Be free from the idea of 'the need to be empowered/inspired' or 'the necessity of empowerment/inspiration'.
The sun, the space, the earth, the water and the wind don't need to be empowered/inspired for being what they are. They are what they are, being there allowing all and everything to be forming, changing, and disintegrating selflessly, intentionlessly, and unconditionally.
Human beings with the impure egoistic thinking mind (men, women, old people, young people, teenagers, children, or anybody) think and believe that all human beings need some kind of empowerment/inspiration to be empowered/inspired to be performing actions that would benefit themselves and/or others, or to be somebody that they want to be (other than being what they are, as they are), or to attain better quality of life and higher sense of happiness/satisfaction/achievement/worthiness/meaningfulness, to build a higher personal development that contributes to a better society in the world.
Human beings are indeed being 'empowered/inspired' to develop a strong egoism since the day they were born, to develop a strong personal and worldly attachment and identity, self-image, personality, nationality, thinking, belief, culture, religion, spirituality, family ties/lineage, social interaction and connection, education, ambition, desire, aspiration, creativity, achievement, possessiveness, success, enjoyment, the sense of confidence/pride/meaningfulness/satisfaction/happiness, and so on.
Minds are being influenced/empowered from everywhere to think and believe that "Even when this is very good, but there will always something better, that this is never good enough, that they should never be contented with themselves or everything as they are, that they need to continuously strive to be better, and better, and there's no end to higher ambition/achievement/enjoyment/pleasure/happiness/satisfaction, and etc."
All those empowerment ideas are nothing but empowering the ignorance/egoism/impurities of greed, dissatisfaction, pride, personal identity, self-image, gratification of worldly desires and ambitions, separateness, discrimination, and etc, and the consequences of that - restlessness, so that the world's economy/capitalism/materialism/commercialism/consumerism can continue to survive and grow for the wealthy people continue to amass more wealth under the 'support' of all the 'empowered' human beings with all their 'empowered/inspired' great desires and worldly ambitions for experiencing, attaining, and possessing higher and endless satisfaction and enjoyment.
Many people don't really love themselves, even though they might think that they love themselves very much, but actually they love what they like and want (their desires and the gratification of desires) more than loving themselves as they are. They want/expect their body and mind to be like this and not like that, or to be able to do/achieve this and that. The ever dissatisfied and greedy ego doesn't/won't/can't love the body and mind or everything in life as it is.
While some people can't love themselves as they are, is because they are being influenced and determined by the 'empowered' society to think and believe that 'they are not good enough' or 'they will never be good enough', even when they achieved many achievements, and so, they can't like or love themselves as they are (dissatisfaction or dislike towards the qualities of names and forms that they identified with as 'I').
And hence, all those 'empowerment ideas' are 'blooming' or 'trending' in this world, to inspire/motivate/encourage people to think and believe that they can desire/achieve whatever they desire/want to achieve, that they can be (more) strong and powerful to attain a higher quality and comfort of life, that they will be treated/respected/loved/supported the way that they deserve if they attain/possess those higher qualities, so that they will feel good, satisfied, confident and meaningful about themselves, in order to like and love themselves, or to receive acceptance, love, respect, compliment, support, acknowledgement or friendship/companionship from other(s).
People ceaselessly and restlessly pushing their body and mind to go beyond its limitation, with the help of special diet/supplement/drugs/training/higher education, technology and equipment, until the function of the body and mind breakdown, until they need to depend on more drugs for the body and mind to be able to function properly, to be 'normal' again, to relieve tension, to unwind, to have a few moments of rest, until the life force depleted and death/disintegration takes place, and the body and mind ceased functioning and existing.
The bodily systems and the thinking faculty are unwittingly suffering from restlessness, overuse, sleep deprivation, hyperactive, lethargic, mood swing, depression, anxiety, nervous breakdown, immune system breakdown, indigestion, hormone imbalance, unfocused, cloudiness, stress, and stress related physical illness and different forms of mental illness, due to the empowered ego is being empowered/inspired to push the limits of the body and mind to achieve or fulfill unlimited and higher worldly desires and ambitions of the empowered ego. Again, it's everyone's freedom for what they want to do with their life existence, their body and mind.
Meanwhile, out of good intention, some people try to empower others by telling others that "You are good, you are good enough, you are more than good enough. You deserve more/better," by empowering them to think and believe that they are good and strong and worthy, so that they are empowered/motivated to be able to achieve something that they want to achieve, so that they will feel better, satisfied, happy, confident and meaningful about themselves by being able to achieve something or fulfill their desires, so that they will like and love themselves. But that's not liberation or the end of suffering for these people if they need to rely on attaining/possessing certain qualities of names and forms, or achievements and gratification of desires in order to think and believe that they are good, or good enough, or more than good enough, or they deserve much more, to feel better, satisfied, happy, confident and meaningful about themselves, so that they can like and love themselves.
Yoga, or the yoga practice, is to free the mind from all those restlessness deriving from ignorance and egoism empowered by worldly endless passionate desires, ambitions, ideas, thinking, belief, and values.
Be free from attachment and identification with qualities of names and forms as 'I', and be free from all the worldly ideas and beliefs about "One shouldn't be content with what one is and has, that oneself and all these will never be good enough, that one should always strive to be better, and better, and there's no ending of higher achievement/desire/happiness/success/satisfaction/pleasure," or "Be empowered. Be inspired. You are good. You are strong. You can achieve all your desires," and be free from clinging/craving towards the need of appreciation, praise, compliment, acknowledgement, validation, agreement, recognition, love, support, friendship, or companionship from other(s), in order to live life happily, confidently and meaningfully.
Those who (truly) practice yoga don't need to be empowered or inspired by anyone or anything, to feel good, confident, successful, or meaningful about oneself or life existence upon the realization of selflessness, non-separateness, attributelessness, namelessness, and formlessness. One doesn't need to be 'somebody identifying with/possessing certain qualities of names and forms or achievements', in order to live life happily, confidently, and meaningfully. One is peaceful as one is, unconditionally.
It doesn't mean that one doesn't perform any actions that would benefit oneself and/or others, and to constantly improve in life existence. One can be actively performing actions that would benefit oneself and others, and constantly improving in life existence, but without the idea of "This is never good enough and everyone needs to achieve higher and higher qualities/satisfaction/enjoyment to be who they are/to be recognized/accepted as well-deserving human being", without pushing the body and mind beyond its limitation, without unnecessary over-whelming stress, without intention/expectation/craving for receiving appreciation, praise, compliment, acknowledgement, validation, agreement, recognition, love, support, friendship, or companionship from others in return, in order to feel happy, confident, and meaningful.
There's no dissatisfaction, discontentment, fear, low self-esteem, low confidence, depression, self-hate, unloved, left-out, loneliness, meaninglessness, or lack of something that isn't here.
There's no aversion towards impermanent changes, old age, illness, weakness, aloneness, separation from things and beings that one appreciates and cherishes, or death.
It doesn't mean that the world is moving backward or stagnant, if everyone loves themselves as they are, in fact, it's the opposite. The world will be full of peaceful and compassionate people, and hence the world will be free from all sorts of mental illness, stress related physical illness, depression, low self-esteem, low confidence, pride, arrogance, greed, corruption, exploitation, offensiveness, self-harm, discrimination, violence, wars, and etc. But, most minds are not free from ignorance, egoism, and impurities.
Even if there are more and higher technologies existing in the world for certain people to enjoy a more comfortable and advanced lifestyle, where they can live longer, younger, and healthier, it doesn't guarantee that the mind will be free from ignorance, egoism, impurities, and the suffering from restlessness, anger, hatred, jealousy, dissatisfaction, disappointment, hurts, regret, guilt, fear, worry, boredom, loneliness, hostility, unrest, discrimination, violence, doubts, conflicts, disagreement, and etc.
There's nothing wrong with good condition, comfort, and convenience deriving from higher technologies and the ability to attain the higher quality of life. If one knows how to unattached or not clinging onto all the good condition, comfort, and convenience in one's life, but making use of the good condition to work on attaining salvation transcending the mind perception of a worldly selfless impermanent life existence, that's great. But, how many attached or clung onto the good condition, comfort, and convenience, and got lost in all the pleasurable indulgence and enjoyment, and the endless pursuit for higher pleasurable indulgence and enjoyment? And how many would be grateful and thankful for all the bad condition, discomfort and hardship in their life which initiating them to detach from worldly life existence to work on transcending the mind of ignorance, egoism and impurities?
It's everyone's freedom for how they want to think, believe and feel, or what they want to do with their life, body and mind.
Be free.
The sun, the space, the earth, the water and the wind don't need to be empowered/inspired for being what they are. They are what they are, being there allowing all and everything to be forming, changing, and disintegrating selflessly, intentionlessly, and unconditionally.
Human beings with the impure egoistic thinking mind (men, women, old people, young people, teenagers, children, or anybody) think and believe that all human beings need some kind of empowerment/inspiration to be empowered/inspired to be performing actions that would benefit themselves and/or others, or to be somebody that they want to be (other than being what they are, as they are), or to attain better quality of life and higher sense of happiness/satisfaction/achievement/worthiness/meaningfulness, to build a higher personal development that contributes to a better society in the world.
Human beings are indeed being 'empowered/inspired' to develop a strong egoism since the day they were born, to develop a strong personal and worldly attachment and identity, self-image, personality, nationality, thinking, belief, culture, religion, spirituality, family ties/lineage, social interaction and connection, education, ambition, desire, aspiration, creativity, achievement, possessiveness, success, enjoyment, the sense of confidence/pride/meaningfulness/satisfaction/happiness, and so on.
Minds are being influenced/empowered from everywhere to think and believe that "Even when this is very good, but there will always something better, that this is never good enough, that they should never be contented with themselves or everything as they are, that they need to continuously strive to be better, and better, and there's no end to higher ambition/achievement/enjoyment/pleasure/happiness/satisfaction, and etc."
All those empowerment ideas are nothing but empowering the ignorance/egoism/impurities of greed, dissatisfaction, pride, personal identity, self-image, gratification of worldly desires and ambitions, separateness, discrimination, and etc, and the consequences of that - restlessness, so that the world's economy/capitalism/materialism/commercialism/consumerism can continue to survive and grow for the wealthy people continue to amass more wealth under the 'support' of all the 'empowered' human beings with all their 'empowered/inspired' great desires and worldly ambitions for experiencing, attaining, and possessing higher and endless satisfaction and enjoyment.
Many people don't really love themselves, even though they might think that they love themselves very much, but actually they love what they like and want (their desires and the gratification of desires) more than loving themselves as they are. They want/expect their body and mind to be like this and not like that, or to be able to do/achieve this and that. The ever dissatisfied and greedy ego doesn't/won't/can't love the body and mind or everything in life as it is.
While some people can't love themselves as they are, is because they are being influenced and determined by the 'empowered' society to think and believe that 'they are not good enough' or 'they will never be good enough', even when they achieved many achievements, and so, they can't like or love themselves as they are (dissatisfaction or dislike towards the qualities of names and forms that they identified with as 'I').
And hence, all those 'empowerment ideas' are 'blooming' or 'trending' in this world, to inspire/motivate/encourage people to think and believe that they can desire/achieve whatever they desire/want to achieve, that they can be (more) strong and powerful to attain a higher quality and comfort of life, that they will be treated/respected/loved/supported the way that they deserve if they attain/possess those higher qualities, so that they will feel good, satisfied, confident and meaningful about themselves, in order to like and love themselves, or to receive acceptance, love, respect, compliment, support, acknowledgement or friendship/companionship from other(s).
People ceaselessly and restlessly pushing their body and mind to go beyond its limitation, with the help of special diet/supplement/drugs/training/higher education, technology and equipment, until the function of the body and mind breakdown, until they need to depend on more drugs for the body and mind to be able to function properly, to be 'normal' again, to relieve tension, to unwind, to have a few moments of rest, until the life force depleted and death/disintegration takes place, and the body and mind ceased functioning and existing.
The bodily systems and the thinking faculty are unwittingly suffering from restlessness, overuse, sleep deprivation, hyperactive, lethargic, mood swing, depression, anxiety, nervous breakdown, immune system breakdown, indigestion, hormone imbalance, unfocused, cloudiness, stress, and stress related physical illness and different forms of mental illness, due to the empowered ego is being empowered/inspired to push the limits of the body and mind to achieve or fulfill unlimited and higher worldly desires and ambitions of the empowered ego. Again, it's everyone's freedom for what they want to do with their life existence, their body and mind.
Meanwhile, out of good intention, some people try to empower others by telling others that "You are good, you are good enough, you are more than good enough. You deserve more/better," by empowering them to think and believe that they are good and strong and worthy, so that they are empowered/motivated to be able to achieve something that they want to achieve, so that they will feel better, satisfied, happy, confident and meaningful about themselves by being able to achieve something or fulfill their desires, so that they will like and love themselves. But that's not liberation or the end of suffering for these people if they need to rely on attaining/possessing certain qualities of names and forms, or achievements and gratification of desires in order to think and believe that they are good, or good enough, or more than good enough, or they deserve much more, to feel better, satisfied, happy, confident and meaningful about themselves, so that they can like and love themselves.
Yoga, or the yoga practice, is to free the mind from all those restlessness deriving from ignorance and egoism empowered by worldly endless passionate desires, ambitions, ideas, thinking, belief, and values.
Be free from attachment and identification with qualities of names and forms as 'I', and be free from all the worldly ideas and beliefs about "One shouldn't be content with what one is and has, that oneself and all these will never be good enough, that one should always strive to be better, and better, and there's no ending of higher achievement/desire/happiness/success/satisfaction/pleasure," or "Be empowered. Be inspired. You are good. You are strong. You can achieve all your desires," and be free from clinging/craving towards the need of appreciation, praise, compliment, acknowledgement, validation, agreement, recognition, love, support, friendship, or companionship from other(s), in order to live life happily, confidently and meaningfully.
Those who (truly) practice yoga don't need to be empowered or inspired by anyone or anything, to feel good, confident, successful, or meaningful about oneself or life existence upon the realization of selflessness, non-separateness, attributelessness, namelessness, and formlessness. One doesn't need to be 'somebody identifying with/possessing certain qualities of names and forms or achievements', in order to live life happily, confidently, and meaningfully. One is peaceful as one is, unconditionally.
It doesn't mean that one doesn't perform any actions that would benefit oneself and/or others, and to constantly improve in life existence. One can be actively performing actions that would benefit oneself and others, and constantly improving in life existence, but without the idea of "This is never good enough and everyone needs to achieve higher and higher qualities/satisfaction/enjoyment to be who they are/to be recognized/accepted as well-deserving human being", without pushing the body and mind beyond its limitation, without unnecessary over-whelming stress, without intention/expectation/craving for receiving appreciation, praise, compliment, acknowledgement, validation, agreement, recognition, love, support, friendship, or companionship from others in return, in order to feel happy, confident, and meaningful.
There's no dissatisfaction, discontentment, fear, low self-esteem, low confidence, depression, self-hate, unloved, left-out, loneliness, meaninglessness, or lack of something that isn't here.
There's no aversion towards impermanent changes, old age, illness, weakness, aloneness, separation from things and beings that one appreciates and cherishes, or death.
It doesn't mean that the world is moving backward or stagnant, if everyone loves themselves as they are, in fact, it's the opposite. The world will be full of peaceful and compassionate people, and hence the world will be free from all sorts of mental illness, stress related physical illness, depression, low self-esteem, low confidence, pride, arrogance, greed, corruption, exploitation, offensiveness, self-harm, discrimination, violence, wars, and etc. But, most minds are not free from ignorance, egoism, and impurities.
Even if there are more and higher technologies existing in the world for certain people to enjoy a more comfortable and advanced lifestyle, where they can live longer, younger, and healthier, it doesn't guarantee that the mind will be free from ignorance, egoism, impurities, and the suffering from restlessness, anger, hatred, jealousy, dissatisfaction, disappointment, hurts, regret, guilt, fear, worry, boredom, loneliness, hostility, unrest, discrimination, violence, doubts, conflicts, disagreement, and etc.
There's nothing wrong with good condition, comfort, and convenience deriving from higher technologies and the ability to attain the higher quality of life. If one knows how to unattached or not clinging onto all the good condition, comfort, and convenience in one's life, but making use of the good condition to work on attaining salvation transcending the mind perception of a worldly selfless impermanent life existence, that's great. But, how many attached or clung onto the good condition, comfort, and convenience, and got lost in all the pleasurable indulgence and enjoyment, and the endless pursuit for higher pleasurable indulgence and enjoyment? And how many would be grateful and thankful for all the bad condition, discomfort and hardship in their life which initiating them to detach from worldly life existence to work on transcending the mind of ignorance, egoism and impurities?
It's everyone's freedom for how they want to think, believe and feel, or what they want to do with their life, body and mind.
Be free.
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