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Saturday, November 9, 2024

The different minds think, reason, understand, behave, act, react, and desire differently

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, on how the different minds think, reason, understand, behave, act, react, and desire differently.

Different minds are functioning under different degrees of ignorance, conditioned by different ideas and beliefs, that lead to different understanding and non-understanding, that are influencing the different ways of thinking, reasoning, behavior, action, reaction, and desire/don't desire.

It has to come from the mind itself, to have the awareness towards what is going on in itself (the modification of the mind, or the states of mind, or the thought activities, or the thought process, or all kinds of perceived names and forms of inputs, knowledge, ideas, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, conditions, situations, affairs, experiences, abilities, disabilities, accomplishments, non-accomplishments, ties and connections, relationships, memories, feelings, emotions, disturbance, restlessness, suffering, and etc), while having the initiation and effort to investigate, to inquire, to understand, to learn, to know, to know Thyself, to know the truth of 'I', of what the mind thinks and believes and identifies as its permanent independent individual self-existence, but not really.

Most minds won't be thinking about all that, unless it starts to have doubt or curiosity, upon perceiving, experiencing, coming in contact with, or being hammered and humbled by certain experiences or names and forms that it perceives as 'painful suffering', that it doesn't like and doesn't desire, that it wants to avoid, escape from, or get rid of.

Minds that are enjoying, and being attached/proud towards their particular identities of certain heritage/background/origin/nationality/ethnicity/culture/belief/values/status/title/privilege, possessions, conditions, abilities, and achievements, will have no interest to inquire towards the truth of 'the mind perception of a selfless impermanent life existence', unless they are being hammered and humbled by selfless impermanent changes/experiences that they don't like and don't desire.

Minds that are being determined by, and will be worrying about their physical appearance/condition, social/financial status, abilities/disabilities, or achievements/non-achievements, and how others think, feel, judge, and acknowledge about them, where they put highest priority/attention/effort onto making sure that they are presentable/acceptable/respectable/agreeable/lovable/admirable/creditable by the world or the others, as well as minds that are enjoying what they think and believe as their deserving achievements and enjoyments after exerting attention and effort onto what they wanted to achieve, will have none or very little interest or initiation to be investigating or inquiring towards the selfless existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional assertive thinking faculty perceiving/experiencing a selfless impermanent life existence.

There's nothing wrong or bad about that. It's the freedom of all minds for what they think, know, understand, and desire, or not.

Minds that have intense initiation/interest to learn about themselves, to know and understand about ALL THESE that is going on in the modification of the mind, of everything that it is perceiving/experiencing, to know what is suffering and the cause of suffering, to know how to be free from suffering or the cause of suffering, to be free from doubts or ignorance, and to attain absolute freedom or liberation from all kinds of limitations, will have the essential determination and perseverance to be learning and practicing Dhamma/Dharma/yoga/buddhism, until they starts to realize/see/know the truth of everything, as it is.

Yoga and/or meditation was, has been, and is being hyped as something 'mystical', or 'spiritual', or 'unreachable'.

When the mind is focusing in the present moment now without wandering to the past memories (past experiences) or future imaginations/anticipations, that is concentration of keeping the mind in the present moment NOW, and if that concentration is being maintained/withheld for an extended period effortlessly and spontaneously, where there is absence of the idea of 'I', or devoid of egoistic attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, and expectation towards the selfless existence and function of the perceptive mind and the perceived names and forms (the selfless impermanent modification of mind), regardless of whether engaging in action or inaction, that's meditation. There's no going into meditation (meditating) or coming out of meditation (non-meditating). When the mind knows selflessness/non-attachment/non-grasping, devoid of the idea of 'I'/attachment/grasping (the cause of disturbance/suffering), that's yoga/buddhism. There is nothing mystical, or spiritual, or unreachable.

Even the attainment of self-realization, (not to say, something that appears to be what the mind thinks and believes as 'mystical'/'supernatural'/'magical'/'amazing') also doesn't and cannot change the truth of selflessness and impermanence, of all these selfless impermanent names and forms (living beings and non-living objects). It doesn't and cannot remove the suffering and the cause of suffering in the world of ignorance and egoism in the other selfless minds, of all kinds of ignorant ideas/desires/actions/reactions/behaviors and their consequences being generated in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

There were and are many skillful magicians, amazing stories tellers, intelligent knowledgeable scholars/teachers/scientists/mathematicians, enlightened compassionate beings, positive optimistic cheerleaders, impactful influencers, higher advanced engineering and technologies, and powerful leaders/law makers in the world, but none of these can remove/stop ignorance/egoism/impurities and the consequences of all that, that contribute to all kinds of unnecessary man-made damages/destructions/suffering in the world that doesn't belong to anyone.

The most powerful/wealthy/successful/respectable/admirable/intelligent/knowledgeable/beautiful/healthy/happy/kind person in the world also cannot escape/defy inevitable restless life maintenance, hunger, thirst, fatigue, decay, discomfort, weakness, injury, illness, aging, and death (disintegration).

When the mind is free from the idea of 'I', attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, and expectation, there is no disturbance or suffering arising in the modification of the mind, or there is peace, as it is, regardless of what the mind is perceiving/experiencing towards what is happening within the selfless physical body, or outside the physical body in the surrounding environment in the present moment NOW, of the selfless perception of agreeable or disagreeable names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, of the pleasant or unpleasant and desirable or undesirable selfless impermanent changes in the names and forms governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

It's all about the presence or absence of 'attachment'/'grasping' towards what is in the present moment NOW and towards the past memories/experiences and future imaginations/projections.

The mind that doesn't know 'non-attachment'/'non-grasping'/'detachment'/'letting go'/'desirelessness', that doesn't know selflessness (there is no 'I' existing), that wanders to the past memories and future imaginations, is not free, even when everything appeared to be desirable and agreeable in the present moment NOW.

The mind that knows 'non-attachment'/'non-grasping'/'detachment'/'letting go'/'desirelessness' in the present moment NOW, that knows selflessness, that is free from being determined by past memories and future imaginations, is free, even when everything appeared to be undesirable and disagreeable in the present moment NOW.

Still being over-whelmed/depressed/disturbed/hurt/angered/frustrated/disappointed/confused by all kinds of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in this world?

Inquire the truth of everything, realize selflessness/non-attachment/non-grasping, and be free.

The free mind can be performing many beneficial actions in the world, but not being determined by the actions and the fruit of actions.

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