and mental conditions/states/activities/abilities/disabilities/limitations, thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, memories, imaginations, ideas, beliefs, values, understanding and non-understanding, desires and don't desires, behaviors, actions, reactions that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away upon the selfless universal consciousness throughout the countless different selfless bodies and minds.

Just as all kinds of different images or contents of the different movies being projected onto the screen don't affect, or contaminate, or damage, or change the screen. The screen (just like the selfless universal consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space) is what allowing the countless different movies (all kinds of manifestations/perceptions of names and forms under different causes and effects) to be screened upon it for the viewers (the perceptive minds under the presence of conscious awareness) to watch (to perceive/experience/be aware of) the movies (the mind perception of all kinds of names and forms/experiences/impermanent changes), and to have different reflection/understanding/opinions/thoughts/ideas/actions/reactions towards the different movies (pleased or displeased, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, like or dislike, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, inspiring or non-inspiring, enlightening or non-enlightening, elevating or depressing, calming or disturbing, grasping or non-grasping, and etc).

The difference between the screen and the selfless universal consciousness, is that the screen is a name and form like all the other names and forms that are impermanent, limited, and conditional, that is subject to decay and disintegration, that can be damaged and destroyed, that will affect the quality of the images or contents of the movies being projected onto it, that will cease existing, but not the selfless universal consciousness.

The selfless universal consciousness witnesses and reflects all and everything as they are, however, the presence of the veil of ignorance, or the restlessness, the impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism in the selfless modification of the mind distort or corrupt the reflection of all and everything, and/or hinder the mind to perceive/know/see/understand all and everything as they are.

It is like the mirror will reflect all and everything as it is, however, the presence of dust, or dirt, or cracks, or movement will distort or corrupt the reflection, or hinder the mind to see the reflection of all and everything as they are. Similarly, the mirror is also a name and form that is impermanent, limited, and conditional, but not the selfless universal consciousness.

It is the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind stuff, or the selfless function/modification/activity/state of the mind, that appears to be pure/calmed/egoless under the absence of impurities, restlessness, or the idea of 'I' and egoism, and that appears to be impure/agitated/disturbed/restless/egoistic under the presence of impurities, restless thought activities, or the idea of 'I' and egoism.

Under the presence of impurities, restlessness, and the idea of 'I' and egoism, the impure restless egoistic modification of the mind (the selfless corrupted mind stuff - the cognition, the understanding, the intellect, the reasoning power, the thinking and behavior pattern, the action and reaction) is the selfless subject that needs to be undergoing the mind purification process to be purifying and eliminating impurities, restlessness, the idea of 'I', and egoism from the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, so that the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty that perceives and that is conscious/aware of all kinds of names and forms under the presence of the selfless conscious mind awareness to be conscious/aware of all THAT that are being reflected upon the selfless universal consciousness, can now perceive/see/know/understand all the names and forms that it perceives through the senses, or the objects of the awareness/perception/senses as what they are, as they are.

Upon the direct self realization towards all that under a purified and quiet modification of the mind (clarity), the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty (the selfless mind) will know that there is only the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, within and without, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

 

There is not any lower inferior individual consciousness that is impure (that is distinct and separated from the so called 'highest superior universal pure consciousness'), that needs to be purified to become pure, to regain the state of purity, and to become one and identical with the selfless universal consciousness. It is always the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness.

Similarly, the selfless mind stuff/function/mechanism is also neither pure nor impure, even though they can be functioning under the presence or absence of impurities, because the impurities don't belong to them, or the impurities are not them or part of them.

That is also why, it is absolutely possible to free the mind stuff from the veil of ignorance, of restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism. It is like the dirt or dust, that is landing on the subject that can be removed/cleaned up/eliminated from the subject. However, the dirt or dust can be very stubborn to be removed/cleaned up/eliminated, that requires prolonged and persevered continuous action of cleaning under the help of certain tools.

Similarly, the minds are neither good nor bad, even though the minds can be functioning under the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance and its by-products, and hence, the minds can appear to be good or bad, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, wise or ignorant. Under this understanding, one will know that all minds can be free and have peace, or be kind, if they want, and be willingly to exert effort for that.

 

The different impermanent limited and conditional selfless bodies and minds/names and forms/living organisms/objects coming and going in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, generating different causes (actions) and effects (consequences of actions) impacting all and everyone and everything, either wittingly or unwittingly, and they are never the same but ceaselessly changing, but the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness is still the same. The infinite space of the universe is still the same. They are not being affected, or damaged, or contaminated by all kinds of selfless manifestations being what they are.

The many different individual selfless perceptive minds have their own particular individual and/or collective group perceptions/experiences/cause and effect/impermanent changes in their respective momentary existence, and might or might not remember/recall all the perceptions/experiences/actions and consequences of actions/impermanent changes from the moment of forming/arising (birth) until the moment of disintegrating/passing away (death) under the selfless function of the memory and memory storage (just like the timeless selfless imprints of everything imprinted in/witnessed by the timeless selfless universal consciousness), however, it is the one same selfless timeless universal consciousness (the one and only silent witness) that pervades all and everyone and everything, that has been witnessing all and everyone and everything, of the ceaseless births and deaths of the countless names and forms, of the ceaseless impermanent changes in the countless names and forms in between arising (birth/the beginning of existence) and passing away (death/the end of existence).

The minds that understand this, they will also understand towards what is 'the recollection of countless momentary existence of the many different names and forms under different qualities existing momentarily under different time, space, and causation' (that is being mistaken as 'the countless and endless reincarnations of the respective immortal individual consciousness/soul' reincarnating into countless and endless 'different existences' transitioning under 'different realms', under different time, space, and causation, in an infinite loop of 'the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths'), that are merely the timeless imprints of the timeless selfless manifestations of all kinds of momentary names and forms arising, changing, and passing away upon the selfless timeless all pervading universal consciousness (the one and only timeless silent witness that witnesses the timeless and endless manifestations of countless names and forms manifesting/arising under different qualities/states/conditions, and ceaselessly changing and passing away under different time (era), space (location), and causation (cause and effect)), where some of the selfless perceptive minds might be able to perceive or have a glimpse towards the flashing of the random imprints of 'the timeless countless manifestations (different births and deaths) of countless different selfless momentary names and forms, arising, changing, and passing away under different realms/conditions/qualities in different time, space, and causation respectively' that don't belong to this particular selfless mind that only exists momentarily in NOW, in this particular selfless body, that has its own particular perceptions/experiences/impermanent changes/conditions/states/qualities/traits/cause and effect, and its particular memory storage of all that, in NOW.

All these imprints of the timeless selfless impermanent limited and conditional manifestations of countless different names and forms witnessed by and imprinted in the one and only timeless selfless silent witness a.k.a. the one same timeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, are neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative. That is also why there is the highly essential and basic teaching and practice of yoga and buddhism of non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-craving/non-aversion/non-comparison/non-judgment/non-expectation, for all the selfless impermanent momentary minds that have the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, during their momentary existence and function in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

That's why, the selfless mind only knows and remembers what it knows and what it can remember that it has been perceiving/experiencing in its particular selfless impermanent momentary existence and function in NOW, that there is only this particular selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal life existence and function of this particular selfless body and mind (limited adjunct) that is constantly changing, decaying, and disintegrating, and eventually, it will pass away or ceased existing, and there are NO past previous countless lives or future next continuous lives (the worldly egoistic belief of 'ceaseless and endless loop of reincarnation' of 'a permanent independent immortal infinite individual self identity that doesn't exist' to be 'reincarnating' endlessly into different finite momentary mortal existence of different names and forms transitioning under different realms, under different time, space, and causation, in accordance to the worldly egoistic belief/values/practice of the endless generation and accumulation of inexhaustible good and bad karma) of this particular selfless body and mind, that is impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that only exists and ceaselessly changing, in NOW.

Most of the time, when the minds think and believe that they 'see', or 'feel', or 'experience' something that is not real, that doesn't exist in the reality, in NOW, it is merely some wild imaginations or hallucinations that happen under certain physical condition and/or mental state, or under the influence of certain substances. Just like dreams. Dreams are not real. If the mind thinks and believes that all the dreams that it perceives as something real, it is insanity.

If it is not merely some wild imaginations, or hallucinations, or dreams that are not real at all, where the minds claimed that they could fully consciously 'know' or 'perceive' something that they think and believe is 'their own' countless ceaseless reincarnations in countless different existences of countless different names and forms transitioning under different realms/conditions/qualities under different time, space, and causation, but they are merely some random flashing of selfless imprints deriving from the all pervading timeless selfless universal consciousness (the timeless silent witness) that has been witnessing the countless selfless manifestations of countless names and forms under different time, space, and causation, manifesting under different realms/conditions/qualities/states, that don't belong to these particular minds that only exist selflessly and momentarily in this particular impermanent, limited, and conditional existence and ceaselessly changing, in NOW.

There is the beneficial reason why the one same timeless selfless universal consciousness in all and everything, or the one and only timeless silent witness of all and everything, is unknown to most minds, even when it exists in all and everything, and all perceptive minds are being conscious because of that. It will be tremendously over-whelming, and extremely disturbing and confusing for the minds that don't really understand what and why are all those flashing of random imprints coming from the timeless limitless selfless universal consciousness that don't even belong to themselves, and such experience/happening will be treated and referred as insanity.

 

Many minds would like/wish to be able to know what is going on in the minds of others, under specific intention or desire, that is their freedom of thinking and desire, but if they know the truth of the restless impure mind stuff, they won't even want to confront with their own restless impure corrupted modification of the mind, not to say, they would not want to know about what is going on in the mind of anyone, as it will be extremely disturbing and exhausting. Just by dealing with the restless impure mind stuff in oneself, is already so difficult, over-whelming, confusing, and exhausting, not to say, if being consciously aware of what is going on in all the other minds that are full of all kinds of desires, greed, violence, hypocrisy, lies, plotting, scheming, anticipation, projection, ill will, hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, worry, insanity, madness, confusions, corruptions, wild imaginations, hallucinations, impurities, and restlessness, as well as all kinds of painful sorrow and suffering, while not being able to interfere with all the others being what and how they are under the influence of the nature's law of cause and effect.

That is why the universal consciousness is also selfless, even if it is permanent, independent, or infinite.

There is no painful suffering in the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, even when it is the timeless silent witness timelessly witnessing towards all kinds of painful suffering that the countless selfless impure egoistic restless minds had/have been generating and undergoing, under the veil of ignorance.

It is only the countless selfless conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds functioning selflessly under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal physical structure that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the selfless body and mind itself, that is the one that perceives all kinds of painful sorrow and suffering, or the notion of 'I am not free' due to being ignorant towards all these selfless natural manifestations, under the influence of the veil of ignorance, not knowing that they themselves and all and everything are selfless.

The sense of separateness and duality, as well as pride and shame, low and high self esteem, positiveness and negativeness, goodness and badness, righteousness and evilness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, offensiveness and defensiveness, togetherness and aloneness, possessiveness, discrimination, discontentment, greed, clinging, the conscious desire and/or the instinctive urge to control/to possess/to hoard/to own/to protect/to be strong and powerful, and fear, that exist under the sense of separateness and duality deriving from ignorance, will all be vanished from the modification of the mind, upon the direct self realization towards all these.

Regardless of whether the minds realize or don't realize towards all THAT, it doesn't change the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self. Beyond all the different qualities of the different names and forms, beyond the selfless mind stuff, or the selfless functions/mechanisms of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, or the different selfless impermanent states of mind, beyond the selfless mind perception towards the world of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, is the one same infinite timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness.

However, the realization towards all THAT during the momentary existence and function of the countless selfless impermanent minds under the countless selfless impermanent physical structures in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is the highest duty of all minds, so that the minds stop hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment during their momentary existence and function in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, resting in unconditional peace and freedom, being undetermined, undisturbed, and uninfluenced by the boundless ignorance in this selfless impermanent world of all kinds of limited, conditional, and non-self momentary mortal existence of diverse names and forms that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Renunciation, dispassion, right discrimination or basic correct understanding, seclusion, solitude, silence, mental and emotional independence, meditation, contemplation, self inquiry, determination, perseverance, forbearance, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, intense yearning towards absolute knowledge/liberation from ignorance and suffering/unconditional peace and freedom, non-attachment and non-identification, non-craving and non-aversion, non-judgment and non-expectation, non-violence, non-clinging, and non-grasping, are the essential elements of The Middle Path in both yoga and buddhism that will lead towards direct self realization towards all THAT.

 

If the mind doesn't know this, where it has doubt (and, the mind should be doubting*) towards the truth of all these, then the mind can engage in certain methods or practices that can help to purify and quiet the modification of the mind, to be inquiring towards the truth of all these, to attain direct self realization towards all these.

*Doubting, is absolutely nothing wrong, and it indicates the possibility of conscious mind evolution. Doubting towards the truth of something or everything, apart from the direct or indirect experience of painful sorrow and suffering, is the highly essential element that initiates the mind purification and silencing process, to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, to be free from ignorance, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything.

Just as the young Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was being initiated by the indirect non-personal experience under the perception/coming in contact with/awareness towards the existence of painful sorrow and suffering in all the others in the surrounding environment, towards the inevitable suffering of selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that needs ceaseless effort for maintenance, of inevitable changes, decay, aging, weakness, illness, and disintegration, or death, and had ignited the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace in himself, even when he hadn't have any direct personal experience towards painful sorrow and suffering (yet), while being determined to attain direct self realization towards the truth of suffering, and eventually, he attained self realization after years of renunciation while learning and observing all kinds of methods and practices from different teachers of different lineages and paths, and underwent the different paths of extremity that didn't work, that led to the realization towards the middle path, that eventually led to the self realization towards the mind stuff, the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, and the nature's law of cause and effect.

"All have the one same essence of BUDDHA." - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-agree/disagree, blind-practice, or blind-propagate anything from anyone.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here.