Inquire towards mental and emotional healing or spiritual healing

'Mental and emotional healing', and/or 'spiritual healing', is a very common and popular term in the world of yoga, however, that is nothing to do with the teachings and practice of yoga.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, as all and everyone have the freedom of their own way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practice, desire, inspiration (what and where the mind learn something or everything from, that influence and motivate them for practicing and promoting something or everything), and aspiration (being inspired, influenced, and motivated by someone or somewhere to do and achieve and promote something or everything).

If there is the existence of an individual pure and perfect 'spirit/soul/consciousness' that is permanent independent unlimited unconditional and immortal residing in the impermanent limited conditional mortal body and mind, then that permanent independent unlimited unconditional infinite 'spirit/soul/consciousness' cannot be hurt, or injured, or damaged, or modified, or destroyed, by anything, not to say, there is no such existence existing.

And hence, the idea and practice of 'spiritual healing' is absolutely invalid. 

The selfless impermanent limited conditional mortal finite existence and function/modification of the mind (the physical structure and operation of the brains/the central and peripheral nervous system/the cognition/the thinking process or input processing and output response) can be determined, affected, disrupted, hurt, injured, damaged, modified, and destroyed by something of certain internal or external detrimental hurtful impact, activity, condition, and situation, that might or might not be improving or deteriorating, or be treated by certain treatments or action taking.

Such as the development and maintenance of the function or mechanism of the senses and organs of the senses or the perception and the cognition of knowing, recognizing, reasoning, and understanding, the degrees of intelligence or the accuracy, efficiency, and speed of the intellectual reasoning, problem solving, solution finding, and possible outcomes/consequences visualizing, the power of memory to memorize and to recall or remember, or the speed of learning and remembering, and etc, can be determined, affected, modified, conditioned, and influenced directly and indirectly by the limited and conditional availability and conscious choices of food consumption/energy inputs/physical and mental activities/habits/internal and external impact, conditions, and situations/balance between energy input and output/energy conservation, depletion, and restoration, and etc, under the presence and absence of certain knowledge and understanding and appropriate/immediate action taking.

Meanwhile, the conscious and semi-conscious manifestation of certain feelings/emotions/thoughts/desires/imagination/projection/visualization/manifestation of dreams, or the conscious/semi-conscious state of mind might be determined, affected, influenced, conditioned, or prompted by the mind perception of names and forms of all kinds of experiences under the presence of grasping, upon the mind is functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, but the manifestation of certain thoughts, desires, feelings, and emotions arising from the conscious/semi-conscious mind reaction reacting towards something or everything, internally and/or externally, or not, is solely determined by the presence or absence of grasping under the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance.

Under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, there is the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement in the mind, that thinks and believes, and that is identifying with and acknowledging that, "I am experiencing something that is disturbing/hurtful/painful mentally and emotionally. This is hurting me mentally and emotionally. I am mentally and emotionally disturbed/damaged/injured/hurt. I need to be healed from mental and emotional disturb/damage/injury/hurt. I am practicing yoga/buddhism hoping that it can relieve/heal/remove my mental and emotional disturb/hurt/damage/injury/pain instantly, gradually, eventually, partially, or completely."

Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, there is no idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement arising in the selfless mind to be associating, attaching, and identifying, not to say, reacting towards all kinds of perceived names and forms/experiences that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful.

There is only the selfless impermanent limited and conditional conscious and semi-conscious ego-less awareness being aware of the conscious and semi-conscious perception/cognition/knowing/reasoning/understanding/remembering/recognizing/possible consequences projecting/action or inaction upon coming in contact with certain names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations being perceived via the senses and the organs of the senses, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness in the present moment now, devoid of grasping/association/attachment/identification, knowing that all and everything are all impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, being reflected in the mind manifesting/arising/changing/passing away upon the all pervading timeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that enabling the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind being what it is, as it is, that is either functioning efficiently or inefficiently, that is being aware, or semi-aware, or unaware.

All minds are selfless, regardless of the presence or absence of grasping or the veil of ignorance, functioning ego-lessly or egoistically.

All selfless minds can be functioning ego-lessly or egoistically.

The selfless and ego-less conscious/semi-conscious perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer being what it is, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the all pervading timeless actionless universal silent witness/consciousness, is being undetermined/unaffected/undisturbed/unhurt by the mind perception/cognition/acknowledgement towards all kinds of selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self names and forms of different qualities/conditions/situations/activities/changes that arising, ceaselessly changing, and passing away at their respective cause and pace, being perceived and reflected in the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

Regardless of whether the reflection of the perceived names and forms is being reflected in the mind is as it is (under the absence of the veil of ignorance), or not as it is (under the presence of the veil of ignorance), and regardless of how long the reflection of the perceived names and forms stays or lingers in the mind, or regardless of the presence and absence of grasping, or regardless of the presence or absence of egoistic reaction/judgment/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating/the presence of absence of disturbance manifesting in the mind, towards the reflection of all those perceived names and forms, it doesn't determine/affect/change the names and forms being what they are, as they are.

In the modification of the mind/the thinking process/the thought activities, the selfless egoistic perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind can reacts towards the apples or oranges either with different judgments/opinions/reactions/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating towards the reflection of the perceived apples or oranges in the modification of the mind, it doesn't determine/affect/change the apples or oranges being what they are, as they are.

It is only when the mind is functioning under the presence of grasping, under the presence and function of the veil of ignorance, that there is the manifestation of the illusive/incorrect/false thinking/idea/acknowledgement of, "I am being disturbed and hurt by all these names and forms/experiences that are disturbing and hurtful to me physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually."

One can be hurt or injured physically, including the organ of the brains (the hardware of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind), but none can be hurt or injured mentally or emotionally under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, that need to be 'healed' mentally and emotionally, not to say, none can be hurt or injured 'spiritually', that doesn't exist, and is invalid.

The selfless but egoistic conscious/semi-conscious perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, is ignorantly being determined/affected/disturbed or 'hurt' by all THAT that the mind reasons/understands/judges/recognizes as undesirable, unpleasant, dislikable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, hurtful, or painful to itself.

It is common and natural that, either wittingly and unwittingly as well as directly and indirectly, there are many minds that are more or less being determined, disturbed, affected, or hammered by the presence of ceaseless and boundless hurtful and impactful behaviors and activities and their consequences being generated by human beings that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that give rise to many different unhealthy conditions and situations that are detrimental to the over-all physical and/or mental well-being of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If the mind really wants to practice and realize yoga, it needs to let go the idea of 'mental and emotional healing', or 'spiritual healing', because the presence of association, attachment, identification, and expectation towards that idea itself is a hindrance towards the realization towards Selflessness and Non-self.

Yoga and buddhism is about the eradication of the veil of ignorance, to attain direct self realization towards the universal truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, via quieting the restless egoistic impure thought activities or thinking process, or modification/state of the mind, by turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward to focus within for self-introspection and self-inquiry or self contemplation towards what is going on in the modification of the mind, of what he mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I' and everything that 'I' come in contact with/experience/learn/know/understand, that 'I' like and don't like, agree and don't agree, desire and don't desire, enjoy and don't enjoy, believe and don't believe, do and don't do, achieve and don't achieve, have and don't have, possess and don't possess, and etc, under the help of certain physical and mental observations and practices.

The genuine yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts/teachers/practitioners don't need/don't promote/don't empower 'mental and emotional healing', not to say, 'spiritual healing', if the mind has the basic correct understanding towards the essential basic teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism that is based on the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.

The objective of the existence and function of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is for the selfless egoistic impure restless ignorant suffering mind to attain direct self realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of itself, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, via non-grasping.

The direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of living and non-living names and forms under the presence of non-grasping, will enable the mind to know and understand that there is no existence of a permanent independent individual self existence of 'I', of an infinite immortal individual consciousness/soul/spirit existing, that resides in and belongs to the mortal selfless impermanent limited conditional body and mind, and/or vice versa.

Such mind won't be determined, or disturbed, or manipulated, or intimidated, or bullied, or hurt by anyone or anything, even if the physical body or the organ of the brains is suffering from certain evitable or inevitable/acute or chronic/reversible or irreversible illness, or damages, or injuries.

Either there is presence or absence of thinking process/thought activities, either under the functional/non-corrupted, or malfunction/corrupted, or non-functional/inactivation of the conscious and semi-conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.

There is nothing, if there is the absence of conscious or semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness.

There is nothing, if there is the absence of thinking process/thought activities, or upon silence. 

If there is the presence of thinking process/thought activities under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, there can be the presence of absence of the veil of ignorance, or there can be the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping, or there can be the presence or absence of disturbance/unrest/painful suffering/violence as well as the impermanent limited and conditional momentary sense of satisfaction/happiness/goodness/righteousness/meaningfulness/joyfulness/happiness, or the mind may or may not be resting in unconditional peace, or silence.

All kinds of thinking/thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations/experiences/names and forms/qualities/relationships/conditions/situations/affairs, and all and everything, are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, soothing or painful, constructive or destructive, beneficial or detrimental, positive or negative, possibility or impossibility, goodness or badness, happiness or unhappiness, and so on.

If the mind knows what is "Being aware of all kinds of names and forms arising, changing, and passing away without grasping," there is no reaction or manifestation of the idea/thought of mental and emotional or psychological 'hurt' or 'injury'.

If there is already the foundation of non-grasping, where the mind is consciously/semi-consciously being aware/conscious of all THAT without grasping, the mind will be undetermined or undisturbed by all THAT (the reflection of the perceived names and forms in the mind and/or the names and forms themselves), that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

That is freedom, or liberation, or unconditional peace.

This freedom, liberation, or unconditional peace doesn't mean that there is only the manifestation/perception/experience of pleasant, desirable, agreeable, enjoyable, or soothing names and forms, qualities, affairs, activities, relationships, interactions, communications, conditions, situations, or surrounding environment, or there is no manifestation/perception/experience of anything that is unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful.

It is about the absence of grasping towards all kinds of manifestation/perception/experience, under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The mind is resting at peace unconditionally, amid all kinds of conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious physical and/or mental activities for life maintenance that are happening ceaselessly throughout the entire physical body.

There is absence of hurtful ideas/thoughts/desires/feelings/emotions in such mind, where the mind naturally and effortlessly doesn't generate any action or reaction that hurt oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment, under any condition or situation, because it understands towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, as well as there is respect/acceptance towards the nature's law of cause and effect.

There is needless of self-control or self-effort to not hurt anyone or anything in the mind that is rendered quiet and clear under the absence of grasping, as self-control or effort to restrain one's behavior/action/reaction, is needed only when there are still the selfless manifestation of some hurtful ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions arising in the selfless modification of the mind under the presence of grasping, reacting towards certain unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful experiences/affairs/interactions/relationships/ties and connections/conditions/situations, and hence, the mind is still being determined and disturbed by all THAT.

But more importantly, if the disturbed mind has the basic correct understanding and has the self-control or effort to hinder all those hurtful reactions/ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions from turning into physical actions/activities that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, if the mind is still being determined and disturbed by the mind perception of names and forms under the presence of grasping.

Just by having the basic correct understanding and self-control, and under certain degrees of non-grasping, is already what the practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about.

There is the presence of kindness, or non-violence, or non-hurtful towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment. None needs to be perfect in order to be kind, to have certain degrees of understanding and self-control of not hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything under different qualities of names and forms within and without, that gives rise to the conscious/semi-conscious awareness/consciousness to the living organisms upon the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, cannot be determined, affected, modified, changed, increased, decreased, contaminated, hurt, damaged, or destroyed by anything.

There is no existence of a permanent independent individual self identity of an individual immortal pure 'soul/spirit/consciousness' existing or residing in all kinds of living organisms, not to say, an individual 'soul/spirit/consciousness' that can be hurt or injured by something or anything, that needs to be healed from 'hurt', or 'illness', or 'damage', or 'injury'.

The mind that understands, it doesn't get upset, or it is not being disturbed by, or it doesn't suffer for the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in anyone or anything.

"Everyone has the freedom of being what they are, as they are. Your actions and the outcome of your actions is your freedom of choice and responsibility. My actions and the outcome of my actions is my own freedom of choice and responsibility."

Inquiry the truth of everything.

Mind the action reaction of oneself, don't mind the action reaction of others

It is a natural common egoistic mind behavior pattern in most minds where upon the state of consciousness/wakefulness and semi-consciousness/semi-awake and semi-sleep, the mind is being busy minding about the action and inaction as well as the reaction and non-reaction of the others, being determined and disturbed by all THAT (what others do and don't do and how others react or don't react) wittingly and unwittingly, as the mind ceaselessly and spontaneously reacts towards all THAT that the mind perceives and recognizes as something good or bad, right or wrong, should or shouldn't, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, and pleasant or unpleasant, based on its own particular way of thinking, belief/disbelief, likes and dislikes, desires and don't desires, agreements and disagreements.

The mind is being pleased and empowered by the gratification of its desire of craving and aversion, while being displeased, dissatisfied, disappointed, demotivated, belittled, unhappy, annoyed, offended, or angry upon the non-gratification of its desires of craving and aversion, upon others don't act/react in the way that it expects how others should act/react (the good and right way based on its own particular belief, values, and practice about what is good/bad/right/wrong/should/shouldn't), or upon others act and react in the way that it thinks and believes that others shouldn't act/react (not the good and right way, but the bad and wrong way based on its own particular belief, values, and practice).

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

The minds that are interested in learning and practicing and realizing yoga and/or buddhism, then, only if they want, they can practice yoga and/or buddhism (practically and effectively in everyday life affair/activity/ties and connections/relationship/friendship/interaction/communication beyond the yoga class or the yoga practice session, or beyond all kinds of physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practice), as it is.

In the beginning on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, the mind needs to have the essential basic correct understanding towards,

"All and everyone have the freedom to think, believe, behave, act, and react, in certain way or not in certain way, as they are, as well as, not thinking, not believing, not behaving, not acting, or not reacting, in certain way or not in certain way, as they are. All and everyone are responsible towards their own particular way of thinking, belief, behavior, action, and reaction, as well as also be accountable for the consequences of their own particular way of thinking, belief, behavior, action, and reaction, in certain way or not in certain way."

The mind that understands this, will not be disturbed or determined by the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action/inaction, and reaction/non-reaction as well as the consequences of all THAT, that are coming from oneself and all and everyone.

"How the mind think, believe/disbelieve, agree/disagree, desire/doesn't desire, like/dislike, behave, act, and react towards all and everyone and everything, is the freedom of choice and responsibility of the mind itself." 

"The mind is accountable for the consequences of the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action, and reaction of itself towards all and everything, but none is accountable for the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action, and reaction of all the others towards all and everything."

"Peace and happiness in the mind, is the freedom of conscious and semi-conscious choice/effort/action taking/understanding/responsibility of the mind itself. Similarly, the presence and absence of violence, anger, hatred, bitterness, resentment, admiration, jealousy, intimidation, disappointment, dissatisfaction, offensiveness, defensiveness, fear, worry, discontentment, greed, unrest, and unhappiness in the mind is the freedom of conscious and semi-conscious choice/effort/action taking/understanding/responsibility of the mind itself, where the mind has the conscious and semi-conscious freewill/choice/effort/understanding towards either grasping or non-grasping, holding onto or non-holding onto, letting go or non-letting go towards something or all and everything, and it is the freedom of action reaction of the mind itself, whether to act and react in certain way or not in certain way (either non-grasping or grasping, holding onto or letting go, to be disturbed or undisturbed, to be happy or unhappy, to be selfish or unselfish, to be kind or unkind, to be constructive or destructive)."

"The mind reacts and feels pleased, satisfied, motivated, empowered, good, happy, and meaningful is because its desires of craving and aversion are being gratified, while the mind reacts and feels displeased, dissatisfied, demotivated, hammered, bad, unhappy, and meaningless is because its desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified. It is not the names and forms that the mind perceives/experiences/comes in contact with are having the quality or intention to make the mind reacts and feels in certain way or not in certain way."

"Some people react and feel good and happy when some others give them some apples that they like very much, but they react and feel bad and unhappy when some others give them some oranges that they hate very much. Meanwhile, some people react and feel good and happy when some others give them some oranges, but they react and feel bad and unhappy when some others give them some apples. It is not the quality or intention of the apples or the oranges that make the people react and feel in certain way or not in certain way. The people are happy and satisfied is because either they are getting/experiencing/coming in contact with what they like and desire and agree with, or when they don't get/experience/come in contact with what they don't like and don't desire and don't agree with. The people are unhappy and dissatisfied is because either they are getting/experiencing/coming in contact with what they don't like and don't desire and don't agree with, or when they don't get/experience/come in contact with what they like and desire and agree with."

"Looking after the general physical and mental well-being of the body and mind is the sole responsibility of the body and mind itself upon reaching certain degrees of maturity in the physical and mental development, unless there is completely absence of the physical and mental development of such conscious and semi-conscious physical and mental ability either due to deformity upon birth, or young age, or disease/illness, or injury, or aging, or being conditioned and suppressed by the worldly egoistic ideas, belief, values, and practice of non-development/non-encouragement/suppression/prohibition towards mental and emotional independence under certain selfish and greedy ambitions/visions/agendas in a couple/a family/parents and children/siblings/a community/a tribe/an ethnicity/a culture/a spirituality/a religion/a country/an organization under the sense of belonging/ownership/possessiveness and the urge to influence and control all and everything to be the way that one desires."

"How all and everyone live life and make use of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary life existence and function of the body and mind, and the outcome of that, is the responsibility and accountability of all and everyone themselves."

Only upon the mind is being undetermined or undisturbed by all THAT (the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action/inaction, and reaction/non-reaction of oneself and all the others towards all and everything as well as the consequences/outcome of all THAT), then there is possibility for the restless modification of the mind to be rendered calm and quiet effectively under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, that will enable the mind to see, or know, or understand all and everything that the mind comes in contact with, clearly as they are, as it is, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness/cognition/intellectual reasoning/understanding/knowing, under the absence of grasping.

The mind needs to divert the outgoing tendency of "busy minding and interfering towards the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action/inaction, and reaction/non-reaction of all the others towards all and everything being conditioned by their own different particular way of thinking, belief/disbelief, agreements/disagreements, desires/don't desires, and likes/dislikes towards all and everything" inward onto minding and introspecting the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self thought process/modification/state of the mind of itself, without grasping, and not being determined or disturbed by all THAT (the action/inaction/reaction/non-reaction and their consequences of oneself and/or all the others), regardless of agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, and pleasant or unpleasant based on one's thinking, belief/disbelief, likes and dislikes, desires and doesn't desires, or agreements and disagreements.

The mind needs to free itself from the sense of self-righteousness and interference towards the freedom of all the others being what they are, as they are.

Such mind will have more and more peace, will be more and more quiet and clear, and will have more and more understanding towards the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function or modification of itself and everything.

Non-grasping/Non-clinging/Non-holding onto/Letting go/Non-possessive, is the entire practice of yoga and/or buddhism, while all the other practices such as yoga asana and pranayama practice, concentration and meditation practice, chanting and japa, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence (mauna), and etc, are merely some helping tools that can help the mind to turn inward to focus within, to render the restless thought process/modification/state of mind calm, quiet, and clear, to develop the correct understanding that leads towards the timeless unconditional peace in oneself that illuminates unto all and everyone and everything in the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

The mind that has established firmly on Non-grasping/Non-clinging/Non-holding onto/Letting go/Non-possessiveness, doesn't need to observe or partake all the other practices or observations, however, there are some momentary limited and conditional beneficial side effects deriving from all those regular physical and mental practices that can help to empower and maintain certain degrees of physical and mental health and fitness condition up to certain extend, that enables the body and mind to have the basic health and fitness condition to be performing ego-less activities/actions that can benefit oneself and all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It's absolutely nothing bad or wrong, if under certain condition and situation, there is no availability or there is not enough basic health and fitness condition for the body and mind to perform certain or any actions/activities for oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment. It really doesn't matter. But more importantly, is that the mind is at peace unconditionally under any conditions and situations, under the presence of correct understanding, under the absence of grasping/clinging/holding onto/possessiveness.

What and how much the mind knows and doesn't know, understands or doesn't understand, not to say, what and how much other minds know and don't know, understand or don't understand, is not important at all, but the absence of grasping onto all THAT, is the upmost important element that will lead the mind towards knowing and understanding the truth of everything that the mind knows or comes in contact with, as it is.

The mind is limited and conditional. It is the truth. It is not a weakness or shame/condemn/punishment/suffering deserving. 

Just like the mirror and the reflection being reflected by the mirror. The mirror that is devoid of movement, distortion, crack, dust, stain, or obstacle between the mirror and the object of reflection (the mind that is devoid of the veil of ignorance/the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness), will reflect anything that is being reflected on it, as it is.

It is not important that the flawless motionless mirror doesn't and cannot reflect all and everything of all angles and all directions at once, where it can only reflects what is there in front of it (what the mind knows or comes in contact with, is limited, and what the mind doesn't know or doesn't come in contact with, is unlimited. The sum accumulated knowledge is limited, the continuous endless accumulation of knowledge is unlimited), but more importantly, whatever that is being reflected on the flawless motionless mirror will be reflected as it is (the truth as it is, or the correct understanding towards what the mind knows or comes in contact with).

Most importantly, the mirror is not being determined, or contaminated, or disturbed, or modified by the reflection of all kinds of objects under different qualities of names and forms that is being reflected unto it.

Similarly, the mind that is devoid of grasping, is not being determined, or contaminated, or disturbed, or modified by the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind, of random thought activities/thinking process, of whatever the mind perceives/experiences/comes in contact with towards all kinds of names and forms under different qualities (pleasant or unpleasant/good or bad/positive or negative/desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable/enjoyable or non-enjoyable/soothing or painful), and vice versa.

The only difference between the mirror and the mind, is that the mirror is a non-living object that doesn't has the conscious/semi-conscious freewill, or choice, or effort, or organs of action to perform action/reaction to be in or move away from certain beneficial or detrimental conditions or situations, while the mind is part of the living organism that has the conscious/semi-conscious freewill, or choice, or effort, or organs of action to perform action/reaction to be in or move away from certain beneficial or detrimental conditions or situations.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

Let go possessiveness and pride to realize the universal dhamma, or the universal teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism

All minds have the freedom to think, believe, reason, understand, behave, act, react, desire, and express as they are. There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, even if the different minds have their own particular way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, behavior, action, reaction, desire, and expression that are different from one another, that could be constructive or destructive, beneficial or harmful.

This doesn't mean that constructive and beneficial activities should not be encouraged and empowered, or destructive and harmful activities should be encouraged and empowered. 

For the minds that truly want to practice and realize yoga vedanta and/or buddhism, to be free from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, then the teachings here, regardless of agreeable or disagreeable to the different minds, can serve as a reflective object or subject for them to reflect upon.

It is a common and normal trait or behavior of the selfless minds that are functioning under the presence and influence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, to develop, possess, and empower the sense of belonging/origin as well as possessiveness/ownership and pride towards many things that the minds think and believe are who they are, where they come from, and what belonged to them, in oneself and among a community, such as their particular personal, family, and communal identity, their origin and background, their ancestry heritage, their culture, their spirituality, their religion, their ethnicity, their belief, their birth place, their nationality, their country, their history, as well as all and everyone and everything that were and are somehow connected or related to what they think and believe is who they are, where they come from, and what belonged to them.

Such as the dhamma, or the teachings and practice of yoga vedanta, or the teachings and practice of buddhism, or the minds that had/have attained direct self realization towards the dhamma, such as Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Ajahn Chah, or Swami Sivananda, or some other saints and sages.

The egoistic minds, including the enthusiasts of yoga vedanta and/or buddhism, would think and believe that the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism, or Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Ajahn Chah, or Swami Sivananda, or certain enlightened buddhas/yogis/gurus/saints and sages who had/have attained direct self realization towards the dhamma or the truth of all and everything, were/are originated from a particular area/location/place/country/region under particular cultural/spiritual/religious background, and that also simultaneously belonged to that particular area/location/place/region/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion, or the people from that particular area/location/place/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion would think and believe that yoga vedanta, or buddhism, or the dhamma, or the direct self realization towards the dhamma being realized by certain minds from that particular area and background, should autonomously belong to them and their particular area/location/place/region/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion.

That is their freedom of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, action, reaction, desire, and expression.

For the minds that truly want to practice and realize the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism, they need to be opened, to reflect upon the truth of such thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, action, reaction, desire, and expression that is based on the egoistic sense of belonging/origin (what and where they come from and belong to) as well as possessiveness/ownership (what and where belonged to them) and pride or shame towards all THAT that they think and believe as good or bad, or pride deserving, or shame deserving.

Just as the planet earth, the livable atmosphere, the nature, the natural resources, the continents, the lands, the oceans, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the air, the water, the minerals, the nutrients, the plants, all kinds of living organisms, all kinds of non-living objects, the other planets, the sun, the moon, the stars, the universe, the galaxy, all kinds of elements and energy, or the infinite space that hosts all and everything, don't belong to anyone or anything, similarly -

The universal teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism, the universal dhamma/the universal truth of everything, as well as the direct self realization towards the universal dhamma, or the universal truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in all kinds of names and forms, that was/is being realized by the different selfless minds from different eras in different areas/locations under many different backgrounds, including Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Swami Sivananda, Ajahn Chah, and many other buddhas, yogis, gurus, saints and sages, where the minds had been or are existing and functioning momentarily under different eras in different areas in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, undertaking similar and/or different path(s) and practice(s) under the different names such as yoga vedanta, or buddhism, or some other names, or without any names, but the universal truth, or the universal dhamma, or the universal path of yoga vedanta, or the universal path of buddhism (the names are different, but they all are the same realization towards the truth of all kinds of names and forms), doesn't belong to anyone, or anything, or the minds that had/have attained direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, not to say, all THAT doesn't belong to any particular area, or region, or country under the particular community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion background where the many different enlightened minds/buddhas/yogis/gurus/saints and sages were/are born, or lived/live in, or had/have attained enlightenment.

There is no 'my' realization, or 'my' enlightenment', or 'my' dhamma, or 'my' truth, upon the direct self realization towards the timeless universal dhamma/truth of all kinds of names and forms. It's just the mind knows and understands Thyself upon the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness under the quiet/clear state of mind.

The self realized liberated minds/buddhas/yogis/gurus were/are the selfless minds that had/have attained direct self realization towards the universal truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, that exists along with the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of all and everyone and everything, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, upon the annihilation/silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I' (the ego/self acknowledgement/sense of separateness between 'I' and 'not I' or 'others'), egoism, impurities, and restlessness, a.k.a. the natural veil of ignorance, not only effortlessly and naturally in the state of unconsciousness, but more importantly and particularly, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

There is neither superiority and super extraordinary power to override or alter the truth of selflessness/impermanence/limitation/conditional/non-self in the enlightened liberated minds nor inferiority and painful punishment/suffering deserving in the non-enlightened minds. It is merely whether the minds know or don't know and understand or don't understand towards the universal truth of all kinds of names and forms; Have peace, or not; Be kind towards oneself and all and everything indiscriminately and unconditionally, or not; Or, don't hurt or stop hurting oneself and others and everything in the surrounding environment, or not.

Upon the state of consciousness/semi-consciousness, there is the natural conscious/semi-conscious continuous stream of countless idea/thought of 'I' (the ego/self acknowledgement/sense of separateness) arising and passing away, that gives rise to egoism and the by-products of countless and various impurities, that gives rise to the restless conscious/semi-conscious thought activities/actions/reactions/desires/state of mind, which is what restlessness or the veil of ignorance is about, where the veil of ignorance doesn't exist in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, but only manifests naturally as it is, upon the states of consciousness/wakefulness and semi-consciousness/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dream, except for the minds that are born autistic, where there is absence/non-development of the ego/the idea of 'I'/self acknowledgement/sense of separateness biologically, effortlessly, and naturally, even in the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

It doesn't mean that the other egoistic impure restless minds that didn't realize or haven't realized the universal truth, are not selfless minds/buddhas/yogis/gurus. 

All minds are buddhas/yogis/dhamma. All and everything are dhamma/the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self. All and everything are the teachings and the teachers, or the gurus of dhamma.

The selfless minds that didn't attain/haven't attained the direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, are merely the buddhas/yogis/dhamma that are veiled and yet to be realized by the minds themselves, that was/is unknown to the selfless minds that were/are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance upon the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The universal dhamma or the universal truth of everything and both the self realized ego-less quiet selfless minds and the non-realized/haven't yet-realized egoistic impure restless selfless minds, are untouched/uncontaminated/unaffected/undetermined/unchanged/undamaged/unhurt by the presence and absence of the veil of ignorance in the restless impure egoistic modification of the minds, although activities being generated under the influence of the veil of ignorance can cause unnecessary impactful damages/suffering unto all and everyone and everything.

Regardless of realized or non-realized/haven't yet realized, liberated or non-liberated/haven't yet liberated, pure or impure, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, wise or ignorant, constructive or destructive, peaceful or peaceless, enjoying or suffering, all selfless minds are the dhamma/the truth itself, and the minds are still what they are, as they are, or the dhamma/the truth is still what it is, as it is. All minds are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

The universal truth of "All kinds of names and forms are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self," doesn't change, and is permanent and timeless before/during/after the manifestation of all kinds of names and forms manifesting and changing, arising and passing away, under respective cause and pace, upon the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All minds are buddhas/yogis/dhamma, but there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence in the minds to be identifying as buddhas/yogis/dhamma.

All minds are selfless. The minds don't evolve and become selfless. All kinds of names and forms, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, are all selfless, as well as impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

To know Thyself, or the self-inquiry inquiring towards "Who/What am I?" is about the realization towards the one same nature of the existence and function of the perceptive thinking mind, the physical body, and all and everything that the mind perceives through the senses via the sense organs, of what all and everything are, where are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, where there is no existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence of an unique individual identity/soul/spirit/consciousness that has been ignorantly and reluctantly undergoing endless rounds of different separate mortal life existences of different body and mind under different momentary identities, transitioning between many different realms/worlds/spheres endlessly due to the ceaseless generation and accumulation of boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma' or 'merits and virtues/sins'.

However, under the influence of the veil of ignorance, especially in the beginning of the path of yoga and/or buddhism, it is normal and nothing wrong that most minds would naturally non-understand or even misunderstand about the essential self-inquiry towards "Who/What am I?" is about finding, recognizing, knowing, remembering, reconnecting with, re-identifying with, regaining, recovering, or returning to "Our original true identity of who/what we really are."

The minds are naturally being ignorant towards the truth of itself/Thyself, due to the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, which is a natural phenomena or manifestation in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind/faculty upon the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, that hinders the mind from seeing the truth of itself, which is the same truth in all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses via the organs of the senses, where all and everything, regardless of sentient and non-sentient/mobile and immobile living organisms or non-living objects, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All the genuine and highly determined, attentive, intelligent, and knowledgeable scientists or biologists who have been studying and researching enthusiastically and one-pointedly towards the science of the human body and mind as well as the science of all and everything in the surrounding environment 'should' know this, especially under the help of many innovative tools being invented under advance science and technology, unless the mind is still being conditioned by certain existing inherited/adopted/developed/empowered worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/personal/family/communal/regional/national/political/commercial/educational/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional new age ideas/beliefs/values/practices/aspirations in the mind, to reason and understand everything in certain way and not in certain way.

Not only the minds of the highly intelligent and knowledgeable scientists and biologists, but all minds, regardless of where they were/are and what type of background they come from or have, they can realize the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional momentary life existence and function of the mortal body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, if there is the conscious/semi-conscious perception towards endless painful suffering and fleeting pleasurable enjoyment that are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, and have the intense yearning towards attaining liberation from ignorance and the by-products of all kinds of painful suffering that are unnecessary, via the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, under the conscious/semi-conscious state of mind that is rendered quiet/silent/clear/absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, or restless thought current/activities/state of mind.

The minds don't need to look out, or look far, or go somewhere, or suffer greatly, ignorantly, and unnecessarily, in order to realize or know the universal dhamma/truth, as the entire selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of the body and mind itself is the dhamma/truth itself. That's why the teachings and practice is about knowing Thyself, by quieting the restless modification of the mind via renouncing the passionate worldly egoistic ideas/beliefs/values/practices/aspirations/habitual thinking behavior pattern, turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward to look within, and the mind will attain direct realization towards the universal dhamma/truth.

There is absence of pleasurable enjoyment or painful suffering in the minds that are either functioning under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, or are functioning under the absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness not only in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, but even under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness/semi-consciousness, either effortlessly and naturally being born autistic biologically or via the persistent engagement in conscious effort/practice/observation to render the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind quiet/silent/clear/one-pointed/focused within/desireless via ceaseless conscious effort/perseverance/determination of thinning-out/weakening/annihilating the ego and egoism, as well as their by-products of various impurities and restless thought current/process/activities, or state of mind, that both fed by and feeding the idea of 'I' and egoism, that forms and empowers the veil of ignorance.

That is why the dhamma/the truth/yoga vedanta/buddhism is universal. It is what all and everyone and everything are, that are manifested and come under different qualities of names and forms that are impermanent, limited, and conditional, that don't even belong to the names and forms themselves, but that also don't belong to anyone or anything, and it is unlimited, unconditional, timeless, and changeless, being unaffected, undetermined, unchanged, uncontaminated, undamaged, or unlimited and unconditioned by any qualities of names and forms that come and go, that arise, change, and pass away under respective cause and pace.

The minds that have attained direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, there is naturally the correct understanding/absolute knowledge/wisdom of "All and everyone and everything don't belong to oneself, or anyone, or anything," where there is no grasping, attachment, identification, sense of belonging, possessiveness/ownership, or pride/shame towards the momentary impermanent existence and function of the body and mind, or anyone, or anything.

The minds also understand that the knower and the knowledge are non-separated (oneness/non-duality/non-separateness). The knower is the knowledge itself. The knower knows Thyself. Without the knower, there is no knowledge, and vice versa. Similarly, the perceiver and the perceived, the thinker and the thinking, the experiencer and the experience, the projector and the projection, the awareness and the objects of awareness, the enjoyer and the objects of enjoyment, or the sufferer and the objects of suffering.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the restless impure egoistic minds think and believe and desire that the truth/dhamma/yoga/buddhism belong to them, as they were/are born and/or lived/live in the same area/region/country as the self realized or enlightened buddhas/yogis/gurus, that should also simultaneously belong to that (their) particular country under that (their) particular nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion/belief.

The egoistic minds of the human beings from different areas/regions/countries of the similar or different cultures/spiritualities/religions/beliefs would have the sense of possessiveness/ownership and pride towards the dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, while claiming that the dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism originated from and belonged to their particular area/region/country/nationality/community/culture/spirituality/religion/belief.

The possessive prideful minds argue with the others who also claimed possessiveness/ownership/pride towards the dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, and are being offensive/defensive about the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism was/is originated from and belonged to their particular area/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion/belief, where the people/the minds would get over-whelmed by the ongoing heated arguments and become highly disturbed/offended/dissatisfied/disappointed/upset/angry/violent towards each other in the process to prove/convince that the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism was/is originated from and belonged to them and their particular area/region/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion/belief.

The presence of such idea/thinking/belief/behavior/action/reaction in the minds/people only indicates that such minds/people don't know/haven't realized towards the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism, which is ONE under different names, which is universal, which doesn't belong to anyone or anything (not even belongs to 'all of us'), which is centered in the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, where the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of the body and mind existing and functioning under different states of consciousness doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, or the momentary existence and function of all kinds of names and forms doesn't even belong to the names and forms themselves, as well as the core teachings and practice is about the annihilation/absence of ignorance, the ego, egoism, and restless boundless impurities of the egoistic sense of belonging/possessiveness/ownership/separateness, grasping, clinging, attachment, identification, selfishness, self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, craving and aversion, comparison, competition, judgment, expectation, discontentment, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, offensiveness, defensiveness, envy, jealousy, irritation, frustration, bitterness, resentment, vengeance, anger, hatred, violence, intimidation, argument, debate, fighting, back-biting, slandering, shaming, blaming, glorifying, worshiping, blind-following, blind-believing, blind-practicing, blind-propagating, and etc.

Even though Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was born and lived in the area that is named Lumbini in the country of Nepal, and he had been travelling around different areas and attained self realization in the area that is named Bodhgaya in the country of India, buddhism and the dhamma/the truth of everything don't come from or belong to Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Lumbini (The birth place of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha), or Bodhgaya (The place where the direct self realization of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha took place), or any other minds that knew/know Thyself via conscious self-initiation, self-effort, self-inquiry, and self realization from any particular era, in any particular area.

There is no 'our' dhamma, 'our' buddhas, 'our' yogis, 'our' yoga vedanta, 'our' buddhism, 'our' Swami Sivananda, 'our' Ajahn Chah, 'our' Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or 'our' saints and sages, if the minds are free from the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

Although there is absolutely nothing wrong and it is highly beneficial to all and everything in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, for certain people/individuals/community/organization/government/country actively and enthusiastically promoting buddhism or yoga vedanta in those particular areas/locations/places/countries, or in any where, under the name of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Swami Sivananda, or Ajahn Chah, or any other enlightened saints and sages that were/are born in those areas or anywhere, that had lived and moved around/have been living and moving around in those areas or anywhere, that had/have attained enlightenment in those areas or anywhere, even if it is under the intention of promoting tourism for economic growth in those areas/places/countries/people/community, with the correct understanding of "The universal dhamma, the teachings and practice of buddhism and/or yoga vedanta, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Swami Sivananda, Ajahn Chah, or any other self realized buddhas/yogis/minds/saints and sages from any eras and areas, don't belong to anyone or anything. And all minds, regardless of all kinds of differences and backgrounds, from any eras and areas, can practice and realize the universal dhamma, or buddhism, or yoga vedanta."

Similarly, yoga vedanta has the background of Hinduism, where many great buddhas, yogis, and gurus were/are from Hinduism background, but it doesn't mean that yoga vedanta came from and belonged to Hinduism or Hindus, or all Hindus are practicing yoga vedanta, or only Hindus can practice and realize yoga vedanta, where the realization of the dhamma or the truth of all kinds of names and forms is the same in both yoga vedanta and buddhism - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, Non-self.

Where the teachings/observation/practice are the same - Non-grasping/Non-dualism/Non-separateness/Oneness/Silence/Self-initiation/Self-effort/Self-inquiry/Self-realization/Unconditional peace/Wisdom/Kindness/Non-violence/The middle path/Renunciation/Dispassion/Desirelessness/Non-craving and Non-aversion/Simplicity/Non-greed/Non-possessiveness, and etc.

Where the subject and object is non-separated and both the same selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Where it is all about - The mind and The conquest/silence of the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind by the mind itself.

The minds that claimed that yoga or buddhism originated from and that belonged to particular being(s)/person(people)/mind(s)/community/ethnicity/spirituality/religion/belief/culture/era/area/region/country/nationality/organization/authority, they didn't/don't know or understand about the existence and function of the teachings and practices of yoga vedanta and/or buddhism, as well as the universal dhamma, or the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self being realized by the minds either under the name of 'yoga vedanta', or 'buddhism', or 'some other names and forms', or nameless and formless, are universal, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is not limited to/by/in any particular name and form, but it exists along within all and everyone and everything of any qualities of names and forms, in any eras, and in anywhere in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If without the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of all kinds of names and forms existing and functioning as what they are, what is the truth of names and forms, and vice versa?

And there is neither right nor wrong, and it is the freedom of all minds for their particular thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, behavior, action, reaction, desire, and expression about anything and everything.

The minds that are open, will start to see the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism as it is, devoid of grasping, identification, possessiveness/ownership, or pride, not to say, the egoistic reaction of being offended, disturbed, upset, angry, hating, or violent towards something that the mind perceived/understood/recognized as something offensive/disrespectful/intimidation/disagreeable/undesirable deriving from the presence of grasping, identification, possessiveness, or pride.

The minds that are not open, will naturally react and feel offended, disturbed, upset, angry, hating, and violent towards anything or anyone that is contradicting or different from their particular thinking, belief, reasoning, and understanding, and the presence of such reaction only indicates that they don't know/understand or haven't realized the universal dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism as it is.

Such minds are being conditioned to think and believe, "There is only one truth, and that is our truth deriving from and belonged to our people, our community, our ethnicity, our country, our nationality, our culture, our spirituality, our religion, our ancestors, our gurus, our teachers, our saints and sages, or our enlightened buddhas/yogis. Our truth is the one and only truth," while be disturbed, dissatisfied, upset, angry, hating, and violent by thinking and believing that their truth is somehow being disrespected, offended, intimidated, contaminated, damaged, or hurt by something or someone that is different from or contradicting to their truth.

If it is really the universal truth, it is universal, it doesn't belong to anyone or anything, and it cannot be determined, affected, contaminated, offended, disrespected, humiliated, intimidated, damaged, hurt, altered, or changed by anything or anyone.

If it is the universal truth, it is not limited to or constrained by any particular era, area, location, position, quality, name and form, region, country, nationality, community, individual, culture, spirituality, religion, belief, caste, sect, ethnicity, status, or anything.

None need to be possessive and claimed ownership towards anything that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in order to be kind, and not damaging/harming/destroying but to look after and promote the general welfare of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment.

Inquire/Reflect the truth of everything, including all that is here in this blog, and be free. 

Be kind to all and everyone indiscriminately and unconditionally

Many minds under the many different organizations/nationalities/communities/families have the similar idea/values/desire/vision to be promoting and exercising the idea of 'unity', or 'we all are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' to achieve unity or community strength building among the diverse individual minds, to form one big strong united community sharing some similar ideas/values/belief and disbelief/culture/way of living/way of conduct/visions/interests, in order to achieve peace and harmony, inter-support, cooperation, and protection among each other within the family, or the brotherhood/sisterhood, or the neighbourhood, or the community, or the country, or the entire world of many different diverse countries, nationalities, communities, families, and individuals in different areas, but this is nothing to do with the teachings or practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

Because, when there are more than two individual minds come together, naturally there will be more or less some disagreement/conflict/tension arise here and there from time to time.

It is normal and nothing wrong with the manifestation of certain disagreement/conflict/tension arising from time to time among the different individual minds, even among a loving couple sharing similar interests, or within a family of one ancestry lineage, or among the siblings coming from the same parents, or among the different individuals of the same nationality/community/tribe/culture/spirituality/religion/belief, values, and vision, or among the different communities of the same nationality, not to say, among the many different individuals of the many different families/communities/tribes/cultures/spiritualities/religions/beliefs, values, and visions of the many different nationalities, and not to say, among the many different sentient and non-sentient living organisms of the many different species in a world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Especially if the minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of correct understanding and under the absence of grasping, where the minds are being kind to one another indiscriminately and unconditionally, regardless of the many differences among all kinds of diversities, where all kinds of disagreements/conflicts/tensions appear and disappear without turning into violent hurtful action/reaction/behavior/treatment among one another.

However, most minds under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness are naturally functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where there is incorrect understanding and grasping, where ceaseless disagreements/conflicts/tensions keep arising and building up and turn into violent hurtful action/reaction/behavior/treatment among one another.

Couples are hurting one another.

Parents and children are hurting one another.

Siblings are hurting one another.

Relatives are hurting one another.

Friends, neighbours, colleagues, business people, politicians, or organizations are hurting one another. 

Different individuals, different communities, different nationalities, different species of sentient living organisms, are intentionally and/or unintentionally hurting one another unnecessarily under the influence of the veil of ignorance, being determined, conditioned, influenced, and over-powered by the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

Just by promoting and exercising 'unity', or 'we are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' among the many different individual minds within the same background/family/community/nationality or from the many different backgrounds/families/communities/nationalities is ineffective and doesn't mean anything, unless the minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance.

And if the minds are free from the influence of ignorance, there is no need of the idea, values, vision, and practice of 'unity', or 'we are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' with the intention/anticipation of 'not hurting one another' but 'inter-supporting, cooperating, and protecting one another', because the minds that are free from the veil of ignorance will naturally be kind to all and everyone indiscriminately and unconditionally under the presence of correct understanding and under the absence of grasping.

There is needless of promoting and exercising 'unity', or 'we are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood', but each and every individual mind just needs to free the selfless impermanent limited and conditional function/modification of itself from the influence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, out of one's own conscious awareness, initiation, freewill, and effort, powered by intense yearning towards liberation from ignorance/violence/suffering.

All and everyone are being kind to one another, indiscriminately and unconditionally, not because of 'we all are one big family' or 'brotherhood/sisterhood', but even if it's not a family or brotherhood/sisterhood, not having or sharing a similar background/culture/idea/belief/values/vision/interest/community/nationality/species, and there are many disagreements/conflicts/tensions arising from time to time among all and everyone.

There is needless to be violent and hurtful towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment being determined, disturbed, and influenced by the manifestation of some disagreements/conflicts/tensions here and there from time to time that are all impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, if there is the presence of correct understanding and the absence of grasping in the minds.

Just as there are different types of discomfort/tension/weakness/disturbance/dysfunction/disagreement arising and passing away in the physical body here and there from time to time, but the many different individual cells, components, organs, or systems don't need to hurt one another until the entire physical body ceased functioning and existing, where there won't be any cells, components, organs, or systems can exist independently by oneself, not to say, function as what they are.

The world of human beings has been constantly being in a state of unrest and violence before and after civilization, causing so much unnecessary damage to everything, physically, mentally, economically, and environmentally, leaving prolonged damaging impact to all and everyone and everything, even under the current era of advance science and technology, not only hurting among human beings, but also impacting all and everything in the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, because most minds, especially the leaders that were/are holding certain power of leadership and authority under different types of families/communities/organizations as well as the members of all these different families/communities/organizations, are all functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free. 

Understanding, non-understanding, misunderstanding

Regardless of the different degrees of intelligence, education, learning, experience, talent, skill, ability, and knowledge accumulation, one can be understanding, or non-understanding, or misunderstanding towards something and/or all and everything.

Understanding/correct understanding/uncontaminated reasoning and discrimination - Beneficial towards all and everyone and everything, under the absence of self-righteousness, possessiveness, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, envy and jealousy, discontentment and greed, anger, hatred, intimidation, interference, manipulation, or ill-will and hurtful violent action/reaction/behavior/activity towards all and everyone and everything, regardless of what other minds perceived/reasoned/recognized/judged/understood as pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, kind or unkind, wise or ignorant, good or evil, respectful or disrespectful, complimentary or offensive, promotive or obstructive, and constructive or destructive. Performing actions/activities that are beneficial towards all and everyone and everything indiscriminately and unconditionally, while respecting all and everyone and everything being what they are, as they are, and that are constantly changing under their own respective cause and pace.

Non-understanding - Could be benefiting or harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment with random action/reaction/behavior/activity that could be either constructive or destructive, beneficial or harmful, consciously/semi-consciously/randomly/ignorantly and unconsciously/autonomously/instinctively/unwittingly.

It is okay to acknowledge that, "I don't understand this or that or anything, and I don't know how to do this or that or anything because I don't have understanding."

It is much better than, "I understand this or that or everything, and I do everything and many things under my understanding," but then the understanding is misunderstanding or incorrect understanding.

Misunderstanding/incorrect understanding/contaminated impure egoistic reasoning and discrimination - Harmful towards all and everyone and everything, under the presence and influence of self-righteousness, possessiveness, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, envy and jealousy, discontentment and greed, anger, hatred, intimidation, interference, manipulation, or ill-will and hurtful violent action/reaction/behavior/activity towards all and everyone and everything that the mind perceived/reasoned/recognized/judged/understood as unpleasant, disagreeable, undesirable, unkind, ignorant, evil, disrespectful, offensive, obstructive, and destructive towards oneself and one's attachments and possessions (identity/title/position/reputation/image/status/pride/livelihood/health/wealth/belongings/enjoyments/learning/ability/mobility/freedom/'rights'/ancestor/family/community/friendship/relationship/culture/nationality/spirituality/religion/belief/thinking/reasoning/judgment/understanding/values/practices/desires/aspirations/visions/ambitions/achievements/contributions, and etc), while promoting and empowering what the mind perceived/reasoned/recognized/judged/understood as pleasant, agreeable, desirable, kind, wise, good, respectful, complimentary, promotive, and constructive towards oneself and one's attachments and possessions, but it is not the truth. Building one's success, accomplishment, ambition, vision, enjoyment, satisfaction, comfort, and happiness by manipulating, exploiting, intimidating, bullying, and hurting all and everyone and everything in the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

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Inquire the truth of everything.

Look after the well-being of the mind by the mind itself.

The minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance would think/reason/understand/believe that, "Prosperity (what the egoistic minds referred as - local and global economy generation and stimulation) derived from endless discontentment, ceaseless and boundless interactive activities/affairs/events/celebrations/festivals/interactions/ideas/inspirations/creativity/inventions/innovations/productions/trades/expansions, ties and connectivity, and boundless ambitious desires, aspirations, and visions." And hence, they strongly think and believe that contentment, dispassion, desirelessness, simplicity, silence, seclusion, renunciation, non-interaction, non-violence, non-aggressiveness, mental and emotional independence, or peace are the enemy, or obstruction, or weakness, or destruction towards 'prosperity'.

Almost all and everyone, in anywhere and everywhere in the world, especially among the highly educated, intelligent, and knowledgeable ones, are being 'educated', 'encouraged', and 'empowered' to "never be contented", "you deserve better and much more than this", "you can achieve everything that you desire", "you can be unlimited and you are unlimited", "you can fly", "keep going and reaching higher and higher", "never stop dreaming, and never stop chasing your endless dreams", "be strong, be positive, be optimistic", "enjoy life to the maximum", "become one of the top rich and powerful people", "be highly passionate and ambitious" to achieve endless and boundless desires, that generate and stimulate 'prosperity'.

All these ideas and all kinds of youth/educational/women/minority/career/business/entrepreneurship/cooperative/commercial/community/national/political/spiritual/religious/cultural empowerment even spread into the world of yoga and buddhism, particularly in the world of yoga that can be highly commercialized and can be manipulated into anything.

There are quite many 'yoga enthusiasts/practitioners/teachers' are being empowered by as well as empowering ideas, values, and practices of 'be passionate', 'one big family', 'mental and emotional dependence', 'healing power', 'indulgence of the senses', 'authorization and association', 'certification and qualification', 'be strong and stronger', 'you can fly', 'be good and do good and all goodness will come to you', 'you can be anything and achieve anything that you desire', 'auspicious/inauspicious timing, form, shape, colour, smell, sight, sound, taste, feel, texture, atmosphere, position, direction, object, accessory, decoration, happening, activity, and etc', 'positive thinking/mind power of transforming everything become all good and positive, and making all desires/dreams come true', and so on.

These passionate egoistic ideas/beliefs/values/visions/practices/encouragement/empowerment are indeed 'the fuel' that empowers 'the most serious form of evitable unnecessary mental illness', or the veil of ignorance, or the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the conditional mind thinking behavior pattern being conditioned by the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, where the minds keep hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment ignorantly, by actively performing and engaging in all kinds of actions/activities, while thinking/believing/understanding that all one's actions/activities are 'good, right, meaningful, positive, beneficial, intelligent, and constructive'.

All the empowered boundless and endless greedy desires and ambitions didn't just give rise to so much unnecessary direct and indirect damages to the physical and mental health of all and everyone as well as directly and indirectly impacting the surrounding living environment of this planet earth that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, but the highly empowered ambitious minds want to extend such damaging impactful human egoistic activities beyond this planet, under the help of advance science and technology.

Without proper basic mental health that gives rise to basic correct understanding or partial incomplete understanding that leads to complete understanding or absolute knowledge, all kinds of abilities/opportunities/talents/skills/efforts/achievements/inventions/innovations/knowledge/success/status/prosperity/power/positive thinking/all kinds of identity pride/vision/ambition/aspiration are nothing but destructive towards all and everyone and everything under the presence and influence of misunderstanding or incorrect understanding (The veil of ignorance - the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness), being fed and empowered by worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, visions, practices, attachments, identities, ties and connections, interactions, affairs, and activities.

Real and beneficial prosperity of all kinds derived from ego-less efforts/activities under the presence of peace and correct understanding in oneself that contributes peace and harmony in the world (surrounding environment) of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, even if all and everything are impermanent, limited, and conditional.

Peace, silence, non-sociable, non-interactive, dispassion, desirelessness, simplicity, solitude, seclusion, mental and emotional independence, and contentment in the mind doesn't mean idleness, laziness, inaction, non-improvement, poor quality of living, living under poverty/insufficiency/extreme difficult condition, non-cooperative, anti-social, anti-education, anti-higher technology, anti-commercialism, anti-leadership/government, anti-prosperity, or non-contributing to local and global economy.

In fact, all kinds of actions/activities/works/businesses/higher advanced technology/scientific studies and research/engineering/architecture/health and medical care/inventions/innovations/productions/ties and connections/interactions/communications/affairs/duties/responsibilities/management/government/organization/basic and higher education can be carried-out ego-lessly, desirelessly, smoothly, and efficiently under the absence of the veil of ignorance, that will benefit all and everyone and everything in the surrounding environment, that will improve quality of living that doesn't need to be excessive more than sufficient basic needs for life maintenance and to have a healthy living condition of having an essential balance between physical and mental rest and activity under a peaceful environment for the momentary life existence and function of a selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self body and mind, devoid of unnecessary conflicts and problems or harmful activities and affairs in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Quiet/annihilate the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind.

Renounce.

Solitude.

Seclusion.

Meditate.

Silence.

Peace.

Wisdom/correct understanding/absolute knowledge.

Non-violence.

Respect.

Egoism-less actions/activities/ties and connections/communications/interactions/productivity/duties and responsibilities.

Prosperity*.

*Sufficient basic needs for life maintenance to be having a healthy enough body with a peaceful, happy, and free mind existing and functioning under the essential balance between physical and mental rest and activity, living under a conducive and supportive healthy and peaceful surrounding living environment in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, but all and everyone and everything are selflessly performing their own respective duty and responsibility, that also indiscriminately and unconditionally inter-supporting one another to be existing and functioning momentarily in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The point of focus

Some minds focus a lot onto thinking about, or remembering the past memories of some pleasant and unpleasant, desirable and undesirable, agreeable and disagreeable, or enjoyable and non-enjoyable experiences.

Some minds focus a lot onto remembering the pleasant memories of some desirable and agreeable and enjoyable experiences, that were soothing to the mind.

Some minds focus a lot onto remembering the unpleasant memories of some undesirable and disagreeable and non-enjoyable experiences, that were hurting and painful to the mind.

Some minds focus a lot onto thinking about, or anticipating and projecting into the future of what could be happening, maybe something wishful/hopeful or fearful, maybe something pleasant or unpleasant, maybe something desirable or undesirable, maybe something agreeable or disagreeable, and maybe something enjoyable or non-enjoyable.

The adept yogic minds only focusing onto what is happening here in the present moment NOW, while being aware of all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, without grasping onto what is here in NOW, internally and externally, of all kinds of experiences/conditions/situations/relationships/activities/affairs/causes and effects, that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, regardless of constructive or destructive, pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful.

In the beginning on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, it's common and natural that it is quite challenging for the mind to keep the entire focus onto the present moment NOW without grasping.

The egoistic and restless selfless mind has been being conditioned by the habitual mind behavior pattern that is restless, egoistic, impure, impatient, and inattentive, and that keeps running out everywhere to be chasing after the objects of the senses, to be busy gratifying the boundless desires of craving and aversion of what it likes and doesn't likes, as well as keeps going back and forth between past memories and future anticipations/imaginations/projections, while there is the presence of grasping, where there is clinging/association/attachment/identification towards all these selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self perceived names and forms (objects of the senses) as well as phenomena/manifestation in the restless modification of the mind, of random ceaseless thoughts/ideas/sensations/feelings/emotions/desires/urges/inspirations/aspirations/reactions/wild imaginations/flashing of past memories/the current internal and external impermanent conditions and situations, that keep arising, changing, and passing away.

And hence, the mind is autonomously being occupied by the selfless manifestation of endless and boundless ideas, desires (waiting to be fulfilled), inspirations, aspirations, visions, anticipations, projections, imaginations, fear, worry, clinging/attachment, longing/craving, aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, pleased and displeased, offensiveness and defensiveness, fleeting satisfaction, dissatisfaction, disappointment, discontentment, greed, missingness, envy, jealousy, hurt, frustration, irritation, bitterness, resentment, anger, hatred, guilt, regret, pride, shame, boredom, emptiness, loneliness, attention and affection seeking, scheming, planning, plotting, manipulating, politicking, interfering, justifying, story making and telling, commenting, creating, destroying, criticizing, condemning, slandering, back-biting, shaming, glorifying, blaming, achieving, possessing, hoarding, identifying, associating, connecting, interacting, communicating, doubting, enjoying, suffering, or unrest, that are truly unnecessary.

In this beginning stage of activating the conscious mind evolution by engaging in certain genuine yoga and/or buddhism observations and practices, the mind can begin with diverting its focus or attention onto what is constructive, elevating, easy, achievable within one's capability, pleasant, desirable, agreeable, and enjoyable or soothing to the mind (Rajastic), instead of focusing onto what is destructive, depressing, difficult, non-achievable beyond one's capability, unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, and non-enjoyable or painful to the mind (Tamasic), while developing and empowering non-grasping towards the internal natural phenomena/manifestation of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind, as well as towards the external surrounding environment of all kinds of experiences/affairs/activities/ties and connections/relationships/interactions/communications/conditions/situations being perceived through the senses via the organs of the senses. This process might take as much effort and practice as it needs.

After that, the mind needs to move forward by developing focus or attentiveness onto what is here in the present moment NOW, internally and externally, that are all impermanent, by focusing onto where one is and what one is doing, without grasping onto what is happening or the actions and fruit of actions, whether it's some form of yoga and/or buddhism practice or it's some form of daily affair/activity/duty/responsibility that are wholesome and beneficial to all and everyone and everything (Sattvic), that are all impermanent, that are constantly changing, regardless of easy or difficult, possible or impossible, pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful, while not wasting life existence and function or energy onto wandering into the past memories or getting lost in the future projections/imaginations/anticipations/building castle in the air/day dreaming, that don't exist, but only exist in the form of thinking.

This process would take as much continuous effort and practice/perseverance/determination/patience/forbearance/adjustment/adaptation/accommodation that it needs to take, without expecting/anticipating the result to be or not to be in certain way, allowing and respecting the fruit/outcome/effect/side-effects/changes to be there as it is.

Naturally and eventually, under the presence of such understanding and non-grasping, the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self restless impure egoistic thought process/modification/state of the mind will be rendered quiet and resting at peace unconditionally (going beyond Rajasic, Tamasic, and Sattvic, or transcending the Gunas/attributes/qualities/dualities/energy fields/states of mind), effortlessly.

Countering Tamasic state of mind (negative thinking/idleness/depression/low energy) by rendering the mind Rajasic (positive thinking/activeness/elevation/high energy).

Countering Rajasic state of mind by rendering the mind Sattvic (calmness).

Under the Sattvic state of mind that is also impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and under the absence of grasping/clinging/association/attachment/identification towards the momentary pleasant/desirable/agreeable/soothing Sattvic state of mind, then eventually and naturally, devoid of expectation/anticipation, the selfless perceptive/cognitive mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness transcends all three impermanent states of mind effortlessly, as it is, resting upon the timeless changeless unconditional peace that doesn't appear or disappear, that doesn't increase or decrease, that is undetermined/uncontaminated/unaffected by all kinds of impermanent qualities of names and forms that are pleasant/unpleasant, desirable/undesirable, agreeable/disagreeable, enjoyable/non-enjoyable, or soothing/painful to the mind, but was/is unknown by the selfless perceptive/cognitive mind when it was/is functioning under the veil of ignorance.

Unconditional peace is always there in all and everyone and everything, never increase nor decrease, even in the most evil/ignorant/violent/restless/destructive/disturbed mind.

It's not something manifested under certain cause, or can be developed, attained, and possessed, or tradable and exchangeable, or can be empowered and weakened. It is timeless and attributeless (changeless) beyond time, space, and causation.

It doesn't belong to anyone or anything that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, but it is always there in all and everything, within and without, before/during/after the manifestation of all kinds of names and forms that come and go, that exist and ceaselessly changing and ceased existing under respective cause and pace, but it is unknown to the mind that is functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Just as the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self exists timelessly and changelessly in all kinds of names and forms (living organisms and non-living objects). It is what all and everything are. It is not an idea, or a belief, or a philosophy, or a theory, or a wishful thinking, or a set of values.

The truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self doesn't change, and is always there in all and everything, as it is, regardless of what and how all and everything are (good or bad/right or wrong/kind or unkind/happy or unhappy/peaceful or peaceless/useful or useless/constructive or destructive/meaningful or meaningless/long-lived or short-lived/functional or dysfunctional), regardless of whether the mind knows or doesn't know, agrees or disagrees, likes and doesn't like, desires or doesn't desire, praises or condemns, or understands/doesn't understand/misunderstands towards the truth of itself and all and everything that it perceives internally (self awareness/the perceiver/the experiencer/the thinker/the enjoyer and sufferer) and externally (being aware of the surrounding environment within and without/the perceived/the experience/the thinking/the object of enjoyment and suffering).

To know the truth of everything means to know Thyself, and vice versa.

To be free from ignorance, is by studying and inquiring towards the existence and function of oneself (the existence and function of the physical body operating under different bodily systems with the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under different states of consciousness), and vice versa.

This is nothing super extraordinary, spiritual, religious, mystical, miracle, magical, or unreachable.

All genuine highly enthusiastic, attentive, intelligent, and knowledgeable scientists or biologists 'should' know this, unless the mind is still being conditioned by certain worldly egoistic ancestral/family/cultural/social/spiritual/religious/educational/philosophical/political/commercial/personal/communal/tribal/regional/national/traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, visions, and practices.

It is merely the science of the selfless mind and the selfless modification of the mind, and the conquest of the restless impure egoistic ignorant turbulent disturbed/elevated/depressed suffering impermanent states of mind, by the mind itself.

The highly enthusiastic, attentive, intelligent, and knowledgeable minds that are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance can truly benefit the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, effectively, in many ways, especially the highly inspired ambitious minds that are holding or will be holding certain duty/responsibility/position/power of parenting/educating/teaching/coaching/influencing/empowering/acting/working/researching/investigating/inventing/engineering/managing/organizing/town planning/country developing/law making/law enforcing/governing/leadership of any kind.

One stops hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Such mind is not being determined, influenced, manipulated, pleased, displeased, promoted, demoted, motivated, demotivated, intimidated, offended, belittled, humiliated, or hurt by anyone or anything.  

It's okay, if the mind is not free/happy/peaceful in this present moment NOW. This is also impermanent. 

Keep practicing.

No judgment. No comparison. No expectation.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Self control or self restraint served as momentary control towards by-products of ignorance

The veil of ignorance is a natural phenomena that manifests and exists in the selfless minds upon the activation of conscious and semi-conscious awareness/perception/cognition under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

It is neither something bad, nor evil, nor negative, nor bad karma, nor sinful, nor low intelligence, nor low education, nor lack of knowledge, nor shame, humiliation, condemn, punishment, or painful suffering deserving.

However, the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, might be ignorantly performing actions/reactions/activities that would be hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment under the influence of ignorance and its by-products.

It is highly important for all the selfless minds under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness/perception/cognition to be engaging in the conscious active process of eradicating the veil of ignorance from the selfless modification of the mind, by the mind itself, out of its own conscious freewill, effort, perseverance, and determination, under the presence of intense yearning towards attaining liberation from ignorance a.k.a. attaining absolute knowledge of knowing the truth of things as it is, without being contaminated or influenced and conditioned by the existing inherited and/or adopted worldly passionate egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, desires, and practices in the mind.

Although whether the mind will attain direct realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of all kinds of names and forms, or not, after engaging in persevered engagement in the process of eradicating the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. quieting the restless impure egoistic thought process/modification of the mind, is not important at all, however, the absence of the veil of ignorance in the mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness/perception/cognition will definitely be benefiting all and everyone and everything in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, especially when the mind is still existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, even when the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the mind that is existing and functioning under the momentary existence and function of the specific physical body, doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

The highly useful/functional presence of self control or self restraint, that can be presence or absence, that can be developed and empowered, that can be weak or strong, it served as or played the role of the powerful momentary treatment or control that can hinder or minimize the mind from performing hurtful actions/reactions/activities through the selfless organs of action via the selfless physical body, that would be hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment under the presence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, as well as the conscious and semi-conscious awareness/perception/cognition towards all kinds of inevitable painful suffering of the physical body - inevitable restless maintenance of ceaseless hunger and thirst, or inevitable process of growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration, and all kinds of evitable unnecessary suffering deriving from being ignorant towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.

Self control, means NOT at all by external force/intimidation/threat/bully/discipline of being forced/intimidated/threatened/bullied/disciplined by some others, but coming from the conscious freewill and initiation of the mind itself, willingly and wittingly to be restraining itself from engaging in any kind of harmful actions/reactions/activities that would be harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment, under the presence of some basic correct understanding, or universal common sense, or conscience (not necessary the presence of complete correct understanding or absolute knowledge), as there are still some kind of impurities or hurtful destructive thoughts/ideas/desires ceaselessly arising and passing away in the thought process. All these hurtful destructive thoughts/ideas/desires don't turn into physical actions/reactions/activities under the presence of self control or self restraint, not being over-powered or determined by all those impurities or hurtful thoughts/ideas/desires that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

The more the presence of external interference by force, the more turbulent is the thought process, or the restless disturbed agitated modification/state of the mind. The veil of ignorance is becoming even more intense. It is the complete opposite direction towards calming and quieting the restless thought process/modification/state of mind.

Even if there is some 'forcing'/'pushing beyond certain existing limitation' coming from the mind itself during the process of quieting the restless impure egoistic thought current/modification/state of mind, it doesn't help to calm down the restless thought current but would agitate the restless state of mind even more. Or, the mind depends/relies on taking certain substances that will give momentary effect of calming the state of mind, but the mind will no longer be calmed if without taking substances with such calming effect, or when the momentary effect disappears, this is not what liberation is about, although, it does help the mind that is completely lost to stop hurting oneself and others or the surrounding environment, under the momentary control of certain substances/medical treatments.

Even the many different types of yoga and concentration/meditation observations and practices are also giving certain momentary effects of calming the state of mind, that are also impermanent, limited, and conditional. It is not the goal, or the objective, or the end of the practice. The mind needs to be able to go beyond even that momentary induced calmness deriving from engaging regularly in certain observations and practices, under the presence of non-grasping and the development of correct understanding, by inquiring towards the truth of everything (knowing Thyself) under that momentary state of calmness/focus/attentiveness that will also change and pass away.

The difference between undertaking the influential substances/drugs/medical treatments and the engagement in different types of yoga observations and practices, is that, there is the absence of conscious/semi-conscious self effort/control while being under the control/influence of some influential substances/drugs/medical treatments, just as under the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, which doesn't lead towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance that manifests naturally during the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, but there is the presence of certain degrees of conscious/semi-conscious self effort/control/inquiry/realization while observing and performing certain yoga observations and practices which will be empowering the degrees of self control under the presence of conscious freewill and effort, that will lead towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, without the need/addiction/dependence of depending on the momentary calming effects induced by certain influential substances/drugs/medical treatments, even if the decision and action of undertaking certain influential substances/drugs/medical treatments is out of the conscious/semi-conscious freewill and effort of oneself, and not being forced by some others without one's conscious consent or awareness.

The attainment of the momentary calmness state of mind that derives from or depends on the limited and conditional availability of certain substances/drugs/medical treatments or performing certain yoga and/or buddhism observations and practices, is not liberation.

The direct realization towards the unconditional peace that is timeless and attributeless that is always there as it is, unchanging beyond time, space, and causation, not being determined by the limited and conditional availability of certain substances/drugs/medical treatments or performing certain yoga and/or buddhism observations and practices, but is known/realized by the selfless mind under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, but under the absence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of the absolute knowledge arising from seeing everything as they are, or under the presence of the correct understanding arising from self inquiry inquiring towards the truth of everything, under the conscious/semi-conscious state of clarity, is liberation.

That is why there was/is the advice from the past and present awakened buddhas and gurus about the importance of refraining from undertaking any kind of influential addictive intoxicants/drugs unless the mind is completely lost and that keeps hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, and hence, it needs to be controlled under the momentary effect/control/influence of certain substances/drugs/medical treatments, in order to stop hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

That is why the highly importance of looking after the well-being of the mind by the mind itself, before it becomes too late to do anything (irreversible) upon the mind is completely lost and keeps hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment voluntarily/involuntarily and ignorantly, where it is highly important to rely solely on the development and empowerment of conscious/semi-conscious self control, self effort, and self inquiry to attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything, and realize the unconditional peace that is beyond the impermanent states of mind, including the momentary Sattvic/calmness state of mind, that can be induced by undertaking certain influential substances/drugs/medical treatments (not recommended unless the mind is completely lost), or via the active engagement in certain conscious/semi-conscious physical and mental observations and practices.

The mind needs to develop and have some basic correct understanding towards non-grasping, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-comparison, and non-expectation in the process of quieting the restless modification of the mind.

There is needless of self control or self restraint under the absence of the veil of ignorance (devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, or the disturbed painful suffering state of mind), a.k.a. under the presence of clarity, or complete correct understanding, or absolute knowledge.

The presence of self control is highly useful and important when the veil of ignorance is still present and existing in the selfless modification of the mind, but it doesn't eradicate the veil of ignorance, if the idea of 'I' and egoism continuously gives rise to and empowers all kinds of impurities and restlessness.

The ignorant minds think and argue that, "If there is no I or self, who is there to be self controlled, or controlling oneself? Who or what is there to be accountable for all kinds of actions/reactions/activities and their consequences?"

Selflessness, as well as the absence of the ego, or 'I'lessness, doesn't mean that the selfless body and mind doesn't exist, or all these selfless names and forms don't exist.

It is the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the conscious/semi-conscious egoistic mind that is the one being aware of the restless impure egoistic modification of itself, and have the conscious initiation and effort to be modifying and rendering its own state of mind as well as controlling its own egoistic impure hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions/activities, consciously and semi-consciously, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness/perception/cognition.

All minds are selfless. While the selfless minds can be functioning either under the presence or absence of the ego and egoism.

Such as the partial or complete autistic minds are being born under the partial or complete absence of the ego (conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement, or the sense of separateness) and egoism (egoistic activities/actions/reactions/behaviors), biologically, naturally, and effortlessly.

Being autistic, is not at all a form of painful suffering to the autistic mind itself, but the surrounding others that are functioning under the presence and influence of the ego and egoism might be confused and disturbed by the quietness, non-talkative, non-sociable, non-interaction, non-communication, and the high sensitivity towards the over-whelming random inputs of the senses from the surrounding environment of the autistic mind, and hence, the surrounding egoistic minds might be in a state of disturbance or painful suffering, due to non-understanding towards the autistic mind doesn't behave 'normally' like all the others.

There is absence of egoistic conscious/semi-conscious good or bad intention/desire in the ego-less autistic mind, but only instinctive autonomous non-conscious urges to react instinctively towards certain condition and situation under the presence of the survival instinct, that also exists in the non-sentient living organisms, such as plants and in the sentient living organisms that haven't developed the idea of 'I' a.k.a. conscious/semi-conscious self awareness/acknowledgement, or the sense of separateness. It is not a bad thing at all, for the minds that are being born autistic. There is absence of conscious/semi-conscious perception of pleasurable enjoyment (clinging/craving) and painful suffering (aversion).

Meanwhile, an egoistic selfless mind can be functioning under the presence or absence of self control, and whether there's initiation and effort to minimize or avoid generating hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions/activities that would be hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, or not.

An ego-less selfless mind doesn't need the presence of self control to be functioning as what it is, as there is absence of egoism, impurities, and restlessness, or disturbance, desperation, and painful suffering.

Inquire the truth of everything.