Inquire towards the different branches of buddhism

"Why, and what are the two main branches of buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) that contradicts one another?"

There are some minds are being confused by the existence of 'Theravada' and 'Mahayana' buddhism, where the teachings and practices are contradicting against one another, and are puzzling towards what and why there are the two contradicting branches/teachings/practices of Theravada and Mahayana buddhism, not to say, there were/are many other forms/versions/sub-branches of 'buddhism' under different names and forms that kept popping-up and existing here and there.

The presence of such doubt towards the many existing teachings and practices of 'buddhism' under many different names and forms, indicates the sprouting and growing process of 'the seed of dhamma' in the mind.

Most minds would perceive 'the presence of doubt', or 'I don't know and don't understand many things', as a form of stupidity, or weakness, or shortcoming, or negativity.

The presence of doubt and the capability to be doubting the truth of something or everything, as well as coming in contact with undesirable/unpleasant/disagreeable painful sorrow and suffering, on top of coming in contact with the fleeting impermanent changes in everything, especially in the desirable/pleasurable/agreeable names and forms, are the upmost precious elements that initiate and activate the path of self inquiry and self realization towards knowing Thyself.

It doesn't mean that one should be continuously undergoing all kinds of evitable unnecessary painful suffering and difficulties in order to be liberated from ignorance, or to attain direct self realization towards the universal dhamma/truth of everything.

That is what the buddhism teachings and practice is about, being aware of the presence of ignorance and doubt or unknown and uncertainty, and be initiated to be inquiring towards the truth of everything without blind-practicing or blind-propagating, not to say, none should be believing/following/glorifying/worshiping towards anyone or anything, including the existing available teachings of buddhism, or the enlightened minds/buddhas that had/have attained direct realization towards the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness and Non-self, including Siddhartha Gautama buddha himself, where the universal dhamma and buddhism don't belong to anyone or anything, not to say, they didn't come from any enlightened minds/buddhas that had/have realized the universal dhamma/truth, including Siddhartha Gautama buddha himself, where there were, have been, and will be many others enlightened minds/buddhas before, during, and after the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence of Siddhartha Gautama buddha himself, whom we perceived and recognized and taken as the all time teacher of dhamma, or buddhism.

There are many minds aren't even aware of the existence of not only some obvious differences, but even some distinctive contradictions against one another in the teachings and practices of these two branches of buddhism.

There were/are many minds merely blind-believing, blind-following, blind-glorifying, blind-worshiping, and blind-propagating the teachings and practices of buddhism, as they weren't/aren't aware of the real meanings of the teachings and practices due to under the presence of the veil of ignorance, where they thought and believed that buddhism is merely a form of religious or spiritual practice just like many other kinds of religions and spiritualities in the world of many diversities, where there were/are many minds needed to hang onto some kind of 'super extraordinary all powerful almighty entity', or 'refuge', or 'floating objects', while dealing with the exhausting process of inevitable ceaseless life maintenance of feeding hunger and thirst and eliminating waste products, physical/mental/emotional fatigue, exhaustion, or restlessness, hormonal/muscular and cardiovascular-fitness/strength/stamina/energy level/mobility/ability fluctuation and imbalance, many kinds of painful sorrow and suffering, doubts, unknown, uncertainty, insecurity, fear, cruelty, selfishness, possessiveness, greed, discontentment, anger, hatred, jealousy, unjust, corruption, discrimination, invasion, intrusion, occupation, fighting, violence, limitations, conditions, situations, obstacles, difficulties, hardships, impermanent changes, accidental events, natural disasters, hurts, damages, losses, illness, injury, old age, weakness, disability, powerlessness, vulnerability, decay and death, on top of all kinds of undesirable/disagreeable/unpleasant experiences, affairs, relationships, ties and connections, interactions, and activities, as well as being disappointed repeatedly by the momentary fleeting sense of satisfaction, excitement, goodness, righteousness, happiness, joyfulness, meaningfulness, positiveness, success, accomplishment, and so on.

Some minds might be aware of the existence of the obvious differences/contradictions in the different lineages/branches/schools of buddhism, and even within the teachings of the same lineage/branch/school, but they don't bother to be questioning, inquiring, investigating, and finding out the truth of all THAT, as there have been some 'justifications' here and there to justify all THAT, to silent the questioning of the doubting mind, because the minds themselves also don't understand and don't know how to answer the questions coming from the doubtful minds.

There is neither right nor wrong, as all THAT exist for the different minds functioning under different degrees of ignorance.

Just like the existence of real fruit juice (with only fresh fruits and natural sweetness) and artificially flavouring and sweetened fruit juice (with or without certain amount of fresh fruits), they might look alike, but they are two very different things. Although there are many minds might prefer the taste and texture of the artificial fruit juice for some reasons. Just like there are many minds would prefer the many different forms/types/versions of 'modified/moderated/manipulated buddhism' than the 'buddhism as it is'. That is the freedom of all minds for what they want and don't want.

Similarly, Theravada buddhism and Mahayana buddhism might have the same name of buddhism, but the teachings and practices are two different things.

Just as the universal truth of all and everything, the universal dhamma, or the teachings and practice of Buddhism, is only one, and always one.

Just as yoga is only one, and always one, but there are also the manifestation of the different lineages/paths of yoga to suit different minds under different personalities, and that are functioning under the influence of different degrees of ignorance.

This is not about one is real and the other is false, or one is authentic/pure and the other is non-authentic/impure, or one is better and the other is less good.

It is about what the minds really, really, really want?

Many minds only want to have a 'super extraordinary all powerful almighty entity', or 'refuge', or any kind of 'floating objects' to hang onto, while enjoying all kinds of momentary fleeting pleasurable enjoyments/goodness/joyfulness/meaningfulness/positiveness/righteousness/togetherness/powerfulness/and etc as much as possible, as much as they can. Then the 'buddhism as it is' (Theravada) will appear to be too difficult and inconvenience and uninterested, or even useless, to them. Where the engagement in the Mahayana buddhism might can give them the momentary fleeting sense of comfort, hope, refuge, mental and emotional support, community support, goodness, righteousness, positiveness, meaningfulness, joyfulness, purposefulness, powerfulness, togetherness, and so on, to deal with all kinds of ignorance, restlessness, madness, and undesirable/unpleasant/disagreeable impermanent changes/activities/limitations/conditions/situations/affairs/relationships/ties and connections/interactions that exist in themselves and in the surrounding environment in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The engagement in Theravada 'buddhism', not to say, Mahayana 'buddhism', doesn't necessarily liberate the minds from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, unless the minds work diligently and determinedly on eliminating the idea of 'I' and egoism, and turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward, and inquire towards the truth of all and everything diligently, including towards the truth of all kinds of teachings and practices of the Theravada 'buddhism' that is the closest to the root of 'buddhism as it is', as well as the Mahayana 'buddhism' that is 'being dominated by' and 'not different from' any kind of worldly egoistic cultural, religious, spiritual, communal, tribal, or even, commercial, national, and political ideas, values, practices, aspirations, and visions, under the influence of the natural veil of ignorance (The egoistic impure restless modification of the mind occupied by the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness).

This doesn't mean that Mahayana 'buddhism' is non-authentic buddhism.

Like the existence of all kinds of 'imaginary friend', or 'super extraordinary all powerful almighty entity', or 'temporary refuge', or 'floating objects' (all kinds of cultural, religious, spiritual, tribal, communal, family, national, political, economical, commercial, or philosophical ideas, values, practices, aspirations, and visions) in the world of ignorance and suffering, they all come with certain 'good intention', or 'positive motivation', or 'goodwill' to create and empower some kind of temporary comfort, hope, refuge, mental and emotional support, community support, goodness, righteousness, positiveness, meaningfulness, joyfulness, purposefulness, powerfulness, togetherness, and so on, amid all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and undesirableness/disagreeableness/unpleasantness, in order to keep everyone and everything under certain 'order', and they are not perfect, and they have certain inevitable hurtful and destructive side-effects that will eventually affect, hurt, or damage all and everyone and everything in the long term, directly or indirectly, unwittingly and unintentionally.

Just like many parents/teachers/leaders were/are teaching/disciplining/controlling the children/students/people to behave in certain way and not in certain way, where the parents/teachers/leaders create certain kind of threatening story telling with painful punishment as well as tempting pleasurable rewards in return depending on their behavior. This is leading towards hurtful destruction towards all and everyone and everything in many ways, even if the children/students/people might behave 'accordingly' to avoid painful punishment and to receive pleasurable rewards from the parents/teachers/leaders, but not because they have the clarity of thinking and correct understanding of mental and emotional independence to be behaving in certain way and not in certain way, out of their own conscious freewill/understanding/choice/initiative/self control, as they were/are never being guided by the parents/teachers/leaders to become mentally and emotionally independent, because the parents/teachers/leaders don't want that, but they only want to 'control' everyone and everything to be and not to be in certain way.

Regardless of whether there is engagement in Theravada or Mahayana 'buddhism' in any areas or regions, not all minds are free from the influence of ignorance, where there were/are contamination, manipulation, misconduct, abusive behavior, exploitation, possessiveness, anger, hatred, jealousy, discrimination, bully, or violence existing in anywhere and everywhere, due to the presence of the veil of ignorance in the minds.

That is why the world is what it is, in a growing state of madness and chaos and violence, that could have been avoided, if the minds have not been being hammered and limited and conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure ideas, values, practices, aspirations, and visions, that empower the veil of ignorance, that empower the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that hinder mental and emotional independence, that hinder clarity of thinking and correct understanding, in the pursue of prosperity, success, goodness, righteousness, positiveness, joyfulness, meaningfulness, and/or 'peace and wisdom and compassion', but not really.

Although there is nothing wrong and it is very good indeed to encourage wisdom and kindness and peace in the minds, however, that doesn't free the minds from being determined and disturbed by what they think and believe as unkindness, selfishness, negativeness, unhappiness, meaninglessness, joylessness, undeserving, unpleasantness, undesirableness, disagreeableness, badness, and wrongfulness, unless the minds attain direct realization towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self, through meditation and self inquiry and self realization.

Some minds genuinely want to be free from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance (the mind perception/cognition towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable physical/mental/emotional suffering), and to attain direct realization towards the truth of everything (wisdom/absolute knowledge), and realize unconditional peace, in this present moment, while still existing/living/functioning (not upon death, or after the end of this life existence). Then 'buddhism as it is' or 'yoga as it is', is what they are looking for.

Just as there are many children don't like the taste of medicines as they are, and might not be understanding towards preventing evitable illness or injury (buddhism as it is), but the medicines with added artificial flavouring and sweetness (the many modified/moderated/manipulated forms/versions of buddhism) might do the trick for the children to take them without much resistance, although, they might develop addiction or craving towards the artificial flavouring and sweetness only, but have no interest at all towards the medicine as it is, as well as to be learning and understanding how to prevent or minimize from contracting unnecessary evitable illness or injury.

Even though being tricked to take the medicines due to the added artificial flavouring and sweetness, there will still be the same effects coming from the medicines. But the recovering from this particular illness or injury, doesn't stop the children from getting sick or injury repeatedly. Such as the minds are being encouraged to be kind and generous and unselfish, to perform charity and wholesome activity regularly, and not performing any harmful activity, that are benefiting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, even if these practices are being carried out blindly, however, that also doesn't guarantee that the minds won't be determined or disturbed by what they think and believe and recognize as bad and wrong and undeserving, or unpleasant and disagreeable and undesirable, or won't be generating actions/reactions/activities/behaviors that will cause certain hurtful destructive effects unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment directly and indirectly, under certain circumstances, conditions, and situations, either wittingly or unwittingly.

There was only the universal dhamma, or buddhism as it is, where there were neither 'Theravada' nor 'Mahayana' in the beginning, not to say, the many other creations of 'the different forms/types/versions of buddhism' under different names and forms (different lineages/branches/communities/cultures) that are being mixed with their own different particular worldly egoistic cultural, religious, spiritual, communal, tribal, regional, national, commercial, or political ideas, values, practices, aspirations, and visions, that are being referred as one of the branches of 'Buddhism', that were/are existing, under specific cause, under certain circumstances, conditions, and situations, and under the different manipulation of the many different minds that didn't/haven't attain(ed) direct realization towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self. And there is nothing wrong with that, due to the natural veil of ignorance in the minds.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the minds that were/have been engaging in buddhism, and were/are practicing buddhism, but they didn't/haven't yet attain(ed) direct self realization towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self due to the presence of the veil of ignorance, where they thought and believed that 'the buddhism as it is' was unreachable or impossible for them, and hence, they thought and believed that they themselves and many other minds needed a 'different type/version/approach of buddhism teachings and practices' that will be either much easier, or more approachable, or less intimidating for most minds. And there is nothing wrong with that, and that is a common and natural behavior of the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

The buddhism practitioners were practicing 'buddhism as it is', neither Theravada nor Mahayana, not to say, Zen buddhism, or Japanese buddhism, or Tibetan buddhism, or Chinese buddhism, and etc, before the beginning of the existence/creation of the different modified/moderated/manipulated forms/types/versions of buddhism in the world, in the different areas and regions under the different cultural, spiritual, religious, tribal, communal, national, commercial, and political influences.

The name of 'Theravada' buddhism that didn't (need to) exist before, but then it has been existing, as there is a need to distinguish 'the buddhism as close to the root as it is' from all the other many different modified/moderated/manipulated forms/types/versions of buddhism that were/are no longer what buddhism as it is, throughout the prolonged impermanent changes.

The universal dhamma/truth cannot be contaminated by anyone or anything, but the 'dhamma' or all kinds of teachings and practices of 'buddhism' that exists under certain names and forms can be and has been ceaselessly being manipulated or contaminated in many ways, naturally and inevitably.

The teachings and practice of buddhism was, and is, the path of meditation, purification and silence of the egoistic impure restless modification of the mind to remove the natural veil of ignorance, self inquiry, and self realization towards knowing Thyself, or realizing/knowing the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all and everything, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect. It is practicing, inquiring, realizing, and disseminating the universal dhamma as it is.

There were/are no rituals, or offerings, or sacrificing, or penance, or judgments, or punishments, or devotions, or believing, or following, or glorifying, or worshiping, or the impersonate 'xxx' existence, or 'the almighty creator/authority/controller/judge of the universe'.

There is merely the universal dhamma (Everything that the mind perceives/comes in contact with and the sufferer/enjoyer/thinker/knowledge seeker/practitioner/observer/inquirer/knower/seer/hearer/smeller/taster/senser, or the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind of the conscious sentient living organisms under the presence and absence of the limited conscious awareness under different impermanent states of consciousness/semi-consciousness/unconsciousness that is highly essential for maximal survival and maintaining/balancing/replenishing/regenerating the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function of the body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing). It is not a form of spirituality, not to say, religion.

Meanwhile, if looking at the teachings, practices, or activities under the name of Mahayana buddhism, then very obviously, one will know that it was/is a sub-creation of 'buddhism', where the non-spiritual/non-religious/non-rituals/non-offerings/non-worshiping/non-glorifying/non-devotional 'buddhism as it is' was/is being transformed/modified/moderated/manipulated into a form of cultural, religious, and spiritual teachings and practice, of performing all kinds of rituals and offerings, or penance and worshiping, asking for all kinds of blessings and protections from the many different 'buddhas' under different names and forms, being introduced and performed by the minds that were/are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, for their own particular reasons or agendas, to suit themselves and the other minds that were/are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

It is understandable that why buddhism has been widely being referred as a form of cultural, religious, or spiritual teachings and practice because of the existence of the different types/versions of modified/moderated/manipulated 'buddhism'.

The students/practitioners of buddhism as it is, have no identification as 'buddhist', or 'the buddhism practitioner', or 'the follower of different buddhas', or 'the disciple of specific lineage of buddhism', and etc.

The minds that think and believe and identify themselves as 'buddhist', or 'the buddhism practitioner', or 'the follower of different buddhas', or 'the disciple of specific lineage of buddhism', and etc, they have been being conditioned by the worldly egoistic cultural, religious, spiritual, tribal, communal, or even, commercial, national, and political ideas, values, beliefs, practices, aspirations, and visions towards the existence of an eternal permanent independent infinite individual identity of an immortal spirit/soul/consciousness of an unique ancient identity, that is residing in the body and mind or in any kind of names and forms, that is, and has been, undergoing countless beginningless and endless reincarnations/rebirths reincarnating under different separate momentary mortal life existences, transitioning under countless realms/spheres/worlds/realities in accordance to the boundless and endless generation and accumulation of inexhaustible good/bad/neutral karma that keep bringing forward to the next and next endless reincarnations/rebirths to reap the inexhaustible never ending boundless 'karma', either by own choice (if reached 'the state of enlightenment') choosing to come back under a specific particular name and form into the world of impermanent momentary mortal life existence(s) for continuing one's unfinished spiritual, or religious, or communal, national, and political duty/responsibility/legacy/vision/aspiration/ambition, or not by own choice (if not reaching 'the state of enlightenment') unwittingly and reluctantly keeps coming back into the world of mortal impermanent momentary life existences repeatedly and restlessly transitioning under different realms/spheres/worlds/realities, to reap the boundless and endless inexhaustible good and bad and neutral karma.

All THAT is completely swaying away from the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness and Non-self, that has to be self realized directly by the minds themselves under a purified calmed and quiet one-pointed state of mind, where there is not any eternal permanent independent infinite self existence of an immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness existing in any names and forms regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, where there is neither past nor future continuous separate different life existence of an eternal permanent independent infinite self existence of an immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness that doesn't exist, to be residing in countless different body and mind, undergoing countless 'reincarnations/rebirths reincarnating under different realms/worlds/spheres/realities' in accordance to the past continuous generation and accumulation of boundless inexhaustible good/bad/neutral karma, that belong to an eternal permanent independent infinite self existence of an immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness, that doesn't exist.

Under the teachings, practices, and activities of certain buddhist organization under the name of 'buddhism', compassion is widely being referred as "慈悲" that is about, "Give happiness/pleasurable enjoyments and conveniences to others and remove unhappiness/painful sorrow and suffering and difficulties from others", or "I will sacrifice myself to suffer for other beings or to lessen the suffering of other beings", or "If one attains enlightenment, then all one's ancestors will also be uplifted to higher realms/worlds/spheres/realities", while at the same time, it also propagates part of the buddhism teachings about, "None can interfere with the karma of one another, and none can replace the suffering for one another. One reaps the seeds (karma) that one sows. Not even the parents can swap themselves to suffer for their suffering child." These teachings are obviously contradicting one another.

And because of the existence of such contaminated and manipulated teachings and practice under the name of 'buddhism', there was/is a need for the name of 'Theravada buddhism' to distinguish 'buddhism as it is' from all the other forms/types/versions of 'buddhism' that were/are no longer buddhism as it is - that swayed away from the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness and Non-self.

It doesn't mean that there is no contamination in the teachings and practices of Theravada buddhism. Due to the ignorance in the minds, all kinds of teachings and practices that exist under certain names and forms will be contaminated and manipulated more or less, or here and there, however, the teachings and practices of Theravada buddhism were/are being preserved as close as possible to the root of buddhism as it is, as taught by Siddhartha Gautama buddha, that was/is emphasizing on non-believing/non-following/non-glorifying/non-worshiping/non-blind practicing/non-blind propagating, silence/stillness of the restless modification of the mind, to prepare the mind for vipassana, or insight, or self inquiry and self realization towards the truth of all and everything - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

For some reasons (under the influence of ignorance and egoism that gives rise to the sense of separateness and duality of 'I' and 'the others', superiority and inferiority, selfishness and unselfishness, and etc), Theravada buddhism (小乘) has been being referred as 'inferior', or even, 'non-compassionate' or 'selfish' form of buddhism, that focusing on "The annihilation of the veil of ignorance in oneself", while Mahayana buddhism (大乘) has been being referred as 'superior' and 'compassionate', or a form of 'unselfishness' or 'self sacrifice', that focusing on "Letting all the others to attain salvation before me. I will be the last one to leave the world of suffering. I will keep coming back again and again to help all the others to attain salvation until there is none remaining in the world of suffering, but me, and then I will go."

Inquire towards the truth of such reference, and one will know what is the truth behind this type of reference. One doesn't need to be highly intelligent or knowledgeable, but only some basic universal common sense to inquire towards the truth of such reference.

This only shows that 'Saving others without saving oneself first', or 'Hoping that there is peace and harmony or wisdom and kindness in the world but without peace and harmony or wisdom and kindness in oneself', or 'Helping all the others to be free from ignorance but oneself is not free from ignorance', doesn't work at all.

That is why the highly importance of "Thus have I heard" in front of all teachings that are related to buddhism. 

Even so, there is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad about Mahayana buddhism is swaying away from what buddhism is about, where they emphasized on the cultural/religious/spiritual existence of an eternal permanent independent infinite existence of an immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness undergoing ceaseless endless reincarnations/rebirths under countless different separate life existences transitioning under different realms/worlds/spheres/realities in accordance to the ceaseless generation and accumulation of boundless inexhaustible good/bad/neutral karma that needed to be carrying forward to the next and next endless different separate life existences, in order to justify many things that are unknown, undesirable, unpleasant, disagreeable, unjust, undeserving, painful, disappointing, abusive, exploiting, bullying, violent, intrusive, invasive, and so on, to the minds, that might or might not give rise to certain degrees of momentary comfort, or hope, or refuge, or resting point, or escape to the minds to deal with all THAT.

The ceaseless restless births and deaths of ceaseless and countless thought after thought ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, of the restless thought current/activity/input and output processing (what the many minds referred as 'ceaseless reincarnation/rebirth in countless different separate life existences') transitioning under different impermanent states of mind/conditions of the physical body/affairs and experiences in the surrounding environment (what the many minds referred as different 'realms/worlds/spheres/realities') governed by the nature's law of cause and effect (what the many minds referred as the inexhaustible boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma'), is merely the reflection of the ceaseless restless selfless impermanent limited and conditional changes in the body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, where transitioning under the different realms are reflecting the mind perception towards the different impermanent states of mind while perceiving the physical body and the surrounding environment of all kinds of names and forms, that are also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that ceaselessly changing, decaying, and disintegrating, governed by the attributeless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect (that was/is being misinterpreted/misunderstood/propagated as the belief of the ceaseless boundless inexhaustible good/bad/neutral karma that needed to be kept carrying forward to the next and next endless different separate life existences in different realms/worlds/spheres/realities of an eternal permanent independent infinite existence of an immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness, that doesn't exist.)

'Ceaseless and countless births and deaths transitioning under different realms governed by nature's law of cause and effect' are ceaselessly happening in this present moment in this selfless impermanent limited conditional existence and function of the body and mind that is selflessly undergoing ceaseless and endless impermanent changes (until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing), that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, not to say, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything (what the many minds believe as an eternal permanent independent infinite existence of an immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness that resides in the body and mind, that doesn't exist.)

'Ceaseless and restless countless births and deaths of countless names and forms transitioning under different realms in NOW' is about 'The ceaseless impermanent changes of the countless selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms undergoing and projecting different impermanent changes/conditions/states in NOW, where all kinds of names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, decaying, disintegrating, and passing away, where all kinds of selfless elements that form all kinds of names and forms are undergoing the cycle of forming, changing, disintegrating, and transforming, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, in NOW', it is not something that happens upon death beyond the momentary mortal selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function of this body and mind, that is non-self, where many minds believe as upon the countless deaths of countless separate different life existences that belong to an eternal permanent independent infinite existence of an all time ancient immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness (that doesn't exist) that resides momentarily in countless different separate life existences under particular name and form transitioning under different realms/worlds/spheres/realities.

All kinds of realms are manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away in the mind, in NOW. It is not something exists outside or beyond the mind. It is not something exists outside or beyond NOW. The different realms are merely the reflection of the impermanent states of mind. Ceaseless restless births and deaths (ceaseless countless thoughts after thoughts arising, changing, and passing away) forming or give rise to the different realms (different states of mind), where all THAT ceased existing or vanished upon the silence/stillness of the mind (Samadhi).

All are the creations of MAYA. All kinds of names and forms (thought current) are arising, changing, and passing away (ceaseless and countless births and deaths) in the mind. - The teachings of Yoga Vedanta

The belief of the existence of an eternal permanent independent infinite existence of an immortal individual pure and perfect spirit/soul/consciousness and the belief of the existence of a beginningless and endless reincarnations/rebirths (the endless loop of the infinite wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of countless different separate life existences that is beginningless and endless) transitioning in the different realms/worlds/spheres/realities, where the immortal individual pure spirit/soul/consciousness resides in the different countless selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal physical structures of impure body and mind undergoing the countless reincarnations/rebirths under different separate momentary mortal life existences transitioning in different realms/worlds/spheres/realities based on the belief of good/bad/neutral karma that is inexhaustible, as every single thought/action/reaction/speech/desire will inevitably give rise to the boundless chain reaction of good/bad/neutral karma, are contradicting teachings/beliefs/values/practices that contradict one another.

Such ideas/values/beliefs are also being used as the reasonable justification to justify all kinds of physical/mental/emotional/financial/sexual abuse, exploitation, ill treatment, bullying, cruelty, suffering, illness, injury, damage, loss, unjust, discrimination, painful sorrow, and all kinds of physical/mental/emotional suffering inflicted by the ignorant minds unto oneself and the others, justifying that, "It is good for you to suffer all these. I am doing you a great favor by inflicting all kinds of painful suffering and difficulties unto you to help you to burn off your past accumulated bad karma. It is all good for you. Don't retaliate. Don't runaway. Don't complain. Don't tell anyone. Be good and thankful to me, and accept the painful suffering in silence, and all your bad karma will be burning off. The more you suffer the better it is."

If the mind truly immerses into meditation and self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of everything diligently and determinedly, the mind will eventually realize and understand towards all kinds of 'defect'/'ignorance' that exist in the many existing teachings and practices of the contaminated/manipulated 'buddhism' under different names and forms, that is being contaminated by and not different from any other forms of worldly egoistic cultural, religious, spiritual, tribal, communal, or even commercial, or national, or political ideas, values, practices, aspirations, and visions.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and be free. 

Inquire towards guilt, regret, apology, sorry, penance, and punishment

The existence of the ideas, values, sentiment, action, reaction, behavior, practice, or expectation of guilt, regret, apology, sorry, penance, and deserving punishment, don't and cannot undo or recovering any kind of damages/destructions that have been done unto oneself and/or others or the surrounding environment directly or indirectly under the influence of ignorance.

Being disturbed by the sense of guilt and regret, while being apologetic and saying sorry (genuinely or non-genuinely), and undergoing certain kind of penance or punishment (voluntary or involuntary) towards one's hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior, cannot undo the action/reaction/activity/behavior that have been done, cannot undo or change the consequences/damages deriving from the action/reaction/activity/behavior, or doesn't make the existing damages become less or disappear. It also doesn't guarantee that the mind will not be performing hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior anymore.

The minds that are free from the influence of ignorance, they themselves won't be generating hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior that hurt oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment, and they are not being determined by the presence and absence of any kinds of hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior of the other minds functioning under the influence of ignorance, not to say, they are not being determined by the presence and absence of such egoistic ideas, values, sentiment, action, reaction, behavior, or practice of guilt, regret, apology, sorry, penance, or punishment in the world of ignorance, regardless of whether themselves, or some others, or the surrounding environment are being affected, or hurt, or damaged directly or indirectly by the hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior of some other minds functioning under the influence of ignorance.

It is only the minds (the ones that have hurt and damaged someone or something intentionally or unintentionally, as well as the ones that have been affected and hurt and damaged by someone or something that is hurtful and damaging directly or indirectly) that are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, will be determined by the presence and absence of such ideas, values, sentiment, action, reaction, behavior, or practice of guilt, regret, apology, sorry, penance, and punishment upon the presence of certain hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior that have been generated by oneself or others, where the minds might or might not feel better about themselves and whatever have happened, regardless of the ones that are being hurtful and damaging intentionally or unintentionally, or the ones that have been affected/hurt/damaged by such hurtful damaging action/activity/behavior directly or indirectly.

"I am guilty and regret and sorry (genuinely or non-genuinely)," and undergoing certain painful penance or punishment (voluntary or involuntary), or even losing one's life (voluntary or involuntary), doesn't make the damaged living organisms, or objects, or environment to become damage-free, and doesn't make the life-less/dead living organisms to come back to life.

The guilt, regret, apology, sorry, repent, penance, possible compensation, painful punishment, or even the death of someone who has been performing many actions/activities/behaviors under the influence of ignorance that hurt and damaged and taken away one, or a few, or many countless other lives, physical/mental/emotional well-being, physical and/or mental abilities, basic freedom of existence/living/movements/thinking/action/speech/expression of the living organisms, objects, homes, years of effort and honest hard-work, and the well-being of the surrounding environment directly and indirectly, doesn't and cannot undo all THAT, although it might or might not give rise to certain degrees of awareness or initiation to the minds to reflect upon themselves, where the ones (the hurtful damaging minds that genuinely want to stop being hurtful and damaging) that are still existing and functioning as they are, that still can do something beneficial and constructive within their limited momentary life existence, that might or might not make use of their existing available remaining life existence and function/opportunity/possibility/ability/energy/effort/position/power/talent/skill/knowledge/experience to be benefiting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, turning the used to be hurtful damaging destructive tendency/intention/desire/effort/action/reaction/activity/behavior into something beneficial for all and everyone and everything, without the need of the existence of guilt, regret, apology, sorry, penance, or punishment (voluntary or involuntary).

If the minds have no awareness/acknowledgement/recognition/understanding or self-control at all towards their own random hurtful damaging action/activity/behavior (dominated by involuntary urges/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions/behaviors), then it is indeed a form of 'mental disability' or 'mental dysfunction/malfunction', that might or might not need specific medical attention, intervention, treatment, or regulation, in order to stop hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment. - "I am not aware of myself is being hurtful or damaging unto myself or others or the surrounding environment. I don't know that my actions/reactions/activities/behaviors are hurtful and damaging unto myself and others and the surrounding environment," while there are random actions/reactions/activities/behaviors that are hurtful and damaging being generated unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment from time to time, or even most of the time.

If the minds have the awareness/acknowledgement/recognition/understanding and the limited freewill/self-control towards their own intentional and unintentional hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior, but somehow, they still want to be hurtful and damaging (dominated and over-powered by voluntary and involuntary urges/desires/thoughts/ideas/values/beliefs/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions/behaviors), then it is indeed a form of 'mental blockage/corruption', a.k.a. functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that need the limited conscious initiative/freewill/desire of the minds themselves to do something about it. - "I am aware of my actions/reactions/activities/behaviors are being hurtful and damaging, but I think and believe that it is for the good of all and everyone and everything. I only have good intention for all and everyone and everything, even if my actions/reactions/activities/behaviors are hurtful and damaging unto someone or something. I am eliminating all kinds of evilness and wrongfulness in the world. I am doing a very good and meaningful thing for all and everyone and everything, for the family, for the community, for the world, for the universe," or, "I am aware of my actions/reactions/activities/behaviors are being hurtful and damaging, and I really don't want to be like this, but I just can't stop myself being like this."

Similarly, anger and hatred, possessiveness and the sense of ownership/belonging, envy and jealousy, offensiveness and defensiveness, avenge and revenge, attack and retaliation, pride/glorification and shame/humiliation, fear and insecurity, or all kinds of bullying and violence, regardless of out of 'good or bad'/'selfish or non-selfish'/'positive or negative'/'rightful or wrongful' intention under the influence of specific set of ideas, beliefs, values, practices, aspirations, or visions, are only causing (further) unnecessary hurts and damages unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment directly and indirectly.

It is about the absence of anger and hatred, possessiveness and the sense of ownership/belonging, envy and jealousy, offensiveness and defensiveness, avenge and revenge, attack and retaliation, pride/glorification and shame/humiliation, fear and insecurity, or all kinds of bullying and violence, under the presence of the limited conscious awareness and conscious freewill or self-control of the minds themselves. - "I don't want to be like that, and I need to be free from all THAT."

There is needless of guilt, regret, apology, sorry, penance, punishment, or violence, or avenge, or revenge towards the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in oneself or others.

It is about the minds are free from the influence of ignorance, and won't be generating unnecessary evitable hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior unto oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment intentionally or unintentionally, that hurt and damage all and everyone and everything directly or indirectly, in the first place.

The general well-being of the mind, or the proper mental health condition, or the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, comes before anything else, in the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary life existence and function of the body and mind, that doesn't and cannot exist or function if without the selfless support of the selfless supportive energy and other elements and conditions that all work together selflessly and ego-lessly for the body and mind to be existing and functioning as what it is.

All are dhamma. All are buddha. All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Even the most violent and evil mind in the world can also be free from ignorance, and be peaceful upon the liberation from ignorance.

Inquire towards the truth of everything, including all that is here, and be free. 

The fine line between guiding the minds towards self realization and educating or influencing the minds to think and behave in certain way

There are some yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts and practitioners and teachers might not be aware of themselves are involving in certain 'spiritual'/'religious'/'cultural' activities that focus on educating/influencing/conditioning/propagating specific set of ideas, beliefs, theory, philosophy, teachings, values, practices, aspirations, and visions into the minds (to influence/condition/manipulate/oppress/suppress/control the minds to think and behave and live life in certain way or not in certain way) towards influencing and building a like-minded community, or a collective uniform world under one same vision, that is in accordance to that particular set of ideas, beliefs, theory, philosophy, teachings, values, practices, aspirations, and visions, while thinking and believing that they are doing something really good and positive and meaningful and purposeful.

The minds that have attained direct self realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, will not have the perception/cognition/idea/sentiment/sense of goodness and badness, positiveness and negativeness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, or purposefulness and purposelessness, and so on. Not to say, there is absence of aspiration or vision to be building a like-minded community or a collective uniform world under one same vision, via influence/education/schooling/manipulation/suppression/oppression/threat/temptation.

It is a normal and common way of thinking and behavior of the minds to think and feel and act in such way, because the minds aren't aware of there is a fine line between teaching, guiding, and showing the path and pointing the direction towards attaining direct self realization towards the truth of everything, randomly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, and let it be, allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, or allowing all and everyone to take it or leave it - renunciation and dispassion - mental and emotional independence, and teaching/educating/schooling/influencing/conditioning/suppressing/oppressing/moulding/nurturing/grooming/culturing/controlling the minds with the intention or vision to build a community/organization/world that think and feel and behave and live life in certain way or not in certain way - a like-minded community/group/organization - mental and emotional dependence.

Such as there are some minds sort of living alone by themselves without the companionship of any other minds (human beings), but then, they want to keep one or more pets with them, as they can't and don't want to be alone by themselves, without any interaction and communication with some other living organisms. Similarly, the minds that don't believe in 'religion', but they need to hold onto 'spirituality', as they can't or don't want to be without any 'ideas, values, aspirations, activities, and practices' that gives them the momentary fleeting sense of goodness, righteousness, positiveness, joyfulness, meaningfulness, or purposefulness.

There is neither bad nor wrong if the minds aren't aware of the fine line due to the presence of the natural veil of ignorance.

Teaching, or disseminating the universal dhamma under certain names and forms to the world randomly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally (that might or might not help to activate the existing inactive/idle seed of the universal dhamma that is already there in all and everyone), by showing the path/pointing the direction - One teaches and guides another mind to become mentally and emotionally independent, to become its own teacher to perform self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of itself and everything that it perceives (the modification of the mind that doesn't even belong to the mind itself), under a rendered one-pointed, calmed, and quiet state of mind, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of itself and everything, that gives rise to clarity of thinking and correct understanding in the mind, by the initiative and effort of the mind itself, where the mind knows what and how to act/react/behave under the presence of correct understanding/absolute knowledge/wisdom. The teacher doesn't tell the students about this is right or that is wrong, this is good or that is bad, this is true or that is untrue, this is positive or that is negative, this is meaningful or that is meaningless, or you should behave like this and shouldn't behave like that, and so on. (Right education)

Educating/teaching/preaching/schooling/influencing/controlling/manipulating/conditioning/suppressing/oppressing/moulding/nurturing/grooming/culturing - One teaches/preaches/educates/propagates to other minds with a set of teachings/ideas/theory/philosophy/values/code of conducts/threatening painful suffering and comforting pleasurable happiness and enjoyment in return (especially upon death), such as the cultural/spiritual/religious ideas/beliefs/theory/philosophy/teachings/values/practices about the endless reincarnation or infinite rebirth of an eternal permanent independent immortal individual consciousness/spirit/soul undergoing countless momentary mortal existences transitioning in countless realms/worlds/spheres in accordance to the ceaseless generation and accumulation of inexhaustible good and bad and neutral karma, or the existence of the judgment and sentence to heaven or hell upon death in accordance to the accumulation of merits and virtues and sins, in order to influence/condition the minds to think, feel, believe, reason, evaluate, aspire, desire, live life, act, react, and behave in a particular way, in accordance to that particular set of ideas/belief/theory/philosophy/teachings/values/practices, even if it appears to be 'the best of the good and meaningful ways' for the minds. (Limited and conditional education)

"If you behave like this (bad and wrong), you will be punished sooner (if being found out and be prosecuted and punished under certain man-made law and order or undergoing badness/unhappiness/undesirableness/failure/poverty/painful suffering in this life existence) or later (be judged and sentenced to hell or entering lower realms for undergoing all kinds of painful suffering upon death, if there is no prosecution and punishment or badness/unhappiness/undesirableness/failure/poverty/painful suffering happening within this life time). If you behave like this (good and right), you will receive blessing in return sooner (being rewarded with blessing/goodness/happiness/desirableness/success/prosperity/enjoyment within this life existence) or later (be judged and entering heaven or higher realms to be enjoying all kinds of pleasurable enjoyments upon death, if there is no reward of blessing/goodness/happiness/desirableness/success/prosperity/enjoyment within this life existence). Good and kind people are undergoing all kinds of difficulty and painful suffering in this life existence now is because of their past accumulated bad karma or sins in previous life existences. Bad and unkind people are enjoying all kinds of goodness and happiness in this life existence now is because of their past accumulated good karma or merits and virtues in previous life existences. No matter how, there is no escape of punishments or disappearance of rewards either in this life time or after this life time upon death. Justice is there either now or later. All is good." - Justifying (suppressing the questioning of the minds towards the existence of) all kinds of unjust/prejudice/discrimination/corruption/abuse/exploitation/cruelty/selfishness/possessiveness/hurtful behavior/greedy ambitious power and wealth hoarding human beings/difficulty/hardship/painful sorrow and suffering/undesirable impermanent changes/illness/injury/damage/accident/natural disasters/and etc, in this world that don't correspondent to the belief of good/bad/neutral karma or merits and virtues and sins, where many good and kind people are being ill-treated and exploited and undergoing all kinds of difficulty and hardship, and vice versa.

One is without limiting or conditioning the minds with any particular set of ideas, belief, theory, philosophy, teachings, values, practices, aspirations, and visions, including the existing teachings of yoga and/or buddhism under certain names and forms (that are mostly contaminated), to reason everything, to desire or don't desire, or to behave or not behaving in certain way, while the other one is out of 'good intention' or 'goodwill', limiting (influencing and conditioning) the minds with a particular set of ideas, belief, theory, philosophy, teachings, values, practices, inspirations, aspirations, and visions to reason everything, to desire or don't desire, and to behave or not behaving in certain way.

The essential basic foundation or the core teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is about inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, towards the existing inherited/adopted set of ideas, beliefs, values, and practices in the mind, including all kinds of reading and hearing and watching materials related to the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism coming from anyone and everyone and everywhere, including the direct first-hand teachings/guidance coming from any enlightened minds, under the presence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional conscious freewill/initiative/effort/yearning towards liberation in the mind upon coming in contact with doubts and painful suffering, and the fleeting momentary pleasurable enjoyment and all kinds of uncertainty, via self inquiry and self realization under a rendered one-pointed, calmed, and quiet state of mind, under the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence, under the absence of grasping.

Such as there has been the mentioning of the terms of 'Selflessness', 'Impermanence', 'Limitation', 'Conditional', and 'Non-self', as well as some other terms in the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism, however, the practice is not about to believe in and follow, or to glorify and worship, or to recite the sutras, or to practice all these terms blindly, or to live life and behave in certain way in accordance to all these terms without direct self realization towards what is the real meaning of all THAT, such as the basic essential self inquiry towards "Who/What am 'I'?", but it is about to be diligent to perform self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of those terms (sutras/scriptures) that the minds come in contact with, under a rendered one-pointed, calmed, and quiet state of mind, via the help of certain regular and persistent practice and observation, of specific practical and effective methods and techniques, such as observing the incoming and outgoing breath or the random sensations, that help to develop concentration/attentiveness/one-pointedness, and that gives direct experience/reflection/insight towards Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, under the essential observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence, to be effectively freeing the mind from being conditioned by any particular set of ideas/belief/theory/philosophy/teachings/values/practices to reason everything, to be practically quieting the restless thought current (regardless of good or bad/positive or negative ideas/thoughts/feelings/emotions/intentions/desires), to attain direct realization to know the real meanings of all those terms under certain names and forms, that are also limited and conditional, that could be misinterpreted, misunderstood, or misused (for physical/mental/emotional/financial/sexual exploitation and abuse), and that there is nothing wrong or bad with that too, due to the presence of the natural veil of ignorance in all minds, just by being existing and functioning as what they are.

There are minds would refer 'nature', or 'humanity', or 'the sustainable environmental friendly self-reliant and self-sufficient way of living' as something 'spiritual', even if they don't practice any form of religion, but they still hang onto the 'spiritual' idea/belief/theory/philosophy/values/practice of 'spirituality' of 'the existence of an eternal permanent independent immortal individual spirit/soul/consciousness residing in the body and mind as well as in all and everything' of what the minds think and believe is 'who I really am', where they want to connect or reconnect with 'that spiritual connectivity/communication' with nature, where they believe that if they manage to connect/communicate with nature, they can 'take control of' or 'interfere with' many things, to 'change and control' the world to be in certain way that they desire, that they think and believe is 'good and meaningful'.

That is the freedom of the thinking, belief, understanding, values, practices, desires, and visions of all minds, and there is nothing wrong or bad, especially about nature, or humanity, or the sustainable environmental friendly self-reliant and self-sufficient way of living, however, the minds are not free, being limited and conditioned by the 'spiritual' idea/belief/values/practice of 'spirituality'. But it doesn't matter.

Even the presence of 'positive thinking' and 'goodwill' to be influencing certain names and forms to become 'positive' and 'good', indicates that the mind is not free.

Upon the direct self realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, the mind can mix and mingle freely with the other minds that are ceaselessly and restlessly changing under many different impermanent states, to be performing necessary actions that benefit oneself and all and everyone and everything randomly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, without intention or desire or vision to build a like-minded community or to influence and build a world in certain way, without being determined or disturbed by all and everything being what they are, as they are, under the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, devoid of the egoistic cognition/sense/sentiment/idea/identification/association of goodness and badness, positiveness and negativeness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, purposefulness and purposelessness, powerfulness and powerlessness, superiority and inferiority, pride and shame, accomplishment and non-accomplishment, contribution and non-contribution, selfishness and unselfishness, and so on.

The mind that understands all THAT, it is undetermined or undisturbed or unhurt by all kinds of selfish ignorant activities, actions, reactions, or behaviors of the other minds, including immediate family members and all kinds of direct personal and community ties and connections, not to say, all the other minds that don't have any direct personal and community ties and connections with oneself, even though all and everyone and everything are inter-affecting one another, directly or indirectly.

"Do not mix. Do not build ashram. Do not hoard disciples. Live alone. Eat alone. Walk alone. Meditate alone." - Swami Sivananda

Don't just follow, or propagate, or glorify, or worship, or pray to all those terms coming from Swami Sivananda, but to inquire and find out what does all THAT mean, or what was Swami Sivananda showing to everyone repeatedly, randomly, and indiscriminately, and why is all that so important, that he kept repeating again and again in many of his books/teachings?

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha never tell others to believe or disbelieve in this or that, where he never comment towards all kinds of beliefs/ideas/theories/philosophies/teachings/values/practices in the world (where that itself, alone, is a great enlightening teaching), but he only gave guidance or showed direction on how to perform self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, and attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything, as it is, emphasizing on non-blind believing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating towards all and everything, including everything that he himself taught/spoke/showed directly to anyone, not to say, everything that was transmitted second-hand or countless-hand, as well as non-following, non-glorifying, non-worshiping towards him or any enlightened minds, not to say, non-blind following, non-blind glorifying, and non-blind worshiping towards anyone or anything.

That's why there is the highly importance of "Thus have I heard" in front of all teachings related to Siddhartha Gautama buddha or Buddhism. Not only that the minds need to inquire towards the truth of everything, including upon coming in contact with any kind of teachings related to Siddhartha Gautama buddha or Buddhism coming from anyone and everyone and everywhere to attain direct realization towards the teachings, or the dhamma, or the truth of all these, but even more so, the existence of all kinds of teachings under certain names and forms are all limited and conditional, where there will be countless forms of misinterpretation, misunderstanding, and misuse (contamination/manipulation) due to the minds are functioning under the influence of the natural veil of ignorance.

The limited and conditional ability of being able to perceive, or recognize, or discriminate pain and pleasure, or the presence of doubts/ignorance/unknown/vulnerability/powerlessness/limitation/painful sorrow and suffering, or the coming in contact with undesirable and unpleasant experiences, are indeed the supportive elements that activate the seed of dhamma that is already there in all minds, naturally. It is the beginning of the path of self inquiry that is available and existing in all minds.

Before the mind understands all THAT, it is natural that the ignorant egoistic impure restless mind will have aversion towards the perception towards pain (the mind only wants to perceive/experience pleasure), or the presence of doubts/ignorance/unknown/vulnerability/powerlessness/limitation/painful sorrow and suffering (the mind only want to be all perfect/pure/knowledgeable/strong/powerful/limitless/devoid of painful sorrow and suffering), or the coming in contact with undesirable and unpleasant experiences (the mind only wants to come in contact with desirable and pleasant experiences). Where the mind perceive and project all those as something 'bad' and 'negative' and 'undeserving', or 'bad karma or sins', or 'I am not good enough or I must be terribly bad', or 'something wrong or bad about the world, or life existence, or everyone and everything, that is why I am perceiving/experiencing all these', or 'I am a failure and useless', and so on.

Upon the mind understands all THAT, or knows Thyself, or realizes the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, Non-self, and "Who/What am 'I'?", there is nothing good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, meaningful or meaningless, superior or inferior, deserving or don't deserving, powerful or powerless, ordinary or extraordinary, and so on, including the limited and conditional existence/creation of all kinds of 'floating objects', or 'mental and emotional refuge', or 'imaginary friend, or savior, or superhero' for the minds to hang onto while drifting along the current of 'the ocean of ignorance and suffering' in the mind itself, of certain worldly egoistic spiritual/religious/cultural ideas, beliefs, values, justifications, fairy tales, story making and telling, practices, desires, inspirations, aspirations, or visions.

It is the freedom of all minds to be what they are, as they are, even if the minds behave in the way that is hurtful and destructive unto itself and others and the surrounding environment, due to the influence of the veil of ignorance in the mind itself, that is ceaselessly being fed by the existing ignorance and empowered by the surrounding minds that are also under the influence of the veil of ignorance. It has to come from the minds themselves to realize the presence of the veil of ignorance in themselves and their own hurtful destructive behavior, and be initiative to do something about that, or to be free from that.

It is the freedom of all minds to think or don't think, to feel or don't feel, to believe or don't believe, to practice or don't practice, to desire or don't desire, to act or don't act, to react or don't react, to behave or don't behave in certain way, to inquire or don't inquire, to be free or not free, and so on.

The universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self is always there and everywhere, within and without, effortlessly, timelessly, and changelessly, as it is. It is never hidden. It is not a secret. It is not something unreachable or untouchable.

It is not something spiritual, or religious, or mystical, or magical, or super extraordinary, or ancient, or new age. It is not a theory or philosophy.

It is merely the universal truth of all and everything as it is, about the perceiver and the perceived, or the thinker and the thinking process, or the experiencer and the experiences, or the mind and the modification of the mind, or the ignorance and the consequences/by-products of ignorance. All these names and forms exist together, and ceased existing together.

It is merely whether the minds see it or don't see it, under the presence or absence of clarity, a.k.a. under the absence or presence of the veil of ignorance (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless modification of the mind, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind itself). 

Just be kind and generous, without desire to influence/change anyone or anything to be or not to be in certain way.

Just give, and let go.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and be free.

Inquire towards discontentment, insecurity, greed, and the economy development and growth

The basic essential and inevitable basic economy development and growth in the modern world, to create, support, and maintain the livelihood of all and everyone to achieve sufficiency in basic survival needs, is not the problem at all.

It is the ambitious greedy way of economy development and growth to support and maintain and empower the endless and boundless greedy desires, inspirations, aspirations, ambitions, and visions of the human beings towards achieving and possessing and enjoying 'limitless abundance and boundless pleasurable enjoyments', beyond the 'essential sufficiency in basic needs and supportive elements for everyday living', that is the problem.

The essential sufficiency in basic needs and supportive elements for everyday living in the modern world - Clean and safe food, water, air, and living space (housing/shelter/refuge), freedom of existence/living/movement/thinking/action/speech/expression, mental and emotional independence, internal and external peace and harmony, basic essential education for the development of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, on top of basic and higher education for the development of literacy, language, communication, interest, skill, talent, science, technology, engineering, architecture, sports, and leisure health and fitness activities, safety awareness and life saving skill, medical health awareness, care, service, and treatment, efficient public service and management, welfare management for those who are under certain physical and/or mental difficulty, vulnerability, and disability, basic infrastructure under regular maintenance that support and benefit everyday living and movement or activity, agriculture and vegetation and food produce and distribution, sustainable environmental friendly energy production and distribution, hygiene and sewage and rubbish management, sufficient public spaces and facilities under regular maintenance for physical health and fitness activities, that is essential for the development and maintenance of physical and mental well-being (the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding), that is essential for maintaining peace and harmony in the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Sufficiency and simplicity and contentment can co-exist in all THAT. The existence and function of all those basic essentials and their regular maintenance is more than enough to be supporting 'the basic essential economy development and maintenance' that provides sufficient income through jobs and businesses, for living in the modern world, that is nothing to do with the greedy ambition of making and accumulating maximum profits/money/wealth as much as possible, as quickly as possible, and as less effort as possible, by exploiting and harming all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum in order to 'keep boosting' the economy growth to the maximum, in order for a small group of people to be 'getting onto' the ship of 'the rich and the upper social class' or 'the super rich and the super upper class', to enjoy 'endless abundance of high-end luxurious lifestyle and status, and boundless pleasurable enjoyments, possessions, and activities'.

None need to generate and accumulate and hoard excessive wealth, to be 'rich', not to say, 'super rich'.

Good and bad or evil, or rightful and wrongful, or superiority and inferiority, regardless of who and what you think you are, mean nothing and make no difference to Kali or Death, not to say, 'the rich and the super rich', or 'the upper social class and the super upper class', or 'the powerful and the most powerful'.

Many minds are being over-powered by the sense of 'insecurity and discontentment' and aversion/rejection towards 'sufficiency' and 'simplicity' and 'contentment', being conditioned and empowered by the world of ignorance and egoism, in order to 'get onto' the ship of 'the rich and the upper social class', and if possible the ship of 'the super rich and the super upper class', that have very limited space due to the limitation of resources to be exploited in order to achieve that type of 'status' and 'lifestyle' and 'enjoyments, possessions, and activities' that are high energy consuming excessively and unnecessarily, that gives rise to all kinds of unnecessary ceaseless ongoing excessive exploitation towards all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum, that is impacting, hurting, and destroying the over-all well-being of the minds (the mental health of the human beings that impacts all and everything), and that is impacting, hurting, and destroying the conducive livable atmosphere, climate, Eco system, environment, condition, and situation under the name/idea/values/propagation of the ambitious greedy economy development and growth that is fed by 'ceaseless investments in ceaseless productivity to produce boundless products/objects/ideas/infrastructures/activities/spaces to cater all kinds of endless greedy desires, that are beyond 'the sufficiency in basic needs for survival and maintaining the over-all physical and mental well-being', that bring along the boundless side-effects/consequences of all THAT.

Under the existence and empowerment of such 'trend' or 'idea, belief, values, aspiration, and practice', there are more and more minds are broken/damaged/hurt/drained/in painful suffering, or there are more and more mentally unwell and disturbed human beings that gives rise to hurtful behavior unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment, on top of there are ceaseless environmental damages (air pollution, water pollution, earth/soil pollution, rubbish pollution, toxic elements pollution, climate imbalanced, Eco system broken and collapsing, frequent extreme weather conditions leads to frequent extreme natural disasters, food production collapsing, famine, diseases, desperation, and so on), deriving from the many non-essential ceaseless and boundless productivity and activities of human beings for stimulating and boosting 'the economy' to the maximum, to cater the endless and boundless greedy desires/aspirations/ambitions beyond the essential basic needs for survival and supportive elements for living in the modern world.

How many minds/human beings growing up were/are being told and influenced by the parents, the elders, the relatives, the teachers, the politicians, the leaders, the 'successful and wealthy rich people', the surrounding everyone, the cultural inputs, the social media inputs, the educational inputs, the spiritual and religious inputs, the national and political inputs, or the commercial and advertisement inputs, about study hard and work hard and play a little, to be making a living and be inspired to be ambitious, and then, work smart and invest smart and play hard, and be motivated to be highly ambitious, with one particular goal, to be achieving 'the superior status' and 'the high-end lifestyle', or 'the luxurious enjoyments, possessions, and activities' of 'the rich and the upper social class', or 'the super rich and the super upper class', that 'provide' them the fleeting sense of 'financial security', of 'abundance' or 'endless abundance', that is built on the ongoing excessive exploitation towards all and everyone and everything to the maximum? Plenty.

After studying and working hard, while play a little and save a little, and manage to achieve a simple and practical 'place/space/shelter/house/apartment' to live in and take shelter/rest, and have sufficient simple nutritional food and clean water and air for life maintenance, to be looking after the general well-being of oneself and those dependent on oneself, the minds are being conditioned/influenced/manipulated/threatened/tempted/bullied/exploited to want more - "You want this. You need this. You deserve this!", in order to 'boost' the economy for some people to get onto the ship of 'the rich and the super rich', or 'the higher social class status', that feeds the high-end luxurious lifestyle, enjoyments, possessions, and activities.

The minds are ceaselessly being influenced/manipulated/threatened/tempted/bullied/exploited to want not only a few, but more and more expansion/extension/stimulation of everything, of ceaseless accumulation and enjoyment of non-essential objects of the senses, decorations, fashions, accessories, and branded designer goods for the body and mind and the living space, expansion of family members, ceaseless physical/mental/emotional/material enjoyments and possessions and experiences of boundless gadgets and toys, social network building and activities, entertainments, all kinds of non-essential conveniences, and engagement in multiple money making investments, such as multiple money schemes and multiple property investments, while being caught up with higher and higher daily/short-term/long-term expenses and debts accumulation and repayment that are truly unnecessary, in order to achieve so called 'abundance' or 'endless abundance', of endless wealth generation/accumulation/hoarding for achieving and supporting a high-end luxury lifestyle with boundless pleasurable enjoyments, possessions, and activities.

This is not about 'hating the rich and the upper class', or 'money and commercialism is evil and untouchable', or 'against advance science and technology', or 'all and everyone should be living under extreme difficult condition of insufficiency in basic needs and poverty', or 'all and everyone should be "uniformed" under one particular idea, belief, values, and practice, under one vision, one big family, one human race, one leadership, one nation, or one organization', or 'equal distribution of wealth or resources', or 'accumulation of good/bad/neutral karma' or 'merits and virtues and sins', under certain political, or national, or spiritual and religious ideas, beliefs, values, visions, inspirations, aspirations, and agendas.

Simplicity and contentment and sufficiency, or renunciation and dispassion, or desirelessness and non-greedy, don't mean living under extreme difficult and poor or hazardous and detrimental condition and situation.

Money transaction and commercialism as well as advance science and technology is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, depending on the state of the minds. It can appear to be merely a form of convenient tool that improve quality of living, if the minds are free from ignorance and greed or power greedy and wealth hoarding. It is the presence of ignorance and greed or power greedy and hoarding of wealth in the minds, that make money transaction and commercialism appears to be evil, and the advance science and technology is widely being misused for something harmful and destructive unto all and everyone and everything, directly and indirectly.

It is about the minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Where the minds have the clarity of thinking and correct understanding.

Where the minds are mentally and emotionally independent or matured.

Where the minds are contented and at peace.

Where the minds are kind and generous helping and looking after one another, indiscriminately and unconditionally, towards achieving physical, mental, and emotional independence. 

Where the minds are not being influenced/manipulated/threatened/tempted/bullied/exploited or be determined and disturbed by the existence of all kinds of worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, and practices created by the minds that were/are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Where the minds are free from the idea of 'I' and egoism, and all kinds of impurities and restlessness, devoid of selfishness, self-righteousness, possessiveness, desires of craving and aversion, dissatisfaction, greed, insecurity, fear, disappointment, anger, hatred, discrimination, prejudice, the sense of separateness and emptiness/loneliness, the sense of pride and shame, the sense of superiority and inferiority, the sense of goodness and badness, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness, the sense of deserving and non-deserving, the sense of accomplishment and non-accomplishment, the sense of success and failure, and etc.

Where the minds are free from corruption and corrupted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

Where the minds are non-violent.

Where the minds don't hurt themselves, or others, or the surrounding environment, under any circumstances, conditions, and situations.

Where the minds know how to navigate their life existence in the world of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, under the presence of wisdom or absolute knowledge and correct understanding, and kindness, with minimum damages being generated unto all and everyone and everything as much as possible.

Where the minds are devoid of grasping, association, longing, craving, aversion, attachment, identification, judgment, comparison, or expectation.

Where the minds are endowed with patience, forbearance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, acceptance, determination, perseverance, kindness, generosity, non-possessiveness, non-hoarding, non-envying, non-discrimination, non-prejudice, or non-violence.

Where the minds are opened, devoid of blind-believing, blind-following, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, blind-practicing, blind-propagating, blind-glorifying, or worshiping, not to say, blind-worshiping, towards anything or anyone.

Where the minds are devoid of untruthfulness, lies, hypocrisy, justification, story making and telling, pretentiousness, offensiveness and defensiveness, sabotaging, plotting, scheming, boasting, slandering, and so on.

Where the minds are being in the present, and respecting the Truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.

Where there is no reason for all kinds of corruptions, lies, untruthfulness, hypocrisy, story making and telling, justification, corruption, exploitation, discrimination, abuse, bribery, unjust, prejudice, unrest, anger, hatred, fear, insecurity, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, patriotism, politicking, sabotage, invasion, intrusion, occupation, possessiveness, selfishness, greed, jealousy, cruelty, violence, or hurtful action/reaction/behavior, to be existing, under the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding in the minds of the human beings.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and be free.

Inquire towards the fear and worry towards the world under the absence of control under certain ideas and beliefs

It is normal and natural that the minds that were/are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that had/have been being conditioned by the conditional worldly egoistic ancestral/cultural/religious/spiritual/philosophical/educational/commercial/political/national/family/communal/social ideas, beliefs, justifications, stories making and telling, fairy tales, values, and practices to think/reason/understand/desire/live life/act/react/behave in certain way and not in certain way, that had/have been being created by the minds that were/are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that were/are all prideful control freak and power/wealth/possession/status/enjoyment/existence greedy, will be troubled by the sense of fear and worry, upon coming in contact with the inconvenient undesirable disagreeable Truth about Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms regardless of living organisms or non-living objects.

Because upon the minds coming in contact with the Dhamma, or the Truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, which is an absolute liberation for the minds that seek liberation from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, but then it appears to be inconvenient, undesirable, and disagreeable to the minds that are prideful control freak and power/wealth/possession/status/enjoyment/existence greedy, as the Truth is naturally jeopardizing the existence and the power of influence of the egoistic impure mind creation of all kinds of worldly egoistic ancestral/cultural/religious/spiritual/philosophical/educational/commercial/political/national/family/communal/social ideas, beliefs, justifications, stories making and telling, fairy tales, values, and practices, that were/are being created and meant to be controlling/influencing/manipulating/threatening/tempting/oppressing/suppressing/exploiting the minds to be and not to be in certain way in accordance to one's desires and doesn't desires, where the minds that are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, that have realized the truth of all THAT, they will not be under the control/influence/manipulation/threat/temptation/oppression/suppression/exploitation of the minds that are prideful control freak and power/wealth/possession/status/enjoyment/existence greedy.

All these self-righteous minds that strongly think and believe that the world (their relationship and interaction with everyone, their family and relatives, their spouse, their children, their particular community, all the other diverse individuals under diverse communities, as well as what they think and believe it's their space that belong to them, of all and everything and the surrounding environment) needs to be under the control/manipulation/influence/threat/temptation/oppression/suppression of certain ideas, beliefs, story making and telling, fairy tales, values, and practice (fearful threats of painful punishment in return, or delightful temptations of pleasurable rewards in return, or both), for all and everyone to behave in certain way that they desire and agree with, and not in certain way that they don't desire and disagree with, with the 'good intention' of 'avoiding chaos or selfishness or madness or violence' in the world, but then, they don't see themselves as the one that is being selfish and violent and mad (control freak) that gives rise to unnecessary evitable disturbance/chaos/unrest in themselves (full of craving and aversion, dissatisfaction, anger, and hatred of "I want everyone and everything to be like this and not like that. I don't like this, I don't agree with this, I don't want this. This is bad and wrong. All these are making me so irritated and angry!"), that is also responsible for causing so much unnecessary evitable intrusion/interference/disturbance/chaos/unrest/hurtful damage into the world, unto all and everyone and the surrounding environment.

Even if the rare minds that were/are highly enthusiastic and were/are ready to be exerting continuous effort to attain direct self realization towards the Truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, by themselves, under their own ceaseless effort of continuous practice and inquiry, and not just by coming in contact with, hearing, reading, learning, studying, or analyzing towards the universal Dhamma/The teachings of yoga and buddhism, or the Truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, that was/is available in the form of writing or speech under different languages of the many available Scriptures, Sutras, transcriptions, commentaries, books, audio recordings, or the dissemination/discourses of the universal Dhamma/teachings of yoga and/or buddhism from someone or somewhere, but due to the presence of the veil of ignorance, there is the fear and worry arise towards the world will be in absolute chaos and selfishness and madness and violence if all minds attained direct realization towards the truth of Truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, and hence, the minds are no longer being controlled/influenced/manipulated/threatened/tempted/oppressed/suppressed by some kind of conditional/influential/manipulative/threatening/tempting/oppressing/suppressing ideas, beliefs, justifications, stories making and telling, fairy tales, values, and practices, for the minds to be and not to be in certain way, to maintain certain 'order' in the world.

And out of such ignorance, being over-powered by the sense of fear and worry, the ignorant egoistic impure minds, including many of the yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts or practitioners that haven't attained direct realization towards the truth yet, and especially the prideful control freak and power/wealth/possession/status/enjoyment/existence greedy minds, would try to sabotage, or manipulate, or destroy any Truth related materials, to hinder the other minds from coming in contact with or realizing the Truth, that appears to be highly intimidating, for these minds.

"Even if it is all true, but people shouldn't get to know this. People will be out of control and misbehave."

People are behaving in the hurtful way, is because of they are 'not free', as they are being controlled/restricted/threatened/tempted/oppressed/suppressed/bullied/intimidated/exploited by all THAT that were/are being created to be controlling/restricting/threatening/tempting/oppressing/suppressing/bullying/intimidating/exploiting all and everyone to be or not to be in certain way, that hinder the minds to be free from the influence of the veil of ignorance.

The minds that are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, won't behave in the way that hurt and destroy all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment.

All kinds of human's boundless activities/affairs/events/ideas/beliefs/values/practices/aspirations/ambitions/visions are ceaselessly being created to stimulate the restless modification of the mind to empower the veil of ignorance, to empower the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness (endless greed/dissatisfaction/discontentment/fear/worry/insecurity/possessiveness/hoarding/selfishness/prejudice/anger/hatred/offensiveness/defensiveness/violence/fighting/invasion/intrusion/occupation/mental and emotional dependence/financial and economy dependence/family and community dependence/authority and authorization dependence, or the fear towards painful punishment/hardship/difficulty/solitude/seclusion/silence/aloneness/mental and emotional independence, and the longing towards receiving attention/affection/blessing/acceptance/agreement/acknowledgement/recognition/approval/praise and compliment from everyone, especially from 'the almighty one, the impersonate '...' existence', and so on).

In fact, the world is in a continuous and empowered state of chaos and selfishness and madness and violence, that give rise to all kinds of unnecessary evitable cruelty, desperation, difficulty, or painful suffering deriving from the ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in the minds themselves that impact themselves and others and all and everything in the surrounding environment, is due to the continuous and empowered existence and influence/manipulation/threat/temptation/oppression/suppression/exploitation of all those ignorant egoistic impure mind creation of all kinds of conditional/influential/manipulative/threatening/tempting/oppressing/suppressing/exploiting ideas, beliefs, justifications, stories making and telling, fairy tales, values, and practices, for the minds to be and not to be in certain way, to maintain certain so called 'order' in the world, in accordance to the desires and don't desires, or aspirations/visions/ambitions of certain minds individually and/or that belong to any particular ancestry/family/tribe/ethnicity/community/group/organization.

Where the many minds were/are continuously being hammered/manipulated/influenced/threatened/tempted/oppressed/suppressed/exploited, and hence, be empowered to remain ignorant as well as to keep empowering ignorance in oneself and in the others, either by themselves, or by the others.

The minds that keep practicing, that are rendering quieter and quieter, and that have clearer and clearer understanding, will be free from such ignorant egoistic sense of fear and worry towards The Truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, that was/is being perceived as 'inconvenient'/'undesirable'/'disagreeable'/'jeopardizing, obstructing, and destroying their greedy boundless ambitions' by the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but not the minds that are becoming freer and freer or wiser and wiser, as they approach closer and closer to the direct self realization towards the truth of everything, as it is.

The minds that haven't developed certain degrees of correct understanding, that don't have the required certain degrees of intense yearning towards absolute peace, knowledge, freedom, and liberation from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, that don't have the essential certain degrees of openness, attentiveness, calmness, patience, determination, perseverance, forbearance, or mental and emotional independence, that are clouded or over-powered by the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, will still be what they are, as they are, ceaselessly thinking and believing that they are the most intelligent and superior people in the world, including many highly educated, knowledgeable, intelligent, talented, and skillful people, that are highly 'successful and accomplished and powerful', and that keep achieving, accumulating, and hoarding endless wealth, possession, position, title, status, power, and pleasurable enjoyments deriving from the ceaseless and boundless exploitation towards all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum.

These minds have the common idea and motivation of, "Getting onto the ship of the rich and the upper social class, and if possible, the ship of the super rich and the super upper class, that has very limited place, as soon as possible. It is either exploiting all and everyone and everything, or be exploited by all the others," regardless of whether they are aware or unaware of that particular ship will also be sinking along with all the other ships of 'the not rich' and 'the not upper class' upon the 'super tsunami' deriving from the ongoing exploitation towards all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum.

There is nothing bad or wrong or harmful towards achieving 'sufficiency', which is available to all and everyone in the world, indiscriminately, as long as one has the organs of action and the effort to achieve 'sufficiency' in basic needs for survival that enables oneself to be looking after the general well-being of the body and mind, as well as some others that are dependent on oneself physically, and/or mentally. It is the widely propagated and empowered idea and values and practice of achieving and hoarding 'endless abundance' deriving from exploiting all and everything to the maximum, that is harming all and everyone and everything, especially the nature, or the climate, or the living condition and atmosphere, intentionally and unintentionally, directly and indirectly.

The minds that have certain degrees of correct understanding, even if they are still not free from the natural manifestation of the veil of ignorance, where there is still ignorance or doubt towards the universal truth or the universal dhamma, but at least if there is certain degrees of yearning towards absolute peace, knowledge, freedom, and liberation from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, then, they will be uplifted upon the presence of the precious opportunity of coming in contact with the dissemination of dhamma under certain names and forms, that can serve as some guidance or the object of reflection to be reflecting upon.

There was a question coming from a mind, "What is enlightenment?"

Enlightenment can have several different interpretations.

One of that is, upon realizing or knowing the truth of the existence of all kinds of conditional worldly egoistic ancestral/cultural/religious/spiritual/philosophical/educational/commercial/political/national/family/communal/social ideas, beliefs, justifications, stories making and telling, fairy tales, values, and practices in this world, that were/are being created and supported and empowered by the human's minds functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that bully, manipulate, influence, threaten, tempt, oppress, suppress, exploit, and hurt all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum, under what most minds think and believe is 'good' intention of 'maintaining certain order' in the world, from one's personal relationship with some others, to one's family building and expansion, to one's particular community, to the diverse individuals and communities, to control/manipulate/threaten/tempt/suppress/oppress/bully/exploit all and everyone and everything, in order to gratify all their boundless desires, and that also help them to achieve 'abundance' and 'endless abundance'.

If 'all those ideas, beliefs, values, and practices' under 'the good intention' are something true, then all and everyone in the world should be all enjoying 'abundance' in 'peace and harmony' at wherever they are, or the world of human beings was/is already devoid of all kinds of madness, selfishness, cruelty, desperation, difficulty, anger, hatred, discrimination, prejudice, unjust, corruption, intrusion, invasion, occupation, displacement, homelessness, refugee, famine, unrest, or violence, deriving from the empowered ignorance, selfishness, possessiveness, the sense of belonging and ownership, the sense of pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, fear, insecurity, and the ceaseless discontentment, or the endless and boundless greedy desires, inspirations, aspirations, ambitions, and visions in the minds of human beings, where some people are 'happily' making a lot of profitable opportunities from ceaselessly 'encouraging' or 'stirring up' the chaotic unrest violent condition and situation in the world.

And the same minds 'justify' that, "This is the nature of all human beings, where only the strongest and smartest will survive. We are so smart that we know that it is not possible for all and everyone to be enjoying 'abundance'. But, we can make people think and believe that they all can enjoy 'abundance' and 'endless abundance', so that we (our group) can achieve 'endless abundance'. It is the bad karma or sins of the many people to be in such terrible painful suffering desperate difficult condition and situation, even if we are responsible for that, directly and indirectly. We are the 'good and virtuous and blessed' people. That's why we are strong and smart. That's why we can bully all the others and we know how to manipulate and control and exploit everyone to be the way that we desire. That is why we enjoy abundance, and we deserve endless abundance and pleasurable enjoyments."

They don't like and don't want a world that is full of people that live in simplicity and sufficiency, that is mentally and emotionally independent, that are living in peace and harmony among all kinds of diversities, that generously helping and looking after one another indiscriminately and unconditionally, that are free from fear and insecurity and greed, that are contented and non-violent, that don't chase after pleasurable enjoyments of the senses, that are free from the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, superiority and inferiority, pride and shame, or the sense of belonging and ownership, that won't be bullied, intimidated, manipulated, influenced, controlled, threatened, tempted, oppressed, suppressed, or exploited by them, or anyone, or anything.

"That is not good and it is very bad for the economy." Isn't that what most mind were/are being conditioned to think in such way?

What is 'the economy', if the climate collapsed, or the Eco system collapsed, where food production and essential basic needs for survival are no longer possible, or the conducive livable atmosphere, condition, and surrounding environment is no longer available, where there are frequent extreme weather conditions that fuel natural disasters everywhere, and when there are increasing evitable distress, anger, hatred, discrimination, prejudice, unjust, corruption, cruelty, unrest, abuse, intimidation, invasion, intrusion, and violence happening everywhere, where more and more people are mentally disturbed being in the prolonged and continuous state of disturbance, desperation, difficulty, painful suffering, hurt, bullied, disappointment, and despair, where there is absence of essential basic needs, livable and safe living environment, and mental peace in many people, due to the ongoing excessive exploitation towards all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum under the name of 'the economy' and 'ongoing investments' and 'financial security'?

It is the freedom of all minds to be what they are, to think and believe and understand and desire in certain way and not in certain way.

It has to come from the mind itself that has the limited conscious awareness, conscious initiative, conscious freewill and choice making, conscious desire, and conscious effort to be free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, and stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and be free.