None and nothing belong to anyone or anything

"What is ignorance?"

"Why is the minds that are highly educated, knowledgeable, intelligent, creative, successful, or accomplished are not necessarily being free from ignorance?"

"How to be free from ignorance?"

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Ignorance, is not knowing the truth of Selflessness and Non-self in all and everyone and everything, a.k.a. "None and nothing belong to anyone or anything."

Ignorance is nothing to do with the presence and absence or the different degrees of education, knowledge, intelligence, creativity, success, and accomplishment.

It has nothing to do with lack of education, or lack of knowledge, or poor/absence of cognitive intelligence, or stupidity, or laziness, or bad karma, or sin, and etc.

Ignorance is not something bad, or evil, or weak, or punishable, or shame deserving, even if under the influence of ignorance, the minds ignorantly keep generating hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior/desire/aspiration that hurt all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, directly and indirectly, intentionally and unintentionally.

The educated and knowledgeable minds might have been accumulating lots of knowledge and might know many things, such as the minds might know and understand that the earth is not flat, and that the earth is turning at a particular speed while orbits around the sun at a particular speed under the influence of the selfless power of gravitation, that generates the false impression of time/day and night/year/sunrise and sunset, or there are essential elements that provide essential needs for supporting the generation and maintenance of life existence, and the mind might know a lot about engineering, architecture, finance and business management and investment, biology, chemistry, physiology, neurology, geography, creativity, invention, innovation, agriculture, or different types of skills and productivity, but the minds might not know or understand towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self, as the minds are being conditioned and limited by the egoistic mind thinking and behavior pattern that is deriving from and empowered by the natural veil of ignorance.

The minds might be over-powered by and identifying with the presence of all kinds of thoughts, feelings, emotions, imaginations, memories flashback, or desires, or the presence of the idea of 'I' and egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, or the presence of all kinds of duality and impurities such as the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of ownership and belonging, the sense of separateness and loneliness, the sense of pride and shame, the sense of goodness and badness, positiveness and negativeness, happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and joylessness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, deserving and undeserving, superiority and inferiority, righteousness and wrongfulness, appropriateness and inappropriateness, selfishness, possessiveness, obsession, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, grief, painful sorrow, uncomfortable or painful sensations, hurts, victimized, intimidation, humiliation, fear, worry, anticipation, wild imagination, longing, insecurity, insufficiency, protectiveness, offensiveness, defensiveness, aggressiveness, violence, and so on (restlessness), being conditioned and limited (influenced/threatened/tempted/moulded/restricted) by the existing inherited and/or adopted worldly egoistic impure ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/national/commercial/family/community/social/educational ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, inspirations, aspirations, and visions, for the mind to think, to reason, to evaluate, to understand, to desire, to act and react, or to behave in certain way and not in certain way (the conditional mind thinking and behavior pattern).

The existence of ignorance, is due to the natural intentionless manifestation of the veil of ignorance in the modification of the mind being what it is, as it is. It is a natural selfless intentionless manifestation in all minds that have the normal functionality of a selfless and non-self, limited and conditional, impermanent and restless modification of a perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, that manifests along with the formation and activation of the selfless restless gross and subtle or conscious and unconscious thought current/activity/process or modification of the mind throughout the three states of consciousness, semi-consciousness, and unconsciousness, that are essential for the selfless formation of life existence and function as well as the inevitable ceaseless life maintenance until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing.

Not only that there is the restless gross and subtle brain activity (conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious internal and external inputs processing and outputs responding) happening throughout the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, but there is also continuous subtle thought current/process or brain activity (unconscious autonomous inputs processing and outputs responding) during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma that is essential for life maintenance, unless there is complete cut-off from energy supply or complete energy depletion, or there is complete brain dead and/or complete failure of the life supporting organs and/or the life supporting systems.

The mind that is functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness (wakeful state) and semi-consciousness (sleep and dream state) might be aware of the conscious and semi-conscious restless random thought activity/current/process, but it might not be aware of the underlying ongoing ceaseless autonomous involuntary subtle thought current/activity/process for life maintenance, not to say, upon the state of unconsciousness (deep sleep/coma), there is complete absence of conscious awareness and egoistic self assertive voluntary activity.

There is the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the mind to be aware of the conscious and semi-conscious restless random thought activity/current/process upon the states of consciousness (wakefulness) and semi-consciousness (sleep and dream state).

Such as under the state of consciousness, the mind that is fully conscious is consciously aware of certain physical/mental/emotional conscious activity of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, reasoning, problem solving, choice making, memories, imaginations, desires, actions, reactions, interactions, communications, and etc, upon the state of consciousness, while under the state of semi-consciousness, the mind that is semi-conscious is semi-aware of the state of not fully awake or the state of sleeping as well as the selfless manifestation of dream during the state of semi-consciousness or the sleep and dream state, where the mind wakes up and remembers all or certain part of the dream, or the mind is aware of the semi-conscious thought activity during the sleep and dream state (I slept and/or there was dreaming). Or, the mind wakes up doesn't know/remember anything that had been happening internally in the body and mind and externally in the surrounding environment after falling asleep - unconscious/deep sleep.

Dreams might be happening during the state of semi-consciousness (presence of semi awareness) and throughout the state of unconsciousness (absence of conscious awareness), however, the mind that is in sleep and deep sleep state under the absence of conscious awareness might not be aware of and/or remember the dreams. Not being aware of and don't remember the dream doesn't mean that there is no dreaming.

Some minds might even have the presence of conscious awareness in the sleep and dream state, where the mind is aware of the ceaseless subtle involuntary thought current/activity/process during sleep state (the selfless involuntary manifestation of dream that is prompted by the ceaseless inputs of countless names and forms and the ceaseless conscious and unconscious thought activity throughout all states of consciousness, of the ceaseless perception of names and forms, memories, and wild imaginations), and these minds have the limited conscious awareness and freewill to be interfering with the dream during the sleep and dream state (the subtle ego-less involuntary thought current/activity/process is being dominated and interrupted by the egoistic voluntary thought current/activity/process).

That is how extremely restless and busy the mind is.

That is why the highly importance of the observation of renunciation and dispassion and the practice of silence (mauna) in solitude and seclusion, to limit and minimize all kinds of conscious and unconscious mind inputs, especially all kinds of worldly egoistic affairs/activities/interactions/communications/ties and connections as much as possible, on top of engaging in the persistent regular practice of asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, and dhyana, to be quieting/calming/reducing the speed and volume of the conscious and unconscious thought current/activity/process, diligently and practically.

The veil of ignorance (the busy restless random gross and subtle thought current of ceaseless voluntary and involuntary thought after thought arising and passing away) is always there as it is, manifesting along with the ceaseless and restless continuous conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious modification of the mind, however, it is only valid or prevail (being the intentionless veil of ignorance/hindrance/murkiness) upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness (there is the conscious and semi-conscious awareness/acknowledgement towards the existence and function of the body and mind, a.k.a. the arising of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the sense of separateness), while it is invalid or doesn't serve any purpose of being the veil of ignorance/hindrance/murkiness upon the state of unconsciousness, under the complete absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the mind that is unconscious (there is no conscious awareness/acknowledgement towards the existence and function of the body and mind, a.k.a. absence of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the sense of separateness).

The mind awareness is temporary absence, or cut-off, or disconnected, during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma (temporary cutting off from conscious and semi-conscious physical and mental activity, a.k.a. rest and sleep, is highly essential for life existence and function, especially when there is the presence of illness, or injury, or traumatic impact), where there is no conscious or semi-conscious perceptive/cognitive/intellectual/emotional/thinking/acting self-assertive thought current/process/activity, but only the presence of subtle autonomous thought current or brain activity happening ceaselessly to be maintaining the non-self life existence and function of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind.

Under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, the thought current/activity/process or the modification of the mind, is a mix of egoistic voluntary (the presence of self awareness and self assertiveness a.k.a. the conscious and semi-conscious ego, of limited freewill of choice making, thinking, and acting) and ego-less involuntary activity (the absence of the conscious and semi-conscious ego, of limited autonomous activity prompted by the selfless survival instinct, just like the earth is rotating and orbits around the sun prompted by the selfless power of gravitation).

Under the state of unconsciousness, there is only ego-less autonomous brain activity for life maintenance prompted by the selfless survival instinct.

Regardless of egoistic voluntary or ego-less involuntary activity, all are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. This understanding is highly important in order to proceed in the process of self-inquiry.

The veil of ignorance - The selfless autonomous manifestation of the idea of 'I'/the ego/the conscious and semi-conscious awareness, or acknowledgement, or perception, or cognition towards the existence and modification of the body and mind as well as the surrounding environment of everything that is not this particular body and mind (the sense of separateness), that gives rise to and empowered by egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that gives rise to and empowered by all kinds of impurities, and that gives rise to and empowered by the restless thought current/process/activity (restlessness).

Unwittingly, or naturally, autonomously, and ignorantly being hindered/veiled/obstructed by the veil of ignorance, the conscious/semi-conscious mind under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness cannot see/know/understand things (clearly) as they are, where it is being ignorant towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, or it is being ignorant towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

The mind doesn't know Thyself is due to the natural formation of the intentionless veil of ignorance/hindrance/murkiness/restlessness.

Because of not knowing Thyself, on top of under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the mind keeps generating actions/reactions/responses/activities/behaviors through the organs of action and speech that would be hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment ignorantly, intentionally and unintentionally, randomly and deliberately.

The mind that knows Thyself, will also know that "There is none and nothing belong to anyone or anything" - The truth of Selflessness and Non-self in all and everything, including the momentary impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence and function of the body and mind itself, not to say, all and everything that is related to the body and mind (grasping/attachment/identification/possession/ownership/belonging/pride/self-esteem/self-worth/self-expansion or procreation) - my ancestor, my parents, my children, my siblings, my spouse, my family, my community, my birth place, my country, my nationality, my friends, my effort, my hard work, my initiation, my action and fruit of action, my achievement and contribution, my reputation, my status, my job, my business, my livelihood, my survival, my happiness, my ability and disability, my home, my house, my land, my property, my belongings, my health, my wealth, my suffering, my enjoyments, my ideas and point of views, my belief, my culture, my spirituality, my religion, my inspiration and aspiration, and etc.

The minds that know Thyself and the truth of "None and nothing belong to anyone or anything" are free from the sense of separateness, selfishness, possessiveness, sense of ownership and belonging, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, discrimination, insecurity, fear, worry, anger, hatred, dissatisfaction, disappointment, violence, or fighting within oneself and towards others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything. That is the essence of peace and harmony in oneself, in the relationship, in the family, in the community, in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

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To be free from ignorance, the mind needs to inquire towards what does it mean about "None and nothing belong to anyone or anything." Or, about what does the terms of Selflessness and Non-self really mean.

It has to come from the direct self inquiry and direct self realization of the mind itself towards knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of Selflessness and Non-self.

It is not that difficult for the mind to reason and understand towards what is impermanence, limitation, and conditional, but it is quite challenging (and yet it's possible) for the mind to inquire/investigate and know what is Selflessness and Non-self, even if the mind thinks that it sort of understands, but not really, or not completely, not until the mind is completely free from the influence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness (the annihilation/absence of the veil of ignorance), to see things as they are, where the mind sees the selfless and non-self existence/function/modification/manifestation of itself through the reflection reflected from the all pervading, all presence, all existence, all knowledge, selfless, timeless, attributeless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The minds that know and understand this, will know that there are many different individual body and mind of different qualities of names and forms and characteristics and personalities and impermanent changes, but there is no individual consciousness that belong to the many different individual body and mind respectively.

The selfless body and mind is finite, impermanent, conditional, and limited. The selfless universal consciousness is infinite, permanent, unconditional, and unlimited.

The minds that know and understand this, will also know the truth of about the creation and existence of the many different worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, fairy tales, justifications, values, practices, desires, inspirations, aspirations, visions, ambitions, wishful thinking, or empowerment in the world of human beings that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, such as the belief of karma (good/bad/neutral karma), or merits and sins, or the almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe, or the after life upon death, or the ceaseless reincarnation of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self identity/consciousness/spirit/soul.

Without the presence of consciousness/awareness, upon the state of unconsciousness, under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, there is no "I am thinking", "I am inquiring", "I am meditating", "I am enjoying", "I am suffering", "I am good", "I am bad", "I am happy", "I am sad", "I am calmed", "I am disturbed", "I see", "I hear", "I smell", "I feel", "I touch", "I act and react", "I know", "I understand", or "I think I know and understand."

It is merely the selfless perceptive mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness being aware of the selfless restless modification of the mind existing and functioning being what it is, as it is, neither good nor bad, and that is ceaselessly changing (different states of mind).

Time, or the notion of the past and the future, or age, or moment, or second, or minute, or hour, or day, or month, or year, is merely the reflection of the ceaseless impermanent changes of the selfless and non-self formation, growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration process of the mortal physical body and mind, as well as the reflection of ceaseless physical and mental activity/movement at a particular speed, or the sleep/wake cycle, or the breath coming and going, or the heart beats one after another, or the planets self-rotating while orbit around the sun at a particular speed.

There is only NOW, and it is always NOW, and everything in NOW is ceaselessly changing.

The minds that know and understand this, will also know that there is no continuous past existence(s) or future existence(s) (ceaseless reincarnation) of a permanent independent immortal self existence of an individual identity/consciousness/spirit/soul in anyone or anything, where there is only this selfless and non-self momentary impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence in NOW, and it is impermanent, limited, and conditional.

In NOW, this is what the body and mind is, this is where the body and mind is, this is how the body and mind is, this is what the mind perceives/experiences/acknowledges/comes in contact with/conscious of, and everything that is existing here and everywhere throughout the infinite space, in NOW, is ceaselessly changing/moving/aging/decaying/disintegrating/decomposing, and ceased existing, under a particular speed and cause.

That is why the minds that truly understand this, they are appreciating and making good use of the existence and function of the body and mind that is still existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and many different elements, in NOW, to be performing action that will be benefiting oneself and all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally, without grasping. All actions are being performed effortlessly without forcing the body and mind beyond its limitation.

Just be kind, be generous, and let go.

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To perform self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of itself, there is prerequisite of preparing the mind by diligently purifying and sharpening the intellectual reasoning power (free from the influence of worldly passionate egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, desires, and practices), turning the restless outgoing tendency of the mind that ceaselessly chasing after the objects of the senses inwards resting upon the selfless universal consciousness, which also leads towards rendering the restless modification of the mind one-pointed, focus, calm, and quiet (desirelessness/stillness/silence), where the conscious/semi-conscious mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness stands as the silent selfless witness witnessing the selfless and non-self thought activity/process/current or modification of the mind without grasping, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation. 

It is because of the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness that is why the mind is perceiving/knowing/acknowledging/sensing/doubting/thinking/reasoning/understanding/remembering/imagining/projecting/anticipating/acting/reacting/seeing/hearing/smelling/tasting/enjoying/suffering/and etc.

There is no conscious self-assertive intellectual cognitive reasoning or discrimination, intention, duality, or suffering and enjoyment in the state of unconsciousness.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice and observation if being practiced as they are, under the presence of basic correct understanding and mentality, served as the tools that help the mind to purify and quiet the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, to allow the rendered pure and quiet and ego-less mind to have a precious glimpse towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self under the presence of the limited conscious awareness during the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness (the rendered state of meditation/stillness/silence/one-pointedness that is also impermanent).

There is nothing spiritual, or religious, or mystical, or extraordinary, or miraculous, or magical, or unreachable about all this.

The minds that understand this, are devoid of justification, debate, argument, or fighting, and will only make use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function of the body and mind on top of the existing available energy, physical and mental condition, knowledge, learning, experience, ability, and opportunity to be looking after oneself, others, and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, without grasping.

Do not blind-believing, blind following, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, blind-practicing, blind-glorifying, blind-worshiping, or blind propagating anything from anywhere and anyone. 

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and attain direct self realization, and be free.

The core pillar and other elements that build and support and empower a country

Different houses can be built under many different types of materials and elements of different degrees of durability and functionalities, that can be having different types of architectural designs, sizes, shapes, layouts, functional spaces, functional rooms, positioning, directions, characteristics, appearances, essential equipment, safety features, and etc, that are being built in accordance to the existing landscape, the surrounding environment, the climate, the weather, the way of living or daily routine and habitual activity of those who will be living in the house, and etc. Other than providing a refuge and shelter for rest, the house also needs to be somewhat (if not perfectly) durable, safe, and functional for everyday living.

Similarly, there are many different elements that can help to build and support and empower a country, such as good quality of living, sufficiency, government agency, public service, basic infrastructure, housing, logistic, livelihood, basic and higher education, skills and talents, health care, science and technology, community welfare, food productivity, air quality, clean water, hygiene, rubbish and waste management and treatment, all kinds of maintenance, safety elements and features, social security, national security, internal political stability, international diplomacy, and etc, under the presence of a conducive livable condition or atmosphere.

If the conducive livable condition is absent or not available (such as climate collapse or Eco system collapse - extreme heat and cold / extreme wet and dry, not to say, war and violence, or global economy collapse, or chronic pandemic), even the most developed and wealthiest country in the world will also fall apart and be unlivable.

No matter what are the many different elements that play their own specific roles in the process of building and supporting and empowering a country, there should be one main core foundation pillar that is strong enough on its own to uphold the entire country independently that needs to be there rooted in the centre, where it doesn't matter if all or some of the other secondary elements or pillars that might provide some additional specific support and empowerment for the country are either non-existing, or are corrupted and fragile, or are broken and collapsing, but at least there is this one strong foundation pillar at the centre that is upholding the entire country in one piece (resilience).

And that resilient core centre pillar is about the majority (if not all) of the people who are permanently or impermanently residing in the country are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, that are mentally and emotionally independent or matured, that have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, or wisdom and kindness.

It is okay and there is nothing wrong about having certain inevitable physical and financial/livelihood/survival limitation and dependency onto some others or one another, but the upmost important element or pillar of any relationship/family/community/country or the world of many diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is the presence of mental and emotional independence or maturity, a.k.a. the clarity of thinking and correct understanding in the minds.

Because if the people who live in the house are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where everyone, especially the head of the house occupants, is selfish/possessive/jealous/greedy/violent/hurtful/prideful, or mentally and emotionally immature (mentally ill or corrupted), and that doesn't look after the general maintenance and well-being of all and everything inside and outside the house, but instead ceaselessly causing unnecessary damages to all and everything ignorantly, wittingly and unwittingly, the house as well as everyone who are living in the house will be suffering from many unnecessary damages that could have been avoided.

Even the most beautiful functional house with all kinds of advance higher technology features and conveniences, and that are decorated with the most beautiful decorative items and collections, will also become a ruin, or a rubbish dump, or a warehouse of junks, or a perfect disease cultivator, if it is being occupied by people that keep damaging all and everything in the house wittingly and unwittingly, that is addicted to endless creativity, accumulation, and hoarding of all kinds of stuff, and that don't have the correct understanding, or initiative, or enthusiasm, or attention, or effort, to be looking after the cleanliness, tidiness, general welfare, and ceaseless maintenance of all and everything of the house internally and externally.

Even if there is one or a few people in the house restlessly trying their best to keep the house in good condition and tidiness, to clean up the mess that is being generated by the others repeatedly, but the ceaseless selfish and damaging activity and behavior of the others in the house will keep generating ceaseless unnecessary problems and damages to the house and the house occupants, and that will cause those who try to keep the house in good condition and tidiness to be in a state of continuous exhaustion, and eventually, breaking down.

Even if there is the best of the best leader in the country, but if the majority of the people of the country are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where many people keep acting and behaving ignorantly that keep hurting and damaging all and everyone and everything, wittingly and unwittingly, the country will still be a mess. 

Even the presence of higher education or advance science and technology in the country also cannot guarantee that the people in the country are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, including the people that are highly educated, knowledgeable, intelligent, successful, accomplished, and holding certain impactful/powerful/influential position. All these don't guarantee that the mind is wise and kind.

Wisdom and kindness is the core of everything.

There is needless of the existence of egoistic politics, or politicians, or manmade rules and regulations in the world, not to say, corrupted politicians and government have no place or opportunity to be existing in anywhere if the majority of the people are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, that have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, and that are wise and kind.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Superiority and inferiority vs neither superior nor inferior

There is a bridge that is made only to hold certain limited weight, and that can only accommodate a single person to cross over the river at one time.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, many minds are being conditioned by the worldly egoistic idea, belief, values, and practice about the existence of superiority and inferiority (ranking/title/position/power/authority/caste/family background/lineage/social status/skin colour/gender/physical appearance/mental state/physical and mental ability and disability/accomplishment and non-accomplishment/success and failure/educational opportunity and achievement/nationality and citizenship/spirituality and religion/etc), where the minds would discriminate and acknowledge and identify themselves and others as 'who is superior and who is inferior', or 'who is more or less superior and who is less or more inferior than the others'.

The ones that identify themselves as more superior than the others, would think and believe that they rightfully have the priority to cross the bridge first before the others who are more inferior than them, while the others who think and believe that they are more inferior than the others should autonomously let the others whom they think and believe as more superior to cross first.

Most of the time, the ones that identify themselves as more superior than all the others (from both sides of the river) are all insisting that they themselves have the priority and that they should cross first, and hence, all of them cross the bridge at the same time and end up getting stuck in the middle of the bridge, and if out of pride and arrogance, where none of them would retreat, the bridge will eventually collapse and so are all those prideful arrogant minds.

Meanwhile, the ones that identify themselves as more inferior than the others (from both sides of the river) are all insisting that they themselves shouldn't cross the bridge not until the other cross first, and hence, none of them would cross the bridge, and just wait for the others from the other side of the river to cross first.

The minds that are free from the sense of superiority and inferiority, where they don't identify themselves and/or others as more or less superior or inferior, they would acknowledge one another and cross the bridge one after another, regardless of who goes first, without any problem.

The bridge doesn't belong to anyone, even if the bridge was built by someone, under the initiation, effort, support, idea, and design of someone.

There is neither more priority nor less priority in anyone.

All and everyone respect one another. 

All and everyone just take their turn to cross the bridge, one after another.

All and everyone would show thankfulness to each and everyone upon crossing, one by one, one after another, smoothly.

All and everyone would also look after the condition of the bridge that benefits all and everyone to cross from both sides of the river.

Needless to have superiority and inferiority, or more and less priority.

Needless to fight against one another (bullying, over-powering, sabotaging, and conquering one another).

Needless to have pride or shame.

Needless to have arrogance or humility.

But all and everyone just be kind and help one another (from being dependent to become independent).

There are many minds might think and believe that this is merely an unrealistic ideology/philosophy, that it doesn't work or cannot exist in the world of human beings that is strongly being empowered and rooted in selfishness, pride, sense of ownership and belonging, possessiveness, greed, endless accumulation and hoarding of wealth and enjoyment, as well as 'governed by' the sense of superiority and inferiority, in order to survive and prosper, is merely because they are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Just as there are parents/teachers would think and believe that the children/students need to be brought up/disciplined/moulded/conditioned by force under the presence of threatening painful physical and mental intimidation and punishment, if not, by temptation under the presence and absence of reward, in order for them to become 'good' and 'obedient' and 'successful' and 'giving back' in the way that the parents/teachers expect them to be.

Just as many minds would think and believe that they need to be the bully that bully others, in order not to be bullied by the others.

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

Sustainable survival and prosperity (sufficiency, neither insufficiency nor abundance) for all and everyone will be there as it is, naturally, upon more minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, under the absence of the sense of superiority and inferiority (even if there are many existing inevitable differences and conditions as well as there are different degrees of livelihood or financial development, opportunity, and status among all and everyone in different regions and areas), when there are more kindness and generosity while less cruelty and selfishness, under the absence of pride, sense of ownership and belonging, possessiveness, greed, endless accumulation and hoarding of wealth and enjoyment, or boundless ambitious aspirations and ambitions that exploit and destroy all and everyone and everything to the maximum, where the minds understand that none and nothing belong to anyone or anything, while all and everyone has the basic universal common sense or conscience to be kind to and look after oneself as well as one another, in order to support and develop and empower a conducive healthy living environment and condition for all and everyone, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

The ones that cross the bridge before or after one another, it's not because of who is more superior or inferior, or who is younger or elder, or who is male or female, or who is darker or fairer skin colour, or who is more or less beautiful and attractive, or who is more or less successful and contributing, or who has more or less priority, or who deserves more or less respect, or who has higher or lower ranking/title/caste/power/authority, but all and everyone naturally and wittingly coordinate with one another to create a smooth flow of movement or traffic under the presence of correct understanding or clarity.

Under the presence of certain emergency situation, the ones that have the need or urgency to go first will go first, under the acknowledgement and understanding of all and everyone. Such as on the road, where all drivers will autonomously move their car aside and allow the ambulance to pass urgently.

That action or behavior should come from the presence of basic universal common sense, or conscience, or kindness/generosity, deriving from the presence of correct understanding or clarity in the mind, not because of there is the existence of manmade law and order or rules and regulations that the drivers are being threatened and will be prosecuted with certain type of prosecution and punishment, if they don't obey the law and order about all drivers should move their car aside to allow the emergency ambulance to pass smoothly.

If all the minds in the world are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, where all minds are functioning under the presence of correct understanding or clarity, there is needless of all those manmade worldly egoistic rules and regulations or law and order that only serves very little or completely no effect of 'controlling' people's activity and behavior in certain way and not in certain way, where the minds, especially those so called 'world leaders or law makers that were either self-proclaimed or being given certain power of authority by the people that impact all and everyone and everything directly and indirectly', that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance will still be acting and behaving ignorantly regardless of whether they will be prosecuted and punished under the presence of local and global international law and order, or not, and whether their ranking/title/power of authority will be stripped off, or not. These minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance will still be continuously acting and behaving ignorantly in the way that hurt all and everyone and everything, due to the absence of correct understanding or clarity in these minds.

That is why the upmost important element or the core pillar/foundation/structure to build, or support, or empower a relationship, or a family, or a community, or a country, or a world, or the highest duty of all humanity, is about the mind conquest, or the mind conscious evolution, or the annihilation of the veil of ignorance in the mind, by the mind itself. 

The king is a powerless 'king' upon none see and acknowledge him as the king. The power of a king is given and empowered by the people.

The bully is a powerless 'bully' upon none play along 'the game of the bully and the victim of bully' with it. The power of bully is given and empowered by the ones who accept the bullying, that entertain the bully, and that give attention, acknowledgement, and importance to the bully and its bullying.

The belief and values is nothing upon none believe in it or practice it.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

To speak or not to speak

The wise don't speak much.

They speak only what and when is necessary to speak.

They only engage in dhamma talk, or the truth of what things are. 

The others engage in random restless vain talk, small talk, big talk, interacting, chit-chatting, socializing, flirting, commenting, praising, criticizing, gossiping, slandering, arguing, debating, justifying, manipulating, politicking, scheming, plotting, complaining, moaning, bitching, back-biting, sabotaging, boasting, glorifying, belittling, humiliating, shaming, intimidating, threatening, bullying, story telling, lying, envying, admiring, possessing, clinging, craving, longing, flattering, mourning, comforting, provoking, claiming, proclaiming, blaming, joking, teasing, competing, comparing, judging, expecting, encouraging, discouraging, creating, hoarding, destroying, interfering, controlling, forcing, persuading, luring, tempting, converting, accumulating, empowering, and etc, while righteously think and believe that such action or activity is highly essential for developing and maintaining physical and mental health well being.

The minds justify and proclaim that all those activities are normal and healthy human's behavior, that all human beings are born like that (to be socializing/talking/interacting/mingling), and that it is part of the survival instinct for actively engaging in such activities in order not only to survive but also to expand and prosper, a.k.a. GREED/craving/clinging/longing (to endlessly create and hoard and enjoy more than basic needs for survival).

The wise understand that such ideas, thinking, belief, values, and practice, or such common activities of human beings, are merely the by-products of ignorance or mental corruption/illness, of some physical and mental habits or the conditional thinking and behavior pattern that is partially genetic inherited/engineered but mostly being influenced, developed, cultured, conditioned, and empowered in such way from young (parenting and community social influence), which can be reversed or renounced, by the mind itself, under the presence of the limited conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious choice, conscious desire, and conscious effort.

Such as the veil of ignorance that gives rise to the by-products and consequences of ignorance, manifests and exists 'naturally' and 'autonomously' in all minds from the beginning of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional formation and operation of the existence and function of the mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind itself, or all minds are existing and functioning under the presence of the veil of ignorance (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional random restless thought process/thought current/modification of the mind under the presence and absence of consciousness/awareness), however, it is absolutely possible for the mind to be aware of that, and be free from that, via self-inquiry and self-realization, under self-initiation and self-effort, by quieting and silencing the restless modification of the mind/thought process/thought current (a.k.a. the annihilation of the veil of ignorance), through the practice of silence under the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, and seclusion, under the help of asana, pranayama, yama, niyama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi, under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, to render the mind one-pointed (stillness/non-wavering) and quiet (the state of clarity).

Even when the mind is alone being isolated from all the others and without any active physical/mental/verbal social interaction or communication or mingling with any other minds, the mind is still restlessly functioning as what it is, the random restless selfless impermanent thought process/thought current/modification of the mind is ceaselessly happening under the presence and absence of consciousness/awareness, consciously and unconsciously undergoing the selfless impermanent states of mind (selfless impermanent changes of ceaseless births and deaths of countless thoughts after thoughts of ceaseless ideas/feelings/emotions/states/memories/imaginations/dreams arising, changing, and passing away) selflessly and ceaselessly processing the mind perception/cognition towards all kinds of names and forms, of sight, sound, smell, taste, sensation, feeling, emotion, thought, memory, imagination, dream, problem solving, solution finding, reasoning, understanding, learning, experiencing, surviving, choosing, desiring, discriminating, and etc.

The mind that understands this, will also understand that the saying/information/proclamation about the cause of loneliness, or depression, or meaninglessness, or joylessness, or some other forms of mental problem or illness, is the lack of or the complete absence of physical/mental/verbal social interaction or communication or mingling with some other minds, is incorrect.

Even when a body and mind that doesn't have the organ of speech or doesn't have the language ability to express and communicate, and/or doesn't have the organs of action to be doing something physical, it doesn't determine the function and the state of mind, or its understanding and non-understanding, unless there is complete absence of the existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind or faculty, or if there is complete absence of conscious awareness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The mind that doesn't love itself or anyone

There are many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, are wittingly and unwittingly clinging onto and craving towards attaining and possessing endless attention, liking, affection, love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, agreement, approval, praise and compliments, support and encouragements, sympathy and empathy, companionship, ties and connections, relationships, or friendships, where they have intense aversion or rejection towards the opposite of all that or the absence of all that, but they don't love themselves or any others at all, even though they would think and believe that they love all the others very much, but then, they will constantly do and say things that will hurt all the others that they think and believe that they love very much upon their desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified, when they don't get what they expect to be getting but they are getting what they don't like and don't desire from the others that they think and believe that they love very much.

The mind that doesn't love itself and any others is actively and passionately showing affection, or kindness, or friendliness, or generosity, or helpfulness to the others with the intention/desire of to be receiving attention, liking, affection, love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, agreement, approval, praise and compliments, support and encouragements, sympathy and empathy, companionship, ties and connections, relationships, or friendships in return. And it is disturbed, disappointed, and bitter, upon its such desire/craving are not being gratified after it showed affection, or kindness, or friendliness, or generosity, or helpfulness to others, or after it has done something 'nice' for others. While being 'nice' in front of the others in order to attain what they desire to be getting from the others, but then, they would do and say things that hurt the others behind their backs (hypocrisy and back-biting or back-stabbing or slandering) in order to attain what they desire to be gaining from doing that (politicking and sabotaging).

These minds also think and believe that they are the 'victim' of 'ill-treatment' or 'bad behavior' from the others upon not receiving what they expect to be receiving from the others. "You are ungrateful and bad. You are so unloving and nasty to me. You don't love me. I love you very much and I don't deserve this from you but I deserve better from you," upon not getting what they expect to be getting from the others, or upon getting what they don't like and don't desire.

These minds are also the minds that would be 'suffering' from the sense of loneliness, joylessness, meaninglessness, unloved, unattended, unnoticed, unappreciated, unacknowledged, left-out, low self-esteem, low self-worth, shamefulness, or pride and arrogance, where they themselves as well as some mental health advocators, or psychologists, or holistic/spiritual/religious enthusiasts/practitioners/propagators would think and believe that they 'deserve' extra sympathy and empathy, attention and affection, love and support, or tolerance and forbearance from all the others to be actively enduring and forgiving (passively encouraging and empowering) the repetitive ongoing hurtful behaviors of such minds, as these minds would be constantly behaving in the way that hurt all and everyone, under the influence of such ignorance in themselves.

"I am sorry if I have hurt you unintentionally," and "I love you very much," doesn't mean anything, when these minds would ceaselessly do and say things that hurt all the others repeatedly upon not getting what they expect to be getting from the others as well as in the pursue of getting what they desire to be getting from the others, while they would 'apologize' for their hurtful behavior that they think it's not their intention at all to hurt anyone (either they aren't aware of their behavior is hurtful, or they are denying that their behavior is hurtful, where they think and believe that their behavior is not hurtful at all, but it's a form of loving kindness and generosity and righteousness).

This is a common hurtful behavior (mental blockage/illness or mental corruption) that exists in many family ties and connections and relationships, among spouses, among parents and children, among siblings, among friends and relatives, and among the members of any community that come under similar and/or different ancestral, cultural, and regional backgrounds.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice is all about enabling the minds to see themselves, or to attain self-realization towards the manifestation of this veil of ignorance in themselves, and to free themselves from all that, out of their own conscious awareness, conscious freewill and initiative, conscious effort and self-discipline, under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/knowledge/freedom/peace, under immovable willpower, perseverance, and determination.

There is nothing wrong or negative upon the mind realizes that it doesn't love itself or any others at all, that it has been hurting all and everyone out of ignorance repeatedly and ceaselessly, wittingly (I know that I have hurt you) and unwittingly (I didn't know that I have hurt you, and I didn't have intention to hurt you).

The mind that understands, it stops chasing after, or craving towards, or clinging onto attention, liking, affection, love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, agreement, approval, praise and compliments, support and encouragements, sympathy and empathy, companionship, ties and connections, relationships, or friendships coming and receiving from the others, not being determined by the presence or absence of all that.

It is okay to realize towards and acknowledge to oneself and others (ones parents, children, siblings, spouse/partner, friends, anyone or everyone, and etc) that, "I don't love myself. I don't love anyone. Because I keep doing and saying things that hurt myself and everyone that I thought and believed that I love very much, but I don't." Which leads to the manifestation of unconditional and indiscriminate loving kindness manifesting in the mind towards itself and all the others, where the mind stops/ceases hurting itself and the others, because it understands.

Such mind is free to love or doesn't love, being loved or not being loved, and having or not having any family ties and connections and relationships and friendships, allowing all the others being what they are, as they are.

The sense of loneliness, joylessness, meaninglessness, unloved, unattended, unnoticed, unappreciated, unacknowledged, victimized, left-out, low self-esteem, low self-worth, or pride and shame, doesn't manifest or exist in such mind.

Peace in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, begins with the mind that knows and understands this, or the mind that is mentally and emotionally independent or matured.

Just be kind, be loving, be friendly, be generous, and be helpful towards others indiscriminately and unconditionally without the intention/desire/craving/expectation of receiving kindness, love, friendliness/friendship/relationship, generosity, or help in return.

Many minds are being brought up in the way of developing and empowering hypocrisy, untruthfulness, and politicking, where such behavior or practice are being valued and seen as 'the way to maintain peace and harmony among one another in the family ties and connections, friendships and relationships, or community affairs and interactions, and the way to success and prosperity and power and wealth', but it doesn't. That is why the world is in such a great mess under the presence of such ignorant idea, belief, value, and practice deriving from ignorance and empowering ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Renounce worldly passionate egoistic thinking and behavior

The teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism are for the minds that are interested to learn and practice and realize the universal teachings or dhamma of yoga and/or buddhism through direct self-realization via purifying and quieting the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind.

The minds that are not interested in learning, or practicing, or realizing yoga and/or buddhism, they don't need to practice yoga or buddhism, not to say, to practice yoga or buddhism as it is.

The core of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about activating the mind purification process to be modifying/changing the limited and conditional passionate egoistic impure restless mind thinking and behavior pattern, a.k.a. engaging in the mind quieting process to be free from the influence of the veil of ignorance a.k.a. the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement and the sense of separateness, egoism, impurities, and restlessness, effectively and practically, by renouncing, or letting go, or moving away from the worldly passionate egoistic minds, ties and connections, relationships, affairs, activities, interactions, habits, or the passionate egoistic way of living, thinking, and behavior.

What is normal way of thinking, meaningful way of living, and appropriate behavior for the passionate egoistic minds, is exactly what needed to be renounced or letting go in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

There are different worldly egoistic cultures (different ways of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior), while regardless of from the one same cultural background or from the different cultural backgrounds, all and everyone have the freedom of their own particular way of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior.

Meanwhile, all kinds of different cultures have some similar common egoistic ideas, values, and practice that they all share in common, that is exactly what needed to be renounced or letting go during the mind purification and quieting process. Or else, even after years and years of practicing yoga and/or buddhism, the mind is still being conditioned by the worldly passionate egoistic mind thinking and behavior pattern to think, to evaluate, to desire, to act and react, or to live life and behave in certain way or not in certain way. The mind is still being restless swaying in between satisfaction and dissatisfaction, elevation and depression, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and joylessness, togetherness and separateness/loneliness/missingness, goodness and badness, pleased and displeased, enjoyment and suffering, and etc. Even so, there is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong about that.

For the minds that sincerely want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism as it is, then they can contemplate upon this, if they want. 

The commonly shared among the different worldly passionate egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, practices, inspirations, aspirations, desires, visions, or ways of living, thinking, and behavior is about -

- "We all need to have family and friends, and we all need to have our particular community mental and emotional support."

or, "Aloneness, being by oneself, living by oneself, eating by oneself, enjoying life by oneself, navigating life existence in the world of impermanence and uncertainty by oneself, dealing with all kinds of challenging condition and situation by oneself, and performing beneficial action to be looking after the well-being of oneself and others and the surrounding environment, without family and friends or community mental and emotional support and interaction, is lonely and unhealthy, is bad and wrong, and is joyless and meaningless."

There is nothing wrong with having the companionship of family and friends or community mingling and interaction and support, but for the minds that want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism, it is about - "We can have family and friends or engaging in community activity and interaction to be giving and receiving mental and emotional support among one another, but we don't need to must have family and friends, or engaging in community activity and interaction to attain mental and emotional support among one another. It is absolutely okay and there is nothing bad, or wrong, or meaningless, or joyless, or unhealthy, if we are being alone and living alone by ourselves without being surrounded by family and friends or without mingling and interacting with any particular community.

Mental and emotional independence is one of the essential criteria and precious element to be developed and empowered in yoga and/or buddhism. All kinds of worldly passionate egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial/national/communal ideas, beliefs, values, and practices are all about developing and empowering mental and emotional dependence, that is a huge hindrance towards attaining direct self realization towards the truth of names and forms - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, that is crucial for promoting and maintaining world peace and harmony among the countless diversities in the world of diverse names and forms that doesn't belong to anyone or anything."

- "As human beings, we should behave like this and we shouldn't behave like that."

Which also being brought into the path of yoga and/or buddhism - "As a yogi or a buddhist, we should behave like this and we shouldn't behave like that."

There is nothing wrong with we ourselves want to be behaving in the way that we think and believe as 'good and appropriate', and don't want to be behaving in the way that we think and believe as 'bad and inappropriate' in accordance to our own particular cultural belief, values, and practice, but for the minds that want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism, it is about - "Our own particular cultural belief, values, and practice is only limited to ourselves. Others have their own freedom of their own particular cultural belief, values, and practice. What we think and believe and how we want to behave is our own freedom of thinking, belief, and behavior. What others think and believe and how others want to behave is their own freedom of thinking, belief, and behavior, including our particular immediate family members, parents, siblings, children, relatives, friends, and particular community, not to say all the others that are not our immediate family members, parents, siblings, children, relatives, friends, and particular community. Even the minds that are practicing yoga and/or buddhism, they are not necessarily practicing yoga and/or buddhism as it is, and they have the freedom for what they want or don't want to practice, and how they want to practice."

- "Life like this is joyful and meaningful, and life like that is joyless and meaningless."

There is nothing wrong that we have our own interpretation towards what is meaningful and meaningless, and what is joyful or joyless, but for the minds that want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism, it is about - "Our own interpretation towards what is meaningful and meaningless or joyful and joyless, is only limited to ourselves. All the others, including our family members, parents, siblings, children, friends, relatives, our particular community, and the many other diverse individuals and communities, they all have their own interpretation towards what is meaningful and meaningless, that can be completely different from one another."

Apply this inquiry towards all and everything about ourselves and all the others that are different from us.

The minds that have this understanding, will not be disturbed or offended by the other yoga and buddhism practitioners being what they are, not to say, all the others (non-yoga and buddhism practitioners) that have their own particular worldly egoistic cultural belief, values, and practice that influences their own particular way of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, reasoning and evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior, while respecting all and everyone as they are.

If there is intense disagreement or discomfort towards some others' cultural belief, values, and practice or way of living, thinking, and behavior, then one can distance oneself away from such minds, environment, condition, and situation, to minimize coming in contact with anyone and anything that oneself strongly dislikes and disagrees with, as much as possible, while not expecting or bullying the others to change their cultural belief, values, and practice or way of living, thinking, and behavior, that oneself doesn't like and doesn't agree with, or expecting the others to go somewhere else to move away from oneself.

There is a room full of many different people. One person that doesn't like some others or all the others can leave the room, and everyone will have peace. But out of ignorance and possessiveness, this person expects the others that oneself doesn't like to leave the room - "I have the rights and freedom to be here, all these people that I don't like shouldn't be here."

Meanwhile, under certain passionate egoistic cultural practice, the one that wish to leave the room and let all the others to be what they are and have peace, would be stopped by the minds that are being conditioned by the cultural practice about, "No. You cannot leave the room. It is rude and inappropriate to leave the room. You need to stay here and interacting with all the others even if you don't like all the others, and you need to behave yourself as a well brought-up good and civilized human being (which means being a hypocrite that tell all kinds of lies to please all the others)."

So many minds are developing certain degrees of mental illness/blockage because of being conditioned and limited by such cultural practice from young, where it affects their relationship with all and everyone, and many of them who have became parents themselves also conditioning and limiting their own children in such way, to be well-trained professional hypocrite that please all and everyone, while being told that they should either keep all the dissatisfaction, complaints, and unhappiness suppressing within, or there is nothing wrong to be doing and saying everything bad behind people's back (back-stabbing their parents, their siblings, their children, their spouse, their friends, their colleagues, or the members of their particular community, behind their back, while being super nice and loving and hugging and saying all kinds of nice things towards one another all the time in front of them.)

That is not what kindness, compassion, accommodation, acceptance, and respect is about. Real kindness, compassion, accommodation, acceptance, and respect is free from any kind of ill will or resentment towards anyone or anything.

Hypocrisy is merely a hurtful values and practice and behavior that hurt oneself and others. It is indeed a form of hidden abusive behavior that begins in oneself that might grow into the surrounding environment that hurt all and everyone and the surrounding environment, where the accumulated intense disagreement, dissatisfaction, frustration, unhappiness, anger, and resentment towards someone or something are being directed to all the others and objects that are innocent, that are nothing to do with the accumulated intense disagreement, dissatisfaction, frustration, unhappiness, anger, and resentment towards someone or something.

All and everyone have the freedom to be what they are and where they are. All the others have the freedom to be what they are and where they are. We ourselves also have the freedom to be what we are and where we are, but we all need to know and understand that we all are co-existing and sharing the space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything with the many diversities, where there are many things or affairs are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, or agreeable. The infinite space in anywhere and everywhere doesn't belong to 'I', or 'my family', or 'my community', or 'my country', or 'my ancestors', or 'my spirituality/religion', or 'my almighty creator and authority and judge of the universe', or anyone and anything.

It has to come from ourselves to accommodate and respect towards all kinds of diversities that are co-existing in this space and sharing this space, under the presence of correct understanding, without any ill will, frustration, resentment, or bitterness. If we can't accommodate or tolerate this or that, we are the ones that can leave and go somewhere else, and let all the others to have peace and freedom being what they are and where they are.

The minds that don't have this understanding, will easily be disturbed or offended by all the others that have their own particular cultural belief, values, and practice that influences their own particular way of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, reasoning and evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior. They expect and insist all the others to also think and behave like themselves. They want to interfere with and change the others either by temptation, reward, conversion, and manipulation, or by force, threat, intimidation, bullying, oppression, suppression, restriction, and/or painful disciplinary and punishment, if not, they want to chase away and eliminate anyone that are different from them. They gather power of control and bullying by encouraging and empowering financial and mental and emotional dependence among their own particular family, siblings, friends, relatives, or community in order to achieve their aspiration, vision, and ambition of to be possessing the power of control towards everyone to think and behave and desire in certain way and not in certain way, to gratify all their desires of what they want and don't want, as well as to be coveting and hoarding unlimited wealth and possessions and enjoyments, or land and space and natural resources that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

And hence, the highly importance of the observation of dispassion and renunciation, solitude and seclusion, and silence (Mauna), in the path of yoga and/or buddhism, to move the body and mind away from continuously being conditioned and influenced by such worldly passionate egoistic selfish, possessive, prideful, and hurtful ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, while respecting and non-interference towards all the others to be what they are, as they are.

As long as the mind still has the conscious and semi-conscious attachment and identification towards "This is 'I', this is who and what I am, I am this and I am not that, and this is my body, my mind, my ideas/thoughts/thinking, my feelings and emotions, my knowledge, my experience, my qualification, my identity, my self-esteem and self-worth, my confidence, my family, my friends, my relatives, my father, my mother, my siblings, my husband, my wife, my children, my community, my tribe, my village, my birth place, my origin, my country, my nationality, my belief, my culture, my spirituality, my religion, my land, my space, my rights, my deserving privilege, my pride, my belongings, my achievements, my lineage, my teacher, my guru, my yoga, my buddhism, my practice, my fruit of practice, my action, my fruit of action, my peace, my happiness, my realization, my liberation, my freedom, and so on," the mind is not free.

The mind that realized the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self will understand that -

The idea of 'I' and 'my' or 'mine', is mere ignorance.

The body and mind doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, or to one another. The body and mind cannot exist or function as what they are, if without energy and all kinds of elements come together selflessly and ego-lessly that enabling the body and mind to be existing and functioning as what they are.

The parents might give birth to the children, but the children don't belong to the parents, and vice versa. Even though the children don't belong to the parents, but the parents are the ones that are responsible for giving birth to the children and have the responsibility, kindness, and generosity of looking after the children until they become independent. Even though the parents don't belong to the children, but the children can be looking after the well-being of the aging parents out of kindness and generosity.

The fruits, the flowers, the leaves, or the structure of the tree don't belong to themselves or one another.

The same as all and everything don't belong to themselves, or anyone, or anything.

Even though all and everything don't belong to anyone or anything, but all and everyone and everything are inevitably inter-supporting and inter-influencing the existence and function of all and everyone and everything, directly and indirectly.

One doesn't need to be acknowledging and identifying as, "I am the citizen of this country. This is my country. This country belongs to me and I belong to this country. This is where I belong. And hence, I have the duty and responsibility to look after the well-being of this country," in order to be performing action to be looking after the well-being of oneself, others, all and everyone, and the surrounding environment (the world of many diversity) that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, while not hurting oneself, others, all and everyone, and the surrounding environment, out of kindness and generosity, out of correct understanding, and out of one's own freewill and initiation.

There is nothing belong to anyone or anything. The existence/function/mechanism/state of mind doesn't even belong to the mind itself, what is there that is belonging to who or what? All and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. None or nothing can exist as what they are if without all the other names and forms are existing to be inter-supporting and inter-influencing one another selflessly and ego-lessly to be manifesting/existing/changing/decaying/disintegrating/ceased existing as they are. None and nothing belong to anyone or anything.

There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong if the mind is not free. 

However, the mind that is not free might be keep hurting oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment ceaselessly, either wittingly or unwittingly, out of ignorance, under the presence and influence of the idea of 'I' and everything that belong to 'I' (a.k.a. possessiveness and hoarding, or greed and discontentment, or fear, or the urge to control all and everything to be or not to be in certain way, and the sense of belonging, pride, and self-righteousness), impurities, and restlessness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Inquire towards ignorance and justification and the belief of karma

There is no doubt that there are many evitable painful suffering and desperation or difficulty that are truly unnecessary, but are happening everywhere in the world deriving from the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in the minds of the human beings that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, on top of there are certain inevitable painful suffering in all and everyone (regardless of good or bad behavior, wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, happy or unhappy, healthy or unhealthy, and etc) that come along with the momentary existence and function of the mortal physical body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Unless the physical body is being formed and born under the absence of the conscious thinking and acting faculty functioning under the presence of conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness to be perceiving/recognizing/discriminating/experiencing pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering consciously, if not, the minds that come with the conscious thinking and acting faculty functioning under the presence of conscious awareness and intellectual cognition of perceiving/recognizing/discriminating/acknowledging or being aware of pleasurable enjoyment as well as the evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty, they can develop correct understanding towards what is going on in the mind, to know Thyself, to transcend or overcome all those evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty in oneself and/or in the others, if they want, and out of their own conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, and conscious effort or action taking under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/knowledge/freedom/peace, to be free from suffering, under the presence of immovable determination and perseverance and some basic correct understanding or intellectual reasoning power.

There is nothing wrong and it is true that, regardless of whether the minds that are having a rather easy and comfortable life without much difficulty or suffering to deal with, or the minds that are dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty in life, will think and believe and feel that they are limited and powerless (vulnerability), where they are aware of the many painful suffering and difficulty in all the others or in themselves, but they can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, even if they have the goodwill and kindness of want to help the world or themselves to have less painful suffering and difficulty, as much as possible.

The minds that are having a rather easy and comfortable life without much difficulty or suffering to deal with, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'good karma', or 'merits and virtues', or 'blessing from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe'.

The minds that are dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty in life, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins', or 'punishment from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe'.

The reality of the minds can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, as well as the presence of limitation, or powerlessness, or vulnerability, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins', or 'punishment from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe'.

Some minds understood and acknowledged that they are limited and powerless, even if they themselves are having a rather easy and comfortable life, but they are aware of there are many others are undergoing and dealing with certain painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in life, while they would do whatever they can to help to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and desperation in all the others as much as possible, even when they can just ignore all that, not doing anything, and be comfortable in their own easy and comfortable life, even if they can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, without the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and without the need of justification towards anything.

Some minds understood and acknowledged that they are limited and powerless, as they themselves are undergoing and dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty, while they might or might not be doing whatever they can to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and difficulty in themselves, as well as simultaneously, they might or might not be also doing whatever they can to help to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and difficulty in all the others, even if they can't change or interfere with many things in themselves or in the others that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, without the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and without the need of justification towards anything.

That is the essential basic correct understanding or mentality.

There is nothing wrong or bad or negative with the perception/acknowledgement/understanding/realization of there is presence of limitation, powerlessness, or vulnerability in the minds, that there are many things that are not in the control of anyone and that are beyond their capability to change or interfere with.

Meanwhile, under the absence of correct understanding or mentality, some minds are troubled or over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or pride and shame, upon the presence of limitation, powerlessness, or vulnerability in themselves towards many things that are not in the control of themselves and that are beyond their capability to change or interfere with, where they need to have some reasonable justifications to justify the many painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in themselves that are not in their control, that they can't change, that they can't do much to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in themselves, or in the others, while they themselves need to deal with their own painful suffering and difficulty, so that they can feel better about themselves for being limited, powerless, or vulnerable.

Some minds that are having the privilege to be enjoying a rather easy and comfortable life, devoid of the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty that many others are dealing with, however, they are being troubled or over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and they don't like the sense of vulnerability, powerlessness, and limitation in themself, where they need to have some reasonable justifications to justify the many painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in the others that are not in their control, that they can't change, that they can't do much to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in the others, and hence, they choose to just ignore all that and be comfortable in their own life, but then there is the sense of guilt or pride and shame as well as powerlessness and limitation in them, where they want to think and believe and acknowledge that they are good and righteous people, that they are not selfish, where they would donate some money here and there, or to do some charity work from time to time, or regularly, in order to empower the sense of kindness, generosity, powerfulness, and unselfishness, to over-come the sense of powerlessness, limitation, selfishness, and guilt.

While some highly empathetic minds will feel disturbed and depressed by the sense of vulnerability, powerlessness, and limitation towards all the painful suffering and desperation in the others that they can't change, that they can't help to relieve or reduce, even after they continuously give everything that they can give, that they have, to help others as much as they can, to the point of depriving and damaging their own over-all well-being, but there are still inevitable painful suffering as well as ceaseless and boundless evitable painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in many others that are deriving from the ignorance and consequences of ignorance either inflicted by themselves and/or by some others. They might also need to have some reasonable justifications to justify towards all kinds of painful suffering and desperation or difficulty, in order to feel better and less disturbed.

There is nothing wrong with all that, as all the minds have their own freedom of thinking, understanding, action/reaction, and expression.

It is all good, regardless of whether the minds are troubled or not troubled by the sense of powerlessness and limitation, or the sense of guilt or pride and shame, or the sense of selfishness and unselfishness, but at least the minds are trying to do something if they can, to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation in the world or in themselves, even if there are many things that they can't change or interfere, that are beyond their capability.

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Meanwhile, there are many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance would be deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, inflicting and promoting painful suffering and difficulty unto themselves and/or the others, directly or indirectly.

Some of these minds might be troubled by the sense of guilt and regret, while some are guiltless while taking pride in such 'accomplishment' of being 'successfully' inflicting and promoting painful suffering and difficulty unto the others and/or themselves, because it gives rise to and empowers the sense of powerfulness in them, that they can destroy something or anything that they want, as they wish, easily, instead of feeling vulnerable, powerless, and limited dealing with the undesirable reality of they can't change or interfere with many things in themselves or in the others that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, but the activity of hurting and destroying someone or everyone and something or anything that are destructible, is not difficult.

These minds might or might not need some justifications to justify their hurtful destructive behaviors that inflict and promote painful suffering and difficulty in the others and/or in themselves.

And hence, there come the idea, belief, values, and practice of 'karma', or more precisely, 'bad karma' or 'sins', or 'punishment from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe', stands as the reasonable justification to justify what the minds think and believe that needed to be justified, that is nothing but complicates everything even more, while empowers the ignorance in oneself and in others that are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

"It is all because of my/your/our/their/his/her own 'bad karma' or 'sins'."

Regardless of the presence of painful suffering and difficulty in oneself, or in the others, regardless of evitable or inevitable, regardless of the evitable painful suffering and difficulty are being inflicted and promoted deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, unto themselves and/or the others, directly or indirectly.

"I am suffering, or you are suffering, regardless of whether it is inflicted by oneself or by others, are all because of 'bad karma' or 'sins'."

"It is good to burn-off the 'bad karma' or to repent the 'sins' by undergoing all kinds of painful suffering and difficulty in oneself or in others, regardless of being inflicted and promoted by oneself and/or others."

"I need to inflict painful suffering and difficulty unto myself to burn-off the 'bad karma', or to reduce the 'sins'."

"I am doing you a favor to help you to burn-off your 'bad karma', or to reduce your 'sins', by inflicting painful suffering and difficulty unto you."

Ignorance deriving from ignorance and empowers ignorance.

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Inquire the truth of everything.

Regardless of evitable or inevitable painful suffering and difficulty, or all kinds of abusive family ties and connection, broken relationship, unhappiness, hardship, difficult condition, difficult situation, undesirable happening, limitation, disability, illness, injury, painful sensation, weakness, stiffness, ill treatment and prejudice or disagreement and dislike from others, and failure, it is not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'.

Inevitable painful suffering and difficulty are merely the inevitable permanent unchanging all time truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of the mortal physical body and the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind being what they are, as they are, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, being conscious/aware of the physical body is undergoing inevitable selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration as well as the restless thought process or modification of the mind (restlessness), of ceaseless life maintenance, endless hunger and thirst, exhaustion, weakness, stiffness, illness, injury, discomfort, painful sensations, limitation, disability, aging, and death.

All THAT are not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'.

Not to say, 

All kinds of additional evitable unnecessary painful suffering and difficulty that don't need to be there at all, that are being inflicted, generated, and promoted unto oneself and/or the others, out of ignorance, by the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, either deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, and directly or indirectly.

That is not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'. 

The minds that inquire and realize this, will know towards the truth of 'the idea, belief, values, and practice of karma' that is being created and used as a reasonable justification for many things or behaviors that are hurtful and destructive, that inflict and promote evitable painful suffering and difficulty in oneself and unto the others, as well as justifying the inevitable painful suffering in the mortal physical body existing and functioning under different bodily systems, operating under the mechanism/function/modification of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, on top of the survival instinct that ceaselessly maintaining life existence in the background autonomously/non-consciously throughout the different states of consciousness, just for being existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-selfly, for a momentary fleeting short duration in this world of diverse names and forms that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Some minds also use 'the idea, belief, values, and practice of karma and ceaseless reincarnation of endless births and deaths of endless momentary life existences transitioning in different realms/worlds/spheres' as a tool to manipulate, or threaten, or intimidate, or bully, or oppress, or exploit, or abuse others to be or not to be in certain way, in order to gratify all one's desires, as well as using that as the excuse/justification to hurt and punish the others, upon one's desires are not being gratified.

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Under the presence of grasping under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the minds are being over-powered by the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty.

Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, the minds transcend or over-come and not being disturbed by the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty.

It doesn't mean that all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering disappear or stop existing in the world, or in life, or in oneself and/or others upon the direct realization towards the truth of all these, but suffering doesn't and cannot arise or manifest in the mind that is devoid of grasping and the veil of ignorance, while resting in unconditional peace amidst all kinds of unpleasant and even painful evitable and inevitable impermanent changes in the physical body and modification of the mind, and upon coming in contact with evitable and inevitable undesirable and unpleasant events, happenings, affairs, conditions, situations, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, and activities in the surrounding environment.

And more importantly, such mind doesn't hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment under the presence of clarity, or wisdom and unconditional peace. 

There is nothing super extraordinary, mystical, spiritual, or magical, about the mind, or the modification of the mind, or the mind thinking behavior pattern, or the conquest of the mind, or the ONE all pervading infinite selfless universal consciousness, or yoga and the self-realized yogi, or buddhism and the enlightened buddha, or the presence and absence of pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering, as well as the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance in the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, of all kinds of duality, selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging, self-righteousness, offensiveness, defensiveness, cruelty, violence, unrest, hurtful and destructive behaviors, actions, and reactions, all kinds of comforting story telling and justifications, and the direct self realization towards the truth of all these names and forms, of knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all and everything, that enables the mind to transcend the selfless impermanent limited conditional restless modification of itself that doesn't even belong to the conscious mind/perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/action performer itself, and transcending the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of dualities, or towards all kinds of names and forms manifesting, coming, and going under different qualities, and that ceaselessly changing in between arising and passing away, where the mind doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment, and is resting upon unconditional peace, being undetermined and undisturbed by the ignorance and consequences of ignorance of all the others, or all kinds of madness in the world of ignorance and egoism.

Limitation, powerlessness, and vulnerability is the universal truth of all and everything. It is neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, neither meaningful nor meaningless.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

Inquire towards pride that doesn't need to be there at all

There are many things that are being believed, recognized, evaluated, and practiced in the world as something good or something bad, are not necessarily the truth of what things are. There are something that the minds think and believe and evaluate as 'good and righteous', or 'the right and important things to do and promote', might be harming towards all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment directly or indirectly, such as the sense of pride, a sentimental idea/feeling/identification/quality/name and form in the form of thinking/thought, that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

There is no sense of pride in babies not until they are being influenced and encouraged by the surrounding egoistic minds to pick up, learn, develop, project, as well as being limited and conditioned (ruined) by the sense of pride that doesn't need to be there at all, to grow as they are, to live life as it is, to keep learning and improving, and to become physically, mentally, and emotionally matured or independent as well as responsible human beings that perform actions, duties, and responsibilities for looking after oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Just as the idea of 'I' or the ego, the sense of pride is something that manifests in the mind in the form of thinking/thought process under the presence of consciousness upon the state of consciousness, that is being planted and encouraged in the mind as 'the good and righteous and important thing/value/quality/sentiment/motivation to be developed and empowered and holding onto, by the surrounding minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, in order to feel good and meaningful, or accomplished and superior or powerful about themselves and life existence, in the midst of dealing with many things that they don't understand, that they perceived/understood/recognized as painful, fearful, intimidation, or suffering due to the inevitable presence of unknown or uncertainty or limitation, as well as dealing with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional changes in all and everything that are mostly unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, and non-enjoyable, that the minds don't like and don't want.

The sun, the moon, the earth, the oxygen, the water, the plants, the energy, the cells, the organs, the senses, the nerves, the blood and blood vessels, the hormones, the glands, the bones, the muscles, the tendons, the ligaments, the joints, the connective tissues, the membranes, the skin, the hair, and all and everything in this world of selfless names and forms don't need pride to be existing and functioning as what they are.

It is only the egoistic minds (the thinking and acting faculty of the brains) functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, would think and believe that it is highly essential and healthy, or good and righteous to develop and empower the sense of pride, to take pride in oneself and everything that is 'pride deserving'.

Regardless of eastern or western countries/regions, since the beginning of the conscious mind cognition formation and operation process in the mother's womb before birth and especially in the continuous development and growing process after birth, many minds are being developed and growing up being influenced and conditioned by everyone and all kinds of inputs from everywhere (parents, care takers, siblings, relatives, friends, teachers, classmates, schoolmates, community, public media, commercial advertisements, work place, private and public organization, and etc) about, "You need to develop and empower the sense of pride by taking pride in yourself and your identity of who you are and what you are and where you came from, as well as in what you do and achieve, or in your actions and the fruit of your actions."

"Be proud of yourself, your origin, your roots, your birth place, your family, your parents, your ancestors, your siblings, your community, your tribe, your ethnicity, your people, your school, your classmates and schoolmates, your academic and sports achievement, your job, your colleagues and friends, your career achievement, your spouse, your children, your culture, your belief and values, your spirituality, your religion, your nationality, your country, your passion, your vision, your aspiration, your ability, your strength, your talent, your skill, your uniqueness, your authenticity, your look and appearance, your ideas and creativity, your generosity, your goodwill, your contribution, your hard work, your outstanding performance, your success, your social status, your financial status, and your wealth and possession."

"You need to become the 'good/righteous/successful/accomplished/virtuous/respectable/recognized/deserving' person that you yourself will be proud of, and to also make all and everyone be proud of you, especially your parents, your family, your siblings, your children, your friends, your relatives, your neighbourhood, your community, your classmates/schoolmates/teachers/colleagues/bosses/employers/employees, your leaders/followers, your country, and maybe the entire world of all the others that don't have any personal connection or relationship with you."

"Do and achieve something that is pride, acknowledgement, recognition, praise, and respect deserving from yourself and from others. Take pride in doing and achieving and possessing something good and righteous and virtuous, and take shame in doing and achieving and possessing something bad and wrongful and sinful. Without pride, or without anything about yourself that you and others can be proud of, you are nobody and worthless, because it shows that you are a failure and your life is meaningless, and you should be ashamed of yourself for not being able to do and achieve and possess something that can make yourself and others to be proud of."

And even, some people take pride in themselves for being selfish, nasty, cruel, aggressive, violent, possessive, control freak, and hurtful, while also encouraging and empowering their own children, friends, and community to be the same.

Nope. None need to develop and be empowered to have pride in oneself, or to be proud of oneself for something or anything at all, not to say, to make some others to be proud of oneself for something that everyone think and believe as 'pride deserving', in order to motivate oneself to be 'good' and do 'good' and become 'successful' and live life 'meaningfully', to perform all one's duties and responsibilities of looking after oneself and others and the surrounding environment unconditionally and indiscriminately, or to refrain oneself from be 'bad' and do 'bad' and become a 'failure' and live life 'meaninglessly'.

The presence of pride, or the development and empowerment of the sense of pride/deserving/worthiness/satisfaction/self-esteem/self-worth/confidence/success/superiority/meaningfulness/powerfulness, with the initial 'good' intention to motivate the minds/the children/the youngsters/the adolescence/the students/the adults/the workers/the community to be 'good and righteous and successful', and to avoid being 'bad and wrongful and failure', regardless of being proud of something that the mind thinks, believes, and recognizes as the quality of good or bad, positive or negative, right or wrong, success or failure, deserving or non-deserving, worthy or worthless, prideful or shameful, meaningful or meaningless, and so on, is merely the by-product of ignorance and egoism, that lead to unnecessary mental blockage and illness, that gives rise to many kinds of detrimental side-effects or destructive behaviors that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment, directly and indirectly, wittingly and unwittingly.

Even many of the highly intelligent, educated, knowledgeable, talented, skillful, inspired, aspiring, ambitious, or highly 'successful' and 'accomplished' minds, that have the possibility and opportunity to be holding certain influential powerful and impactful position, such as political negotiation, money talking, business influencing, policy making, law making, mental health advocating, social media influencing, decision making, and action taking that are impacting and affecting all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment in the world, are also being conditioned and motivated by such common egoistic idea, thinking, belief, values, practice, inspiration, and aspiration about the presence, development, empowerment, possession, and clinging towards the sense of pride, that is being seen as a 'good and righteous and highly essential and important thing' to have and to be encouraged and empowered in the minds of the human beings.

If the minds haven't been being conditioned and empowered in such way, the world won't be what it is now, full of all kinds of evitable ongoing hurtful destructive activities and affairs that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment in the pursue of attaining and keep attaining higher and higher fleeting sense of pride/deserving/worthiness/satisfaction/self-esteem/self-worth/confidence/success/superiority/meaningfulness/powerfulness, that might benefit and uplift oneself and one's particular community for a very momentary short duration, but that will hurt and impact all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment for a prolonged duration, directly and indirectly, including oneself and one's particular community.

All and everyone and everything will be affected and impacted upon the collapse of the Eco system, or the climate, or the livable atmosphere and condition, and/or the survival or livelihood of many people that depends mostly on the local and global economy that inter-affecting one another as well as among the many different types of businesses and jobs or industrialized productivity, directly and indirectly, that is heavily depending on the ceaseless excessive exploitation, manipulation, and destruction towards all and everything and the surrounding environment, in order to generate higher and higher income, or profit, or success, or enjoyment, of ceaseless accumulation and hoarding limitless wealth and boundless possessions and pleasurable enjoyments, in order to sustain and boost their fleeting sense of pride. No matter how much money, or wealth, or power, or success, or possessions, or enjoyments, or pride that anyone have, is not going to save them from the consequences of such ignorance and endless greed.

Even so, that is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'. It is merely ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

The world doesn't need to be like this, but it is what it is, full of all kinds of ignorance and consequences of ignorance, in everywhere.

It's everyone's freedom to be what they are, as they are, even if all and everyone are being ignorant and ambitious and prideful, or restlessly chasing after and boosting the sense of pride, a.k.a. the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, or confidence, or satisfaction, or accomplishment, or success, or superiority, or meaningfulness, or powerfulness, that are wittingly and unwittingly exploiting, manipulating, and hurting all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, directly and indirectly, in the pursue of possessing, developing, empowering, and clinging onto the sense of pride coming from the gratification of endless and boundless greedy desires, aspirations, visions, and ambitions of achieving 'the desirable and enjoyable joyful and meaningful life in a world that one desires'.

It is understandable that why most minds have intense fear towards letting go the sense of pride, or letting go the pursue of possessing and empowering as well as sustaining the fleeting sense of pride, because they were being told/taught/educated/conditioned/influenced from young that "Pride and Shame towards oneself and everything about oneself as well as towards all the others, is the most important thing, quality, sentiment, or value about life existence that everyone need to attain/possess/have/empower (what is pride deserving) or to avoid/eliminate/destroy/punish (what is shame deserving)."

Whenever someone manages to do or achieve something, there is the 'natural and ethical' response or reaction, or practice and obligation of the others to be cheering and giving encouragement, support, acknowledgement, recognition, and appreciation of, "Yeah! Keep it up!", "Well done!", "I am so proud of you!", "We are so proud of you!", "You must be so proud of yourself!", "You are so deserving!", or "You are so amazing!", as well as, "You are unlimited! You should go further and further, and you can achieve higher and higher", that is nothing but empowering the ego and the egoism as well as greed in most minds that are not mentally and emotionally independent, that also hinders the development towards mental and emotional maturity or independence.

All these so called 'positive encouragements' are being seen as something 'good', 'positive', 'healthy', and 'essential' for the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but not knowing or unaware of the destructive side-effects of that, empowering egoism and ignorance in oneself and in others.

Once there is absence of such pleasing, or uplifting, or promotive response or reaction from any others at all or from time to time, these minds will be demotivated and depressed, and feel inferior, weak, useless, shameful, undeserving, failure, unnoticed, unloved, unsupported, left-out, and meaningless. The minds are being conditioned or inspired to be highly ambitious to do and achieve something or everything that deserves pride and respect from oneself and from others, as well as to never be contented, that one must continuously be highly ambitious to keep doing something 'great' to keep achieving more and more and higher and higher success, power, wealth, and enjoyments, endlessly, until there is nothing left to be exploited in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Just as many minds have intense anxiety or fear towards the unknown and rejection towards 'Simplicity', or have fear towards letting go whatever they have been told to believe, uphold, aspire, practice, and pursue since young, or reluctant to let go certain kinds of limited and conditional privilege, convenience, comfort, and enjoyment that they have, that are more or less deriving from continuous ongoing excessive exploitation and destruction towards the over-all well-being of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, that can be avoided, that is unnecessary, that is nothing to do with 'basic survival', 'sufficiency', 'good quality of living', and 'true happiness'.

The minds that have already developed or endowed with mental and emotional maturity or independence, they don't need to have pride in oneself for anything, not to say, to be receiving such egoistic pleasing, or uplifting, or promotive response or reaction from oneself or others to motivate them to continuously perform actions to look after and benefit oneself and others and the surrounding environment, or to keep learning and improving, or to feel appreciated, approved, acknowledged, recognized, loved, supported, or good and meaningful about themselves and life existence, and they are free from greed or endless ambition (craving) to achieve ceaseless higher and higher success in many things in order to be continuously receiving love, attention, support, encouragement, acknowledgement, recognition, approval, praise and compliments, and appreciation from oneself and all the others.

At the same time, they allow all these worldly egoistic practice, values, ethics, response, or reaction of all and everyone in the surrounding environment to be there, or not, but they are not being determined, or disturbed, or influenced, or limited, or conditioned, or promoted and demoted, by the presence or absence of all those egoistic names and forms, ideas, values, practice, or activities, that are meant to be either uplifting/complimenting/encouraging or hammering/criticizing/discouraging, but it is not necessarily beneficial but even harmful to all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The minds that are devoid of the sense of pride, that are mentally and emotionally matured or independent, they are free from the common hurtful destructive possessiveness and sense of belonging, offensiveness and defensiveness, or anger and hatred that exist in the prideful minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, upon coming in contact with something that is unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, or non-enjoyable and even painful, internally or externally.

The sense of pride co-existing with the sense of shame. They are the two sides of a coin.

The minds that understand this, they will know that, "Do things that will make you happy," or "Take pride in yourself and everything about yourself that is worthy and pride deserving," is only a momentary soothing effect, but it is not the solution to all kinds of unhappiness, or the disturbed dissatisfied painful suffering state of mind, and instead, it is empowering egoism and ignorance, which is the root cause of all kinds of unhappiness or the disturbed dissatisfied painful suffering state of mind as well as hurtful behaviors.

It has to come from the conscious awareness, conscious understanding, conscious freewill or choice making, conscious initiation, and conscious effort or action taking, of the mind itself, to be free from the sense of pride and shame that doesn't need to be existing at all.

The mind will realize the truth of all those conditional worldly egoistic ideas, thinking, beliefs, values, practices, inspirations, aspirations, visions, or endless and boundless ambitions, upon letting go the sense of pride or the need of possessing/developing/empowering/sustaining the sense of pride, or superiority, or success, or powerfulness, that exist in order to avoid or over-come the sense of shame, or inferiority, or failure, or vulnerability, where the sense of pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, success and failure, powerfulness and powerlessness (weakness/vulnerability/limitation/disability/failure/non-accomplishment/insecurity/fear), as well as goodness and badness, positiveness and negativeness, rightfulness and wrongfulness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, deserving and undeserving, and so on, don't need to be existing in the mind at all.

There will be unconditional peace in oneself.

One will stop hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Inquire the truth of everything.