It's the freedom of everyone whether they want to be free, or not

Freedom is the fundamental over-all physical, mental and emotional well-being or health, peace and happiness in all sentient living beings.

Not being free, is the greatest suffering of all sentient living beings.

Without freedom of existence, living, surviving, thinking, reasoning, understanding, learning, inquiring, movement, action (including inaction), expression, agreeing/disagreeing, working/resting, or merely the freedom of being oneself as it is, being existing momentarily in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, there's no peace, but only constant unrest of dissatisfaction and disharmony within and without.

Even though most minds want and appreciate freedom, however, there are certain minds don't want freedom, as well as, there are certain minds might want to have all kinds of freedom for themselves, but they don't want some others to have any freedom or certain kind of freedom. That's everyone's freedom of thinking and what they desire and don't desire, even if it's insanity, where the mind is suffering under the absence of awareness or conscience.

Apart from the inevitable 'non-freedom' or 'limitation' due to the limitation of selfless impermanent changes of the selfless impermanent existence and function of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body with the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking faculty, of being inter-dependent on many elements and energy to be existing and functioning and changing selflessly, all sentient living beings are not free, mostly it's because of the existence of certain man made 'restriction' on restricting many kinds of freedoms in the world that doesn't belong to anyone.

There's nothing wrong with the existence of certain non-harming but beneficial and reasonable man made rules and regulations for all and everyone to follow, that are essential for maintaining certain order in the common space being shared by many different sentient living beings, to avoid unnecessary accidents or selfish ignorant damaging effects, to be looking after the over-all well-being of all and everyone and the surrounding environment. Such as certain basic traffic rules or basic safety regulations on all kinds of food consumption and production, drinking water, air quality, sanitation, healthcare, medical treatment, work, building construction, factory production, electricity usage, transportation, and etc. However, there are many other unnecessary man made rules and regulations that made into 'laws' deriving from passionate egoistic ideas and desires under the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities, that are not necessarily promoting the over-all well being of all and everyone, but are indeed greatly impacting and harming the over-all well-being of freedom, peace and harmony in all and everyone, just for being existing and living in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone, where most minds are imperfect, and will never be perfect as it's the nature of all and everything for being imperfect.

Prosecuting and punishing anyone who is imperfect by nature, it's like prosecuting and punishing someone with some physical or mental defects or disabilities, for their defects or disabilities. It doesn't make sense, and it doesn't change the imperfection to become perfect.

It's the freedom of everyone whether they want to be free, or not.

And it's everyone's freedom for what they think, believe, understand, feel, desire and practice, or not.

However, for those who are interested in learning and practicing yoga and/or buddhism, it's about inquiring towards the truth of everything, including 'what is freedom', 'what is limitation', 'Why there is the perception or experience of not being free', 'what and why is the lack of freedom or the absence of freedom', 'what and why is the unnecessary restriction on many kinds of freedoms', 'what and why is the abuse of freedom', 'what and why is the abuse of the restriction on freedom', as well as all kinds of 'what', 'why' or 'how' towards all kinds of names and forms, ideas, activities or affairs that the mind comes in contact with, as the main purpose or the existence of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism in this world of selflessness and impermanence, is all about attaining liberation, or freedom, or independence, from what is causing the perception or experience of 'not being free', or 'suffering', or 'unhappiness', regardless of whether it's the inevitable 'limitation' of selfless impermanent existence, function and changes, or it's the many unnecessary man made 'restrictions' deriving from ignorance, egoism and impurities.

The greatest freedom, or liberation, or independence in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is the minds are being free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, void of selfishness and greed, possessiveness and dissatisfaction, anger and hatred, pride and arrogance, superiority and inferiority, separateness and discrimination, corruption and violence, oppression and invasion, bully and exploitation, petty-mindedness and fear, offensiveness and defensiveness, or unrest and disharmony, where there's no need of any man made rules or laws to be 'controlling', or 'regulating', or 'restricting' others to be and not to be thinking, believing, feeling, desiring, behaving, expressing, acting or reacting in certain way, but it's coming from everyone's own freewill or conscience out of correct understanding void of ignorance, that lead to freedom, peace and harmony in oneself, that contribute to less unrest and disharmony while more peace and harmony into the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone.

Such as, how can there be a man made 'law' to be enforcing everyone must 'vote' under the system of democracy that is all about 'respecting' the freedom or the rights in everyone, where those who don't want to get involve in the 'democratic voting system' due to great disappointment towards the imperfections that exist in the system of 'democracy voting system', would be 'prosecuted', 'criminalized', 'penalized' and 'punished' under such man made 'law'? How can there be restriction or prohibition towards the freedom of expression or the rights to protest against something that the mind disagreeing with or doesn't desire? How can there be man made 'punishment' towards what the minds want or don't want to think and believe? How can there be man made 'law' to be restricting or prohibiting someone being what or who they are, or living life in their own way in the world that doesn't belong to anyone, or to be 'enforcing' all and everyone must be performing certain 'action', or else, one would be 'prosecuted' and 'punished' if one doesn't desire to be performing certain 'action'?

The peaceful way to be free from all those unnecessary 'madness' that keep 'growing' in the world that doesn't belong to anyone, is out of one's freewill and self-effort, to free one's mind from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that have been contributing to and empowering all kinds of 'madness' in the world that doesn't belong to anyone.

It's not about 'controlling' or 'restricting' all others to be or not to be in certain way, without working on self-inquiry and self-realization to free one's mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, out of one's freewill and effort. None need to be controlling or restricting anyone else, if the minds are free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, deriving from one's freewill and effort to be free from all that.

That is the 'non-violence' way to promote peace and harmony in oneself and in the world, that the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about.

Most minds don't want and don't like 'violence'. Many minds still have certain degrees of awareness, sanity and conscience. It's never too late, to free one's mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, unless the mind has come to the stage of completely lost without any reasoning power to inquire the truth of anything.

In this present moment, the mind is free, if without passionate egoistic attachment, or identification, or desire of craving and aversion, towards any qualities of names and forms, if the mind is void of desire, possessiveness, selfishness, separateness, discrimination, disturbance, discontentment, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, offensiveness, defensiveness, pride, arrogance, superiority, inferiority, fear, anger, hatred, violence, and so on.

There will be greater chances of freedom, peace and harmony, if the world is free from possessiveness and greed, if none try to 'possess', 'control' and 'regulate' the world to be and not to be in certain the way that each and everyone desire and doesn't desire differently. How can there be freedom, peace and harmony when everyone tries to possess, conquer and restrict one another to be in power to 'possess', 'control' and 'regulate' the world to be the exact way that 'I' or 'we' desire?

It's not easy, but it's possible, if there's awareness, and if there's a will.

If this is not possible, let it be. It's everyone's freedom to be what and how they are.

Inquire the truth of everything.

It's all about liberation, freedom, or independence

The teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism is all about attaining liberation, freedom, or independence. They all are the same thing under different names and forms.

It's liberation from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

It's freedom from the idea of 'I' that generates the sense of separateness that gives rise to attachment, possessiveness and fear, or the corrupted thinking and limited understanding, or the disturbance and suffering deriving from being limited and conditioned by ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, of not knowing Thyself, or being ignorant towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence.

It's mental and emotional independence upon the annihilation of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that is highly important for peace and harmony in the minds, that is about not being influenced or conditioned by passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice, and hence, being undetermined or undisturbed by the presence and absence of all kinds of pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, and enjoyable or non-enjoyable experiences, relationships, interactions, affairs, conditions and situations, that also leads to less a mind generating unnecessary unrest and disharmony into the world of diversity.

Since it's all about liberation, freedom and independence, that's why there's no authority, authorization, judgment, or punishment on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, to be controlling anyone to be or not to be in certain way, but it's coming from everyone's own freewill and desire to be observing self-discipline, self-control, self-effort, self-purification and self-inquiry to be attaining self-realization, out of their own freewill and desire to be free from ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance, where the selfless minds be initiated, learn, practice, evolve, and realize, at their own cause.

There's no force, or threat, or temptation, or implanting fear into the minds to 'make' the mind to be learning and practicing yoga and/or buddhism.

It is not a belief, it's just the dhamma or the teachings and the practice, as it is, and hence, there's no believe or disbelieve, there's no believers, followers or worshipers, there's only students or practitioners. Upon self-realization towards selflessness and impermanence, there's no separation or distinction between the teachings, the teachers and the students, or the dhamma, the practice and the practitioners. It's all the selfless mind itself.

There's no blind-believing, blind-following, blind-practicing, or blind-propagating, it's about freewill and self-effort to be inquiring the truth of everything, including all the teachings and practices of yoga and/or buddhism that the mind comes in contact with, that are not necessarily dhamma as it is, as there might be misinterpretation, or being mixed with certain worldly passionate egoistic ideas, desires, belief and practice, under the influence of ignorance.

It doesn't matter if the minds don't have any interest at all towards the teachings and practice in the present moment.

It doesn't matter if the minds have some interest and effort towards learning and practicing the teachings and practice in the present moment, but then stop learning and practicing for any reason.

It doesn't matter if the minds are learning and practicing yoga and/or buddhism that is not necessarily yoga as it is, or buddhism as it is.

It doesn't matter if the minds are misunderstanding or misinterpreting towards the teachings and practice, or misusing the teachings and practice for certain selfish purposes, intentions or desires.

It all has to come from the mind's free will and self-effort whether to be interested, to learn, to practice, to evolve, and to realize, or not, at their own cause.

And more importantly, not only that all are impermanent, but all are also selfless.

The selfless mind that is not interested now, might be interested at another time. The selfless mind that has stopped practicing, might be resuming the practice again. The selfless mind that is misunderstanding, or misinterpreting, or misusing the teachings and practice under the influence of ignorance, might be free from the influence of ignorance at its own cause, and attains correct understanding towards the teachings and practice.

The dhamma, or the truth being what it is, can never be 'determined', 'disturbed', 'contaminated', 'changed', 'disrespected', 'offended', or 'hurt' by anyone or anything, under any selfless impermanent changes, conditions or situations, upon some selfless minds misinterpreting, misunderstanding, misusing, mistreating, criticizing or condemning the dhamma. The dhamma doesn't increase or decrease upon some selfless minds realizing the dhamma, or none realizing the dhamma.

There's no judgment, bad karma, sin, or punishment. There's only cause and effect, actions and consequences of actions.

There's no disciplinary authorities constantly watching and judging oneself, one's thinking, one's behavior, one's learning, one's practice, one's evolution all the time.

One is free being what it is and how it is.

One is free to be ignorant, or not. Suffering, or not. Be aware, or not, Be interested, or not. Learn, or not. Practice, or not. Realize, or not. Be happy, or not. Be peaceful, or not. Be free, or not.

One is also be responsible for one's ignorance and consequences of ignorance, one's desire and doesn't desire, one's actions and consequences of actions.

None can remove or annihilate ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness for another.

None can give liberation, freedom, or independence to another.

Only through the selfless mind, by itself, alone.

From freewill of wanting to be liberated, to be free and to be independent, that leads to liberation, freedom and independence.

Of course, there are also certain minds don't like, disagree with and don't desire liberation, freedom and independence, either it's about themselves or it's about others, or both. That's everyone's freedom of thinking, belief, values, practice and desire. There's neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad.

All are impermanent.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The mind is being offended by something that promotes world peace and harmony, unselfishness, non-discrimination and unconditional love?

There are minds being offended and angered by something that promotes world peace and harmony, unselfishness, non-discrimination and unconditional love among all and everyone under different names and forms in the world of many diversities. But why?

Why does the mind is being offended and angered by as well as strongly opposing something that promotes world peace and harmony, unselfishness, non-discrimination and unconditional love among all and everyone in the world of diversity?

And if, one's belief, values, practice, behavior, desire and vision is all about promoting world peace and harmony, unselfishness, non-discrimination and unconditional love, then how come there is so much offensiveness, anger and hatred in oneself towards something that is about world peace and harmony, unselfishness, non-discrimination and unconditional love, not to say, towards something that is the opposite of all that?

Unless the existing belief, values, practice, behavior, desire and vision in the mind, is about promoting unrest and disharmony, selfishness, discrimination and hatred, that is something different from and contradicting with the teachings and practice that promotes world peace and harmony, unselfishness, non-discrimination and unconditional love, or else, why does the mind is being offended and angered, and opposing towards the similar values, teachings, practice and behavior, just because it is under a different name and form, that is coming from and representing some other form of teachings or beliefs, that is not coming from or representing one's belief under a particular name and form?

Why does the mind constantly feel being offended, intimidated, belittled, disrespected, humiliated, threatened or hurt by something that promotes liberation, independence, freedom, wisdom, compassion, peace, harmony, unselfishness, contentment, non-greed, non-possessiveness, non-discrimination and unconditional loving kindness and acceptance among all kinds of diversities, not to say, something that is opposite of all that?

It's the freedom of the mind for its thinking, belief, values, practice, desire, behavior, action and reaction. There's neither right nor wrong. The mind just needs to know and understand what is going on in itself or why does itself behaving, acting and reacting in certain way.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The world just need to be free from ignorance and egoism

Enforcing further and more restriction or oppression on freedom of existence, freedom of being, freedom of living, freedom of moving, freedom of surviving, freedom of expression, freedom of thinking, freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of action, and etc, trying to control the world to be and not to be in certain way, doesn't stop the world of diversity being what it is.

It's the freedom of being free from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness in all the minds under many different names and forms that are occupying the world, that will lead to all kinds of freedom of existence, freedom of being, freedom of living, freedom of moving, freedom of surviving, freedom of expression, freedom of thinking, freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of action, and etc, that are highly important in all living beings to have a healthy living, healthy being, healthy thinking and healthy behavior, where all kinds of freedoms are free from the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, or being free from corrupted thinking and understanding, the idea of 'I', attachment, identification, desires of craving and aversion, possessiveness, separateness, discrimination, selfishness, fear, discontentment, greed, pride, arrogance, self-righteousness, offensiveness, defensiveness, anger, hatred, oppression, suppression, interference, invasion, violence, and etc, that will lead to more and more peace and harmony in the world of diversity, sharing a space that doesn't belong to anyone.

Neither by focusing on the restriction or the non-restriction of all kinds of freedom will lead to more peace and harmony in the world of diversity. It's about coming from the selfless mind itself, to be freeing the selfless modification of the mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, to have correct thinking and understanding, that leads to peace and harmony in oneself, that contributes less unrest and disharmony into the world of diversity.

No doubt that coming from certain minds respecting the freedom of all the other minds being what they are, there will be less amount of minds contributing unrest and disharmony into the world, however, it doesn't lead to more peace and harmony in the world as all the many other minds under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness don't know how to respect the freedom of all other minds being what they are, by restricting all kinds of freedoms in the world, that gives rise to more and more unrest and disharmony in many different individuals, that contributes to more and more unrest and disharmony into the world.

By introducing further and more restrictions on many things in the world, doesn't lead to more peace and harmony in the world.

Parents try to control their children. Leaders try to control the community. Teachers try to control the students. Organizations try to control their members.

Imagine if one's freedom of something is being taken away or being restricted, how unhappy and unhealthy that is, not to say, the freedom of many things in many individuals are being taken away or being restricted by some others.

It's about focusing and working on helping as many minds as possible to be free from the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that leads to respecting the freedom of all and everyone being what they are, as they are.

There will be less minds suffering from unnecessary mental health issues. There will be more peace and happiness in individuals that lead to less selfish destructive hurtful behaviors, actions and reactions in the world, that contributes to more peace and harmony in the world.

It's understandable that there are many minds that strongly think and believe that they need to be able to control all and everyone else to be and not to be in certain way according to their own desire and don't desire, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, while they themselves don't like and would be offended if their own freedom of something is unavailable due to certain physical or mental limitations, or it's being restricted by some others, that they would be offended by this teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism about respecting the freedom of all and everyone being what they are, as they are, where all and everyone wouldn't be behaving, acting and reacting in selfish damaging hurtful way, upon the presence of peace and harmony in oneself, upon being free to be what they are, as they are, upon the absence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

That's everyone's freedom for their thinking, belief, behavior, action and reaction.

Unless people are suffering from certain serious mental illness that they cannot control their own behavior, action and reaction at all, where they would cause random damaging effects into the surrounding unwittingly, while most people who still have certain degrees of sanity, however, they might be behaving, acting and reacting in certain damaging hurtful way, intentionally and wittingly, is due to they are under extreme disturbance, unhappiness, fear, desperation, frustration and irritation, as they are not being free to be who and what they are, in their personal life and in the community, constantly being restricted, intimidated, bullied and punished for being who and what they are, by some others who don't respect the freedom of others to be who and what they are, out of self-righteousness, pride, superiority, possessiveness and selfish desires.

If a mind truly loves some others, this mind will love and respect others being who and what they are, without possessiveness and expectation or control towards others to be or not to be in certain way according to one's desire. The world will be a much better place, if all minds understand this and have unconditional love towards all and everything in the world, without possessiveness and selfishness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

It has to come from the mind itself to be awakened from ignorance

None can remove the veil of ignorance for another.

None can make another to be awakened from ignorance.

The awakening from ignorance doesn't mean that the veil of ignorance is no longer existing in the mind, but it's merely the mind is being aware of and acknowledging the existence of ignorance in itself, that initiates the mind to make an effort for finding out more information or knowledge about how to be free from ignorance, that leads the mind onto the path of eradicating ignorance from the mind, through self-effort, self-independence, self-discipline, self-purification, self-inquiry and self-realization.

Those who have made the effort to come in contact with this blog or come in contact with the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism in some other forms, is deriving from their own awakening from ignorance, of being aware of the existence of ignorance in themselves, and it's their own effort of wanting to know Thyself, and to be free from ignorance.

All kinds of 'imperfect' teachings in certain names and forms, are merely for the mind to be reflecting upon, that stand as a reflective mirror for the mind to look into itself, to attain self-realization towards selflessness and impermanence.

It's neither easy nor difficult.

The keyword is - Never give up, never despair, keeps going until the mind is free. And even if the mind thinks that it is still not free by the end of life existence, and it's okay, remain equanimous, as even this is also selfless and impermanent. That alone, is liberation.

Inquire towards the truth of everything in accordance to logic and science, not according to what the mind believes or disbelieves, agrees or disagrees, likes or dislikes, desires or doesn't desire. Do not blind-believing, blind-following, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, blind-practicing, or blind-propagating, including all kinds of teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism coming from different minds from different backgrounds.

Anything that promotes and empowers ignorance, petty-mindedness, untruthfulness, selfishness, possessiveness, desires, fear, greed, envy, pride, superiority, discrimination, separateness, offensiveness, defensiveness, unrest, anger, hatred and violence in oneself and in the world of diversity, one must inquire the truth of it, and attain direct understanding towards why and how does it lead to the empowerment of all that.

Anything that is against ignorance, petty-mindedness, untruthfulness, selfishness, possessiveness, desires, fear, greed, envy, pride, superiority, discrimination, separateness, offensiveness, defensiveness, unrest, anger, hatred and violence in oneself and in the world of diversity, one must also inquire the truth of it, and attain direct understanding towards why and how does it lead to less ignorance, petty-mindedness, untruthfulness, selfishness, possessiveness, desires, fear, greed, envy, pride, superiority, discrimination, separateness, offensiveness, defensiveness, unrest, anger, hatred and violence in oneself and in the world of diversity.

Meanwhile, allowing the world being what it is, even if they are one's beloved family and friends. Full of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance. Let it be. Everyone is free to think, believe and practice what they want to think, believe and practice, or not. It's everyone's freedom and responsibility towards themselves.

It's pointless to be arguing or reasoning with the minds that are under the veil of ignorance, and it will only be causing unnecessary damages to oneself to fight against ignorance, just like continuously punching and kicking the concrete wall.

Similarly, those who are suffering from certain degrees of mental health issues need to have certain degrees of awareness and initiative coming from themselves to be reaching out or looking for help.

Be free.

Hypocrisy, untruthfulness, backbiting and backstabbing

This teachings is for those who are interested in learning and practicing yoga and/or buddhism, and to be looking after the mental health of oneself and others. Those who are not interested in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, or looking after the mental health of oneself and others, this is not for them.

No doubt that hypocrisy, untruthfulness, backbiting and backstabbing are very common and normal family, cultural and social values and practice that exist in many family ties, siblings, relationships, friendships, or in any kind of social connections, in order to keep those family ties, relationships, friendships and social connections to be continuously 'existing' and 'surviving', and to maintain certain degrees of so called 'peace and harmony' or 'bonding and cooperation' in all those human's family ties and social connections, however, those who truly want to practice yoga and/or buddhism, they need to abandon such common and normal values and practice, of what many minds think and believe as a 'normal', 'healthy', 'successful' and 'meaningful' way of life and conduct.

It's everyone's freedom for what and how they think, believe, practice, behave, act and react, or not. There's neither right nor wrong, and the world of human beings is very much being built on such hypocrisy and untruthfulness, or else all kinds of human ties and connections will not be able to sustain or survive, unless the minds are free from the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities, where all kinds of human ties and connections are not being built on hypocrisy and untruthfulness, that exist under the absence of hypocrisy, untruthfulness, backbiting and backstabbing.

It's understandable that it can be very hard and challenging for many people to not being hypocrite and untruthful at all, or to be completely straightforward and truthful in all kinds of ties and connections, while at the same time, they might not be free from dislikes, disagreements and offensiveness towards certain or many things, and hence, they would prefer to express their dislikes, disagreements and offensiveness behind people's back, thinking that it won't cause any damaging effects.

Some people would think and believe while telling themselves and others, "Don't be so naive. There's nothing wrong, and it's very good to practice hypocrisy and untruthfulness, if we want to survive in this society, and to maintain certain degrees of 'peace and harmony' among everyone, while getting the cooperation from some others in order to achieve what we want to achieve. If we have any unhappiness, disagreements and complaints about some others, we can express it behind people's back behind closed door. If we want to hurt or attack our enemy, we always do it quietly behind their back. That's the way to become highly successful in this world." That's people's freedom of thinking, belief, desire and behavior, however, it's the opposite of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

That's why the essential teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism emphasized on the observation of renunciation and dispassion, seclusion and solitude, straightforwardness and truthfulness, and the eradication of egoism and impurities of greed, discontentment, dissatisfaction, anger, hatred, jealousy, pride, arrogance, fear, offensiveness, defensiveness, violence, ill thinking and ill will, and etc.

The minds that are mentally and emotionally dependent would be disturbed and hurt by the hypocrisy, untruthfulness, backbiting and backstabbing coming from others, especially coming from their own beloved family members and friends.

The minds that are mentally and emotionally independent are not at all being disturbed or hurt by such ignorant impure behavior of anyone, including one's beloved family members and friends. Not that they are emotionless, but they are aware of how the minds behave, act and react under the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities. Neither will these minds be offended or intimidated by anything or anyone.

Those who are not interested in learning and practicing yoga and/or buddhism, who are not interested in looking after the mental health of oneself and others, they don't need to observe all these yoga and buddhism teachings and practice, and continuing their 'normal, healthy, successful and meaningful' way of life and conduct, as they are. Be happy.

Selfless impermanent changes is still what it is even after self-realization towards selflessness and impermanence

Before Goenkaji passed away, he was having knees problem for some time, and hence, he wasn't teaching as many of the vipassana meditation courses as what he used to be teaching until the presence of the knees problem, just like many other people with certain degrees of conscience or universal common sense would take some physical rest, refraining from performing certain physical activities, to be looking after the well-being of the physical body. Also, meditation practice to be keeping the mind focusing in the present moment being aware of the selfless impermanent changes without craving or aversion, is not only be limited to particular sitting posture.

However, there were some minds that were under the influence of ignorance and egoism, that had misunderstanding about self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and about transcending or going beyond selfless impermanent changes void of the desire of craving and aversion, they were being disappointed by the fact that Goenkaji, as a meditation and dhamma teacher, would still be suffering from certain physical decaying and aging process of weakness, limitation, injury, disability or illness, and were criticizing Goenkaji for not performing sitting meditation for many hours a day like all the participants of the vipassana meditation courses due to the knees problem, as they expect him and all the others who are the meditation and dhamma teachers, who have attained self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and have transcended or gone beyond selfless impermanent changes being free from craving and aversion, that they shouldn't be limited by any selfless impermanent changes of decaying, aging, pain, discomfort, injury, illness, weakness, limitation or disability.

They think, understand and expect that 'non-craving' and 'non-aversion' means, if one is under the hot sun for a prolonged period of time, one shouldn't move away from the sun even if the skin is getting seriously burnt, as one is practicing 'non-aversion'. Or, if one's hand comes in contact with hot burning object, one shouldn't move the hand away from the hot burning object, as that is 'craving' towards not getting painful injury.

That is the indication of deep ignorance. The practice of non-craving and non-aversion is nothing to do with such ignorant thinking and understanding.

Just like Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, all these dhamma teachers were delivering the dhamma as it is, showing all and everyone about the selfless impermanent physical body is still the same selfless and impermanent upon the attainment of self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, where there will be continuous selfless impermanent changes of decaying, aging, weakness, illness, injury, discomfort, or pain ceaselessly happening, and eventually, ceased functioning and decomposing. However, most minds that are under the veil of ignorance and egoism, would prefer and imagine that upon self-realization or enlightenment, the mind can control everything to be the way that it desires, where the physical body will become immortal, forever youthful and powerful without any selfless impermanent changes of decay, aging, weakness, discomfort, illness, injury, or limitation. Similarly, many minds would think, desire and expect that the realization of timelessness will make the life existence of the physical body and thinking mind to become immortal and will be continuously existing infinitely from now and onward, in the exact good condition of the present moment, without any further selfless impermanent changes of decay, aging or death.

The realization towards the truth of all and everything is selfless and impermanent doesn't change the truth being what it is.

Selfless impermanent changes is still what it is even after self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence. It doesn't mean that selfless impermanent changes ceased happening upon self-realization. The realization towards the truth of names and forms doesn't change the names and forms being what they are, being selfless and impermanent, however, the selfless mind will be free from suffering that derived from being ignorant towards the truth.

Transcending or going beyond selfless impermanent changes without the desire of craving and aversion, is about the selfless mind is able to remain equanimous, under any conditions and situations, not being determined or disturbed by the selfless impermanent changes that are happening ceaselessly in the selfless impermanent physical body and the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, as well as not being determined or disturbed by the mind perception of all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant or agreeable and disagreeable names and forms or experiences. It doesn't mean that one shouldn't perform any necessary action to be looking after the well-being of the body and mind, or one should be torturing or abusing the body and mind deliberately, or there won't be any physical and mental decaying, weakness, illness, injury, limitation and disability that can be limiting or restricting the body and mind in certain way, where one should be continuously performing all kinds of physical and mental activities as free as one desires, if one is practicing non-craving or non-aversion.

It's about the selfless mind is able to accept or respect the reality in the present moment now, as it is, that is not necessarily pleasant or agreeable, not being determined or disturbed by the selfless impermanent decaying or aging process, remain equanimous, and void of the disturbed suffering state of mind, even though there are some physical and mental discomfort, pain, weakness, illness, injury, disability or limitation arising and passing away, due to the decaying and aging process of the selfless impermanent physical body and the selfless impermanent modification of the mind.

It is not about forcing or challenging the body and mind to go beyond any limitation that is there in the present moment, but it is about living life as it is, performing actions that is within the selfless impermanent condition and ability of the body and mind that is available and possible in the present moment now.

When there is physical tiredness, weakness, illness or injury, the physical body needs to take rest from certain physical activities.

Similarly, when there is mental tiredness, weakness, illness or injury, the mind needs to take rest from certain mental activities.

And all are impermanent.

It's a very simple understanding.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Inquire towards everything under wisdom

If something is limited and conditional, under specific qualities of specific names and forms, that is the by-product of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that is the creation of the minds under the influence of all that, as well as empowering all that, then it is not real, it is not the truth.

If something is unlimited and unconditional, regardless of the different qualities of different names and forms, that doesn't empower ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, but it is eradicating ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, or the root cause of suffering, then it is real, it is the truth.

Any belief, values and practice that are limited and conditional, because they are the creation of the minds under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that doesn't eradicate all that, but it is encouraging and empowering all that, then it is not real, it is not the truth.

The idea of 'I', is limited and conditional, as it cannot and doesn't exist permanently and independently, because it is the by-product of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, as well as empowering all that at the same time, and hence, it is not real, it is not the truth.

All and everything are inevitably constantly changing impermanently and selflessly under the law of cause and effect, as they are, and hence, all and everything are selfless and impermanent, as well as, selflessness and impermanence and the law of cause and effect are real, it is the truth. While the names and forms of all and everything that are changing impermanently and selflessly, that cannot and don't exist permanently and independently, are not real, even though it's the truth of everything.

Anything that is trying to be interfering with or go against selflessness and impermanence and the law of cause and effect, to be attaining momentary relief from certain suffering, but doesn't eradicate the root cause of suffering, is deriving from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, as well as empowering all that, and hence, it is not real, it is not the truth.

All kinds of superstitious beliefs and practices are limited and conditional, because they are the products of the minds that are under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, while they don't eradicate ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, but empowering all that, and hence, it is not real, it is not the truth.

The minds that perform black magic, hypnotism, ritual or trance medium to be gratifying certain desires, as well as to be providing service to the minds that desire to be using the service of black magic, hypnotism, ritual or trance medium for gratifying certain desires, as well as the minds that desire to be using the service of black magic, hypnotism, ritual and trance medium for gratifying certain desires, it is very obvious that all these minds are not free from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, as there are suffering or desire or discontentment deriving from all that, that is why there's a need of all those practices. Since all these practices are the creations or products of the minds under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and under the presence of suffering, desire and discontentment deriving from all that, where not only that all these practices don't eradicate ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, but instead, they are empowering all that, and hence, all these are not real, they are not the truth.

It's understandable that, under the influence of ignorance and under the presence of intense suffering, desires and discontentment deriving from ignorance, the minds would create many beliefs, values and practices deriving from hopeful wild imaginations and anticipations that seemed to be so real to the minds, that would give momentary console or relief from the presence of intense suffering, desire and discontentment, that not only don't eradicate the root cause of suffering, but instead, are empowering the root cause of suffering.

If under the existence of such beliefs, values and practices, or just by performing such beliefs, values and practices that is so 'powerful', that claimed it can be eradicating or 'healing' all kinds of problems or physical, mental and emotional suffering in oneself and in others, magically and miraculously, then the world should already be free from all kinds of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, where there is no suffering, selfishness, possessiveness, greed, hatred, jealousy, vengeance, violence, discrimination, corruption, exploitation, separateness, oppression, bully, abuse, conflict, war, or killing among human beings, or even selfless impermanent changes of decay, illness, old age, and death, then it is the truth. But, it is not.

The teachings of yoga and buddhism doesn't claim to be 'healing' any kind of painful suffering, or removing all kinds of selfless impermanent changes or all kinds of consequences of actions in oneself, or in others, or in the world, governed by the law of cause and effect. It's not about changing the undesirable reality to be the way that the mind desires it to be. But it's about removing the root cause of suffering in oneself by oneself, and attaining self-realization to be free from all kinds of doubt, desire, discontentment and suffering deriving from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

Similarly, just by eating certain type of food, regardless of pure vegetarian or non-vegetarian food, or by performing certain 'good' action and not performing certain 'bad' action, or by thinking positively and not thinking negatively, if without self-inquiry, it doesn't free the mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and the suffering deriving from all that.

It is the freedom of all and everyone towards what they want and don't want to think, believe and practice.

Something that is unlimited and unconditional, such as the self-realization upon the annihilation of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, as well as the minds that had attained self-realization, they are void of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, not to say, to be encouraging or empowering ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness. Neither will they be associating with or performing any practices that are deriving from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that not only don't eradicate all that, but are encouraging and empowering all that.

The minds that are free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and hence, are free from the suffering, desire or discontentment deriving from all that, they don't need such limited and conditional beliefs, values and practices to be gratifying certain desires, or to be attaining certain momentary console or relief from suffering, not to say, to be associating with and performing such beliefs, values and practices, to be encouraging and empowering ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

Perform the similar inquiry towards everything, where anything that is deriving from and empowering the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, it is not the truth. While anything that is thinning out and eradicating the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, is the truth of suffering, the cause of suffering, the path towards the end of suffering, and the end of suffering, that leads to neither suffering nor the end of suffering, because the root cause of suffering is eradicated or absent. It's not about this is the only truth, not to say, everyone must believe that this is the truth. It's also nothing magical or mystical.

Do not blind-believing, blind-following, or blind-practicing anything, including all the teachings of yoga and buddhism that the mind comes in contact with, including all that is here, but inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct realization.

Inquire towards common human's behavior pattern that generates unnecessary disturbance unto oneself and others

"I am talking to you. Why are you not responding? Why don't you say something or ask other people how are they? This is so wrong and disrespectful. It's very unhealthy if you don't go out to meet people and interact with people. Normal people would care for one another by talking to each other, and have healthy communication and interaction with other human beings. You need to learn how to behave properly. You need to response to people who are talking to you, to have a healthy communication and interaction with one another."

This is a very common trait in many people of different diversities in the world of ignorance and egoism.

That is what egoism of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment and expectation is about.

Yoga practice is about freeing the mind from being conditioned by such passionate egoistic mind behavior pattern under the influence of certain passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice.

There is nothing wrong with certain worldly minded passionate people who love and enjoy entertaining one another, by having social communication and interaction all the time, or else they will feel bored, unloved, lonely, left out and meaningless. Not only that they have expectation towards all and everyone should have 'normal' behavior of having communication and interaction with one another, but they also expect other people to be communicating and interacting with one another in certain way that they think and believe as 'good', 'right', 'positive', 'appropriateness', or 'meaningfulness', while causing unnecessary disturbance in themselves and others upon others are not thinking, behaving, acting and reacting in the same way like themselves. This mind behavior pattern can be reflected in many other kinds of human's behavior under the influence of ignorance and egoism.

There is also nothing wrong with certain people who do not want to entertain certain people or anyone, or do not want to pay attention and waste energy onto certain things that don't interest them.

Being kind and compassionate towards others selflessly and desirelessly, doesn't have to be under the presence of certain social communication or interaction that is limited by language or literacy. One doesn't need to know or speak the same language to understand what the person is saying or experiencing, to be aware of and understand that this person is in some kind of painful suffering, to be kind and compassionate towards all and everyone who are struggling and drowning in some kind of painful suffering, under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness. One doesn't need to know how to read and write in certain language in order to have correct understanding and self-control of not generating any hurtful damaging behaviors, actions and reactions unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment, to be friendly towards all and everyone, to be free from selfishness, greed, discrimination, separateness, possessiveness, unhappiness, loneliness, meaninglessness, worry, fear, jealousy, pride, arrogance, guilt, regret, offensiveness, defensiveness, anger and hatred, and so on.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Why mental and emotional independence is highly important for mental health

There's nothing wrong with many people would think and believe that mental and emotional dependence in human beings is a genetic inheritance as well as part of the basic instinct that comes along in all human beings since the beginning of conception in the mother's womb. Many people would think and believe that it is abnormal and unhealthy, or even madness, for anyone to be mentally and emotionally independent. That's their freedom of thinking and understanding.

Mental and emotional dependence is conditional. Something that is conditional, it can be modified and changed, or be reversed, to become mental and emotional independence.

We all might have come into the world of human beings with the genetic inheritance and basic instinct of certain degrees of mental and emotional dependence, and it's vary in different people even since very young age, but it is also very obvious that the growing up environment and condition, of how the parents, care takers, and everyone and everything that the child come in contact with, are deeply influencing or conditioning the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual thinking emotional mind to be in certain way, to think, believe, judge, understand, feel, desire, behave, act and react in certain way, where most people are growing up being encouraged, trained and empowered to be having intense mental and emotional dependence towards the parents, care takers, siblings, relatives, friends, leaders, teachers, employers, 'superior entity', belief and values, as well as towards the surrounding community under different identities, of particular ethnicity, culture, spirituality, religion, nationality, association, organization, or even, political party.

Mental and emotional dependency is a very common values and practice among the many different passionate egoistic thinking and belief in the world.

Out of survival instinct, attachment, identification, fear and possessiveness, many minds think and believe that mental and emotional independence is something terribly bad and wrong, and hence, they themselves dislike and disagree with the idea of developing mental and emotional independence, and they don't like their children, their family and friends, or the members of their specific community identity, to be mentally and emotionally independent, as for them, it means that, they can no longer have the 'power' to be influencing or controlling all and everyone to be and not to be in certain way that they desire it to be, the way that they think and believe how it should be, that would be benefiting them and their certain selfish desire in certain way.

If mental and emotional dependence can be influenced and conditioned in certain way, to be encouraged, trained and empowered to become stronger, then of course, all that can be reversed.

All kinds of mental and emotional related problem and crisis, such as issues with restlessness, dissatisfaction, discontentment, greed, confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, pride, arrogance, shame, guilt, regret, grief, painful sorrow, superiority, inferiority, self-harm, harm others, destructive and hurtful behavior, bully, intimidation, hostility, violence, offensiveness, defensiveness, hurts, mental breakdown, over-whelming emotion, boredom, loneliness, meaninglessness, jealousy, anger and hatred, and etc, are not only deriving from ignorance and egoism, but especially are strongly related to the empowered mental and emotional dependency in the minds, where the mind unwittingly generates clinging, craving and longing towards receiving attention, love, support, companionship, encouragement, motivation, agreement, liking, acknowledgement, recognition, glorification, approval, acceptance, praise and compliment from oneself and others, as well as have aversion towards the absence or non-existence of all these that the mind is constantly craving and longing for, and towards the impermanent changes or the experiences, relationships, interactions, conditions and situations that are not the way that the mind likes, agrees with, and desires.

Even though the state of mind or the state of emotion, is mostly under the influence of hormonal changes and energy levels on top of being determined or influenced by the mind perception of names and forms or experiences, however, the mind can overcome all those influences upon attaining certain degrees of mental and emotional independence. That is liberation.

Very often when the minds are being rebellious and behave in the way that is meant to be disturbing and hurting their parents, their spouse, their lover, their teachers, their leaders, the society, the surrounding environment, or all and everyone and everything that they feel dissatisfied and angry with, deliberately and intentionally, it is because they are not free, as they are always under certain control or restriction of not being able to be themselves, simply the way that they would like to be, to do and say what they would like to do and say, to think what they would like to think, to believe or disbelieve in certain things, to practice or don't practice certain things, to appreciate or don't appreciate certain things, to express or don't express certain things, or merely to just be free, being what they are, as they are, instead of being a hypocrite under certain self-identity and group identity to think, believe, feel, behave, express, desire, act and react in certain way that is according to how all and everyone desire and expect them to be.

People who are struggling with mental health issues, they just need to let go of that hypocrisy that is something very normal and in common among the many different diverse communities in the world, that they themselves might not even aware of that it is 'something' existing in them, and that, it is causing them not being free, that leads to many other unnecessary mental and emotional issues, that gives rise to many unnecessary behavior problems in oneself and into the relationships and interactions with all the others under the 'unfree' and 'dissatisfied' state of mind. That's why people think and believe that they need to unwind or getaway for a few days, or few weeks, or few months, or even, for a few years, which makes them feel so much better about themselves and life existence, even though not many people understand exactly why, or what is the cause of the disturbed state of mind.

That certain degrees of relief from the existing disturbed dissatisfied state of mind coming from being unwind or getaway from 'life', or 'duty and responsibility', or 'family', or 'friends', or 'relationship', or 'work', or 'social network and interaction', or 'social medias', or 'spiritual and religious community', or 'national and political affairs and news', and so on, for certain period of time, is also impermanent, if without knowing what is the cause of the disturbed dissatisfied state of mind, that leads to the disturbing behavior in oneself, constantly hurting oneself and others, either wittingly or unwittingly.

That is because they are able to be free to be what they are, no need to be a hypocrite all the time dealing with many different people under different personal and group identities, during those times when they are being with themselves, or with some others that don't know them personally in life.

People are afraid of letting go hypocrisy, because most of their relationships with all and everyone are built on hypocrisy, and all these 'fragile' relationships built on hypocrisy might be broken or cannot survive under the truth of not being a hypocrite that pleases all and everyone in certain way.

The minds that understand, the minds that are mentally and emotionally independent, they have no fear of being truthful as they are, being free as they are, that they don't need to be a hypocrite or liar to be pleasing anyone that need to be pleased by others under hypocrisy and untruthfulness, who don't like truthfulness that they strongly disagree with and don't desire, that would be offended and broken by truthfulness.

Relationships that built on hypocrisy and untruthfulness don't last long, as there are so much dissatisfaction and tension in such relationships naturally due to the presence of hypocrisy and untruthfulness, and the extreme effort of trying to uphold such hypocrisy and untruthfulness, so that the 'fragile' relationships won't be broken or shattered.

Some people might mistaken having high self-esteem being proud and arrogant as being mentally and emotionally independent. It's definitely not, and if fact, it's a form of mental and emotional dependency, that's why there is the presence of self-esteem of being proud and arrogant coming from attachment and identification towards the existence and possession of certain qualities of names and forms that they like, agree with and desire.

Some people might also mistaken being a bully to be intimidating others as being mentally and emotionally independent. It's not at all, and in fact, it's also a form of mental and emotional dependency, as the mind needs to feel better about itself by bullying and intimidating others.

Mental and emotional independence is about the mind doesn't need to depend on the existence or possession of anyone or anything, of agreeable and desirable ties, connection, relationship, companionship, experience, interaction and activity, of specific belief, values and practice, of love, support, attention, acknowledgement, recognition, approval, agreement, liking, praise and compliment from others, of any qualities of names and forms to be what it is, and to feel good, positive, happy and meaningful, or not. The mental and emotional independent mind is not being influenced or determined by the presence and absence of all kinds of influences or conditions. This mind is able to be peaceful and compassionate under any unforeseen circumstances, or challenging conditions and situations.

The minds that are mentally and emotionally dependent would feel being intimidated or offended by anyone or anything, especially upon the presence of the mind that is mentally and emotionally independent, even when that mind has no intention to be intimidating or offending anyone, but merely being what it is, being free and independent.

Freedom is upmost important. It is equal to peace and harmony in oneself, however, not many people know exactly what is real freedom, and how to attain the ultimate freedom, of the liberation from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and the suffering deriving from all that.

That is why the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism are existing here for the minds, to be reversing the mind behavior pattern under the influence of all those worldly passionate egoistic influences and conditions since conception, and even more so, during early childhood and adolescence, young adulthood and later adulthood, and even after entering middle age and old age, where many minds are continuously being influenced and conditioned by the many inputs and ideas coming from everyone and everywhere, either wittingly or unwittingly.

Certain degrees of mental and emotional independence is highly important for the mind to be able to renounce the worldly passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values, practice, ideas, affairs, family ties and connections, relationships, interactions and activities, to be observing dispassion, silence, seclusion and solitude, to be performing self-inquiry towards the truth of everything, and towards what is the 'I', that the thinking in the mind that thinks and believes and identifies as itself, or a permanent independent individual self-existence, holding a self-image under certain way of living, thinking, belief, values and practice, physical appearance, mental and emotional traits, physical and mental ability and disability, different types of background, association, accomplishment and status, and specific personality and characteristic, that comes with many different personal and group identities under all kinds of qualities and different names and forms at the same time or in different timing.

The mind will attain real freedom that comes under correct understanding and self-control, be free from all kinds of suffering deriving from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, upon knowing Thyself.

The minds that know Thyself, that are mentally and emotionally independent, they are void of the sense of meaninglessness or loneliness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Being undisturbed or unhurt by the ignorance and ignorant behavior of others

Upon knowing Thyself, of knowing what is going on in the selfless mind, being undisturbed or unhurt by the presence of unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable experiences in the present moment and the flashback memories of the past unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable experiences, as well as being compassionate and understanding towards the presence of ignorance and ignorant behavior, it doesn't mean that one should be justifying and empowering the ignorance and ignorant behavior that are existing in one's life, in one's family ties or relationships and interactions with some others, or in the world. It also doesn't mean that one should become like them or behaving like them.

Inquire towards the many thinking, beliefs, ideas and sayings in the world that are justifying and empowering the ignorance and ignorant behavior in oneself, or in others.

"If someone is throwing a stone at you, you shouldn't shield yourself or move away."

"If someone is hurting you, you should keep silent, shouldn't retaliate, shouldn't move away, and should encourage them to hurt you more."

"Someone hits you on one side of the face, you should tell them to hit you on the other side as well."

"You deserve all these hurtful behavior and ill treatment from others, because it's your bad karma or sin, and you should be thankful and be grateful for that, because it's reducing your bad karma or sin."

"I should treat you with the same hurtful behavior that you had treated me."

"Everyone should be unattached, letting go and move on, and should not be disturbed or hurt by any kinds of hurtful behavior or ill treatment, and so, it doesn't matter if there are continuous and even more ignorance and hurtful behavior or ill treatment among one another in one's life and in the world."

"Family should stay together no matter what happens, even if there is presence of abusive behavior and ill treatment. Family should never stop loving and supporting and 'protecting' each other, even if everyone is continuously hurting one another, because we all are imperfect human beings. One is selfish and guilty, or it is very wrong and not good, if one abandons the family that is being hurtful and abusive."

That is pure ignorance.

If the house is on fire, and the fire is out of control couldn't be extinguished by all means, there shouldn't be any hesitation to leave the house immediately. There shouldn't be any hesitation such as whether to leave the house, or not, or there's strong attachment or intense love and affection towards the house, or even, the idea of one should let oneself be burnt down together with the beloved house, to show how much one loves the house, til death do us part.

If someone strongly thinks and believes that someone in the family or in the relationship is hurting oneself or is trying to hurt oneself all the time, then there shouldn't be any hesitation to just leave that family or relationship.

If there's some hesitation, or fear, or reluctance, or confusion occur in the mind, and hence, it doesn't want to leave the family or reluctant to let go the relationship that oneself strongly thinks and believes 'for sure' that oneself is a victim of the hurtful or abusive behavior of someone in the family or in the relationship, while keep thinking and feeling that oneself is constantly being hurt or abused by someone physically, mentally and emotionally, expecting that maybe one day that person will stop hurting or abusing oneself, but then, one also keeps blaming someone for causing disturbance or hurt in oneself, and keeps complaining to some others about something wrong and hurtful is happening to oneself, for years and years, and still oneself doesn't want to leave that 'hurtful' and 'abusive' situation for 'certain reason' of 'hesitation', or 'fear', or 'reluctance', or 'confusion'. Then know that, that is pure ignorance in oneself.

Upon being aware of the finger is accidentally being cut by the knife, one would either retract the hand immediately or let go the knife immediately, or both, without any hesitation, so that the cut doesn't go any further or deeper. If oneself is aware of the cut, with or without the sensation of pain, while continuing to keep cutting into the finger further with the knife, then that is something very 'wrong' with oneself. And it's more 'wrong', if one blames the knife for causing serious damage or injury to one's finger, while continuously cutting into one's finger with the knife repeatedly for many times, for years and years, and continuously blaming the knife for causing ongoing injury to one's finger. Mere madness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Increasing one's knowledge about many things is good, but self-inquiry is highly important

It's very good that the mind is being interested in certain subjects in the world, and is being fascinated by coming in contact with all kinds of knowledge about many things that oneself never knew before, and is being motivated to be coming in contact with more and more knowledge towards certain subjects that oneself is interested in, or also towards some other subjects that oneself doesn't know much, but is being curious and motivated to learn more and more different types of knowledge about many things in this world and the universe.

However, it is highly important to be performing self-inquiry towards the truth of everything that oneself comes in contact with, of all kinds of knowledge or information about many different things, as well as even more important than inquiring towards the truth of all those worldly knowledge and information about all and everything in the world and the universe, is about self-inquiry towards what is going on in one's mind, or the modification of the mind, or what is the 'I' in the thinking mind that the mind thinks and believes and identifies as itself, or what is the cause of certain physical, mental and emotional disturbance or suffering, and inquiring towards the truth of the selfless impermanent worldly mortal life existence, about what is selflessness and impermanence, by observing, inquiring and knowing all kinds of selfless impermanent changes that are happening ceaselessly throughout the physical body and the modification of the mind, or the thought process, or the thought activities, in this present moment, to know Thyself.

The minds that know Thyself, they are not being determined, or disturbed, or hurt by anything, or any unpleasant, disagreeable or undesirable physical, mental or emotional experiences, or more precisely, what is going on in the restless modification of the mind, of all kinds of agreeable and disagreeable names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, consisting what is being perceived through the senses in the present moment, as well as some flashback memories of the past perception of names and forms or experiences, and the wild imaginations and anticipations towards something that doesn't exist in this present moment, and hence, these minds are undisturbed and are resting in unconditional peace, transcending the selfless impermanent changes within the selfless impermanent physical body and modification of the mind, regardless of all kinds of selfless impermanent changes being what they are, as they are, being pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable.

Having been coming in contact with and accumulating many different types of fascinating knowledge and information about many different things in the world and the universe, if without knowing Thyself, then the mind doesn't know what is going on in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, and is being determined and disturbed by the mind perception of certain kinds of unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable names and forms or experiences that the mind doesn't like and doesn't want, or not being able to come in contact with certain kinds of pleasant, agreeable and desirable names and forms or experiences that the mind likes and wants, and hence, it has no peace, or it is being in a disturbed suffering state of mind.

The mind that doesn't know Thyself, it will be clinging towards something that it likes and wants, that is here in the present moment, while constantly craving and longing towards something that it likes and wants, but it is not here in the present moment, or it is missing something that it likes and wants, that was there in the past, but it is not here in the present moment, or it has aversion towards something that it doesn't like and doesn't want, but is here in the present moment, or was there in the past but it is not here in the present moment, regardless of whether it's some impermanent changes in the physical body and modification of the mind, or it's the presence and absence of some pleasant or unpleasant experiences or impermanent changes that it likes and doesn't like, agrees and doesn't agree with, and desires and doesn't desire.

For example, if the mind wants to be able to experience or do something that is fascinating and interesting to itself, but somehow, for some reason, it couldn't experience or do what it wants to experience or do in the present moment, and it is being determined and disturbed by that, and being irritated, frustrated, disappointed, dissatisfied, unhappy or angry. Or, if the process of experiencing or doing something that it likes and wants, in the present moment, is being disturbed by something, and the mind is being determined and disturbed by that, and being irritated, frustrated, disappointed, dissatisfied, unhappy or angry.

For many minds, that is nothing wrong, and it's very normal behavior of human beings or all sentient beings, but that thinking and understanding is merely due to the minds are being ignorant towards what is going on in the mind, or being ignorant towards the truth of all kinds of physical, mental or emotional disturbance and suffering, or not knowing Thyself, even if the minds are highly knowledgeable and being fascinated by many different types of knowledge and information about many things in the world and the universe.

The accumulation of knowledge and information about all and everything, is very good, however, it doesn't free the mind from ignorance and the suffering that derived from ignorance, if without knowing Thyself.

Such as, the minds that are interested in psychology and the behavior of human beings and other life forms, and might have been studying and accumulating many knowledge and information about such subject, however, if without knowing Thyself, these minds might still be determined and disturbed by certain kinds of life experiences or selfless impermanent changes that are not the way that they like, agree with or desire, in their life, or in their family ties, social connections, relationships and interactions with some others, or being disturbed by the undesirable selfless impermanent changes in the physical body, or being disturbed by what is happening in the surrounding environment or in the world that are unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable to the mind.

The mind that knows Thyself, there are no past 'traumatic', or 'hurtful', or 'unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable' experiences that can be continuously disturbing or hurting the mind in the present moment.

The mind that doesn't know Thyself, there are many past 'traumatic', or 'hurtful', or 'unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable' experiences that are continuously disturbing and hurting the mind in the present moment.

The mind that knows Thyself, it knows what is ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance, it doesn't suffer for the ignorance and ignorant behavior of others. It will try to stay away from the ignorant minds as much as possible, that has the power of causing random destruction, just like any natural disasters.

The mind that doesn't know Thyself, it doesn't know what is ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance, it 'allows' itself to be suffering for the ignorance and ignorant behavior of others, and then, blaming others' ignorant behavior for its suffering. It also doesn't know how to stay away from the ignorant minds, but constantly mingling and interacting with the ignorant minds, even if it has been being hurt by the ignorance and ignorant behavior of others many times, and it doesn't like that, and it feels disturbed and hurt by that.

Under the disturbed suffering state of mind without correct understanding, the mind might be constantly hurting itself and others, either wittingly or unwittingly, while thinking and believing that it's absolutely normal behavior, action and reaction of all human beings or all kinds of sentient beings. Such minds are expecting understanding, sympathy and empathy from others towards its disturbed suffering state of mind and it's hurtful behavior, action and reaction out of the disturbed suffering state of mind, where it might blame itself, or blame others, or blame the experiences or names and forms as the cause of its disturbed suffering state of mind and its hurtful behavior, action and reaction, instead of trying to inquire and understand towards what is going on in its own modification of the mind, towards why it feels in certain way towards what it is experiencing, and towards why it behaves, acts and reacts in such hurtful way to itself and others.

Don't just be fascinated by and interested in certain or many kinds of knowledge and information about certain or many things in the world and the universe, and accumulating and increasing all kinds of knowledge and information in the mind, but inquiring the truth of everything through self-inquiry, to know the truth of names and forms, about selflessness and impermanence, especially knowing Thyself.

One will have peace instantly, and stops hurting oneself and others, either wittingly or unwittingly.

If the mind knows Thyself, then even though it is not being fascinated by certain or many things, and it doesn't have much interest towards certain or many things in the world and the universe, or not having been accumulating many kinds of knowledge and information about many things, but it has peace, and it doesn't hurt itself or others, either wittingly or unwittingly, under any kind of life experiences, circumstances, conditions and situations, being free from the idea of 'I', attachment, identification, craving, aversion, judgment, desire or expectation, and being free from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

Similarly in yoga and buddhism. One doesn't even need to read any books on yoga and buddhism written by anyone, to be observing the selfless impermanent changes in the selfless physical body and in the modification of the selfless mind, to realize what is selflessness and impermanence, and be free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, void of the disturbed suffering state of mind. Not to say, by reading many books on yoga and buddhism, but doesn't perform inquiry towards all those knowledge and information about the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism written by someone, that are not necessarily dhamma as it is. One must not blind-believing and blind-following any information coming from anyone else, not even directly from Buddha or Guru itself, but to perform self-inquiry to attain self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, to know Thyself, by looking into one's selfless modification of the mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.

If the selfless silent witness is not selfless but having an immortal individual infinite existence

It would be the most or highest terrible painful suffering of the total amount of not only the accumulation of all kinds of countless painful suffering that all and everyone are having in this present selfless impermanent life existence now, but also the accumulation of all kinds of countless painful suffering that all life forms had had in the countless life existence in the past, ever since the beginning of selfless impermanent mortal existence of countless life forms or names and forms in this world of ignorance and consequences of ignorance, if the selfless silent witness is not selfless, but is having an immortal individual existence that is ever existing in here and everywhere since infinite ancient time even long before the beginning of the universe, that is limitless beyond time, space and causation, while witnessing all those suffering infinitely under an immortal individual existence, of 'I' am existing and witnessing all these painful suffering of many others, without an end.

Similarly, why would anyone, or more precisely, any thinking mind, if under certain degrees of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, would desire to be 'something' immortal that exists forever, either to attain immortality, or to regain immortality, if that is what all and everyone originally is, according to the many existing cultural, spiritual or religious beliefs in the world of limited and conditional selfless impermanent names and forms, where all are existing impermanently here, while waiting to regain their immortality of an 'immortal individual infinite existence' that has been existing infinitely, where all 'immortal individual infinite existence' have been infinitely witnessing all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms arising, changing, and passing away, of all kinds of countless physical, mental and emotional suffering of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in the world, due to countless 'immortal individual infinite existence' have been being born and reborn ceaselessly into the world of impermanence and mortality to be suffering all kinds of limited conditional selfless impermanent changes due to an 'ignorant downfall' or 'sin'?

If there will be 'ignorant downfall' in all these countless 'immortal individual infinite existence' to be born into 'impermanent mortal existence' to be suffering from ceaseless impermanent births and deaths governed by the inexhaustible 'karma' from then on, that means, they are not unconditional, and there are still limitation, in such 'immortal individual infinite existence'.

And if, all and everyone and everything exist infinitely in the world, where there's no selfless impermanent changes of decay, aging and disintegration in all and everything, while many more 'immortal individual infinite existence' that is unborn, but merely appearing in the world from no where, and then would just keep existing infinitely, just like all the other 'immortal individual infinite existence' that were unborn, but somehow they just appear in the universe coming from no where, if so, imagine what a 'chaos' and 'congested' world and universe it can be, where there are countless immortal individual infinite existence that keep appearing as they are coming from no where, without a cause and unborn, where all and everyone manifest all and everything under their boundless desire limitlessly.

That's why the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all kinds of names and forms, where all and everything is subject to be arising, changing, and passing away under the nature's law of cause and effect, that is limited and conditional, that has a beginning and an ending, is no doubt a form of inevitable suffering for many selfless minds under the veil of ignorance and egoism, but at the same time it is absolutely liberating.

That is also why the teachings of yoga and buddhism is about attaining silence and desirelessness, and not about attaining or regaining immortality of having an 'infinite individual existence' without impermanent changes, without an end, to be having unlimited superpower of manifesting all and everything exactly the way that how all the different countless 'I' or 'infinite individual existence' would like it to be, to be accomplishing all their boundless individual desires limitlessly, to be enjoying unlimited pleasurable desirable enjoyments. If that is possible, if that is happening, imagine what the universe will be like, complete madness.

And the selfless impure restless modification of the many selfless minds that are lost in ignorance and egoism in this world, in this present moment, are not any different from this madness, occupying by boundless desires and wild imaginations, on top of materializing all their thoughts, desires, actions and reactions into the surrounding environment through the selfless organs of actions and speech of the selfless physical body, generating all kinds of damaging effects and disturbance unto oneself and all and everything to the maximum.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.

The selfless mind constantly changing in different forms in different realms

All kinds of impermanent realms are manifesting within this particular limited and conditional selfless impermanent life existence.

By observing the many different living beings in the surrounding environment, one can see that sometimes certain animals have better conscience and behavior than many human beings. While the mood and the behavior of many human beings are constantly changing. Sometimes being very calmed and kind, while sometimes being very agitated and unkind, and so on.

That is because many human minds are under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, where their mood and behavior are very much being determined and influenced by the states of their mind, where the selfless minds are constantly changing in different forms under going different states of mind or realms, within this particular limited and conditional selfless impermanent mortal life existence.

One can see that different people are under going different states or realms within this selfless impermanent life existence, where everyone is living in their own respective reality that is influenced by the state or realm that they are in at the present moment, where all are selfless and impermanent.

Just look around at all and everyone whom we know and don't know, including ourselves.

In this world, not somewhere else other than this world, some people are in the realm of heaven, some are in the realm of Asura, some are in the realm of humanism, some are in the realm of animalism, some are in the realm of hungry ghost, and some are in the realm of hell, in this present moment, in this limited and conditional mortal worldly life existence of selfless impermanent names and forms. It is not upon the death of this selfless impermanent mortal physical body, or upon the end of this selfless impermanent mortal worldly life existence of what all and everyone is having now, then only the transition into different realms will be happening.

Sometimes, the selfless mind is behaving like a responsible thoughtful human being with common sense, because it is in the state or realm of humanism.

Sometimes, the selfless mind is behaving like wild animals being over-powered by survival instinct and lustful desire, because it is in the state or realm of animalism.

Sometimes, the selfless mind is very joyful and comfortable, because it is in the state or realm of heaven.

Sometimes, the selfless mind is very disturbed and confused under certain physical, mental or emotional suffering, because it is in the state or realm of hell.

Sometimes, the selfless mind is very selfish, discontented, dissatisfied, greedy, full of desire, craving and longing towards certain physical, or mental, or emotional fulfillment, satisfaction, comfort and enjoyment, because it is in the state or realm of hungry ghost.

Sometimes, the selfless mind is very irritated, frustrated, annoyed, offensive, defensive, conflicting, jealous, violent, vengeful, prideful, arrogant, angry and hating, because it is in the state or realm of Asura.

Animals are also under going the many states or realms within this selfless impermanent life existence. Sometimes, certain animals are in better condition or state/realm than many human beings, sometimes in joyfulness and calmness, sometimes in agitation and aggressiveness, sometimes in fear and painful suffering, and sometimes being less selfish or more kind than certain human beings. The selfless impermanent changes in the selfless human beings and in the selfless animals are the same, growth, discomfort, hunger, thirst, decay, weakness, illness, aging, and disintegration.

All realms are limited and conditional, selfless and impermanent. All realms are the by-product of ignorance, including the realm of heaven that is about pleasurable enjoyment, joyfulness and comfort, as even that is also limited and conditional, selfless and impermanent. The selfless mind that knows, it doesn't crave and cling towards any particular realms. The selfless mind that knows, it renounces all and everything that is limited and conditional, selfless and impermanent.

That's why the teachings of yoga and buddhism -

Upon the silence or the annihilation of the selfless modification of the selfless mind, time doesn't exist, the world doesn't exist, the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths doesn't exist, the realms don't exist, and suffering doesn't exist. All are selfless and impermanent. Even this will pass away.

The only infinite unlimited and unconditional existence, is the selfless universal consciousness, that exists permanently and independently, without a beginning or an ending, untouched by all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms arising, changing and passing away.

All these are nothing to do with what people are and are not, eat or don't eat, do or don't do, think or don't think, believe or don't believe, have or don't have, practice or don't practice. It's just what all and everything are. Selfless and impermanent.

Purifying the mind. Disciplining the mind. Quieting the mind. Inquire. Meditate. Realize.

That is also why the teachings of yoga and buddhism emphasized on the observation of renunciation, dispassion, desirelessness, seclusion, solitude, silence, self-independence, self-discipline, self-control, self-effort, non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, non-worshiping, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-expectation, self-inquiry, mind purification, meditation, self-realization, living in the present moment, and know Thyself.

One will stop hurting oneself and others.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Ceaseless selfless births and deaths in different realms within the modification of the selfless mind

Under the veil of ignorance as well as under the influence of certain worldly egoistic belief, the mind understood that the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths in different realms is about an individual immortal existence that is permanent, independent and unchanging was being born into the impermanent mortal world of names and forms residing in an impermanent mortal physical body to be under going impermanent worldly life existence that is subject to all kinds of physical, mental and emotional painful suffering, due to an 'ignorant downfall' that generates the 'initial karma seed' that had pushed off the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of countless different life existence, transitioning in different forms, interchanging in different realms, according to the past and present accumulated inexhaustible 'karma' deriving from every single thought, desire, action and reaction that generate ceaseless cause that leads to ceaseless effect, and hence, the endless suffering of the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths that will never come to an end.

While in every single life existence, where all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable or enjoyable and non-enjoyable life experiences, conditions, situations, ties and connections and relationships are all governed by the past and present accumulated 'karma' deriving from good and evil deeds, and upon death of one particular life existence, it will then be reborn or reincarnated into another impermanent mortal life existence transitioning under different forms in the respective realms in accordance to the past accumulated 'karma'. And that, the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of countless different impermanent mortal life existence transitioning in different forms, and interchanging in different realms, will keeps on 'rolling' until the complete clearance or exhaustion of 'karma', where the 'individual immortal existence' can finally exit the wheel of births and deaths in the impermanent mortal world of names and forms, to regain its immortality, its original form.

Inquire towards the teachings of yoga and buddhism about the beginning and the end of the wheel of ceaseless selfless births and deaths of countless different impermanent mortal selfless existence transitioning in countless different forms, interchanging in the different realms, that is happening within the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind.

There arise the first initial thought or the idea of 'I' born out of ignorance in the selfless modification of the selfless impermanent function of the mind being part of the selfless impermanent existence and function of the selfless impermanent mortal physical body.

That initial thought of the idea of 'I', leads to the rise of grasping/attachment, identification, and the desire of craving and aversion, that followed by all kinds of actions and reactions and impurities deriving out of egoism under the veil of ignorance, which then gives rise to the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of ceaseless thought after thought, or the continuous restless stream of thoughts, attachments, identifications, desires, actions, reactions and impurities, of countless idea of 'I', attachment, identification, desire, action, reaction and impurity under different selfless impermanent forms or qualities, that gives rise to all kinds of different states of minds, or realms, where the selfless modification of the selfless mind continuously transitioning or interchanging in between different states or different realms, of inevitable restlessness within this selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind, where all these selfless impermanent names and forms keep on arising, changing, and passing way in the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind, governed by the selfless intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect.

The entire wheel of ceaseless selfless births and deaths of transitioning in countless different names and forms, and interchanging in different realms, is all happening right here, right NOW, in this selfless mind, in this selfless impermanent mortal physical body, in this selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence.

Never give up. Never despair.

Just by understanding intellectually towards the teachings without direct realization towards all these, doesn't free the mind from all kinds of madness and suffering, due to the presence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

Keep purifying, keep disciplining, and keep quieting the selfless impermanent impure restless modification of the selfless mind.

Keep inquiring and attaining self-realization towards all these, to know Thyself, and be free from all kinds madness and unnecessary suffering that is not anywhere else but only in this selfless mind, due to the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

All these will passed away. However, before that happens, the selfless mind can be liberated from ignorance and its by-products and the suffering deriving from all that. Or else, the mind keeps hurting itself and all and everything, because it doesn't know and doesn't understand what is going on in itself.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Ceaseless births and deaths in this selfless impermanent physical body and modification of the mind

For many yoga and buddhism practitioners especially coming from certain cultural background, the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths is about the entire life existence as one single 'birth and death', and 'ceaseless births and deaths' is about there is 'an immortal individual existence', that is existing permanently and independently without any limited conditional physical, mental or emotional suffering originally, but then, it has been under going ceaseless countless different births and deaths of different impermanent mortal life existence transitioning in different forms, due to certain 'ignorant downfall' that had initiated the first 'karma seed' that given rise to an initial birth into the ceaseless cycle of impermanent mortal life existence of a limited and conditional impermanent mortal physical body and modification of the mind that is subject to the inevitable suffering of selfless impermanence changes, of physical, mental and emotional suffering, especially under the presence of the veil of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restless modification of the mind, that give rise to countless inexhaustible 'karma' that leads to ongoing ceaseless rebirths or reincarnations following the initial birth of having an impermanent mortal life existence of the limited and conditional body and mind that basically generating boundless 'karma' just for being what they are, performing all kinds of actions under survival instinct, that pushed off the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of different impermanent mortal life existence in different forms accordingly to the type of accumulated 'karma' that will never come to an end.

Inquire towards such understanding or belief.

Looking at the continuously rising population of all kinds of living beings in the world, not only limited to human beings, there must be many different permanent independent unchanging 'immortal individual existence' that have been under going many 'rebirths' or 'reincarnations' in ceaseless countless different life existence in different forms since the very beginning of all kinds of life forms in the world. The rise in the population of all impermanent mortal living beings in the world is very much the same total amount of the forever existing 'individual immortal existence' that are somehow 'carelessly' or 'ignorantly' falling into the trap of the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths, to be born into the limited conditional impermanent mortal life existence of limited and conditional body and mind, because of the initial 'karma seed', if according to such understanding or belief, where each impermanent mortal life existence that is existing in the limited conditional world of selfless impermanent names and forms, is because of the 'ignorant downfall' of each 'immortal individual existence' initiated the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths to be born into countless impermanent existence in different forms.

Under such understanding or belief, there is a thinking and belief in the mind now, that thinks and believes that, itself is or has a permanent independent unchanging ancient 'immortal individual existence' that itself is ignorant about, that has been existing infinitely even before being born into the first initial life existence in a particular form, that has been under going countless rounds of births and deaths or reincarnations in countless different life existence in different forms, and hence, give rise to the suffering of restlessness due to the endless rounds and rounds of rebirths or reincarnations. However, under the veil of ignorance, it is somehow being ignorant towards who it is originally, and it couldn't remember all the different births and deaths in the past that it has been under going, because 'most probably' it was being fed with a special 'tea' for wiping off the memory of the entire life existence before being reborn into another life form accordingly.

During the same timing in each impermanent mortal life existence in certain form, there were and are many other different permanent independent unchanging 'individual immortal existence' are being born for the first time, or have been reborn in many different impermanent mortal life existence in particular form under their own respective 'initial karma seed' or 'accumulated karma' from previous many life existence, and some of them have certain ties and connections with one another, such as parents and their children, brothers and sisters, friends or enemies, couples that joined together forming a family with their own children and grand children, and maybe some great grand children, before the death of any particular impermanent mortal life existence, to be rebirth into another impermanent mortal life existence under certain form, again and again, according to one's ongoing accumulated 'karma', where all these living beings that have certain ties and connections with one another also will be continuously under going ceaseless rounds of births and deaths or reincarnations in countless different impermanent mortal life existence in different forms, upon death.

Meanwhile, the children, the grand children and the great grand children of the earlier impermanent mortal life existence were also had been reproducing many other individual impermanent mortal life existence before their own death, to be reborn into another life existence. If so, it means that, there have been many 'individual immortal existence' that have been keep being born into impermanent mortal life existence in certain form in the world in different timing, either for the first time, waiting to be 'recycling' into ceaseless different impermanent mortal life existence in certain form, while some of them have been 'recycling' in many different impermanent mortal life existence already, maybe being reborn or reincarnated into the same family lineage, or into other many different family lineages, or into some other life forms other than human beings.

If so, it means that, some of the earlier group of 'individual immortal existence' that were having certain ties and connections among one another, having the identity of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, grand children, friends, enemies or spouses, from the same period of life existence, have been reborn into the new impermanent mortal life existence in another timing, where the previous identity of the father and the mother in the past, might be reborn becoming the great grand children of their own children in their previous life existence, or maybe becoming siblings to one another, or becoming parent and child to one another, or being reborn into another family lineage and became the spouse of one of their own great great grand children. They were the great great grand parents in previous life, as well as they are the great great grand children of themselves, in the present life now. Where all kinds of ties and connections are all mixed up in the many different life existence in different forms, in different timing.

If so, what are the meaning of all these ties and connections in different life existence? Who is father, mother, brother, sister, grand child, great grand child, friend, lover, spouse, enemy, and so on? If the original individual immortal existence of all and everyone are something permanent, independent and unchanging that exists forever, they are timeless, attributeless, nameless, formless, bodyless, mindless, birthless and deathless, being unlimited and unconditional, then how come there is ignorance in them that is why they have to be under going so much suffering being trapped in ceaseless impermanent mortal births and deaths?

If they are the permanent independent unchanging 'individual immortal existence', then they are distinct from the limited conditional existence and function of the mind. They are not the perceptive selfless thinking mind that is impermanent and dependent on many elements and energy to be existing and functioning. If they are the owner of the mind, or even if, they are the thinking mind itself, then they should be able to have total control over the mind or themselves of how they want it to be, but then how come they are completely powerless, as they have no control over the selfless impermanent changes in the physical body and in the selfless modification of the mind to only be in certain way that they desire, but give rise to all kinds of inevitable suffering due to selfless impermanent changes that is not in the control of 'I', where this 'I' is being ignorant towards itself, or not knowing who 'I' am or where 'I' came from, originally, or why 'I' am here suffering all these selfless impermanent changes, being limited and conditioned by time, space and causation.

Under such understanding or belief, that permanent independent unchanging 'individual immortal existence' that is being trapped in the loop of ceaseless births and deaths of having the impermanent mortal physical body and modification of the mind that is not in its control, is looking forward to be exiting the wheel of restless births and deaths that is subject to inevitable suffering of decay, illness, injury, weakness, discomfort, aging, and death, that leads to another birth and death, again and again, endlessly.

Under such understanding or belief, the 'individual immortal existence' needs to know or remember its original permanent independent unchanging 'individual immortal existence' before the first initial birth being born into an impermanent mortal life existence in certain form, in the world of mortality, where all kinds of different impermanent mortal identities in the countless different births and deaths of different life forms, are not who it is.

If so, what are all kinds of ties and connections, of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, friends, enemies, lovers, spouses, and so on, in the many different births and deaths of different impermanent mortal life existence?

Under such understanding or belief, suffering will only come to an end upon the exit from the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths upon the complete clearance of past accumulated boundless 'karma' that seems to be an 'impossible' task no matter how, regardless of short lived or long-lived, or what is the cause of death, even if they 'think and believe' that they 'sort of' remember or know who they are, originally, but the wheel of births and deaths will still keep going, because of ceaseless 'karma' were being keep generated upon the rise of every single thoughts, actions and speech that cannot be avoided while having a limited conditional selfless impermanent physical body and modification of the mind under the basic survival instinct to be surviving.

And hence, many people would rather believe in certain belief about there is a superior entity governing all and everything, where it is about they are the 'individual immortal spiritual existence' that came from the superior entity, residing in the impermanent mortal physical body to be experiencing a worldly life existence mainly to repent, because of certain 'sin', and then they will be judged accordingly by the superior entity upon the death of this impermanent mortal physical body, either going back to the 'home' of the superior entity, where there is only desirable enjoyment and bliss, or be sent to a place for under going painful punishment, or be sent to a waiting 'hall' under specific reason for specific duration, if there's no other options, or maybe the superior entity needs some time to consider about what to do with them.

There's neither right nor wrong with all kinds of different thinking, belief, understanding, values and practice in the world of ignorance and egoism, that might be comforting for certain minds, even if it's only a momentary relief from certain painful suffering. More importantly, is about non-blind believing, non-blind-following, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, while purifying, disciplining and quieting the mind, to perform self-inquiry inquiring towards the truth of what is 'I', and towards the truth of all kinds of perceived names and forms, of what all and everything are, of selflessness and impermanence.

Meanwhile, inquire towards the teachings of yoga and buddhism about the selfless universal consciousness throughout the limitless universe that is permanent, independent, unlimited, unconditional, nameless, formless, attributeless, changeless, timeless, birthless, deathless, beginningless and endless, where all and everything arising, changing, resting, and passing away upon the selfless universal consciousness, inter-dependent on different elements and energy to be existing, changing and ceased existing, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect. While all kinds of impermanent existence of different names and forms are selfless and impermanent, where there is not a permanent independent unchanging identity of an 'individual immortal existence' in all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms, regardless of sentient or non-sentient living beings or objects. Whatever the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I', either 'I' am mortal, or 'I' am immortal, is still within the impure modification of the selfless mind under the veil of ignorance.

If the selfless mind performs self-inquiry inquiring towards the truth of this limited conditional selfless impermanent physical body and the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, under the purified intellect, profound concentration and quiet modification of the mind, it will 'see' and know that, there are ceaseless countless births and deaths of the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes governed by the selfless nature's law of cause and effect existing in this selfless impermanent limited conditional physical body and modification of the mind, and that, there is no existence of any particular permanent independent unchanging 'individual immortal existence' that is, or has been under going all these ceaseless births and deaths of selfless impermanent changes in this selfless impermanent life existence of the limited conditional selfless physical body and modification of the selfless mind in the present moment now, and hence, there's no 'I' that needs to be exiting the wheel of restless births and deaths, that has a beginning and will follow by an end, where all kinds of perceived selfless impermanent names and forms, thoughts, sensations, feelings, emotions, and so on, ceaselessly arising, changing, resting, and passing away upon the changeless, timeless, attributeless, nameless, formless, birthless and deathless selfless universal consciousness in NOW, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, while being untouched or unaffected by all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing and passing away, as they are.

Suffering exists in the selfless mind that is functioning under the presence of the idea of 'I', under the presence of grasping or attachment, under the presence of the boundless desires of craving and aversion, under the presence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, being bound by the impermanent states of mind, or the restless transitions between different realms, in the present moment NOW.

Suffering doesn't exist in the selfless mind that is void of the idea of 'I', void of grasping or attachment, void of the desires of craving and aversion, void of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, transcending all kinds of realms, or the impermanent states of the mind.

Even the most painful and stubborn form of inevitable suffering is also selfless and impermanent, arise under a cause, it will change, and it will be passing away. Because the names and forms that are suffering from certain physical/mental/emotional discomfort, or suffering, or hurt, or damage, or injury, or illness, are all selfless and impermanent.

Selflessness and impermanence is science, it's not a belief. It is what all and everything are. Selflessness and impermanence is no doubt a form of suffering, because of the restless selfless impermanent changes, however, it is also absolutely liberating, because of all these are selfless and impermanent.

The ignorance in yoga and buddhism towards the inquiry of "who am I?", is not about being ignorant towards who am 'I' originally that has an individual immortal existence or identity that is ever existing. But, it's about being ignorant towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all kinds of names and forms, and thus suffering arise, restlessness arise, due to the presence of an idea of 'I' occupying the mind attaching towards and being determined by the selfless impermanent qualities of names and forms and the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes, while the selfless modification of the selfless mind is ceaselessly interchanging between different selfless impermanent states of mind, or restlessly transitioning in between different realms, in the present moment NOW.

All realms arising, changing, and passing away in the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind.

There's no 'I' under going ceaseless births and deaths in different realms under the absence of the idea of 'I'.

There are countless idea of 'I' arising and passing away under going ceaseless births and deaths in different realms under the presence of the idea of 'I'.

All are happening within this selfless impermanent modification of the mind, in the present moment NOW.

Kind and peaceful entity is the selfless mind. Discontented, ambitious, greedy, possessive, selfish, endless physical, mental and emotional hunger, thirst, longing and craving hungry ghost is the selfless mind. Animal instinct entity is the selfless mind. Human instinct entity is the selfless mind. Angry, hating, conflicting, violent, vengeful, prideful and jealous entity is the selfless mind. Disturbed, confused, sorrowful and painful suffering entity is the selfless mind. Drowning in all kinds of realms is the selfless mind. Transcending all kinds of realms is also the selfless mind.

All sprung from the mind, and will dissolve in the mind.

Inquire the truth of everything, and attain direct realization towards selflessness and impermanence.

Upon the direct self-realization towards selflessness and impermanence, the selfless desireless mind will be living in the present moment, void of fear and worry, resting in unconditional peace, while appreciating this selfless impermanent life existence to be performing selfless actions that might or might not be promoting more peace and harmony in the world of ignorance and egoism, and let it be.