Perform
all the actions that can be done and need to be done for the well-being
of ourselves and for other beings in the world, without intention,
without expectation, not attached to our actions and the fruit of our
actions, go beyond success and failure, good and bad, praise and
censure, effectiveness and non-effectiveness. These actions are being
performed out of compassion, selflessness. These actions are free from
the influence of the impure restless mind and the ego, the likes and dislikes, desire of craving
and aversion. These actions do not come from "I".
These actions are selfless/intentionless and untainted/undetermined by good or bad karma.
Just like the sun, the water, the air, the earth and the space. They have no intentions to give anything to anybody, but without all these things to provide heat (fire), oxygen (air), water, earth, and space, nothing can exist. We depend on all these providers to give us all the supports for our life existence. And they perform actions unceasingly to give, provide, and support all and everything in the universe to exist. They have no expectation from the actions of contributing. They have no discrimination of good or bad beings, happy or unhappy beings, ignorant or wise beings, ancient or modern beings. They have no anger, hatred, disappointment, frustration, dissatisfaction, fear and worry, likes or dislikes, craving or aversion. Why? Because they don't have a thinking mind under the influence of the selfish ego (the idea of 'I'). But naturally, selflessly, they give and perform the action of giving unlimitedly, unconditionally, inexhaustibly, without discrimination, without any intentions and expectations. Without the identification as the doer of the actions, without the identification that these actions are for a purpose to benefit anyone, without the identification that someone will be benefited from these actions. That is selflessness. That is power of compassion. That is yoga.
These actions are selfless/intentionless and untainted/undetermined by good or bad karma.
Just like the sun, the water, the air, the earth and the space. They have no intentions to give anything to anybody, but without all these things to provide heat (fire), oxygen (air), water, earth, and space, nothing can exist. We depend on all these providers to give us all the supports for our life existence. And they perform actions unceasingly to give, provide, and support all and everything in the universe to exist. They have no expectation from the actions of contributing. They have no discrimination of good or bad beings, happy or unhappy beings, ignorant or wise beings, ancient or modern beings. They have no anger, hatred, disappointment, frustration, dissatisfaction, fear and worry, likes or dislikes, craving or aversion. Why? Because they don't have a thinking mind under the influence of the selfish ego (the idea of 'I'). But naturally, selflessly, they give and perform the action of giving unlimitedly, unconditionally, inexhaustibly, without discrimination, without any intentions and expectations. Without the identification as the doer of the actions, without the identification that these actions are for a purpose to benefit anyone, without the identification that someone will be benefited from these actions. That is selflessness. That is power of compassion. That is yoga.
There is no good or bad karma in selfless actions, even though there is the law of cause and effect, where all kinds of actions will give rise to the respective consequences of actions.
It doesn't matter if the living beings ruin the world and the environment. It doesn't matter when the living beings complain and condemn about them for being too much or too little. It doesn't matter if the living beings like them or dislike them, want them or don't want them, appreciate them or not, be grateful and thankful or not, it doesn't matter if all living beings take advantage of all these providers to fulfill their own selfish greedy ambitions, these selfless providers still perform the action of giving without attachment or identification towards the action and the fruit of action.
The water has no intention to provide water for anyone or anything to consume it for existence, and everyone and everything consume water and exist as they are. The water also has no intention to have the cleansing or purifying effects, and everyone and everything get the cleansing and purifying effect from water. The water has no intention to drown anybody, or to take away any lives, or to damage anything, and there are living beings drown themselves in water and lost their lives, and there are things being damaged by water. The water has no expectation that anyone or anything will be benefited from it, nor expecting any compliment or praise, thankfulness or gratefulness, nor expecting anyone will show appreciation or love to it. It doesn't matter if anyone complaining and condemning the water for being too much or too little, or if anyone is polluting the water. The water has no discrimination of good or bad beings, ignorant or wise beings, or any preferences. The water has no intention to be good or bad, to give or to take. But the water exists for all the others to be existing. There is no "action" - it is action-less, behind all these actions with names and forms.
The sun has no intention to give heat and light for us to have warmth, food, and energy, and everything and everyone are getting the warmth, food, and energy from it. It has no intention to burn anyone or to give skin cancer to anyone, and some people are getting sunburn or skin cancer through it. It has no intention to support anything to have life, or to take away any lives. The sun has no expectation that anyone or anything will be benefited from it, nor expecting any compliment or praise, thankfulness or gratefulness, nor expecting anyone will show appreciation or love to it. It doesn't matter if anyone complaining and condemning the sun for being too much or too little. The sun has no discrimination of good or bad beings, ignorant or wise beings, or any preferences. The sun has no intention to be good or bad, to give or to take. But the sun exists for all the others to be existing. There is no "action" - it is action-less, behind all these actions with names and forms.
There is neither success nor failure. There is neither good nor bad intention. There is neither performing actions nor not performing actions. There is no "I-ness". There is no gain or loss. There is no craving or aversion. There is no giving or receiving.
That selfless and unconditional power of compassion (of giving unconditionally and non-discriminatively) is what we all and everything are. But we are being ignorant towards this selfless nature of us being veiled by the ignorant egoistic impure modification of the mind, of restless egoistic impure thought activities, of the idea of 'I', desire, craving, and clinging (the mind perception of a worldly life existence of names and forms (perceiving sight, sound, smell, taste, touch/sensation, and thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/actions/reactions), that is impermanent and momentary, that has a beginning and an end, existence and ceased existence, forming and deforming, arising and passing away), that comes along under the birth of the mortal physical body under the function of a thinking mind with the function of the limited intellect and the selfish ego.
This ignorant egoistic idea of 'I', attachment, identification, and the desire of craving and clinging in the modification of the mind give rise to all the "side effects", of disturbance, hurts, painful sorrow, or suffering, that come along with the mortal physical body with the functions of all the senses and sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, and thinking faculty) and all the other life support internal organs that are subject to impermanence, of birth, growth, ceaseless impermanent changes and life maintenance (hunger and thirst), decay, old age, illness, injury, pain, weakness, and death.
This mortal physical body comes along with the thinking mind (the projector and perceiver of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, desires, actions, reactions) to perceive names and forms through the senses via the sense organs, under the limited intellect that can only perceive things that are with names and forms, but cannot perceive namelessness and formlessness that are beyond names and forms, and the selfish ego (the idea of 'I') that asserts agreements or disagreements, likes and dislikes, wants and doesn't wants, or the desires of craving and aversion, that give rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness, or ignorance - anger, hatred, jealousy, attachment, identification, dissatisfaction, disappointment, frustration, irritation, greed, lustful desire, anxiety, agitation, depression, fear, worry, doubt, violence, and all sorts of ill-wills.
All these impurities further more generate never ending reactions of attachment, identification, clinging, craving, and aversion that gives rise to the endless cycles of restless 'births and deaths', of ceaseless thought activities, of all kinds of actions/reactions and the consequences of actions/reactions (cause and effect). And all these are the cause of suffering that exists with the body and the mind - hunger, thirst, growth, changes, decay, illness, pain, old age, death, fear, worry, doubt, anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, lustful desires, ignorance, dissatisfaction, emptiness, coming in contact with the objects that we don't like, not coming in contact with the objects that we like, being separated from our loved ones, craving and clinging, the impurities of the physical body (under the layer of our skin and see what is so "beautiful" about our body. It is nothing but flesh, nerves, blood, glands, organs, intestines, bones, muscles, cells, fermentation of food, gas, urine, shit, pus, phlegm, membranes, germs, bacteria and etc).
Even so, this physical body is just being what it is. It is neither something clean nor dirty. It is not something beautiful or disgusting. It has no intention for us to be healthy or not healthy. It is just there for us to have a momentary life existence that is subject to impermanence, of ceaseless impermanent changes (restless births and deaths).
We were, and are still lost in the attachment and identification towards the duality of the different qualities of all the names and forms (good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant, success and failure, praise and censure, heat and cold, superiority and inferiority, enjoyment and suffering, birth and death). We were, and are still clinging onto this physical body with the function of the mind, the intellect, and the ego, with all the ignorance and impurities that constantly generate more and more actions/reactions of craving and aversion and the consequences of the actions/reactions - the nature law's of cause and effect.
We were, and are still lost in the false identification with the body and the mind, likes and dislikes, wants and doesn't wants, agreements and disagreements. Thinking that we have a permanent independent individual self existence. Thinking that we are the body, this impermanent body is us. Thinking that we are the mind, all these thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations are us. And this false identification makes us think that "we are good", "we are bad", "we are happy", "we are sad", "we are strong and healthy", "we are weak and sick", "we are suffering", "we are free from suffering"....
But our true Self (the selfless universal consciousness) is beyond all these attributes that are subject to changes and impermanence, which is not real. All these impermanent names and forms, that are ceaselessly forming, changing, and deforming, are just some momentary mind perception of a worldly life existence under the idea of 'I', craving, and clinging that come from the thinking mind with the selfish ego with the big "I-ness" and "Mine-ness".
Our true Self is beyond existence and non-existence. Existence and non-existence only occur to names and forms that have attributes or qualities. The true Self is attribute-less. It has no beginning and no ending. It is not tainted or contaminated by ignorance, or the impurities of the body, the mind, the thoughts, actions and speech (both positive and negative, good and evil, right and wrong). It is beyond purity and impurity. It is beyond happiness and unhappiness. It is beyond what the mind can perceive through the limited intellect. It is beyond all the elements.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no end of suffering, no free from suffering.
Keep purifying our mind, have self-control over our thoughts, actions and speech. Limit any unnecessary inputs. Conserve our energy and effort for the quest for self-realization and to perform selfless service for the welfare of our own self and for other beings and the world. Practice concentration and awareness at the present moment. Develop all the divine qualities that will lead us to purity, non-attachment, firmness, and fearlessness which will lead us to realize the nature of all and everything - selflessness, love, peace, compassion, and wisdom.
Contemplate on this selflessness. Try to practice actions deriving out of selflessness, and perform all the actions for ourselves or for all other beings, out of compassion, selflessly, and be free from the influence that comes from the mind, the intellect, and the ego (good and bad qualities, positive and negative, pleasant and unpleasant, agreements and disagreements, likes and dislikes, wants and doesn't wants, craving and aversion).
Rise above the body, the mind, the intellect, and the ego. Let go of the false identification with the body, the mind, the intellect, and the ego.
Let go of the attachment, identification, clinging and craving towards the momentary state of calmness and peacefulness that comes from the mind after doing some yoga practices or meditation. Go beyond all the impermanent states of the mind. We practice yoga not just because we like to do it because it gives us a momentary satisfaction, good feelings, lightness and calmness for the mind and other benefits for the physical body. But go deeper in our practice to realize the truth of things, of what we really are, by purifying and stilling the mind, by non-attachment towards all the good or bad feelings that come from doing yoga or not doing yoga, by not having craving towards the pleasant sensations and not having aversion towards the unpleasant sensations that arise while we perform the yoga asana practice, pranayama practice, relaxation, meditation, karma yoga, chanting, and etc.
Go beyond success and failure, compliment and condemnation, good and not good, like and dislike, want and don't want, pleasant and unpleasant, positive and negative, happiness and unhappiness. Go beyond all the qualities, all the names and forms.
Perform all our actions of doing the yoga practices and meditation without intention to perform anything, without expectation of attaining anything, without the attachment towards the actions and the fruit of actions. All the actions are being performed out of compassion and selflessness. There is no discrimination of us and everyone else that are not us. All actions are being performed without preferences of superiority and inferiority, likes and dislikes, what is dear to "me" or not dear to "me", friends or not friends. All beings who are kind to me or are unkind to me, are all the same, and have no differences.
All beings who act selfishly and ignorantly are because of ignorance, or lack of wisdom. All these beings who are performing wrong and evil doings are because they are under the influence of the impurities. They are not happy, not satisfied, and not peaceful. If we are truly compassionate, we will not be angry with all these beings and their ignorant actions, but we will be compassionate towards them, forgive and accept them as they are, because we can see or are aware of what they are suffering and will be continue to suffer due to all the selfish ignorant wrong and evil doings that they had performed unto themselves and other beings.
How could we possibly be angry with them or hate them. We will show sympathy and kindness for all these beings who don't know their true Self, of what they really are, and they are ignorant towards their ignorant actions are bringing them more suffering in return.
And within all ignorant beings including our own self, upon negating the identification with all the names and forms with the qualities of good and evil, what is still there that cannot be negated, is the selfless universal consciousness that is not any different from everyone else, which is selflessness, love, peace, compassion, and wisdom. We ourselves are ignorant too, before we attain self-realization. And so, who are we to judge and criticize all other beings that are impure and imperfect like us? And if we have truly attained self-realization, and are identified with our true Self, which is universal selflessness, love, peace, compassion and wisdom, we won't be angry with anything or hating any beings who are suffering and behaving ignorantly due to ignorance.
If there is anger or hatred towards anything or any beings, then that anger and hatred is coming from the ignorant egoistic impure mind, where the ego disagrees with, dislike, doesn't want, and averse towards all these ignorant actions and beings that are being what they are, due to the ignorance in the mind. But know that the mind itself is neither ignorant nor something bad. Once the idea of 'I', egoism, and impurities are removed or eliminated from the modification of the mind, the mind is still the same mind, but it is free from ignorance, or the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. And this pure and calm modification of the mind will act as a reflector for us (the selfless consciousness that allows the thinking mind to be what it is) to reflect upon everything, to know the truth of things where all and everything are selfless and impermanent as well as limited and conditional, and to know what we are not (all kinds of false egoistic attachment and identification) and what all and everyone really are, beyond all kinds of selfless impermanent qualities of names and forms, beyond the selfless impermanent limited conditional existence and function of the mortal physical body with the thinking and acting faculty functioning under the egoistic impure restless modification of the mind (the selfless/changeless/timeless/attributeless/nameless/formless/birthless/deathless/thoughtless/actionless/desireless/intentionless silent witness).
We don't have to agree with, or to like, or to support any wrong and evil doings in accordance to what we think and believe as wrong and evil, but we don't need to be angry and upset about it either. We can perform any actions that can be done and need to be done, to help the world to have more peace and harmony, to help other beings to realize the consequences of their actions/reactions, but we cannot change the world or change any beings to become what we want them to be. All beings have to change themselves by having the conscious awareness to reflect upon themselves, to reflect upon their actions/reactions and consequences of actions/reactions, and to make the effort to change or evolve towards unconditional kindness (compassion) and unlimited peace (wisdom), through attaining direct self-realization towards the one same selfless universal consciousness in all and everyone, by eliminating the veil of ignorance, of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness.
May all be happy and be free.
Om shanti.
It doesn't matter if the living beings ruin the world and the environment. It doesn't matter when the living beings complain and condemn about them for being too much or too little. It doesn't matter if the living beings like them or dislike them, want them or don't want them, appreciate them or not, be grateful and thankful or not, it doesn't matter if all living beings take advantage of all these providers to fulfill their own selfish greedy ambitions, these selfless providers still perform the action of giving without attachment or identification towards the action and the fruit of action.
The water has no intention to provide water for anyone or anything to consume it for existence, and everyone and everything consume water and exist as they are. The water also has no intention to have the cleansing or purifying effects, and everyone and everything get the cleansing and purifying effect from water. The water has no intention to drown anybody, or to take away any lives, or to damage anything, and there are living beings drown themselves in water and lost their lives, and there are things being damaged by water. The water has no expectation that anyone or anything will be benefited from it, nor expecting any compliment or praise, thankfulness or gratefulness, nor expecting anyone will show appreciation or love to it. It doesn't matter if anyone complaining and condemning the water for being too much or too little, or if anyone is polluting the water. The water has no discrimination of good or bad beings, ignorant or wise beings, or any preferences. The water has no intention to be good or bad, to give or to take. But the water exists for all the others to be existing. There is no "action" - it is action-less, behind all these actions with names and forms.
The sun has no intention to give heat and light for us to have warmth, food, and energy, and everything and everyone are getting the warmth, food, and energy from it. It has no intention to burn anyone or to give skin cancer to anyone, and some people are getting sunburn or skin cancer through it. It has no intention to support anything to have life, or to take away any lives. The sun has no expectation that anyone or anything will be benefited from it, nor expecting any compliment or praise, thankfulness or gratefulness, nor expecting anyone will show appreciation or love to it. It doesn't matter if anyone complaining and condemning the sun for being too much or too little. The sun has no discrimination of good or bad beings, ignorant or wise beings, or any preferences. The sun has no intention to be good or bad, to give or to take. But the sun exists for all the others to be existing. There is no "action" - it is action-less, behind all these actions with names and forms.
There is neither success nor failure. There is neither good nor bad intention. There is neither performing actions nor not performing actions. There is no "I-ness". There is no gain or loss. There is no craving or aversion. There is no giving or receiving.
That selfless and unconditional power of compassion (of giving unconditionally and non-discriminatively) is what we all and everything are. But we are being ignorant towards this selfless nature of us being veiled by the ignorant egoistic impure modification of the mind, of restless egoistic impure thought activities, of the idea of 'I', desire, craving, and clinging (the mind perception of a worldly life existence of names and forms (perceiving sight, sound, smell, taste, touch/sensation, and thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/actions/reactions), that is impermanent and momentary, that has a beginning and an end, existence and ceased existence, forming and deforming, arising and passing away), that comes along under the birth of the mortal physical body under the function of a thinking mind with the function of the limited intellect and the selfish ego.
This ignorant egoistic idea of 'I', attachment, identification, and the desire of craving and clinging in the modification of the mind give rise to all the "side effects", of disturbance, hurts, painful sorrow, or suffering, that come along with the mortal physical body with the functions of all the senses and sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, and thinking faculty) and all the other life support internal organs that are subject to impermanence, of birth, growth, ceaseless impermanent changes and life maintenance (hunger and thirst), decay, old age, illness, injury, pain, weakness, and death.
This mortal physical body comes along with the thinking mind (the projector and perceiver of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, desires, actions, reactions) to perceive names and forms through the senses via the sense organs, under the limited intellect that can only perceive things that are with names and forms, but cannot perceive namelessness and formlessness that are beyond names and forms, and the selfish ego (the idea of 'I') that asserts agreements or disagreements, likes and dislikes, wants and doesn't wants, or the desires of craving and aversion, that give rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness, or ignorance - anger, hatred, jealousy, attachment, identification, dissatisfaction, disappointment, frustration, irritation, greed, lustful desire, anxiety, agitation, depression, fear, worry, doubt, violence, and all sorts of ill-wills.
All these impurities further more generate never ending reactions of attachment, identification, clinging, craving, and aversion that gives rise to the endless cycles of restless 'births and deaths', of ceaseless thought activities, of all kinds of actions/reactions and the consequences of actions/reactions (cause and effect). And all these are the cause of suffering that exists with the body and the mind - hunger, thirst, growth, changes, decay, illness, pain, old age, death, fear, worry, doubt, anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, lustful desires, ignorance, dissatisfaction, emptiness, coming in contact with the objects that we don't like, not coming in contact with the objects that we like, being separated from our loved ones, craving and clinging, the impurities of the physical body (under the layer of our skin and see what is so "beautiful" about our body. It is nothing but flesh, nerves, blood, glands, organs, intestines, bones, muscles, cells, fermentation of food, gas, urine, shit, pus, phlegm, membranes, germs, bacteria and etc).
Even so, this physical body is just being what it is. It is neither something clean nor dirty. It is not something beautiful or disgusting. It has no intention for us to be healthy or not healthy. It is just there for us to have a momentary life existence that is subject to impermanence, of ceaseless impermanent changes (restless births and deaths).
We were, and are still lost in the attachment and identification towards the duality of the different qualities of all the names and forms (good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant, success and failure, praise and censure, heat and cold, superiority and inferiority, enjoyment and suffering, birth and death). We were, and are still clinging onto this physical body with the function of the mind, the intellect, and the ego, with all the ignorance and impurities that constantly generate more and more actions/reactions of craving and aversion and the consequences of the actions/reactions - the nature law's of cause and effect.
We were, and are still lost in the false identification with the body and the mind, likes and dislikes, wants and doesn't wants, agreements and disagreements. Thinking that we have a permanent independent individual self existence. Thinking that we are the body, this impermanent body is us. Thinking that we are the mind, all these thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations are us. And this false identification makes us think that "we are good", "we are bad", "we are happy", "we are sad", "we are strong and healthy", "we are weak and sick", "we are suffering", "we are free from suffering"....
But our true Self (the selfless universal consciousness) is beyond all these attributes that are subject to changes and impermanence, which is not real. All these impermanent names and forms, that are ceaselessly forming, changing, and deforming, are just some momentary mind perception of a worldly life existence under the idea of 'I', craving, and clinging that come from the thinking mind with the selfish ego with the big "I-ness" and "Mine-ness".
Our true Self is beyond existence and non-existence. Existence and non-existence only occur to names and forms that have attributes or qualities. The true Self is attribute-less. It has no beginning and no ending. It is not tainted or contaminated by ignorance, or the impurities of the body, the mind, the thoughts, actions and speech (both positive and negative, good and evil, right and wrong). It is beyond purity and impurity. It is beyond happiness and unhappiness. It is beyond what the mind can perceive through the limited intellect. It is beyond all the elements.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no end of suffering, no free from suffering.
Keep purifying our mind, have self-control over our thoughts, actions and speech. Limit any unnecessary inputs. Conserve our energy and effort for the quest for self-realization and to perform selfless service for the welfare of our own self and for other beings and the world. Practice concentration and awareness at the present moment. Develop all the divine qualities that will lead us to purity, non-attachment, firmness, and fearlessness which will lead us to realize the nature of all and everything - selflessness, love, peace, compassion, and wisdom.
Contemplate on this selflessness. Try to practice actions deriving out of selflessness, and perform all the actions for ourselves or for all other beings, out of compassion, selflessly, and be free from the influence that comes from the mind, the intellect, and the ego (good and bad qualities, positive and negative, pleasant and unpleasant, agreements and disagreements, likes and dislikes, wants and doesn't wants, craving and aversion).
Rise above the body, the mind, the intellect, and the ego. Let go of the false identification with the body, the mind, the intellect, and the ego.
Let go of the attachment, identification, clinging and craving towards the momentary state of calmness and peacefulness that comes from the mind after doing some yoga practices or meditation. Go beyond all the impermanent states of the mind. We practice yoga not just because we like to do it because it gives us a momentary satisfaction, good feelings, lightness and calmness for the mind and other benefits for the physical body. But go deeper in our practice to realize the truth of things, of what we really are, by purifying and stilling the mind, by non-attachment towards all the good or bad feelings that come from doing yoga or not doing yoga, by not having craving towards the pleasant sensations and not having aversion towards the unpleasant sensations that arise while we perform the yoga asana practice, pranayama practice, relaxation, meditation, karma yoga, chanting, and etc.
Go beyond success and failure, compliment and condemnation, good and not good, like and dislike, want and don't want, pleasant and unpleasant, positive and negative, happiness and unhappiness. Go beyond all the qualities, all the names and forms.
Perform all our actions of doing the yoga practices and meditation without intention to perform anything, without expectation of attaining anything, without the attachment towards the actions and the fruit of actions. All the actions are being performed out of compassion and selflessness. There is no discrimination of us and everyone else that are not us. All actions are being performed without preferences of superiority and inferiority, likes and dislikes, what is dear to "me" or not dear to "me", friends or not friends. All beings who are kind to me or are unkind to me, are all the same, and have no differences.
All beings who act selfishly and ignorantly are because of ignorance, or lack of wisdom. All these beings who are performing wrong and evil doings are because they are under the influence of the impurities. They are not happy, not satisfied, and not peaceful. If we are truly compassionate, we will not be angry with all these beings and their ignorant actions, but we will be compassionate towards them, forgive and accept them as they are, because we can see or are aware of what they are suffering and will be continue to suffer due to all the selfish ignorant wrong and evil doings that they had performed unto themselves and other beings.
How could we possibly be angry with them or hate them. We will show sympathy and kindness for all these beings who don't know their true Self, of what they really are, and they are ignorant towards their ignorant actions are bringing them more suffering in return.
And within all ignorant beings including our own self, upon negating the identification with all the names and forms with the qualities of good and evil, what is still there that cannot be negated, is the selfless universal consciousness that is not any different from everyone else, which is selflessness, love, peace, compassion, and wisdom. We ourselves are ignorant too, before we attain self-realization. And so, who are we to judge and criticize all other beings that are impure and imperfect like us? And if we have truly attained self-realization, and are identified with our true Self, which is universal selflessness, love, peace, compassion and wisdom, we won't be angry with anything or hating any beings who are suffering and behaving ignorantly due to ignorance.
If there is anger or hatred towards anything or any beings, then that anger and hatred is coming from the ignorant egoistic impure mind, where the ego disagrees with, dislike, doesn't want, and averse towards all these ignorant actions and beings that are being what they are, due to the ignorance in the mind. But know that the mind itself is neither ignorant nor something bad. Once the idea of 'I', egoism, and impurities are removed or eliminated from the modification of the mind, the mind is still the same mind, but it is free from ignorance, or the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. And this pure and calm modification of the mind will act as a reflector for us (the selfless consciousness that allows the thinking mind to be what it is) to reflect upon everything, to know the truth of things where all and everything are selfless and impermanent as well as limited and conditional, and to know what we are not (all kinds of false egoistic attachment and identification) and what all and everyone really are, beyond all kinds of selfless impermanent qualities of names and forms, beyond the selfless impermanent limited conditional existence and function of the mortal physical body with the thinking and acting faculty functioning under the egoistic impure restless modification of the mind (the selfless/changeless/timeless/attributeless/nameless/formless/birthless/deathless/thoughtless/actionless/desireless/intentionless silent witness).
We don't have to agree with, or to like, or to support any wrong and evil doings in accordance to what we think and believe as wrong and evil, but we don't need to be angry and upset about it either. We can perform any actions that can be done and need to be done, to help the world to have more peace and harmony, to help other beings to realize the consequences of their actions/reactions, but we cannot change the world or change any beings to become what we want them to be. All beings have to change themselves by having the conscious awareness to reflect upon themselves, to reflect upon their actions/reactions and consequences of actions/reactions, and to make the effort to change or evolve towards unconditional kindness (compassion) and unlimited peace (wisdom), through attaining direct self-realization towards the one same selfless universal consciousness in all and everyone, by eliminating the veil of ignorance, of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness.
May all be happy and be free.
Om shanti.
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