The greatest strength and flexibility is realizing the truth of our true nature, which is wisdom and the unconditional love or compassion, which also manifested, or can be found or seen in patience, tolerance, perseverance, determination, forbearance, forgiveness, adaptation, accommodation, adjustment, acceptance, non-violence, non-hatred, non-discrimination, non-judgment, non-expectation, non-attachment, non-possessiveness, non-dualism, non-separateness, namelessness and formlessness, egolessness or selflessness, beyond the identification as 'I' and all the mind perceptions with all the different qualities of names and forms.
This can be illustrated as being free from egoism or ignorance, or being free from craving and aversion, or being free from all the impurities and restlessness, or being free from desires of want and don't want, or being free from fear and worry, or being free from anger and hatred, or being free from being conditioned by the mind and the perception of names and forms through the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and thinking.
Realize this real strength and flexibility, there is even no need to forbear nor to endure anything that the mind thinks or believes as 'bad', 'negative', or 'suffering'. There's no longing nor clinging onto what the mind thinks or believes as 'good', 'positive', or 'happiness'. As in truth, all the perceptions of good and bad, positive and negative, happiness and suffering, they don't really exist at all. It is all manifested in the mind itself and will dissolve in the mind itself once the mind realizes its true nature, which is nameless and formless, attributeless, beginningless and endless, birthless and deathless.
The optimum physical strength and flexibility that we can attain through this physical body cannot be compared to this real strength and flexibility that allow us to be existing and living in this world of names and forms, but being able to 'forbear' and 'withstand' any 'difficult' and 'discomfortable' conditions and situations, and being unaffected, undisturbed, uninfluenced, undetermined by all these names and forms, but able to fully utilize this life existence, or the body and mind, to be performing some beneficial actions for all beings, but knowing that everything is impermanent, there is no attachment at all towards all the actions being performed and the fruit of the action.
There's no disappointment nor depression about "Why bother and waste energy in performing actions, as everything is impermanent, everything will come to an end?"
In Buddhism, the monks spend lots of time, doing 'something' occupying the mind with 'something', so that the mind doesn't have spare 'space' or 'room' for any 'evil' thinking, or speculation, or imagination, or projection. As the mind is being restrained to be in the present moment on the physical actions being performed.
Same as when we perform yoga asana practice, it is not so much about gaining some physical or mental benefits from spending some time and energy doing the practice, but mostly it's to engage the body and mind in some wholesome activities, as there are energy in the body and mind that needs to be directed to 'somewhere'. At the same time, refraining the body and mind from some unwholesome activities while engaging in the yoga asana practice. And that itself is a great purification process for the mind, as well as it is benefiting the whole world of life existence, as this body and this mind is not generating any harmful thoughts or actions into the world during that time being.
There is a very efficient practice in Buddhism about realizing and accepting impermanence, and practicing non-attachment and letting go. Everyone will spend lots of time and energy, sincerely and attentively to make 'complicated' and 'beautiful' mandala using coloured sand or different colours beans on the ground, and as soon as it is finished, they will mess it up with their own hand, to realize what is perform all our actions for the benefits of all beings, but without attachment towards the action or the fruit of the action.
If we don't know the truth, we will feel very meaningless and wasting energy or effort to perform actions but then in the end it is nothingness or emptiness. But when we know the truth, there is no gain when we perform any action, nor there is any loss when the fruit of our actions experience impermanence and disappear. There is no wasting energy or effort at all. It is beyond creation and emptiness. There is nothing being created. There's no actions being performed. Names and forms are not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not separated from names and forms.
Perform Karma yoga, or selfless service is what we can do for ourselves and others with this body and this mind, to make good use of them. Karma yoga is not just about performing beneficial actions for others, but it is not separated from performing beneficial actions for ourselves. There's no difference whether the actions being performed is for ourselves or for others, there's no priority nor less priority, superiority nor inferiority, as whether it is for ourselves or for others, it is the same and is benefiting everyone. There's no intention to be good, or to do good, or to be benefiting anyone, or to be receiving anything good in return. Just perform action and let go. And that is selflessness or compassion.
It doesn't matter everything will come to an end, we do our best and let go. As this body and this mind has some 'spare time' and 'energy' that doesn't belong to them, to be spent without gaining or losing anything. Why not use it for something constructive and beneficial for all beings?
Om shanti.
This can be illustrated as being free from egoism or ignorance, or being free from craving and aversion, or being free from all the impurities and restlessness, or being free from desires of want and don't want, or being free from fear and worry, or being free from anger and hatred, or being free from being conditioned by the mind and the perception of names and forms through the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and thinking.
Realize this real strength and flexibility, there is even no need to forbear nor to endure anything that the mind thinks or believes as 'bad', 'negative', or 'suffering'. There's no longing nor clinging onto what the mind thinks or believes as 'good', 'positive', or 'happiness'. As in truth, all the perceptions of good and bad, positive and negative, happiness and suffering, they don't really exist at all. It is all manifested in the mind itself and will dissolve in the mind itself once the mind realizes its true nature, which is nameless and formless, attributeless, beginningless and endless, birthless and deathless.
The optimum physical strength and flexibility that we can attain through this physical body cannot be compared to this real strength and flexibility that allow us to be existing and living in this world of names and forms, but being able to 'forbear' and 'withstand' any 'difficult' and 'discomfortable' conditions and situations, and being unaffected, undisturbed, uninfluenced, undetermined by all these names and forms, but able to fully utilize this life existence, or the body and mind, to be performing some beneficial actions for all beings, but knowing that everything is impermanent, there is no attachment at all towards all the actions being performed and the fruit of the action.
There's no disappointment nor depression about "Why bother and waste energy in performing actions, as everything is impermanent, everything will come to an end?"
In Buddhism, the monks spend lots of time, doing 'something' occupying the mind with 'something', so that the mind doesn't have spare 'space' or 'room' for any 'evil' thinking, or speculation, or imagination, or projection. As the mind is being restrained to be in the present moment on the physical actions being performed.
Same as when we perform yoga asana practice, it is not so much about gaining some physical or mental benefits from spending some time and energy doing the practice, but mostly it's to engage the body and mind in some wholesome activities, as there are energy in the body and mind that needs to be directed to 'somewhere'. At the same time, refraining the body and mind from some unwholesome activities while engaging in the yoga asana practice. And that itself is a great purification process for the mind, as well as it is benefiting the whole world of life existence, as this body and this mind is not generating any harmful thoughts or actions into the world during that time being.
There is a very efficient practice in Buddhism about realizing and accepting impermanence, and practicing non-attachment and letting go. Everyone will spend lots of time and energy, sincerely and attentively to make 'complicated' and 'beautiful' mandala using coloured sand or different colours beans on the ground, and as soon as it is finished, they will mess it up with their own hand, to realize what is perform all our actions for the benefits of all beings, but without attachment towards the action or the fruit of the action.
If we don't know the truth, we will feel very meaningless and wasting energy or effort to perform actions but then in the end it is nothingness or emptiness. But when we know the truth, there is no gain when we perform any action, nor there is any loss when the fruit of our actions experience impermanence and disappear. There is no wasting energy or effort at all. It is beyond creation and emptiness. There is nothing being created. There's no actions being performed. Names and forms are not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not separated from names and forms.
Perform Karma yoga, or selfless service is what we can do for ourselves and others with this body and this mind, to make good use of them. Karma yoga is not just about performing beneficial actions for others, but it is not separated from performing beneficial actions for ourselves. There's no difference whether the actions being performed is for ourselves or for others, there's no priority nor less priority, superiority nor inferiority, as whether it is for ourselves or for others, it is the same and is benefiting everyone. There's no intention to be good, or to do good, or to be benefiting anyone, or to be receiving anything good in return. Just perform action and let go. And that is selflessness or compassion.
It doesn't matter everything will come to an end, we do our best and let go. As this body and this mind has some 'spare time' and 'energy' that doesn't belong to them, to be spent without gaining or losing anything. Why not use it for something constructive and beneficial for all beings?
Om shanti.
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