No doubt that the genetic inheritance factor, the nutritional factor, and the surrounding environment of all kinds of influences from everyone and everything that the mind comes in contact with, during the conception of the forming of a selfless physical body, before birth, and after birth, the childhood growing up environment under certain parenting method, and family, social, cultural, spiritual, religious, national, political or commercial belief, ideas, values, practice and behavior influences, of all kinds of inputs, educations, trainings, activities and experiences since early childhood, are conditioning and influencing the selfless physical condition (including the selfless function of the brains, or the hardware of the intellectual emotional thinking faculty that is conditioning and influencing certain mentality, personality and behavior even before birth) and the selfless states of the mind to be in certain way, that is conditioning how the selfless mind thinks, feels, reasons, judges, understands, desires, behaves, acts and reacts in certain way.
But then, since it is all about limited conditions and influences that are subject to selfless impermanent changes, where the mind and its modification is being conditioned and influenced by certain genetic inheritance and environmental conditions and influences to be in certain way, that means, certain environmental conditions and influences can be changed, which can be helpful for the mind to develop correct understanding, while some other genetic inheritance conditions that is difficult or impossible to be changed, the selfless mind can transcend or go beyond such 'permanent' yet impermanent conditions, if there's a strong enough will, under the presence of correct understanding. All kinds of seemingly permanent damages are also impermanent, as the names and forms that suffer from any kind of permanent damages, are all selfless and impermanent.
The degrees of will power in a mind is very much being reflected in the degrees of self-awareness, self-discipline, self-control, self-independence, or self-management of the mind.
The weaker is the will power in the mind, the weaker is the self-awareness, self-discipline, self-control, self-independence, or self-management in the mind, and vice versa.
Certain minds that have very weak will power, their thinking, behavior, actions and reactions are very much being influenced by certain existing conditions and influences, a.k.a. the selfless impermanent different energy fields that are existing and changing according to the many existing conditions and influences, unwittingly. As if without any self-awareness, these minds are unaware of the states of their mind or themselves, are thinking, behaving, acting and reacting in certain way, under the influence of certain existing conditions and influences, regardless of whether high or low intelligence, highly knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, sane or insane.
The minds that have no awareness, or not enough awareness, to be aware of all that, none can do anything about it, not to say, to be discussing, debate or argue about anything, as that is what they are being conditioned to think and strongly believe in, except coming from themselves, starting to be developing the awareness as well as the initiation to inquire and understand towards what is going on in itself.
Even if certain minds have certain degrees of awareness and understanding towards their states of mind, or their thinking, behavior, actions and reactions are being conditioned and influenced by the existing conditions and influences to be in certain way, they insist that it can't be changed. That is the indication of the veil of ignorance and egoism.
That's why the selfless will power that is being reflected in self-awareness, self-control, self-discipline, or self-management is neither good nor bad. Depending on the presence and absence of ignorance, egoism and impurities, or the presence of different degrees of ignorance, egoism and impurities in the mind, on top of under certain degrees of selfless will power, self-awareness, self-control, self-discipline and self-management, some minds are thinking and behaving in the way that is destructive to themselves and others, while some other minds are thinking and behaving in the way that is constructive to themselves and others.
The presence of different degrees of ignorance in the mind is conditioning and influencing the different degrees of selfishness and unselfishness or different priority towards the different things in the selfless impermanent life existence of the selfless impermanent body and mind. There is certain selfishness towards certain things while there is certain unselfishness towards some other things in most minds.
The selfless mind cannot control or avoid the selfless impermanent changes governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, such as decay, old age, weakness, and death or disintegration, and it cannot control all kinds of names and forms that it perceives through the senses being what they are, selfless and impermanent, even though selfless impermanent changes can be modified, influenced and manipulated in certain way up to certain extend. No matter how much effort is being put into the maintenance of the good condition of the physical body and the function of the thinking faculty under certain will power, it doesn't stop the body and mind from passing away, or decaying, ceased functioning, and disintegrating.
Such as the selfless mind comes with the selfless basic instinct of selfless will power that exists regardless of under the presence or absence of the idea of 'I', that can be strengthened, to direct the impermanent changes of the selfless modification of the selfless mind that is under the veil of ignorance towards certain direction that initiates the annihilation of ignorance.
Under certain effort to be strengthening the awareness, correct understanding and will power in the mind during the process of annihilating the veil of ignorance from the mind, the mind can have the free will to choose how it wants to react towards everything that it perceives through the senses, of whatever is being reflected in the mind, or whatever is going on in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, under the presence of correct understanding and enhanced selfless will power.
That's why certain minds are being determined, conditioned and influenced by the selfless impermanent modification of the mind that is being conditioned and influenced by certain conditions and influences, while certain minds are not being determined, conditioned or influenced by all that, transcending or going beyond the selfless existence and function of the selfless modification of the mind.
No matter what kind of conditions and influences that have been conditioning and influencing the body and mind in certain way, the mind can transcend or go beyond all that, if there's a will. Transcending or going beyond the existing conditions and influences, doesn't mean making or controlling all kinds of existing conditions and influences to change into something else, or to disappear.
Certain minds have been being conditioned and influenced by certain family, cultural, spiritual, religious, national, political or commercial belief, values and practice, to think, behave, act and react in certain way according to those belief, values and practice, but still, they can renounce and transcend all that, if there's a will, even if such conditions and influences are still existing in the mind, but the thinking, behavior, actions and reactions are no longer being determined by such conditions and influences.
That is what the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism is about, to free the mind from being conditioned and influenced by certain conditions and influences that are not necessarily beneficial to all and everyone.
That is why the importance of the observation of renunciation and dispassion, seclusion, solitude and silence, openness, non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, self-independence, self-discipline, self-control, self-effort, self-inquiry and self-realization.
Such as, the mind used to be being conditioned and influenced in certain way to be believing in certain belief, values and practice, but after performing self-inquiry towards those belief, values and practice, one would stop believing in such belief, values and practice that is not necessarily true or beneficial to all and everyone. That's why the importance of inquiring towards the truth of everything via self-effort and self-inquiry to attain self-realization towards the truth of everything.
That's also why many passionate egoistic minds that want to control all and everyone to be in certain way under certain belief, values and practice, they have intense dislike, disagreement, fear and offensiveness towards self-inquiry or the investigation towards the truth of everything, as their belief, values and practice are not necessarily all true or beneficial towards all and everyone. If they know for sure, that their particular belief, values and practice are all true and beneficial to all and everyone, there wouldn't be dislike, disagreement, fear or offensiveness towards the mind inquiring towards the truth of all those belief, values and practice. How can something that is 'real' be contaminated, hurt or damaged by anything? Something that can be contaminated, hurt or damaged by something, it is not real.
If someone truly believes in the existence of an almighty 'God' that represents unconditional love and wisdom, wouldn't have dislike, disagreement, fear and offensiveness towards any doubt, question, inquiry or investigation towards the truth of the existence of that almighty 'God' or its teachings and belief that represents the truth of everything and unconditional love and wisdom. The almighty 'God' that represents the truth of everything and unconditional love and wisdom won't be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended or disrespected by such doubt, question, inquiry or investigation.
How can the teachings or belief, of an almighty all loving and all wise 'God', as well as the almighty 'God' itself, be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended or disrespected by anything? The "God" and the teachings or beliefs that would be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended and disrespected by certain doubt, question, inquiry or investigation, is something else. If the all loving and all wise almighty 'God' exits, 'God' doesn't want anyone to be fearful towards 'God'. It's the ignorant minds themselves are being fearful towards 'God', as well as want other minds to be fearful towards 'God' under certain intention.
The mind can have the will power to be non-attaching and non-associating towards the selfless impermanent modifications or states of the mind, not being determined or disturbed by the selfless names and forms arising, changing and passing away in the mind, or in itself, allowing the names and forms being what they are, as they are, selfless and impermanent, without the need of controlling or changing all kinds of names and forms to be changing into something else or to be in certain way, or to make them disappear, but allowing them to change and disappear at their own cause and pace.
Similarly, in the process of the annihilation of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness. The mind is performing all kinds of practices that will initiate and support the weakening and eradication process of the veil of ignorance and its by-products, but the veil of ignorance and its by-products takes its own cause and pace to be eradicated from the mind.
That is what non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment and non-expectation, or intentionless actions powered by selfless compassion during the entire process or journey towards the annihilation of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness is about.
Performing all kinds of necessary actions while renouncing the actions and the fruit of actions, allowing the fruit of actions being what it is.
There's no frustration, or disappointment, or despair.
Inquire the truth of everything. The truth won't be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended or disrespected.
In the end, it's the freedom of the mind itself for what it wants to think, believe, understand, feel, desire, behave, act and react, as well as it's its own responsibility towards the consequences of all that.
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