Turning the mind inward and quieting the restless thought current

To initiate the process of quieting the restless thought current, the selfless mind (the selfless perceiver/the selfless knower/the selfless experiencer/the selfless thinker and action performer) first needs to know what is non-attachment and non-identification, a.k.a. non-association, or standing as a witness, which then allows the mind to look at the selfless modification of the mind, to find out, or inquire towards what is the thought current, and why it is restless, or what is the cause that gives rise to restlessness, without craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation.

The process of turning the mind inward, is about gathering the random outgoing and wandering point of focus/attentiveness/awareness, that moves rapidly among the countless random objects of the senses (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations), and channel the gathered point of focus inward, where the mind gives full attention towards observing what is going on in the selfless modification of the mind, or to be aware of the selfless thought process, or the selfless thought activities, or the mind thinking and behavior pattern, of ceaseless mental actions/reactions/ideas/feelings/emotions/inspirations/aspirations/desires/anticipations/imaginations/memories, of all kinds of impurities, that keep arising, changing, and passing away (Restlessness - ceaseless selfless impermanent changes - ceaseless births and deaths of endless random thought after thought).

The entire process is being activated under the presence of non-violence or gentleness, without forcing/violence/aggressiveness. As the presence of forcing/violence/aggressiveness hinders the process of quieting the restless thought current to be happening. It is like the pool of water can never be calmed and still, if someone keeps hitting and stirring the water with something repeatedly and aggressively.

The absence of forcing/violence/aggressiveness, is possible under the presence of non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, on top of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, and accommodation.

That is why the basic yoga and/or buddhism practice is not so much about learning and performing the different types of yoga asana practice, pranayama practice, concentration practice, meditation practice, chanting (sound vibration and/or devotional/sentimental approach), kriya (cleansing), or any kind of practice, under the many different lineages and techniques, but, it is more about during the entire process of learning and performing all that, the practitioners (the selfless minds) are developing and empowering non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, as well as developing the elements of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, and accommodation, that give rise to the presence of kindness, or non-forcing/non-violence/non-aggressiveness in the entire practice as well as in everyday life affairs, that will influence and change the conditional habitual mind thinking and behavior pattern, consciously and unconsciously, that naturally activates the conscious and non-conscious evolution of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence, where the mind can know itself, attaining direct realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and be free from ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance.

The mind will stop hurting itself and others or the surrounding environment under the presence of correct understanding and peace, under the presence of wisdom and compassion, devoid of ignorance, restlessness and violence.

Everything will eventually fall into its place naturally, upon the initial activation of conscious evolution, that will also influence the unconscious evolution, even if it's not significant, and either wittingly or unwittingly.

Just by closing the eyes, and turning the focus/attention or the conscious awareness inward and within, even if it's just for a few moments, is already initiating the process of quieting the restless thought current.

For most minds, they can begin with the process of observing the natural breath coming and going. In the first few practices, it's only for a few seconds. And then, prolonged that process of observing the natural breath for a few minutes, and then gradually extending the process for as long as possible, without struggle/forcing/violence.

Keep practicing, without judgment or expectation.

Just watch the impermanence of the breath and the wavering attentiveness, where sometimes the mind is attentive, calmed, and quiet effortlessly, while sometimes it is agitated, distracted, and wavering randomly back and forth between here to there.

The point is not about whether the mind is attentive or inattentive. But it is about there is this selfless awareness that is being aware of the impermanent attentiveness and inattentiveness of the selfless mind, without association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

The conscious awareness is not being determined, or affected, or contaminated, or damaged by the presence and absence of attentiveness or inattentiveness, calmness or agitation, of all kinds of impurities and restlessness in the selfless modification of the mind.

As the mind keeps practicing under the presence of non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, under the support of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, and accommodation, regardless of whether the body and mind can perform all kinds of practices perfectly or imperfectly (not important at all), then naturally and effortlessly, the restless thought current will become less and less violent/agitated/restless, and will come to a point of stillness or clarity, even if that is also impermanent and momentary.

But that tiny impermanent moment of stillness or clarity, is extremely precious for a glimpse towards the selfless unconditional unlimited attributeless/nameless/formless/actionless/changeless/timeless/birthless/deathless universal consciousness that allows all kinds of manifestations to be what they are, that enables the selfless perceptive thinking and acting mind to be what it is, to be consciously perceiving/experiencing/knowing/thinking/feeling/sensing/reasoning/understanding/acting/reacting towards all kinds of names and forms during the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where the mind knows Thyself, of its selfless impermanent momentary limited and conditional existence and function, and hence, effortlessly resting upon the selfless universal consciousness, a.k.a. timelessness/changelessness/desirelessness/actionlessness/attributelessness/namelessness/formlessness/birthlessness/deathlessness/unconditional peace, even if there are necessary physical and mental activities for maintaining life existence, while making use of this selfless impermanent momentary life existence for performing selfless service (evoking the dharma that is already there in the minds, consciously and unconsciously) that help to promote and maintain peace and harmony among the many diversities of different names and forms in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, without attachment/identification/intention/expectation. Just like the sun, the air, the earth, the water, and the space.

The dissemination of dharma or the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism is highly important, even if it's merely the repetition of the same few words such as Selflessness and Impermanence, Non-attachment and Non-identification, Non-craving and Non-aversion, Non-judgment and Non-expectation, Kindness and Letting go, or Self-inquiry and Self-realization, either in the form of any written and/or spoken language, allowing the minds to have the opportunity to come in contact with these essential words/teachings/dharma, both consciously and unconsciously, regardless of whether the minds comprehend the meanings of these words/teachings/dharma, or not, especially in the beginning, it really doesn't matter.

Such as upon the teacher is disseminating the dharma/teachings in the yoga class, without any intention or expectation, there are some students are coming in contact with and processing all these dharma/teachings wittingly and consciously, that lead themselves towards self-inquiry and self-realization, while there are also some students coming in contact with and absorbing all these dharma/teachings unwittingly and/or unconsciously, either they are not listening at all being distracted by something, or they are listening but they don't really know what the teacher is talking about (language barrier or intellectual barrier), or they are not interested at all to be listening to all that, or they have intense disagreement or aversion reacting towards the dharma/teachings, or they are falling asleep during the class especially during the relaxation, however, it will still lead them towards self-inquiry and self-realization, eventually. They will recall all these from within, both consciously and unconsciously, when there is the moment when they are in need of all these dharma/teachings.

It really doesn't matter.

Because all these dharma/teachings are already there within all minds. The teacher doesn't give them the dharma/teachings, but only served as a tool that evokes the dharma/teachings that is already there in all and everyone (however, the minds don't know or couldn't see it being hindered by the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness,) that allows the minds to develop the basic foundation of certain essential correct understanding and attitude, that enables the minds to have some guidelines for them to perform certain practice effectively, that will lead them towards realizing all that by themselves, through their own effort and determination.

That is also why activating the mind purification process is highly important, same as the observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence, Satsanga (if there is wise company) and Asanga (if there is no wise company), or mental and emotional independence. This is to limit and minimize both conscious and (especially) unconscious ceaseless mind inputs that are feeding and empowering ignorance and its by-products, which is a huge obstacle for mind purification process, self-inquiry, and self-realization.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Show kindness towards those who are unkind

Many of the worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices might teach people about "An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth."

Or, "If someone hits you on one side of the face, you should ask them to hit the other side of the face as well."

These two extremities of 'understanding/action/reaction' are deriving from egoism as well as empowering egoism.

Meanwhile, the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is not about that, as by doing so, it doesn't help the minds to be free from ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior, but it is empowering the ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior in oneself and in others.

It's about -

Show kindness towards those who are unkind.

Show unselfishness towards those who are selfish.

Show generosity towards those who are stingy.

Show openness towards those who are closed-minded.

Show contentment towards those who are discontented.

Show accommodation towards those who are non-accommodating.

Show calmness and gentleness towards those who are agitated and violent.

Show respect towards those who are disrespectful towards others.

Show patience towards those who are impatient.

And so on.

This is the middle path of selfless wisdom and compassion.

The minds that are unkind, selfish, stingy, closed-minded, discontented, non-accommodating, agitated and violent, disrespectful towards others, or impatient, is because they don't know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient, and that is because they don't know what is kindness, unselfishness, generosity, openness, contentment, accommodation, calmness and gentleness, respect, and patience.

By showing them all these qualities can allow them to have all these qualities (reflection) to be reflecting upon, either wittingly or unwittingly.

Without attachment, judgment, intention, or expectation.

Let the minds to be what they are, regardless of whether they will reflect upon all these qualities, or not, whether they want to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient, or not.

All that (conscious and unconscious constructive evolution) can only happen, when the mind knows how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards itself.

The mind doesn't know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards others, is because it doesn't even know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, or be patient towards itself.

Coming from the mind itself, learning how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards itself, towards its own selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional existence and function.

Only when the mind knows how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards itself, then naturally and effortlessly, it will also know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards all the others.

More importantly, regardless of whether the minds are wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, generous or stingy, opened-minded or closed-minded, contented or discontented, accommodating or non-accommodating, calmed and gentle or agitated and violent, respectful or non-respectful, and patient or impatient, all are selfless, all are impermanent, all are merely momentarily existing, ceaselessly changing, and eventually ceased existing in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All those agreeable or disagreeable qualities, are also selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional.

They are not the goal of the yoga and/or buddhism practice.

However, the quality of kindness, unselfishness, generosity, openness, contentment, accommodation, calmness and gentleness, respect, and patience, are important elements that can help to quiet the restless impure modification of the mind on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization.

It is not 'I', and there is no 'I'.

Transcending, or going beyond all kinds of agreeable and disagreeable qualities, will enable the mind to realize selflessness, to realize what is ignorance and suffering, to know Thyself, and be free.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.

The corrupted impure egoistic restless selfless intentionless modification of the mind

The corrupted impure egoistic restless selfless intentionless modification of the mind, is the IGNORANCE that is being mentioned in the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism, that hinders the selfless thinking and acting mind to know itself, of what it is, as it is.

This IGNORANCE is not about non-intelligent or low intelligence, non-educated or low education, non-knowledgeable or low knowledge, stupidity, or laziness, as being translated literary under the worldly knowledge and understanding.

This IGNORANCE exists in all minds, including the minds that are highly intelligent, highly educated, highly knowledgeable, extremely smart, and extremely hardworking, except the minds that are free from the veil or the influence of IGNORANCE, that know Thyself.

This IGNORANCE is the root cause of why the mind perceives all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering, being determined or over-powered by the mind perception towards a momentary mortal worldly life existence that is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, of experiencing all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional ties and connections, relationships, affairs, objects, activities, interactions, conditions, and situations, that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or painful suffering, that are non-self, that are not in the control of the mind to be or not to be in certain way.

Ignorance is neither good nor bad. There is nothing wrong, bad, negative, weak, shortcoming, or to be shameful, humiliating, condemning, or criticizing towards the presence of ignorance in the modification of the mind. However, under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, and impurities, the minds would perceive or interpret that as something wrong, bad, negative, weakness, shortcoming, shameful, humiliating, or condemn and criticism deserving.

Upon the annihilation of ignorance, upon the mind knows itself, upon the knower knows the knowledge of Thyself, upon the experiencer knows the experiences, the mind transcends all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering, even if the life existence is still what it is, selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, and all and everything are non-self, not in the control of the mind to be or not to be in certain way, where all and everything are governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

The liberated mind under the presence of conscious awareness, devoid of the veil of ignorance, can be performing or not performing certain action that would give rise to the respective consequences of action/inaction, under the presence of correct understanding and self control (under the presence of conscious freewill, not being over-powered by the selfless intentionless mind stuff).

To annihilate the corruption in the modification of the mind, a.k.a. the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, impurities, egoism, the idea of 'I', and restlessness (the veil of ignorance) from the selfless intentionless modification of the mind, is to know and uproot the root cause that gives rise to the corruption, or the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, impurities, egoism, the idea of 'I', and restlessness.

What is the root cause that gives rise to the veil of ignorance that arises/appears/exists in the selfless intentionless modification of the mind?

The limited and conditional inherited genetic traits, personality, characteristics under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, as well as the limited and conditional inherited and adopted worldly passionate impure egoistic beliefs, ideas, values, and practices, that are influencing the thinking and behavior pattern to be and not to be in certain way. Both inherited and adopted influences are limited and conditional, selfless and impermanent, that is constantly evolving either unconsciously (absence of freewill) or consciously (presence of freewill), as well as both consciously and unconsciously.

The unconscious evolution might be more or less dominant than the conscious evolution, and vice versa, and can be reversible.

The liberated mind transcends (not being determined by) what is inevitable under the truth of selflessness, impermanence, non-self, and limitation of being limited by the presence and absence of condition, of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal life existence that is not in its control, of forming, decaying and disintegrating, of existing, decaying, and ceased existing.

The liberated mind also can transcend (not being over-powered by) the limited and conditional inherited genetic qualities, personality, and characteristics under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, that is being what it is, and evolves as it is.

Not to say,

The liberated mind also can transcend or not being determined by the limited and conditional inherited and/or adopted worldly passionate impure egoistic beliefs, ideas, values, and practices, and hence, not being over-powered by the limited and conditional thinking and behavior pattern, but having the conscious freewill, correct understanding, and self-control, to be performing or not performing certain action that would give rise to the respective consequences of action/inaction, that would be benefiting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, that would help other minds to have a starting point or direction to be reflecting/inquiring upon, to be engaging in the process of eliminating the idea of 'I' and egoism and impurities, purifying the intellectual reasoning power and understanding, modifying the thinking and behavior pattern, and quieting the restless modification of the mind, without desire, intention, or expectation to change or control anything or anyone to be or not to be in certain way.

The minds, including the minds that are highly intelligent, highly educated, highly knowledgeable, extremely smart, and extremely hardworking, that think and believe, and conclude that, "There is absolutely/completely no freewill to be transcending all these," that is because they still haven't attained the direct self realization towards the absolute knowledge that is always there, of knowing Thyself. They might have some partial understanding towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditioning, and non-self, but they need to attain direct self realization towards all that, to know Thyself.

That is due to the thinking and acting faculty is identifying and associating with the subjects that it is inquiring. The thinking and acting faculty is unwittingly identifying and associating with the cognition/the existing knowledge, information, ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, the intellect/the reasoning/the understanding, the thoughts/the thinking, the sensations, the feelings and emotions, and the action of inquiring. Just like the investigator is investigating towards all and everyone and everything, except itself.

The mind is reasoning/inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, but it didn't inquire towards the truth of the existing accumulated knowledge and understanding in itself, of what it thinks it knows and understands that is influencing the intellectual reasoning power to be reasoning/inquiring towards all and everything in certain way.

That is why the highly essential of self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of 'I', or "Who am I?", or "What is the self identity of 'I' that the thinking in the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I'?"

That is why the highly importance of engaging in the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence. To move the mind away from the continuous influence of the worldly passionate egoistic ideas, habits, affairs, activities, connections, communications, and interactions (inputs and outputs), that ceaselessly empower the idea of 'I' and egoism, impurities and restlessness, that hinders the mind from performing self inquiry to be inquiring towards everything about itself, towards its selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional existence and function being part of the selfless bodily functions/mechanisms of the selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional physical body, of having a momentary mortal selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional life existence perceiving and experiencing all kinds of names and forms, that are non-self, that are not in its control or desire to be or not to be in certain way.

Under the influence of ignorance and under the absence of correct understanding, the mind perceives the perception of 'being not free', as it is being determined and disturbed by the selfless impermanent changes that are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable, and it is being bound by the actions and consequences of actions governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

There is neither right nor wrong. The minds just need to keep inquiring under a pure, calm, and quiet state of mind, devoid of the idea of 'I'/grasping/attachment/identification/craving/aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation, not being influenced by the existing understanding and accumulated knowledge and information in the mind stuff to reason and judge, or to analyze and conclude. But, just to see/witness/observe things as they are, under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness.

Only upon the silence of the modification of the mind, where there is the absence of mental actions/reactions even just for a few moments (the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty paused functioning momentary) under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness, but merely being aware of/witnessing/observing the object of awareness as it is, that gives rise to the precious glimpse towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditioning, and non-self, in all and everything, including the mind that perceives suffering, that has the intense yearning towards knowledge/liberation/freedom/peace, that is performing the yoga and/or buddhism practice, that is purifying and quieting the modification of the mind, that is inquiring the truth of everything, that attains direct self-realization towards the truth of everything, and that transcends the evitable and inevitable mind stuff or suffering.

The selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body is impermanent, limited, and conditional, that will decay and disintegrate, that will ceased functioning and existing.

Without the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness, there is no conscious perceiving, knowing, recognizing, intellectual reasoning, discriminating, experiencing, learning, understanding, thinking, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, enjoying, or suffering. Under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body is consciously perceiving, knowing, recognizing, intellectual reasoning, discriminating, experiencing, learning, understanding, thinking, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, enjoying, or suffering, through the organs of the senses and the organs of actions, of the physical body.

Under the presence or absence of the conscious awareness, the selfless mind perceives/experiences or doesn't perceive/experience pleasurable enjoyment or painful suffering, but the selfless conscious awareness doesn't enjoy or suffer.

All are selfless. All are just what they are. All are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither positive nor negative.

There is no good or evil, no right or wrong, no positive or negative in the selfless intentionless thoughtless actionless changeless timeless causeless attributeless conscious awareness. The conscious awareness (the silent witness) is just what it is. It is not being contaminated, or determined, or disturbed, or damaged, or destroyed by the ceaseless changes (the limitation of time, space, and causation/the restlessness of births and deaths of ceaseless thoughts arising, changing, and passing away transitioning in different realms/states of mind) in the names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, that are just being what they are, neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither positive nor negative.

The different qualities in the names and forms are just what they are, neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither positive nor negative. These qualities appeared to be having the quality/attribute of good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, are being projected by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty unto all kinds of names and forms, as well as being perceived/recognized by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty as something good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, based on the existing inherited and/or adopted beliefs, ideas, values, and practices in the selfless intentionless modification of the mind, under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness.

Similarly, there is no good or evil, no right or wrong, no positive or negative in the selfless impermanent existence and function of the body and mind, even though the selfless existence and function of the body and mind is limited, conditional, impermanent, and momentary, where it can be functioning efficiently or inefficiently, consciously or instinctively/unconsciously, and it is constantly changing, and eventually stops functioning.

However, under the presence and influence of ignorance in the selfless intentionless modification of the mind, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty and its selfless intentionless modification of the mind, give rise to all kinds of impure egoistic mental ideas, desires, actions, and reactions under the influence of instinctive/unconscious urges and/or conscious choices, that turn into physical activities/actions/reactions/behaviors, that give rise to the respective consequences, and hence, the body and mind and its ideas, desires, actions, reactions, activities, and behaviors, appeared to be having the quality/attribute of good or evil, right or wrong, positive or negative.

The selfless intentionless conscious awareness is not being contaminated, or determined, or changed, or damaged, or destroyed by the objects of awareness, or the presence and absence of what the mind perceives, recognizes, reasons, discriminates, thinks, believes, and judges as the quality/attribute of good or evil, right or wrong, positive or negative.

Non-blind believing. Non-blind following. Non-blind-agreeing/disagreeing. Non-blind practicing. Non-blind propagating.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The practice of observing the natural breath coming and going as it is

It is a basic and yet essential practice of yoga and/or buddhism, to observe the natural breath coming and going as it is.

It enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty to develop certain degrees of basic understanding towards the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness, even if it still needs to keep practicing until it can get a direct glimpse towards the truth of Selflessness and Impermanence under a pure, calm, and quiet modification of the mind, upon the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the modification of the mind.

It enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty to develop the basic essentials for preparing the mind for meditation and self-inquiry, to know Thyself, to know "what is the 'I' that the selfless thinking and acting faculty thinks and believes is its permanent independent infinite identity of self existence" -

Self awareness - Under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness, the selfless thinking and acting faculty is being aware of the breath, or the objects of awareness, or the mind stuff of what is happening in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment. The selfless conscious awareness is not the selfless thinking and acting faculty, and vice versa. Under the absence of conscious awareness, the selfless thinking and acting faculty can still be functioning instinctively/unconsciously up to a certain extend.

Under the complete absence of the selfless conscious awareness, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is merely a selfless bodily mechanism functioning instinctively/unconsciously under the influence of the autonomous bodily systems operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct powered by the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, without any conscious awareness towards the selfless impermanent existence of itself and its selfless impermanent function or modification, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment - The absence of freewill, and as long as the selfless bodily system is still existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements that keeps the entire autonomous bodily system to be functioning and maintaining the selfless life existence, there are still some bodily activities for life maintenance, and some random instinctive/unconscious mental activities arising, changing, and passing away in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements.

Just as a physical body that is in a state of coma (complete unconsciousness), but it is being kept alive and continuous living (up to a certain extend) under the presence of certain life supporting machines that provide energy, water, air, and nutrients as well as eliminate waste products for the selfless bodily system to be keep operating. - The absence of freewill

Just as during the sleep state, semi-sleep state, and dream state, where the selfless conscious awareness can be temporary coming and going (inter-changing in between presence and absence), there are random inter-changing in between instinctive/unconscious and semi-conscious mental activities, where the mind might be aware, semi-aware, or unaware of itself, the partial or the entire modification of the mind or the partial/the entire contents of the dreams, the physical body, certain sensations within the physical body, as well as certain sounds or smells deriving from certain activities and objects in the surrounding environment. Such as, there is the need to pee during the sleep state or dream state, the selfless thinking and acting faculty might wake up to use the bathroom, or there might be the dream of peeing in the dream (dreaming of peeing), where the mind might wake up to use the bathroom, or the mind doesn't wake up to use the bathroom, and there might be actual physical peeing while sleeping/dreaming. - The absence and presence of freewill

Meanwhile, during the deep sleep state (the momentary absence of conscious awareness), which is highly essential for the selfless thinking and acting faculty to be completely shut-off all conscious/semi-conscious gross mental activities during the deep sleep state, to have maximum sufficient rest, where the mind is not aware of itself, or the modification of the mind, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment, even if there might be some instinctive/unconscious subtle mental activities for processing the constant perception of names and forms/inputs/outputs during the wakeful state (perceiving all kinds of inputs through the senses, either wittingly and/or unwittingly), and even during the sleep state/dream state. - The absence of freewill

Another example, when there is painful physical injury in the body. There is conscious awareness where the mind is being aware of and be disturbed by the painful sensations, and it might cause difficulty for it to fall asleep. The mind might fall asleep eventually, and during the semi sleep state (between awake and asleep), sleep state, and dream state, the mind might be aware of the painful sensations from time to time due to the conscious awareness that comes and goes, where the mind might be awaken a few times being aware of the painful sensations. The painful sensations are always there as they are, during the entire time of sleeping, but the mind might be aware or not aware of it. If the mind gets into the deep sleep state eventually, the mind can have a complete rest even if the painful sensations are still there, but the mind is unaware of it, because there is a momentary complete absence of the conscious awareness during that short duration of deep sleep state.

Upon the presence of semi-conscious awareness and conscious awareness, the mind is waking up (between asleep and awake), of being aware of itself, or the modification of the mind, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment. The mental state of semi alert, not completely alert. - The presence of freewill

Upon the presence of complete conscious awareness, the mind is in a wakeful state, and is conscious/aware towards itself and the modification of the mind, the physical body, as well as the surrounding environment being perceived through the senses. The mental state of fully alert. - The presence of freewill

Non-attachment and non-identification - By being aware of the breath, it allows the thinking and acting faculty to understand that the breath is not itself (non-identification), and the breath doesn't belong to itself (non-self), and the breath is impermanent (impermanence). It allows the mind to stand as a witness or third party to be non-attaching and non-identifying or non-associating with the breath, as well as all the other kind of objects of awareness.

The selfless conscious mind is aware of the sensations. The pleasant or unpleasant sensations are not the mind.

The mind is aware of the thoughts. The positive or negative thoughts are not the mind.

The mind is aware of the feelings and emotions. The happy or unhappy/desirable or undesirable feelings and emotions are not the mind.

The mind is aware of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the thought process. The desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the efficient or inefficient/non-corrupted or corrupted thought process, or the calmed or disturbed/focused or unfocused/pure or impure state of mind, or the understanding/non-understanding, or the remembrance of the past memories, or the future anticipation/imagination, or all kinds of impurities, or the conditional thinking and behavior pattern/personality/characteristic, is not the mind.

The mind is aware of the physical body with different components and bodily systems under different conditions. The physical body with different components and bodily systems under different conditions is not the mind.

The mind is aware of the different energy levels. The different energy levels is not the mind.

The mind is aware of the idea of 'I' existing in the form of thinking/thought. The idea of 'I' existing in the form of thinking/thought is not the mind.

And so on.

Even the mind that is aware of all that, is also selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional, and non-self, that is momentarily existing and functioning not only under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, but also having the conscious awareness of being aware of the objects of awareness under the presence of the selfless intentionless timeless changeless attributeless consciousness in this present moment now.

Upon the absence/annihilation of the selfless existence and function of "the thinking and acting mind" that is being aware of all that, or upon "the thinking and acting mind" ceased thinking and acting (functioning), what is there, that is always there, as it is?

Non-craving and non-aversion - There is no craving or aversion towards the breath being in certain way or not in certain way. Similarly, there is no craving or aversion towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, conditions, and situations.

Non-comparison and non-judgment - There is no comparison between this breath and that breath. There is no judgment towards this breath or that breath is good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, meaningful or meaningless, deserving or non-deserving, and etc. Similarly, there is no comparison and judgment towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, objects, conditions, and situations.

Non-expectation - There is no expectation towards the breath to be or not to be in certain way, allowing the breath to be what it is. There is no expectation towards the practice of observing the breath, to be or not to be in certain way (comfortable or uncomfortable, easy or difficult, agreeable or disagreeable, fruitful or non-fruitful). There is no expectation towards the fruit of the practice of observing the breath, to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing the fruit of the practice to be what it is. The fruit of the practice is impermanent, and it is not 'the one that is performing the practice/the one that is aware of the breath/the one that is observing the breath', or the selfless thinking and acting faculty.

Similarly, there is no expectation towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, objects, conditions, and situations, to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing all and everyone and everything to be what they are, as they are.

Without the selfless conscious awareness, all these practice of non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, or non-expectation that enable the mind to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process, out of conscious freewill/yearning towards knowledge/liberation/freedom/peace, that enable the mind to see/realize/know the truth of itself, of the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all and everything, cannot or doesn't happen.

As long as there is the presence of conscious awareness, such as "I am aware of/I am experiencing something (pleasant or unpleasant/happy or unhappy/desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable/enjoyable or painful suffering)", then this mind can be engaging in the conscious evolution of its selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function (the mind purification and silencing process), that allows itself to know Thyself and transcend the unconscious/instinctive/non-self condition and evolution of the limited and conditional body and mind. - The presence of freewill

What generates separateness and hindrance (ignorance) between "the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind" and "the knowledge of itself or the knowledge of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of the body and mind", is the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, or the corrupted impure egoistic restless modification of the mind/thought activities/thought current.

Freewill, doesn't mean that the mind can do anything without limitation, or can control everything to be exactly the way that the mind desires it to be.

Not being able to do everything due to the presence of limitation, as well as not being able to control everything to be exactly the way that is in accordance to one's desire and doesn't desire, as well as the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditioning, and non-self in all and everything, doesn't mean that there is no freewill in the selfless thinking and acting faculty to attain certain knowledge, to develop certain understanding, to have certain desires and doesn't desires, to be making conscious choices, to be seizing the presence of opportunity and possibility, to be undetermined by the presence of limitation, hindrance, obstacle, hardship, or impossibility, and to move around or go beyond all that, to have self control to be performing or not performing certain actions that will give rise to the respective consequences of action/inaction, that can influence the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself and the condition and function of the entire physical body, that can be beneficial or harmful unto itself and/or others and the surrounding environment, that can direct the life existence to be or not to be in certain way, and to transcend all that.

The seed is fixed, or the past is fixed, and that cannot be changed or modified into something else, but the rest, until the moment of ceased existence, is not fixed. It is called unconscious evolution and conscious evolution. While conscious evolution can influence the unconscious evolution in certain way, to be improving or deteriorating.

The limited and conditional momentary life existence or selfless impermanent life experiences are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable, but the mind that is aware of all that, that perceives or experiences all kinds of limitation or suffering, which indicates the presence of conscious awareness in the mind, and hence, the mind is having the opportunity and possibility to be activating conscious evolution to transcend all that, and not being determined or disturbed by all that.

All these knowledge (insight/wisdom) are always here within the knower, as they are, in all and everything, regardless of whether the knower knows, or doesn't knows (being hindered by the veil of ignorance). It is merely (the truth of) what all and everything are, as they are, and these timeless/changeless/infinite knowledge cannot be/are not being contaminated, or affected, or damaged, or changed by the presence or absence of 'good' and 'bad' qualities/personalities/characteristics/thinking and behavior patterns, corruption, impurities, egoism, the idea of 'I', or restlessness in the modification of the mind/thought activities/thought current.

All minds (regardless of kind or unkind/good or evil/pure or impure/intelligent or non-intelligent/knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable/lazy or non-lazy, of all kinds of qualities) are entitled to know Thyself, as all these knowledge are within all minds, and they are merely being veiled/hidden by the corrupted impure egoistic restless modification of the mind/thought activities/thought current.

There is none and nothing in this world that can claimed authority towards, or manipulate, or contaminate, or restrict, or take away, or destroy that absolute knowledge.

 

Sometimes the breath is slow.

Sometimes the breath is fast.

Sometimes the breath stops coming or going, or pauses for a few moments.

The selfless breath (a.k.a the selfless life existence) is impermanent.

The breath doesn't belong to the mind.

The breath is not in the control of the mind.

If the mind tries to control the breath, struggle and suffering will arise.

Try to breathe in only and not breathing out. Suffering will arise.

Try to breathe out only and not breathing in. Suffering will arise.

Try not to breathing in and not to breathing out. Suffering will arise.

Try to control each breath coming and going for a prolonged duration. Suffering will arise, upon exhaustion deriving from prolonged continuous effort to control the breath.

The mind just have to let it go. Let the breath to be what it is.

Meanwhile, the mind can perform certain non-forceful breathing exercise regularly, consume sufficient energy and nutrients, maximizing breathing in clean air and minimizing breathing in polluted air as much as possible, that can strengthen and maintain the function of the lungs, the lungs capacity, and the air passage, to maintain a good health condition for the respiratory system, without trying to control the respiratory system has to be or not to be in certain way, but just do one's best to maintain and strengthen the good health condition of the respiratory system, and allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, allowing the respiratory system to be what it is, and evolve as it is. There is no suffering arise.

Similarly, the breath is life force. Without the breath coming and going, there is no life force. There is no life existence.

The selfless life existence doesn't belong to the mind.

The selfless life existence is not in the control of the mind.

If the mind tries to control the selfless life existence to be or not to be in certain way, struggle and suffering will arise.

However, under the presence of correct understanding and possibility, the selfless thinking and acting faculty can do its best to strengthen, benefit, and maintain the good condition of the selfless life existence without violence or forcing, and allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, allowing the selfless life existence to be what it is, and evolve as it is.

This allows the selfless thinking and acting faculty to understand and know how to let go, not trying to control its own selfless existence and function to be or not to be in certain way, but at the same time, it can perform action to look after the over-all well-being of the body and mind, to strengthen, benefit, and maintain the good condition of the selfless life existence and function of the selfless body and mind, without violence, without forcing, without hurting the body and mind, without attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, allowing the selfless existence and function of the body and mind to be what it is, and evolve as it is.

Similarly, there is no control towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, conditions, and situations, to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing all and everyone and everything to be what they are, as they are. Allowing everyone and everything to come and go, to change and pass way. And more importantly, without grasping/attachment/identification/association towards the selfless impermanent sensations, thoughts, feelings and emotions, and all kinds of experiences towards all kinds of names and forms.

There's a pause between "being aware of the objects of awareness" and "the mind reactions towards the objects of the awareness", as well as there is a pause between "the mind reactions" and "mental/physical actions being generated in accordance to the mind reactions". The thinking and acting faculty that has self awareness, non-attachment, and self control, it doesn't have to perform mental and/or physical actions that are hurtful and destructive via the organs of action influenced by the mind reactions towards the perceived names and forms that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, and enjoyable or non-enjoyable.

Upon coming in contact with the names and forms that are unpleasant/undesirable/disagreeable/non-enjoyable, or upon not coming in contact with the names and forms that are pleasant/desirable/agreeable/enjoyable, there might be the internal mental reaction of aversion, dissatisfaction, disappointment, frustration, irritation, or anger, and then, this internal mental reaction is being externalized into mental and/or physical actions that might be hurtful and disturbing unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

The presence of self awareness, non-attachment, and self control can allow the thinking and acting faculty to stop performing mental and/or physical actions that would be hurtful and damaging unto oneself, others, and the surrounding environment, even if there are some random mental reactions that are unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, or non-enjoyable arise in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind reacting towards the perceived names and forms.

"I (the selfless thinking and acting faculty) am aware of there are some unpleasant agitated vibrations/sensations/feelings/emotions arising in the modification of the mind. All these are impermanent, they don't belong to I, and they are not I. I don't need to perform any actions that would be hurting myself and/or others and the surrounding environment."

There is no judgment or expectation towards all these selfless impermanent mind stuff of the modification of the mind, and eventually, there will be less and less violent or hurtful mental reactions due to the presence of correct understanding, kindness, and peace in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, under the presence of self awareness, non-attachment, and self control.

Non-attachment and non-expectation, or non-control and non-interference, doesn't mean that there shouldn't be any actions that can be performed, that can help to improve the over-all well-being of the selfless impermanent life existence and function of the body and mind, or that can help to improve the general condition and situation in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that can promote peace and harmony, wisdom and kindness, among the many diversities. That is a huge misunderstanding towards non-attachment, non-expectation, non-control, and non-interference.

Similarly, there is a huge difference between "self control" and "control others", between "self discipline" and "discipline others", between "self discipline" and "self punishment", between "improving the condition and situation in the world that will benefit all and everyone, without temptation or bribery, not to say, violence and force, and without attachment or expectation" and "interfering with and controlling some others in order to control the world to be in certain way that will benefit one's ambitious selfish desires, via temptation or bribery and/or bullying and threatening, intimidating and oppressing, cheating and manipulating, violence and force".

Upon seeing someone's life is at risk, the practice of non-interference doesn't mean that one shouldn't give help to that someone, if it's possible, and within one's ability. And after trying to give help, whether the life of that someone will be free from the risky situation, or not, it's not in the control of anyone, it is not the responsibility of the one that tries to help.

One may think, "It is its own cause to die in that situation. I should not interfere with that." But, one can also think, "Maybe this is my cause to be here, and to give help, or if I don't know what to do, I can call someone else to help, if someone else is there. Unless it is not possible for me to do anything and there is nobody else there that can come to help. Whether this action of giving help will save the life of that someone, or not, it's not in anyone's control, and it's not anyone's responsibility."

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha didn't interfere with anyone being what they were/are, and evolve as they were/are. He only disseminated the Dhamma or the teachings of how to transcend ignorance and suffering, and allowing all and everyone whether to take it or leave it, allowing all and everyone who have the yearning towards knowledge (wisdom) and peace, to be willingly to inquire towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence, and be free from ignorance and suffering, out of their own freewill and effort, allowing all and everyone to evolve as they were/are.

There is no violence, or threatening hurtful punishment or self punishment in both the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism, that are based on self-initiative, self-reliance, self-effort, self-discipline, self-control, self-purification, self-inquiry, and self-realization, through non-violence, via The Middle Path.

Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind propagating.

Be open, be kind, be wise, be accommodate, be adapt, be persevere, be determine, be patient, be focus, be aware, be content, be calm, be truthful, be understanding, be generous, be cheerful, be happy, be free, be peaceful.

Focus on what is possible in the present moment now.

Let go what is not possible in the present moment now.

Possibility and impossibility are impermanent.

Turning what is supposed to be hard and difficult and madness into the path of wisdom, kindness, and peace.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.

It's the freedom of the mind to be what it is and what it is not

Freedom and responsibility (actions and consequences of actions) are the two sides of a coin.

Most minds want to have freedom of everything, but they don't want to have the responsibility that comes along with the freedom of something or everything.

Most minds think and believe that responsibility is what makes them not free.

For them, responsibility is the opposite of freedom.

But in reality, freedom and responsibility (actions will give rise to the consequences of actions) cannot exist without one another.

If the mind appreciates and desires the freedom of everything, it cannot avoid the responsibility to be responsible towards the consequences of action that are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable, even if the mind thinks and believes that its freedom of everything is something good, right, positive, and meaningful, based on the existing thinking and belief and values in the mind about what is good, right, positive, and meaningful.

By understanding that, one will know that responsibility is not the cause of "the absence or lack of freedom".

It is the presence of aversion, or rejection, or doesn't desire, or fear, towards the responsibility towards the unknown, especially towards the undesirable/unpleasant/disagreeable/non-enjoyable consequences that is what making them 'not free', while they have all the freedom to be what they want to be, to do what they want to do, to go where they want to go, to be at where they want to be at, to think what they want to think, to feel what they want to feel, to act and react in the way that they want to act and react, and to express or say what they want to express or say, even if out of ignorance and egoism, there are more and more man made egoistic rules and regulations that restrict the many types of freedom in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, which that itself, has certain consequences that are not conducive for promoting more peace and harmony in the world, but are responsible for the rise of more and more disturbed and suffering minds in the world, that give rise to all kinds of destructive harmful action/reaction/behavior inflicted unto oneself and/or others within the family, in the relationship, in the community, in school, in work place, in business, in all kinds of organization, in all kinds of affair, dealing, communication, and interaction, and in the world.

What the mind wants to think or doesn't think, feel or doesn't feel, understand or doesn't understand, desire or doesn't desire, act and react or doesn't act and react, in certain way, or not in certain way, it is its own choice and freedom, as well as it is its own responsibility to be responsible for all its choices, desires and doesn't desires, action and inaction, and the consequences of all that.

What the mind wants to do with itself, the body, and the life existence, is its own choice and freedom, as well as it is its own responsibility.

Even though the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind doesn't even belong to itself (the truth of non-self and selflessness), not to say, the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body that is made up of many different components and life maintenance supporting systems, or the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of the body and mind, that is full of unpredictable uncertainties (the truth of non-self, selflessness, impermanence, limitation, and conditional), that doesn't belong to the selfless thinking and acting mind, that are momentary, that only exist for a limited duration, under the selfless support of the selfless intentionless energy and elements to be existing and functioning, and there are ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration that are inevitable, but what and how the selfless thinking and acting mind chooses to do with the selfless existence and function of itself, the body, and the life existence, it is its own choice and freedom.

None can tell the mind how it should think or doesn't think, feel or doesn't feel, understand or doesn't understand, desire or doesn't desire, act and react or doesn't act and react, in certain way, or not in certain way.

None and nothing can tell the mind what or how it should do with itself, the body, and the life existence. Not even the selfless intentionless energy and elements that give and support and maintain the life existence and function of the body and mind, not to say, the parents, the guardian, the best friend, the partner, the children, the teacher, the leader, the scientist, the philosopher, the bully, or the authority of any kind.

Even though the thinking and acting mind itself is non-self and selfless, depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning, and even though the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body and life existence is non-self (doesn't belong to the selfless thinking and acting mind), that is not in the control of the thinking and acting faculty to control them to be exactly the way that the thinking and acting mind would like and desire it to be, but the choices of the thinking and acting mind of what it wants to do with itself, the body, and the life existence, is affecting and influencing its own selfless existence and function, the over-all condition and well-being of the body, and the life existence to be and to evolve in certain way, or not in certain way.

Even though there is no independent self existence of an infinite 'I' existing in the selfless thinking and acting mind, the body, or the life existence of the body and mind, to be undergoing selfless impermanent changes of forming, existing, decaying, disintegrating, and ceased existing, or to be responsible for the selfless action and consequences of action being generated and performed by the selfless thinking and acting mind via the organs of action of the physical body in the momentary life existence, but the selfless thinking and acting mind is indeed responsible for its choices of action that give rise to the consequences of action, that are being generated in accordance to its own conscious choice, of desires and doesn't desires, that are affecting and influencing the impermanent evolution/changes and the impermanent condition of the selfless existence and function of itself, the over-all condition and well-being of the physical body, and the momentary life existence in certain way or not in certain way.

The thinking and acting faculty that is being over-powered by the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind as well as under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, might be hurting the different functions of the physical body and the different functions of the mind, abusing and straining the different bodily structures, functions, organs, and systems, forcing/pushing the body and mind beyond its limitation in order to gratify the endless and boundless greedy desires/ambitions of the thinking and acting faculty, either wittingly or unwittingly, thinking and believing that all kinds of achievements might maximize its chances of survival to prolonged its life existence and to enjoy pleasurable enjoyments to the maximum.

All kinds of action and the respective consequences of action being generated by each selfless mind, also affecting and influencing all and everyone and everything in the surrounding environment in certain way or not in certain way.

If the minds are free from ignorance, if the minds are wise, kind, and peaceful, there is no aversion/rejection/doesn't desire/fear towards any kind of responsibility.

The existence of man made egoistic rules and regulations of all kinds of 'threatening punishment' cannot restrict or control the freedom of each mind being what they are, and to evolve as they are. Man made egoistic rules and regulations is completely powerless under the selfless power of nature, under the nature's law of cause and effect.

Under the influence of ignorance and its by-products, devoid of correct understanding, kindness, and peace, the thinking and acting mind might be generating ideas, desires, actions, reactions, or behavior that is hurtful unto itself and/or others and the surrounding environment, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Devoid of ignorance and its by-products, under the presence of correct understanding (wisdom), kindness (compassion), and peace (the absence of disturbance, restlessness, or suffering), the thinking and acting mind doesn't generate ideas, desires, actions, reactions, or behaviors that is hurtful unto itself or others and the surrounding environment.

That is why the highest duty of all minds, is to be free from ignorance, to attain self realization.

There is no need of rules and regulations to control or restrict the freedom of anything and everything, as that doesn't really stop the minds to behave the way that they behave, but it will only causing more and more minds loosing their sanity or mental health due to being restricted to be what they are, as they are.

It is about tackling the root cause of destructive hurtful ideas, desires, actions, reactions, and behaviors, which is about coming from the thinking and acting faculty itself, out of its own freewill, and not being forced, or disciplined, or restricted by some others or by some punishable rules and regulations, but willingly to free itself from being over-powered and influenced by the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, and then, work diligently by itself to annihilate the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the modification of the mind (purifying and quieting the modification of the mind), and thus, removing the veil of ignorance, that enables the thinking and acting faculty to see the truth itself, of knowing Thyself, and this liberated thinking and acting faculty that is devoid of ignorance, will stop hurting itself and others or the surrounding environment, under the presence of correct understanding, kindness, and peace.

In the yoga class, while learning and practicing the yoga asana practice, pranayama practice, and concentration practice, the yoga students are indeed learning to take full responsibility for themselves, to be responsible towards looking after their own body and mind and life existence, their own physical and mental well-being, their own desires and don't desires/actions/reactions/behaviors/decision making and the consequences of their desires and don't desires/actions/reactions/behaviors/decision making.

The mind that can take responsibility as it is, they can fully enjoy their freedom of everything, and be responsible for the consequences of their freedom of everything, as it is.

The mind is not free, it's because of fear. Fear of losing what they like and want, fear of not getting what they like and want, and fear of getting what they don't like and don't want (being the slave of the desire of craving and aversion).

Inquire the truth of everything.

Is it possible to be free from ignorance and suffering?

If the selfless mind is having this doubt and asking this question, then it indicates that, it has -

The selfless consciousness/awareness (to be conscious/aware),

The selfless function of the perception and the organs of perception/the organs of the senses (to perceive/experience),

Cognition and memory (to know and to remember knowledge),

Intellect (to doubt, investigate, inquire, learn, recognize, reason, and understand),

Emotion (to enjoy or suffer),

Thinking and acting (to process inputs and outputs, to attach or doesn't attach, to hold on or let go, to associate or doesn't associate, to make choices, to desire or doesn't desire, to believe or doesn't believe, to agree or doesn't agree, to give/take/accept or doesn't give/take/accept, to perform action (express, respond, act and react) and inaction (doesn't express, respond, act and react), to internalize or externalize (gathering/channeling the focus/attentiveness/awareness/energy inward or outward), to improve or deteriorate selfless evolution/changes,

The organs of the senses and the function of the senses (for the thinking and acting faculty to perceive/experience/learn/know towards what is happening inside and outside of the body/receiving inputs),

And the organs of expression/action (for it to have the physical mobility to express ideas/agreements/disagreements/desires/doesn't desires/feelings/emotions in speech or gesture of the body/facial features/limbs/hands/feet to be communicating and interacting, and to survive/live/adjust/adapt/accommodate/move/act/react/create/develop different skills/improve/strengthen/defense with the physical body, and turning/externalizing/materializing the mental thoughts/ideas/feelings/desires/understanding/choices into physical action and inaction (giving outputs), that will give rise to the respective consequences/effects/fruits of action and inaction.

 

As long as there is the thinking and acting faculty existing and functioning as what it is, to be aware/conscious, to perceive, to experience, to think, to feel, to doubt, to learn, to reason, to inquire, to recognize, and to understand, and it has certain degrees of remembrance towards what it has been perceiving, experiencing, thinking, feeling, doubting, learning, reasoning, inquiring, recognizing, and understanding,

Where the mind perceives doubt, the unknown, duality, impermanent changes, hunger, thirst, discomfort, pain, sorrow, restlessness, exhaustion, limitation, weakness, uncertainty, insecurity, fear, disturbance, and suffering,

Where the mind has the yearning or desire (willpower and determination) to be free, to know and understand, to be happy, and to have peace,

Then this mind has the opportunity and possibility to evolve towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance/the idea of 'I'/egoism/impurities/restlessness, or the subjugation of the restless impure egoistic selfless modification of the mind, or the attainment of self-realization towards the absolute knowledge of the infinite wisdom and compassion of nature, and be free, be happy, and be peaceful, under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/freedom/peace, right method, right effort, right attentiveness, right attitude, self-reliance, openness, adaptability, patience, forbearance, perseverance, and determination.

The path of yoga and/or buddhism exists for the selfless thinking and acting mind that perceives inevitable suffering (due to the inevitable selfless impermanent changes) and evitable suffering (deriving from ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless modification of the mind that hinders the mind from seeing/knowing the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional life existence and function of itself).

The direct realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty to transcend both inevitable and evitable suffering, not being over-powered, determined, or disturbed by the inevitable selfless impermanent changes, and devoid of ignorance and the evitable suffering deriving from ignorance.

Different minds with different personalities and characteristics can choose from the different types of practices of yoga and/or buddhism that suits oneself most. There is neither this type of practice nor that type of practice is more or less superior or effective.

Even a very weak and ill physical body also can practice and attain liberation.

Even the most violent or restless mind also can practice and attain liberation.

But it has to come from the desire or freewill of the mind itself, to be purifying and disciplining and quieting the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, to change its own thinking and behavior pattern, to be determined to free itself from the influence of ignorance, to inquire the truth of everything, to attain self realization of knowing Thyself, all by itself, without violence.

Regardless of what type of practice, it is all about rendering the selfless impermanent modification of the mind to be clear, pure, calm, and quiet, a.k.a. the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, via the middle path, under the presence of non-violence/non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-association/non-craving/non-aversion/non-comparison/non-judgment/non-expectation towards the entire process and the pleasant and unpleasant side-effects of the process.

The knowledge of the wisdom and compassion of nature, that enables all and everything to be existing, changing, and ceased existing, is always there, as it is, in all and everything, never increase or decrease, uncontaminated/unchanged/undamaged/unhurt by the ability or disability/the functionality or non-functionality/the good or bad condition of the physical body and the thinking and acting faculty, of the perceived or doesn't perceive, experience or doesn't experience, the different degrees of intelligence, the corrupted or non-corrupted reasoning, known or unknown, understanding or non-understanding, correct or incorrect understanding, recognize or doesn't recognize, remember or doesn't remember, action/reaction or non-action/reaction, and desire or doesn't desire of the selfless thinking and acting faculty, as well as the state of purity or impurity, calmness or restlessness, pleasantness or unpleasantness, agreements or disagreements, goodness or evilness, rightfulness or wrongfulness, enjoyment or suffering, joyfulness or joylessness, positiveness or negativeness, selfishness or unselfishness, kindness or unkindness, meaningfulness or meaninglessness, and the presence or absence of corruption and impurities in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind.

Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, and non-blind propagating.

None can remove the ignorance or suffering for another.

None can give realization or liberation to another.

None and nothing can destroy the wisdom, compassion, and peace that exists in all and everyone, or take away all that from another. Even the thickest veil of ignorance and the highest amount of suffering also cannot destroy the wisdom, compassion, and peace that is always there, as it is.

It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance and suffering.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The bully and its bullying

Bullying is a form of mental illness.

The bully is a person or a mind that is suffering from mental illness.

Not all forms of mental illness are violent, hurtful, or destructive, but the mental illness of bullying is violent, hurtful, and destructive unto oneself and others.

Bully and bullying exists in anywhere and everywhere. In the family, among spouses, among parents and children, among siblings, among relatives. In the community, among friends, among lovers, among schoolmates, among classmates, among teachers and students, among businesses, among bosses and bosses, among employers and employees, among colleagues, among neighbours, among countries, among leaders and leaders, among leaders and followers, among human beings, among human beings and other living beings, among all and everyone that are existing and functioning under the influence of a restless impure modification of the mind. It is the by-products of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the modification of the mind.

The bully has endless and boundless desires waiting to be gratified and fulfilled, and it wants to gratify and fulfill all its endless and boundless desires via bullying/threatening/manipulating/exploiting the others.

The bully thinks and believes that itself is more intelligent than many others. But unfortunately, they are not, because if they are intelligent, they won't be what they are (a bully), and behave as they are (bullying others).

It thinks and believes that itself is the one in power to be juggling/controlling/influencing/manipulating the others to act/react/behave or don't act/react/behave in certain way that it desires, that will make all its desires come true.

The minds that are wise (not necessarily intelligent), they won't try to juggle/control/influence/manipulate/bully/threaten anyone or anything to be or not to be in certain way. If they want, they can even help the others to develop sufficient knowledge or correct understanding that will help to unveil the wisdom within all and everyone. Highly intelligent and the accumulation of worldly knowledge doesn't necessarily mean that the mind is wise, or the wisdom within a.k.a. the knowledge of life existence, is unveiled to the mind.

Out of ignorance, the ones that were/are being bullied by some others in certain way, they might think and believe that in order to stop being the victim of a bully, is to become a bully themselves, that they think and believe it will make them feel strong and powerful, which doesn't work, because that will only be exposing the ignorance, low self-esteem, inferiority, insufficiency, fear, and weakness (powerlessness) in themselves. It doesn't make the sense of low self-esteem, inferiority, insufficiency, fear, or powerlessness in them to disappear. It doesn't really make them strong and powerful.

Even the most 'powerful' person in the world will still be troubling by the sense of low self-esteem, inferiority, insufficiency, fear, or powerlessness in them, if they haven't attained self-realization towards the wisdom within.

Those who have attained self-realization towards the wisdom within, they don't need to 'be powerful', they are powerful, selflessly, intentionlessly, desirelessly, namelessly, and formlessly. And that selfless power of wisdom and compassion, doesn't threaten, or control, or manipulate anyone or anything to be in certain way that is desirable and agreeable, but the mind is peaceful as it is, unconditionally.

The person becomes a bully, or the bully is existing, through bullying and threatening the others.

A bully is also a manipulator. Through manipulating and threatening others, it gains the power of bullying, to become a bully.

"Give me what I want, or else, I will punish you, and you will be in painful suffering. All I want is for you to be good and happy. I want you to be happy. If you make me happy, and you will also be happy. Be nice to me, and I will be nice to you. If not, I will make you suffer. You just need to do what I want you to do and give me what I want, and I will be good and you will be good too, and there will be no punishment, and there will be no painful suffering. Everyone is good and happy." - The common statement of any kind of bully.

The bully manipulates the others to think and believe that they are weak and dependent, and that they need to depend on it (not someone and/or something else), no matter what and how.

The survival of a bully is coming from bullying/manipulating/threatening "some others". If there is nobody being there to be engaging with the bully, then the bully and its bullying has no "target" to aim at, in order to be what they are.

The power of bullying or manipulation of the bully/manipulator is being given and empowered by the others whom themselves ignorantly/willingly to give in or surrender to the desires or the threats/bullying/manipulations of the bully/manipulator.

If all and everyone just stop thinking and believing that themselves are weak and dependent, that they can never be strong and independent as being told by the bully/manipulator, where they realize that they are weak and dependent is because they were/are being bullied/threatened/manipulated by the bully/manipulator to think and believe that they are weak and dependent, and hence, they (can) stop gratifying the desires (not giving in or surrender to the threats) of the bully/manipulator, then the bully/manipulator will loose its power to bully and manipulate anyone or anything.

The bully or the manipulator, as well as the exploiter, cannot exist or cannot have the power to be what they are, if they are no others being there to be engaging with them, being the ones that are being bullied, or manipulated, or exploited by them.

Even if someone is really physically/mentally/financially weak, and needed to be dependent on some others to survive, it doesn't need to and shouldn't be dependent on someone who is a bully. It can look out for and depend on some others who are not a bully, but with kindness and wisdom, who don't need to be a bully to be bullying others in order to gratify their desires. There are many others who are not a bully, who don't need to survive or to be 'superior, strong, and powerful' by bullying others.

To stop the existence of any kind of bully and bullying, all and everyone just need to stop giving in to or gratifying the desires of the bully, that stops empowering the bully and its bullying, and eventually, the bully will no longer have the power of bullying to bully anyone or anything.

Once give in, it will be more difficult to be free from the bully and its bullying. Because upon each time giving in, it will be empowering the bully and its bullying. The bullying will never come to an end, not until the bully looses the power of bullying that is empowered by those who give in to the desires/bullying/threats/manipulations/exploitation of the bully.

Want to stop any kind of bully and its bullying? Then stop empowering all that.

Stop engaging with the bully.

Stop negotiating with the bully.

Leave the bully to be by itself, to be engaging and negotiating with itself.

No doubt that, the bully and its bullying has certain power being given, powered, and empowered by those who give in to the bully and its bullying.

But the selfless wisdom and compassion of nature, that exists in all and everyone, and the nature's law of cause and effect, is even more powerful.

Many people might think and believe that the bully is fearless, that is why it is a bully that bullies others, but actually, it's the exact contrary. Those who are fearless don't need to bully anyone or anything, not to say, to be bullied by someone or something. Both the bully and the bullied are all acting/reacting/behaving under the presence of fear.

Most people (except the ones that are selfish, ignorant, greedy, violent, and destructive) want to be living under a peaceful and harmonious living environment that is conducive for enjoying either a comfortable life existence all by oneself, or have a pleasant relationship and interaction with all the others in the surrounding environment. By inflicting violent, hurtful, and destructive action/reaction/behavior unto others and the surrounding environment will only destroy the peaceful and harmonious living environment, where all and everyone, including those who inflict violent, hurtful, and destructive action/reaction/behavior unto others and the surrounding environment, won't be able to survive or make a living, not to say, to be enjoying either a comfortable life existence all by oneself, or have a pleasant relationship and interaction with all the others in the surrounding environment.

The difference between a mind that wants (needs) to bully others and a mind that doesn't need to bully anyone or anything -

The mind that doesn't bully, knows and understands what the bully doesn't know and doesn't understand. No matter how much 'power' and 'control' that the bully thinks and believes that it has, that comes from bullying/threatening/manipulating/oppressing/exploiting/punishing/hurting the others, it is always being in a state of inferiority than those who don't need to bully anyone or anything, because there is something that it doesn't know and doesn't understand, that many others know and understand.

The more the mind wants to be more superior or powerful than the others, the more inferior and powerless is the mind than all the others.

If you think you are a victim of a bully, you just need to know that you are, and will always be, more superior and powerful than the bully, without the need of being a bully yourself. All you need to do is, not accepting the bullying, and walk away, and leave the bully by itself.

The bully will beg you and everyone that it bullies, "Please come back, and let me bully you. I love you. I will always love you. Please come back. I need you to be here for me to be a bully. If everyone leaves me, there is nobody here for me to bully."

 

Controlling others is not self control.

Discipline/punish others is not self discipline.

It is harmful and destructive in the intention and action of controlling and disciplining others.

It is beneficial and constructive in the intention and action of self control and self discipline.

And more importantly, self discipline is not about self punishment or be disciplined/punished by others.

Self discipline is about coming from the selfless thinking and acting faculty (the selfless mind) itself, out of its own desire or freewill, to be purifying, filtering, and quieting its own restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, a.k.a. removing/annihilating the veil of ignorance that is veiling the existing absolute knowledge of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence, and hence, enabling the selfless thinking and acting faculty to be knowing/realizing the selfless intentionless attributeless timeless unlimited and unconditional wisdom and compassion (the selfless intentionless power of nature that enables all and everything to be forming/existing, changing, decaying and disintegrating/ceased existing), that is always there, within the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body, where all these names and forms are selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, that only exists for a momentary duration in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

There is no violence, or hurtful action/reaction/behavior unto oneself or others in self discipline.

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How to be free from the sense of pride and superiority

The minds that are devoid of the sense of pride and superiority, they don't need to be free from pride and superiority.

The minds that have the sense of pride and superiority, most probably they enjoy very much being prideful and are enjoying the superior status, and won't be interested in letting go the sense of pride and superiority.

"To be free from the sense of pride and superiority? Why? Is that even a thing that exists? Everyone works so hard and wants to be able to be qualified and deserving to be prideful about their physical and mental quality and ability and all kinds of achievements and possessions, that give them the status of superiority, and be able to boast or glorify about the qualities, abilities, achievements, and possessions that they have, that give them the sense of pride and superiority, that make them feel strong and powerful."

Just like the minds that enjoy making unlimited money and hoarding unlimited wealth and possessions, most probably they won't be interested in letting go greed, or endless dissatisfaction or discontentment, and hoarding/possessiveness.

Unless they experience something impactful in life, where they realize that there are certain things that they want so much, but they can't get, or buy, or in exchange with the total amount of ability, wealth, possession, and power that they have, that will make them rethink or reflect about themselves or about life existence.

Upon coming in contact with certain impactful experience, or intense physical/mental/emotional painful suffering, where their own physical body is no longer in their command to perform even the simplest task, the minds that are prideful about their superior status might rethink and reflect about the uselessness or powerlessness of the sense of pride and the superior status, as no matter how prideful and superior that they think they are, they are just like all and everyone else, where all and everyone cannot escape the inevitable limitation of selfless impermanent changes of decay, hunger, thirst, restless maintenance, aging, weakness, stiffness, illness, pain, injury, disability, disintegration, and death, or mortality.

It is highly exhausting to be upholding the sense of pride and superiority that come from the attachment and identification towards certain qualities, abilities, achievements, and possessions that they have, that are limited, conditional, and impermanent. Not only that it takes a lot of energy or effort to maintain all that, but they also need to ceaselessly attain and possess more or higher quality, ability, achievement, and possession, and hence, upon intense exhaustion, maybe some of them will realize that they don't need to be the slave of pride and superiority that come from the possession and accumulation of qualities, abilities, achievements, and possessions that are impermanent, and out of their own freewill or desire, they want to let go the sense of pride and superiority. While there are some minds will never let go, and that's their freedom.

Some minds might question that how difficult can it be to just let go the sense of pride and superiority?

The sense of pride and superiority, a.k.a. the sense of momentary satisfaction, security, success, accomplishment, strength, and power, that are limited, conditional, and impermanent, is similar to any kinds of 'physical or mental addiction' that give the minds some momentary pleasurable enjoyable sensations or feelings that are limited, conditional, and impermanent, that the minds addicted onto.

It is not easy, but it's possible for the minds to let go of the sense of pride, superiority, success, strength, and power, that are there to suppress the many other qualities or impurities that exist in the modification of the mind that they don't like and don't want, such as the sense of low self-esteem, low self-worth, inferiority, failure, weakness, fear, insecurity, animosity, insufficiency, and powerless, reacting towards the presence of certain limitations or qualities in the body and mind that they don't like, disagree with, and don't desire.

It is also because of the ignorant egoistic impure minds don't like, disagree with, and don't desire certain undesirable qualities that exist in their body and their modification of the mind, that make them feel inferior, or insufficient, or weak, or insecure, or powerless, they will also be discriminate towards others that have certain qualities that they don't like, disagree with, and don't desire.

The minds that have discrimination and hatred towards some others, that cannot accept and be kind towards some others that they discriminate and hate, is because these minds have discrimination and hatred towards something in themselves that they don't like, disagree with, and don't desire, where they cannot accept and be kind to themselves as they are. If so, how can they accept and be kind towards some others as they are?

That's why the minds that know how to accept and be kind to themselves as they are, will also know how to accept and be kind to many others as they are, devoid of discrimination or hatred towards oneself and others.

One thing for sure. The most prideful and superior super successful, super strong, and super powerful person in the world will also have to bow down to DECAY and DEATH, when they can't even perform the simplest task, or can't even walk to the toilet, and can't control their pee and shit, or upon the heart stops beating, and the breath stops coming and going.

The unlimited degrees or amount of difficulty/challenge that exists in the yoga asana practice, the pranayama practice, and the concentration practice (especially in certain lineage that only focus on the yoga asana/pranayama/concentration practice, that deliberately doesn't talk about any philosophy at all - "99% of practice, 1% of theory", "Just do your practice, and all will come to you" that are designed for hammering or breaking the prideful ego of the practitioners that have a strong and energetic physical condition and personality), that has no limit of difficulty or challenge physically/mentally/emotionally, until the body and mind can't push any further, and breaks down.

Many people might think and believe that physical/mental/emotional breakdown is something bad and terrible, but it can be the precious life changing moment for the prideful arrogant minds to rethink and reflect upon themselves and life existence, and how they treat all the others in this world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything. Here, we are talking about the self discipline of performing the yoga asana/pranayama/concentration practice out of one's own freewill willingly to discipline one's own modification of the mind, without violence, or forced by some others.

This physical/mental/emotional breakdown process deriving from performing the challenging yoga asana practice, is coming from the prideful arrogant mind itself trying to push its body and mind beyond its limitation, that enables the mind to have direct experience and understanding towards the inevitable truth of limitation and impermanence in the body and mind, to be free from pride/arrogance/and many other egoistic impurities, but definitely it's not coming from some others impose/inflict certain violent and aggressive disciplinary training/punishment forcefully unto some others, to push them beyond their physical and mental limitation, in order to hammer and break them, to make them feel weak and vulnerable, to make them become submissive and surrender under their control.

That's why the challenging yoga asana practice being performed out of one's freewill, can help the minds to grow and evolve towards peace, wisdom, and kindness, and even if they haven't attained self realization yet, but just by performing the yoga asana practice regularly for certain months and years, will bring beneficial effects to the body and mind, that can improve the physical and mental health and fitness condition.

Meanwhile, the authoritarianism or disciplinarians that is about coming from someone (an authority or a disciplinarian) imposes/inflicts violent forceful aggressive disciplinary training/punishment or restrictive rules and regulations unto some others, to inflict certain painful physical and mental suffering unto some others, with the intention to make some others to become submissive towards the authority or the disciplinarian, to behave or don't behave in certain way, doesn't help the minds to grow and evolve towards peace, wisdom, and kindness, but the contrary of that.

Just like all kinds of world records in any kind of sports activities and competitions. A world record holder of weight lifting, or high jumping, or gymnastic competition understands that the physical body is limited, where it can never win against the unlimited weight, unlimited height, or unlimited difficulty, as well as the selfless impermanent changes that are not in the control of the body and mind, that can allow the prideful mind to have direct experience and understand towards the sense of pride and superiority as well as the optimistic positive thinking and belief, confidence, and affirmation about "I am highly knowledgeable, intelligent, talented, well-trained, young, healthy, fit, super energetic, super strong, super powerful, and superior human being. I can do and achieve anything that I desire," doesn't and cannot defy or escape DECAY, ILLNESS, INJURY, OLD AGE, and DEATH.

These competitive athletes understand that PRIDE and SUPERIORITY, 'achievement' and 'winning'/'victory', or 'world record' and 'world record holder', or the strongest/the fastest/the supplest/the lightest/the most talented/the most skillful/the most powerful/the most charming/the most influential, and etc, doesn't really mean anything for the physical body, or the life existence, that is limited, that is impermanent, that is extremely fragile.

There is really nothing that can be prideful about, and there is no superiority in anything.

The minds that understand this, will not hurt themselves or others. 

Only the ignorant egoistic minds will think and believe that they (need to) have something that they can be prideful about, and that make them feel somehow more powerful or superior than many others, that boost the sense of self-esteem, self-worth, power, strength, security, accomplishment, and meaningfulness, that are also impermanent. These minds will be hurting themselves and others by constantly forcing their body and mind beyond its limitation in order to achieve higher and endless achievements, out of the sense of pride and superiority.

The minds that are devoid of the sense of pride and superiority,  even when they are highly successful, accomplished, intelligent, knowledgeable, talented, or skillful in something or many things, will also simultaneously be free from dissatisfaction, disappointment, greed, anger, hatred, discrimination, possessiveness, selfishness, low self-esteem, low self-worth, insecurity, humiliation, animosity, offensiveness, defensiveness, bully, jealousy, envy, fear, agitation, frustration, annoyance, violence, authoritarianism or disciplinarians, and all kinds of impurities. (The annihilation of duality, of all kinds of egoistic impurities)

That's why the annihilation of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, is the highest duty of all minds.

Although the limited body and mind can never change or defeat the truth of selflessness and impermanence, but it can go beyond or transcend all kinds of limitation, not being determined or over-powered by all kinds of limitation, while make good use of the availability of energy, life existence, supportive condition, ability, knowledge, intelligence, talent, skill, opportunity, and possibility in the present moment now, to be doing something beneficial for oneself and others and the world, even if all these are limited, conditional, and impermanent.

Inquire the truth of everything.