The highly importance of solitude and seclusion or aloneness, under one's self-initiative, freewill, and desire

"Why the observation of solitude and seclusion or aloneness is highly important?"

That is because, during that few precious moments of being in the space of solitude, seclusion, or aloneness, under the absence of any other minds or beings, or the entire world, without physical/mental/emotional communication and interaction with any other minds (devoid of family/parents/siblings/relatives/friends/partner/children/communities/colleague/employer/employee/authority/rules and regulations/cultural and spiritual influences/worldly social ethical influences), one can be completely relaxed, opened, free, honest, and truthful, being what oneself is, allowing the selfless impermanent thoughts, feelings, and emotions being what they are, as they are, ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, under the absence of association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, under the absence of threats or punishments, devoid of unnecessary physical/mental/emotional tension, fear, limitation, restriction, dishonesty, untruthfulness, hypocrisy, pretentiousness, superiority or inferiority, pride or shame, good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, appropriateness or inappropriateness, meaningfulness or meaninglessness, selfishness or unselfishness, should or shouldn't, offensiveness or defensiveness, and etc.

That is highly essential for the selfless conscious and unconscious evolution to be evolving towards constructive evolution, where the selfless thinking and acting mind can have a few moments of tension-free, or judgment-free, or expectation-free, or undisturbed, or quiet, or peaceful state of mind, to attain direct self realization towards knowing Thyself, of knowing the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in itself, in its selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function/modification/state of the mind, and in all kinds of names and forms and qualities, and hence, be free from ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, and the consequences of all that, of all kinds of painful mental and/or emotional disturbance or suffering, where there is absence of mental and/or physical activities/behaviors/actions/reactions that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

However, all that has to be initiated or happening under one's own self-initiative, out of one's own conscious freewill/desire/choice, and not by being forced/controlled/restricted/oppressed/punished/abandoned/outcast/discriminated by some others to be in a space of solitude, seclusion, or aloneness (confinement/imprisonment by forced), unwittingly and reluctantly, that go against one's conscious freewill/desire/choice, which only will agitate the mind even more violently, empowering impurities and restlessness, a.k.a. empowering the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

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Even though there is no other minds or beings and affairs that involved some others in that space of aloneness that will allow the mind to be free, to just be what it is, to think or don't think, to feel or don't feel, to do what it desires to do and not doing anything that it doesn't desire to do, devoid of comparison, judgment, expectation, control, interference, oppression, restriction, or punishment coming from some others impose unto oneself, the mind will still be unwittingly and continuously generating unnecessary tension.

Even though, in the space of aloneness, the mind doesn't need to please anyone or prove to anyone about anything, because there is none other but oneself. But then the mind thinks, "I don't need to please anyone or prove to anyone about anything, but I can, and I need to please myself and prove to myself that I can do this and that, I can achieve this and that, and I can be this or that."

Similarly, there is no other minds or beings and affairs that involved some others in that space of aloneness, for the mind to generate likes or dislikes, agreements or disagreements, or desires of craving or aversion towards other minds or beings and affairs that involved some others. But then the mind thinks, "There is no other minds or beings and affairs involved some others for me to generate likes or dislikes, agreements or disagreements, and desires or don't desires, but I can like or dislike, agree or disagree with, and desire or don't desire towards myself, my mind, my body, and the surrounding environment (that is without anyone else but myself) being in certain way or not in certain way."

Even though there is no presence of anyone else and there is not any disagreeable undesirable unpleasant affairs or disturbing hurtful behaviors of others in the surrounding environment of the space of aloneness that appeared to be the reason for the mind to think and believe and feel, "It is because of you all and all your behaviors and all the affairs that are bad, wrong, disturbing, and hurtful, that's why I am disturbed, unhappy, dissatisfied, upset, angry, restless, hurt, and suffering."

Then the mind thinks, "Even though there is nothing happening and there is no one here now that is bad, wrong, disturbing, and hurtful, that will make me feel disturbed, unhappy, dissatisfied, upset, angry, restless, hurt, or suffering, but how come I am still in a disturbed, unhappy, dissatisfied, upset, angry, restless, hurt, and suffering state of mind, when I remember and think about all those past experiences and the images of some others that had made me feel disturbed, unhappy, dissatisfied, upset, angry, restless, hurt, and suffering in the last few seconds/minutes/hours, or yesterday, or last week, or last month, or last year, or many years ago?"

That will initiate the mind to inquire and understand about what is going on in itself, or in the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind.

It is not the others, or the happenings, or the experiences, in the present moment or in the past, that are making the mind feel disturbed, unhappy, dissatisfied, upset, angry, restless, hurt, or suffering, but it is how the mind reacts in this present moment now towards all and everything that it perceives/experiences in the present moment, as well as how it reacts in this present moment now towards what it remembers and thinks about what it has been perceiving/experiencing, or what it perceived/experienced, that it doesn't like, that it doesn't agree with, that it doesn't desire, that it recognized as something bad and wrong, unpleasant and hurtful, or disturbing and undeserving.

The self realization deriving from performing self inquiry to be inquiring towards what is going on in the mind by the mind itself, will allow the mind to take full responsibility towards all its thinking, feelings, emotions, desires, behaviors, actions, and reactions, and the consequences of all that.

If I do this, this is the consequences. Maybe pleasant and constructive. Maybe unpleasant and destructive.

If I don't do this, this is the consequences. Maybe pleasant and constructive. Maybe unpleasant and destructive.

This is something painful, harmful, and destructive, that I don't, and I won't inflict unto myself and/or others and the surrounding environment.

It is my own responsibility towards what I do and don't do, and towards the consequences of what I do and don't do.

It is my own responsibility towards how I feel or don't feel, and how I react or don't react towards all and everything that I perceive/experience and what I don't get to perceive/experience, that I like or dislike, that I agree or disagree with, and that I desire or don't desire.

All minds have the freedom to be what they are, and what all minds are (what and how they think, believe, feel, desire, behave, act, and react, or not) cannot determine this mind being what it is.

All and everyone and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

A healthy, peaceful, and harmonious personal physical and mental well-being, family, relationship, community, or society begins with the minds under the presence of such universal understanding or common sense.

It is not about controlling all and everyone to behave or don't behave in certain way under the control with threats/temptations of judgment and punishment/reward.

It is about allowing all and everyone, regardless of the small children, or young people, or adults, or elders, to be open to inquire towards the truth of everything, and attain direct correct understanding.

Allow and guide all the young people and children to be open, to be self initiative, to be independent (not just physically or financially, but also mentally and emotionally), to doubt, to agree and disagree, to desire or don't desire, to question, to inquire, to make mistake out of ignorance (without being judged and punished), to learn from their own mistake, to develop reasoning power and have correct understanding, that lead to constructive behavior in oneself and in the diverse communities, effortlessly.

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Respect the small children and young people, ask their opinion and permission, about everything, such as -

What do they think and feel or understand about themselves, their family, their parents, their siblings, their teachers, their classmates and schoolmates, their daily activities, their life, and the surrounding environment or the world that they perceive or experience?

Whether they want to do this and that, or not doing anything?

Whether they want to go here or there, or not going anywhere?

Whether they are hungry or thirsty, whether they want or don't want to eat or drink, and what or when they would like to eat or drink? Explain to them about the consequences of the different choices of food and drinks, while let them decide for themselves, and learn about responsibility and self independence.

Whether they are okay and happy, or not?

Whether they feel comfortable, safe, and at peace, or not?

Whether they are being disturbed or upset by something, or not?

And, if they are not okay and not happy, regardless of whether they understand or don't understand why they think and feel that they are not okay and not happy, ask their opinion and permission, about -

Whether they would like to be okay and be happy?

Whether they would like to have peace and peaceful happy relationship/interaction with all and everyone?

Whether they want to learn and know about something or anything, and if they want, what they would like to know or learn about?

Whether they want to be alone and have some privacy, to not communicate or interact with anyone for the time being? 

And, whether they want other people around them to be okay and be happy as well?

Allow them to express their thoughts, thinking, feelings and emotions, understanding and non-understanding, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, or desires and don't desires, as they are, directly and honestly, without the tension of fear towards being judged, being criticized, being scolded, being punished, or being belittled/teased for being what they are, for non-understanding, for being ignorant, for making mistakes, for being direct and honest about expressing their thoughts or thinking, their feelings and emotions, their understanding and non-understanding/likes and dislikes/agreements and disagreements, and what they desire and don't desire.

Allow them to cry, to laugh, to be quiet, or to be active, to express themselves as they are. Let them learn how to allow the feelings and emotions being what they are, that there is neither right nor wrong, and understand that all are impermanent.

Allow them to recognize and understand about the impermanent level of low energy or high energy in their body and mind, and whether to take rest or to be active accordingly. Let them learn and understand about impermanence and non-self. Let them learn how to channel their excessive energy constructively.

Allow them to be open, to experience, to make mistake and learn from their own mistake, to doubt, to question, to inquire, and to understand towards what is going on in their mind, and whatever they perceive in the surrounding environment, and they don't have to blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-propagate anything from anyone, even if it's coming from their parents/elders/best friends/teachers, but to reason all and everything.

Allow them to learn how to become independent physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Allow them to develop physical/mental/emotional strength and flexibility, of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, adaptation, adjustment, accommodation, acceptance, letting go, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-clinging, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, at their own pace, without forcing, out of their own freewill.

Allow them to be what they want to be, and not forcing them to be what they don't want to be.

Without fictional story telling, fairy tales, lies, untruthfulness, hypocrisy, politics, empty promises, fear sowing, threats, painful punishment, temptations, magic, miracle, or superstition. Let them see the world as it is, and develop reasoning power and right discrimination, without fear.

Without comparison, judgment, or expectation.

Without empowering egoistic ideas, attachment, and identification.

That they don't need to be somebody that possesses specific quality/condition/ability/achievement/pride to be happy and peaceful, or to be what they are, or to live life meaningfully.

That they don't need to please anyone or prove to anyone about anything, in order to attain love, attention, agreement, acknowledgement, approval, recognition, praise and compliment, or encouragement, to be what they are, to be happy and peaceful, or to live life meaningfully.  

That they don't need to rely on receiving love, attention, agreement, acknowledgement, approval, recognition, praise and compliment, or encouragement from some others or all the others, to be what they want to be, or to do what they want to do, or to live life as it is.

That they themselves have the freedom to be what they are, and what they want to be, to have their own way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practices, desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, understanding and don't understanding, behaviors, actions, and reactions, at their own responsibility, while allowing and respecting all the others also to be free to be what they are and what they want to be, to have their own way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practices, desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, understanding and don't understanding, behaviors, actions, and reactions, at their own responsibility.

But they don't need to be determined by the many different types of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practices, desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, understanding and don't understanding, behaviors, actions, and reactions of all the others.

That they don't have to say yes to everything, and they can say no to something that they don't desire and disagree with.

That they can just do their best on what they can do and what they like to do, and do what is possible, without forcing or hurting themselves and/or others, and allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, that they are not being determined by the action and the fruit of action. It is okay that if they can't do something, or if it is not possible to do something, or if they didn't achieve what they wanted to achieve.

That they have the freedom to be what they are, to make their own choices, and to have their own desires and don't desires, and they are also being responsible towards the freedom of being what they are, their choice making, and their desires and don't desires, and be responsible towards the consequences of all that.

Allow them to learn how to look after themselves, and when they know how to look after themselves, they will also know how to look after all the others and the surrounding environment, naturally and efficiently.

Allow them to learn how to balance between activity and rest, to understand and respect the impermanent condition of the body and mind in the present moment now, to develop self management.

Once they know how to accept, respect, and be kind to themselves as they are, and have peace and happiness in themselves, under the presence of correct understanding or the absence of the idea of 'I' and egoism, not being determined or disturbed by all kinds of madness or ignorance in this world, then naturally, they will also know how to accept, respect, and be kind towards all the others, regardless of what and how all the others think, feel, behave, act, and react, or not.

Such minds won't hurt themselves, or others, or the surrounding environment, out of their own freewill and understanding, universal common sense, or conscience. Without obligation. Not because they have to. Not because they are being forced/threatened to behave or not behaving in certain way. Not because they need to please all and everyone and not offend or upset anyone.

Such children and young people will grow up into responsible understanding adults, friends, siblings, partners, lovers, parents, teachers, students, colleagues, members and/or leaders of the community or the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The precious conscious awareness and conscious evolution in this world of madness

If the mind has this precious conscious awareness of being aware towards its surrounding environment, or the condition and situation in the present moment now is extremely hurtful and destructive to the well-being of oneself and all and everything, then without any hesitation, this mind must leave and get out from such hurtful destructive environment, condition, and situation, if possible, when it is still possible.

Just as a house that is on fire. If the fire is too violent to be put out, where the fire is becoming extremely violent, and it is threatening the life and over-all well-being of all and everyone in the house, one must try to get out from the burning house as soon as possible, if possible.

There might be some minds refuse to leave their house (their beloved home) that is on fire, out of their own reason. That is their own freedom. There is neither right nor wrong.

But the presence of conscious awareness in the mind where it is being aware of the hurtful destructive environment, condition, and situation, and it has the understanding of, 'Need to leave and get out from here, immediately', indicates that this mind is one of the extremely precious minds in this world, where there are many minds are lost and drowning in ignorance and suffering, and unwittingly being the slave of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

It indicates that this mind has the precious ability and possibility for engaging in conscious evolution, that can lead to liberation from ignorance in itself, as well as its liberation can help all the others that are lost and drowning in ignorance and suffering to find their way out, to also attain liberation from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

If this mind is aware of itself, its over-all well-being, its sanity, or its life existence, is under the threat of great danger, then there is no time and space for any kind of hesitation, but to do one's best to get out from that dangerous environment, condition, and situation, immediately and calmly, as soon as possible, when it is still possible, to be safe.

It is not selfish.

It is not unpatriotic, not to say, patriotism is deriving from ignorance and egoism, and it shouldn't exist at all.

It is not abandoning your home, your duty of protecting your home, and all and everyone that you love dearly, not to say, 'my home' or 'our home', and 'my duty of protecting my home' is deriving from ignorance and egoism, while in truth, anywhere and everywhere is the momentary home of all and everyone and everything in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, and the highest duty of anyone, is to be looking after the well-being of oneself, to appreciate this precious momentary life existence, to attain liberation from ignorance, then only one can look after all the others and the momentary home of all and everyone that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, efficiently.

One's own safety and sanity, and one's ability and possibility to evolve consciously, is highly precious and upmost important, so that one can help oneself to be liberated from ignorance, as well as one can also help all the others in this momentary home that one loves dearly, to also be liberated from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

The hurtful destructive environment, condition, and situation in any corner in this world that are being generated by the disturbed dissatisfied egoistic impure restless prideful minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, is what it is, and it is impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

None can undo what had happened or control what is happening. 

Most importantly, need not be determined by all those ignorance inflicted disturbing hurtful experiences, affairs, conditions, and situations, losing one's own precious sanity, and unwittingly becoming and behaving the same like the other minds that are ignorant and hurtful and destructive. 

One can do one's best to stay away from such ignorant hurtful destructive environment, condition, and situation, as much as possible.

If for some reasons, that it is not possible to get out from such ignorant hurtful destructive environment, condition, and situation, in this present moment now, then, one accepts the reality as it is, while do one's best to stay safe and stay sane, under the precious awareness and calmness.

Just as if it is not possible to get out from the burning house, one can still do one's best to minimize the risk of getting severe injury and damage in oneself as much as possible, under the precious awareness and calmness, while allowing the outcome to be what it is.

Maybe there are some others refuse to leave the house, and want to try to put out the fire, that is their freedom of choice.

Meanwhile, there might be some others who are not trying to help to put out the fire, but instead, they are fueling the fire to make it more violent to cause further damages and destructions as much as possible, out of their own reason.

There are some people intentionally set fire unto other people's houses, "Hey look! I am burning your house," in order to provoke others to also set fire unto their house, to cause intentional damages and destructions as much as possible unto the houses of all and everyone, out of their own reason, and then they claimed, "Hey there! I am burning your house down in order to free you all from being the slave of your house. I have liberated you from your house. Now, you all can be free to go somewhere else to build new house and live there, and don't ever come back here. And since my house is also damaged and destroyed, I will have no choice but to build my beautiful new house here over your damaged house for my self, my family, and my friends. You all should be grateful and thank me." While there are also some others, "Hey there! I can sell you more fuel to keep the fire going and cause more damages and destructions until there is nothing left to burn, so that you can build your beautiful new house there, and as many houses as you like." Complete madness. Complete ignorance.

The safety, the sanity, the selfless existence, the selfless conscious awareness, and the selfless conscious evolution of this mind, is extremely precious, but yet, it's okay if all these are passing away.

Inquire the truth of everything.

All kinds of maintenance is part of all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence

There is neither right nor wrong, and it is natural and common that there are many minds have the desire of want to have, to achieve, and to possess many different things in their momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence.

Most minds also have the desire or wishful thinking of want to be able to attain all and everything that they want, either effortlessly or under minimum effort as much as possible.

And, most minds would like to be able to possess as many things as possible, but they don't want the ceaseless maintenance that comes along with all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence of living organisms or non-living objects.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that exists under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of the physical body, is existing and functioning under the presence of ceaseless life maintenance, that consists of constant non-conscious autonomous and conscious non-autonomous activities/efforts to be maintaining the basic existence and function of the body and mind, under the presence/availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, no to say, there are also many other conscious by choice activities/efforts, that are being generated under the different desires or don't desires under the different correct or incorrect understanding, that are impacting the over-all well-being or condition of the body and mind to be or not to be in certain way, and evolving in certain way and not in certain way, either constructively or destructively.

All and everything requires certain effort to be existing as well as certain continuous effort for ceaseless maintenance until the moment of ceased existing.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of a physical body and mind begins to be existing under certain effort, and it needs certain continuous effort for ceaseless life maintenance until the moment of ceased existing. 

The mind desires to have a relationship, and eventually, after certain effort, it has a relationship that needs certain effort for ceaseless maintenance.

The mind desires to have children, and eventually, after certain effort, it has one child or some children that needs certain effort for ceaseless maintenance.

The mind desires to have pets, and eventually, after certain effort, it has one pet or some pets that needs certain effort for ceaseless maintenance.

The mind desires to have a house and a car, or many houses and many cars, and eventually, after certain effort, it has a house and a car or many houses and many cars that needs certain effort for ceaseless maintenance.

The mind desires to have one or many skills, and eventually, after certain effort, it has the skill(s) that needs certain effort for ceaseless maintenance, or else it looses the skill(s).

The mind desires to have certain knowledge, and eventually, after certain effort, it has the knowledge that needs certain effort for ceaseless maintenance (to be remembering).

The mind desires to have a strong and fit and healthy physical body, and eventually, after certain effort, it has a strong and fit and healthy physical body that needs certain continuous effort for ceaseless maintenance.

The mind desires to have certain enjoyments, and eventually, after certain effort, it has the enjoyments that need certain effort for maintenance, or else it looses the enjoyments.

The mind desires to have certain power and status, and eventually, after certain effort, it has the power and status that needs certain effort for maintenance, or else it looses that power and status.

The mind desires to have longer life span, and eventually, after certain effort, it has a longer life span that needs certain continuous effort for ceaseless maintenance.

Anything, that comes under certain names and forms and qualities, that requires certain effort to be existing, is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and requiring continuous effort for ceaseless maintenance until it ceased existing.

What doesn't change, that is infinite and absolute, that is effortless, that doesn't exist under effort, that doesn't need ceaseless continuous effort for maintenance to be continuously existing, that doesn't ceased existing, when all and everything is coming (existing/arising) and going (ceased existing/passing away) upon the selfless universal consciousness in this infinite space of the universe that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, as well as the selfless timeless actionless effortless attributeless nameless formless beginningless endless universal consciousness (the selfless timeless silent witness) that hosts the selfless impermanent manifestation of all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms that come and go, and constantly changing/decaying in between arising (existing) and passing away (ceased existing), that requires ceaseless maintenance to be continuously existing until the moment of ceased existence.

The minds that realize this, they don't have the desire to have, to achieve, or to possess anything, but merely appreciating all and everything that is here in the present moment now, without attachment or clinging, without controlling all and everything to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing all and everything to come and go, to be what they are, and to be changing while they are still here, as they are.

Meanwhile, they might or might not be performing ceaseless selfless actions that would be beneficial or constructive for all and everyone, that would be promoting peace and harmony in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, unconditionally and indiscriminately, during their momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-agree/disagree, blind-practice, or blind-propagate anything from anyone and anywhere, including all the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism coming from everyone and everywhere, including all that is here.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything.

The physical body is the reflection of all and everything that are selfless and impermanent and non-self, and vice versa

The truth of selflessness and impermanence and non-self is not something unreachable, or only to be found in the future at somewhere else that is seemingly very far away.

It is within all and everyone and everything, in all kinds of names and forms, in all kinds of qualities, in all kinds of ties and connections and relationships, in all kinds of conditions and situations, in all kinds of experiences and affairs, in this present moment NOW.

One doesn't need to go anywhere, or be in a specific location, position, direction, condition, environment, atmosphere, place, space, and time, to know the truth of selflessness, impermanence, and non-self.

The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self exists in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body and modification of the mind, or in any living organism, or in any non-living object, or in any affair, or in any company, or in any business, or in any restaurant, or in any hotel, or in any Ashram, or in a car, or in a house, or in any community, or in any country, or in any government organization, or in this world of many diversities, or in the universe of many diversities, or in the sun(s), or in the planet(s), or in the star(s), or in anything that the mind can think of and perceive, including wild imaginations that are not real, but only exist in the form of thoughts/ideas.

Selflessness, impermanence, limited, conditional, and non-self, that only exists for a momentary duration, is what all and everything are, regardless of perfection or imperfection, desirable qualities or undesirable qualities, long life span or short life span, resilient or fragile, adaptable or non-adaptable, mobile or immobile, sentient or insentient, conscious or non-conscious, and etc.

Anything that exists under certain names and forms, of certain qualities, that inter-dependent on the selfless support of the selfless energy and many selfless elements to be existing and functioning as what it is, that is constantly changing, that is limited and conditional, that has a beginning of existence and an end of existence, being limited and governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

One just need to look into any of the names and forms under different qualities, to reflect/contemplate upon the truth, under a calm and quiet mind, devoid of the influence of any particular passionate egoistic ideas, imaginations, thinking, reasoning, understanding, beliefs, values, desires, or practices, and one will see the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, in all and everything, where all and everything are existing and functioning selflessly and impermanently inter-dependent on all and everything of many different elements/systems/components/structures to work together, as well as each and everyone need to be minding themselves performing their own individual function/duty/responsibility, without superiority or inferiority, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, for all and everything to be happening, to be what they are, as they are, to be existing, changing, decaying, disintegrating, and ceased existing.

A super healthy and fit physical body with super efficient organs of the senses to perceive all kinds of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, thoughts, feelings, and emotions, efficiently and precisely, functioning under a high degree of super intelligence and vast accumulated knowledge, having extraordinary speed of learning and power of memory, extraordinary talents and skills, and accumulated many different types of experiences and qualifications and achievements in life, also doesn't necessarily mean that the mind is free from ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the by-products of all that, of all kinds of suffering and disturbing hurtful thinking, ideas, desires, visions, inspirations, aspirations, and behaviors/actions/reactions.

That's the power of ignorance, but at the same time, even though it is not easy, but it is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance, as the truth of what all and everything are, is always here, unlimited, unchanging, and timeless, while ignorance that hinders the mind to know the truth, is something impermanent, limited, and conditional.

Just as the many highly intelligent and knowledgeable academic scholars are not necessarily be free from the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and being determined and disturbed by all kinds of inevitable and evitable physical, mental, and emotional suffering, perceiving/experiencing all kinds of disturbs, hurts, dissatisfaction, disappointment, painful sorrow, grief, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, guilt and regret, anger, hatred, jealousy, fear, separateness, discrimination, loneliness, meaninglessness, fatigue, burnout, insecurity, and etc, while unwittingly identifying with all these names and forms as 'I', or 'This is who/what/how I am,' even when they already have all kinds of knowledge or information about biology, chemistry, anatomy, and physiology, or the scientific knowledge of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in all the living organisms and non-living objects, and in many other things in this world and beyond, unless they (the selfless thinking and acting faculty) know how to free themselves from the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', and egoism of attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, not being the slave of all that, not being determined or over-powered by all kinds of impurities and restlessness that come along with the idea of 'I' and egoism in the restless selfless impermanent modification of the mind, where all that has been conditioning the mind thinking and behavior pattern, influencing their way of thinking, reasoning, understanding, feelings, desires, inspirations, aspirations, behaviors, actions, and reactions.

It definitely requires a lot of patience, perseverance, determination, adaptation, accommodation, adjustment, acceptance, and intense yearning towards absolute knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, for engaging in the process of purifying/modifying/changing the mind thinking and behavior pattern.

It is normal and common that there are different kinds of struggles and obstacles, and it requires great effort and continuous effort, especially in the beginning stage of the mind purification process, or the process of changing/modifying the mind thinking and behavior pattern.

As long as the mind keeps practicing, without attachment/identification/craving/aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation, the effort/practice/action of purifying/modifying/changing the mind thinking and behavior pattern will become less and less struggling, and eventually, it will become effortless (the end of the practice), upon the mind attains correct understanding deriving from the direct self-realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self.

The correct understanding, or the knowledge of Thyself, enables the selfless thinking and acting mind to transcend all that, to be undetermined and undisturbed by all that, to be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless universal consciousness, beyond the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, or the impermanent condition/abilities/disabilities/limitation of the physical body, and the impermanent states of the mind. 

Knowing the knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the physical body doesn't necessarily means that the mind is knowing Thyself, of knowing what is the 'I' that the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I'. It doesn't necessarily mean that the mind is free from the idea of 'I' and egoism and impurities, not being the slave of the limited and conditional impure mind stuff, not being over-powered, determined, or disturbed by the ungratified desires of the presence of undesirable/unpleasant/disagreeable/non-enjoyable experiences, and the absence of desirable/pleasant/agreeable/enjoyable experiences, perceiving all kinds of physical/mental/emotional suffering.

The minds need to attain direct self-realization towards selflessness and impermanence and non-self, by purifying and quieting the restless modification of the mind, through the annihilation of the idea of 'I' and egoism, and all kinds of impurities that come along with the idea of 'I' and egoism, under the presence of non-violence, non-grasping, non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, as well as under the presence of right attitude, right attentiveness, and right effort, all by the mind itself.

Even the passionate enthusiastic yoga practitioners who have been genuinely performing regular persistent Asana and Pranayama practice, concentration and meditation practice, cleansing exercises, chanting and prayers, community services, and observing Yamas and Niyamas (Restraints and observations) as well as pure vegetarian diet, for a prolonged duration, and have been enjoying the many health and fitness benefits deriving from the different types of yoga practices and observations, are not necessarily be free from doubt, hurts, painful sorrow, and disturbs, or be free from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, if they don't or haven't work on the elimination of the idea of 'I', egoism, passion, inspiration, aspiration, and all kinds of corrupted thinking, ideas, belief, values, and practices, being determined by all kinds of impurities.

Just as there are many people engaging in the many different types of competitive sports activities and fitness training that demand high degrees of self discipline, attentiveness, dietary control, physical and mental activity restriction and observation, perseverance, determination, great enthusiasm, and immovable dedication, to be engaging in many hours of persevered repetitive practice and skill training everyday for many years, are not necessarily be free from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

But then, 

Anyone, regardless of whether performing or not performing some kind of regular yoga and meditation practices, regardless of the physical condition/abilities/disabilities/limitation or the mental condition/abilities/disabilities/limitation, and even the most corrupted violent impure restless minds, as long as they have the intense yearning towards knowledge (correct understanding), liberation, freedom, and peace, all minds can be free from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, if they work diligently and persistently on eliminating the idea of 'I', egoism, passion, inspiration, aspiration, and all kinds of mental and emotional impurities, and restlessness, to be purifying/modifying/changing the the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, to be quieting the restless thought current/activities/modification of the mind, via the middle path and non-violence, through the essential observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, and silence, out of one's own conscious awareness/freewill/choice/desire/effort/action.

It is ridiculous that there are more and more unnecessary evitable mental suffering/disturbance/illness being impacted by the existence of ongoing and increasing corruption, violence, cruelty, exploitation, greed, hatred, selfishness, possessiveness, discrimination, separateness, authoritarianism, pride and arrogance, politics, oppression, power and control, bullying, intimidation, invasion, intrusion, fighting, and wars, that contribute to many unnecessary evitable hurtful destructive behavior problems under the influence of ignorance, when science and technology is getting more and more advance, when there are more and more human beings are getting better and higher quality of living, luxurious indulgence, enjoyments of the senses, physical and mental entertainments, advanced medical health care, and all kinds of conveniences, when there are more and more countries are getting higher and higher development, when there are more and more amazing architecture and engineering arising in the world, when there are more and more people are getting basic education and higher education, and easier access towards attaining various knowledge or information, and when there are endless high-tech inventions under the higher and higher advanced science and technology.

It only indicates that the eradication of ignorance and the liberation from suffering, or the existence of personal peace and world peace, is nothing to do with the availability or non-availability of all those higher quality of living, luxurious indulgence, enjoyments of the senses, physical and mental entertainments, advanced medical health care, conveniences, developments, educations, accumulated knowledge, achievements, talents and skills, various information, amazing architecture and engineering, and high-tech inventions deriving from the higher advanced science and technology.

All that didn't and doesn't eradicate ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the consequences of all that - the existence of all kinds of unnecessary evitable ignorance inflicted suffering in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All kinds of names and forms that all and everyone would like to have or enjoy, such as prosperity, illness free, pain free, suffering free, aging free, long life span, happy family and relationship, success in career or business, health, fitness, beauty, worldly knowledge, wealth, power, superior status and title and social class, and all kinds of possessions, achievements, and enjoyments are nothing, if the minds are not free from the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, because there is no peace in oneself, there is no peace in the surrounding living environment, and there is no peace in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, where the minds keep hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment, out of ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The yoga class and the yoga practice

This body and this mind is here

The breath is coming and going

Letting go all kinds of identities with all kinds of names and forms and qualities

What this mind thinks is who 'I' am and what 'I' am

The age and the look

Male, female, neither male nor female, both male and female

Family, ancestry, tribe, race, caste, nationality

Ties and connections

Duty and responsibility

Belief and disbelief

Culture and spirituality

Personal and professional profile 

Experience in yoga and/or meditation

Lineage and teachers 

Experience in life

Education, qualification, certification

Title and position

Possessions and belongings

Self-esteem and self-worth

Pride and shame

Superiority and inferiority

Strength and weakness 

Perfection and imperfection

Ability and disability 

Achievement and non-achievement

Success and failure 

Healthiness or unhealthiness

Fitness or unfitness 

Goodness or badness

Purity or impurity

Kindness or unkindness

Selfishness or unselfishness 

Positiveness or negativeness 

Happy or unhappy

Satisfied or dissatisfied

Calmed or disturbed

Intelligence 

Known and unknown

Understanding and non-understanding 

And 

Letting go the past pleasant and unpleasant memories

The future fearful and hopeful imaginations

The idea of 'I'

Attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, expectation

There is neither past nor future 

There is only now

In now, there is only 

The selfless intentionless conscious awareness

Being aware of

The selfless impermanent existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking mind being what it is

The selfless impermanent modification of the mind being what it is

The selfless impermanent physical body being what it is

The selfless impermanent breath coming and going being what it is

The selfless organs and senses being what they are

The objects of the senses of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, feelings, emotions, and thoughts being what they are

The selfless energy and elements being what they are

The selfless impermanent changes being what they are 

The impermanent surrounding environment, condition, and situation being what they are 

The practice being what it is

The fruit of practice being what it is

There is no 'I' am conscious

There is no 'I' am aware

There is no 'I' know and don't know

There is no 'I' understand and don't understand 

There is no 'I' am practicing yoga

There is no 'I' am meditating

There is no 'I' am observing

There is no 'I' am healthy or unhealthy

There is no 'I' am fit or unfit 

There is no 'I' am good or bad

There is no 'I' am pure or impure

There is no 'I' am kind or unkind

There is no 'I' am selfish or unselfish 

There is no 'I' am positive or negative

There is no 'I' am happy or unhappy

There is no 'I' am satisfied or dissatisfied

There is no 'I' am calmed or disturbed

There is no 'I' am selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, or non-self

There is no 'I' am existing, growing, ceased growing, decaying, disintegrating, and ceased existing

There is no 'I' am free or not free 

There is no 'I' am suffering or enjoying

There is no 'I' am free from suffering

Time doesn't exist 

There is only ceaseless impermanent changes of names and forms, and movements and activities in now

There is no 'I' am changing

There is no 'I' am evolving 

There is only selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms arising, existing, changing, evolving, decaying, disintegrating, and passing away under the influence of cause and effect

There are different choices

There are different opportunities

There are different possibilities

There is effort 

There are actions and consequences of actions

All are selfless

All are impermanent

Inquire the truth of everything.

Physical, mental, and emotional freedom

It is understandable that why there are many people (minds) dislike or disagree with unrestricted unlimited physical, mental, and emotional freedom.

"I want my self, my body, my mind, my partner, my children, my family, my community, my country, and my world to be like this and not like that. I don't want my self, my body, my mind, my partner, my children, my family, my community, my country, and my world to be like that and not like this."

Above all, many 'good and righteous' people dislike and disagree with allowing all and everyone to be free to be what they are, to think/don't think, to believe/disbelieve, to feel/don't feel, to desire/don't desire, to behave/don't behave, to act and react/don't act and react, and be able to doubt, to question, to inquire, to learn, to experience, to make mistake, to reason, and to understand as they are, that they strongly think and believe that all and everyone should be taught/educated/molded, restricted (with rules and regulations) and disciplined (under all kinds of threats and violent painful punishments, if not temptations/rewards) to be good and righteous, or to have good manner and conduct, righteous values, and morality, is because they think and believe that the unrestricted unlimited physical (actions/activities), mental (thinking/ideas/values/activities), and emotional (expressions/activities) freedom will lead to immorality and all kinds of evil wrong doings.

Fear.

Possessiveness.

Desire and don't desire. 

Craving and aversion.

Control and interference towards the body and the mind and the others to be and not to be in certain way in accordance to one's desire and don't desire. 

That type of mentality (thinking, belief, values, desire, vision, and practice) and action taking itself, is deriving from a modification of the mind that is functioning under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness (lack of peace and devoid of correct understanding).

How can the minds that are lack of peace and devoid of correct understanding, that are being over-powered by fear, possessiveness, desire and don't desire, or craving and aversion, to be controlling and expecting all and everyone to be the way that they think and believe and desire as "A world, or a community that is free from immorality and all kinds of evil wrong doings, or hurtful damaging destructive behavior unto oneself, others, and the surrounding environment," when they themselves are thinking, desiring, and behaving in such hurtful damaging destructive way?

Immorality and all kinds evil wrong doings, or hurtful damaging destructive behavior, are not deriving from unrestricted unlimited physical, mental, and emotional freedom.

Unrestricted unlimited physical, mental, and emotional freedom is not the cause of immorality and all kinds of evil wrong doings, or hurtful damaging destructive behavior unto oneself, others, and the surrounding environment.

It is the presence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the modification of the mind.

Where the thinking and acting mind is unwittingly being over-powered and determined by or being the slave of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the modification of the mind, to think, to believe, to reason, to understand, to desire, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way.

The imposition of restriction and limitation unto all kinds of physical, mental, and emotional freedom for the selfless conscious living organisms to be doubting/questioning/inquiring/learning/experiencing/mistake making/reasoning/understanding/growing/maturing healthily, for them to be existing and functioning as what they are, not only that it doesn't help to eliminate ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the modification of the mind (the absence of peace and correct understanding), but it is stimulating and empowering all that, which is highly detrimental for the physical, mental, and emotional conscious and unconscious evolution of the selfless conscious living organisms towards 'what most minds would like and desire it to be' - to have minimal, or even, to be free from all kinds of undesirable and unpleasant physical, mental, and emotional painful suffering.

The history in the world, have been 'showing' that the world didn't and doesn't become 'better', under the presence of external 'control'/'restriction'/'limitation'/'discipline'/'threat'/'punishment' or 'reward' coming from others imposed unto others.

The idea, values, and practice of 'control'/'restriction'/'limitation'/'discipline'/'threat'/'punishment' or 'reward' exists in the family ties and connections, in all kinds of relationships and affairs, in the community, and in the many different types of organizations.

Responsible constructive beneficial behaviors are coming from the mind that is functioning under the presence of peace and correct understanding, or the absence of unrest and incorrect understanding in the modification of the mind.

Instead of controlling and expecting all and everyone to be and not to be in certain way, allow and respect all and everyone to be opened and to be free, not being constraint/restricted/limited in a particular shape or quality in accordance to one's desire and don't desire, to be free to doubt, to question, to inquire, to learn, to experience, to make mistake, to reason, to understand, towards all and everything.

To be matured, and be independent physically, mentally, and emotionally.

To be a responsible human being under the presence of peace and correct understanding, that looks after oneself and the surrounding environment, out of one's own conscious awareness/understanding/initiative/freewill/choice/desire/action.

The selfless universal consciousness that enables all and everything (conscious or non-conscious living organisms and non-living objects) to be manifesting/existing and functioning as what they are, selflessly and impermanently, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, doesn't and never 'control' anything to be or not to be in certain way, or 'judge'/'reward'/'punish' anyone or anything for being what all and everything are.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, or blind-propagate anything from anyone and everyone.

Freedom of existence and function, of physical, mental, and emotional freedom

Although there is no permanent independent self existence of 'I' existing in all and everything, that are depending on many different individual selfless elements to work together for all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are, and the selfless existence and function of all and everything as well as the different individual selfless elements that work together for all and everything to be existing and functioning, are non-self, that are depending on the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning to be what all and everything are, as well as being governed by the nature's law of cause and effect to be evolving/decaying consciously and/or unconsciously, it doesn't mean that freedom is non-existence in all and everything, or freedom is non-essential, or there shouldn't be any issue if all kinds of freedom are being restricted in all the different kinds of conscious living organisms that are endowed with the selfless conscious awareness to be living, and be conscious/aware of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence of themselves and their surrounding environment.

There are some inevitable limitation of existence and function due to some biological genetic traits inheritance that give rise to certain condition/limitation of the physical structure of the living organisms (that come with or without the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty), as well as give rise to certain condition/limitation of the mental and/or emotional state (that come with the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty).

But there are also many unnecessary limitation/restriction that don't need to be there, that are deliberately and/or randomly restricting the freedom of existence and function imposed unto oneself and others, by oneself and/or others, out of ignorance, under the influence of certain worldly passionate egoistic impure thinking, ideas, beliefs, values, desires, visions, and practices, that contributes to many unnecessary physical, mental, and emotional health problems that eventually lead to destructive hurtful behavior problems inflicted unto oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment, which is not coming from the inevitable biological genetic traits inheritance, but due to the existence of many types of man made restrictions of not being able to just be what all and everyone wants to be, to be free to exist and function as one is, to think, to believe or disbelieve, to feel, to express, to behave, to act and react, to evolve consciously, or simply to live life in certain way or not in certain way, under the selfless intentionless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning in the momentary selfless impermanent existence of all and everything that are endowed with the selfless conscious awareness to be aware of one's own limited and conditional existence as well as being aware of all and everything else in the surrounding environment.

The general well-being and evolution of certain living organisms that are without the function of a perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is functioning under the presence of conscious awareness to be conscious/aware towards its own selfless existence and function, where there is no conscious sentimental/emotional perception/experience of pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering, are also being impacted greatly by the presence of certain restricted condition and limitation in the surrounding environment, not to say, all kinds of living organisms that come with the function of a perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind functioning under the presence of conscious awareness to be conscious/aware towards its own selfless existence and function, where there is the conscious sentimental/emotional perception/experience of pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering.

The freedom of existence and function, or the physical/mental/emotional freedom, is highly important for the general well-being and evolution of all kinds of conscious living organisms, just by being existing and functioning selflessly and impermanently, as what they are, in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

However, under the influence of ignorance, many human beings are growing up being told/taught/influenced/conditioned/tempted/disciplined/oppressed/threatened/bullied/controlled, "Do this. Don't do that. Think like this and believe in this. Don't think like that and don't believe in that. Say this. Don't say that. Behave like this. Don't behave like that. Stand, walk, and sit like this. Don't stand, walk, and sit like that. Act and react like this. Don't act and react like that. You should feel like this. You shouldn't feel like that. This is good and positive. That is bad and negative. This is meaningful. That is meaningless. This is happiness. That is unhappiness. This is a boy thing. That is a girl thing. Women should behave like this. Men should behave like that. Women should do this and shouldn't do that. Men should do this and shouldn't do that. This is pride deserving. That is shame deserving. Do this and be like this, you will be praised, rewarded, and loved. Do that and be like that, you will be condemned, punished, and unloved. Do not question the truth of what you have been told to obey and follow, and to believe and practice."

Almost all and everyone have been growing up in a condition of, "Don't ask why. Just obey and follow," because most parents/teachers/minds also don't really understand why, as that was how they have been brought up and living in the community that is all about control and authority, rules and regulations, judgment and reward/punishment. That was how they have been treated by their parents/teachers and all the others, and that is how they treat their own children/students and all the others. People either live under oppression and fear (keep the head down, just obey, don't question anything, and don't upset/offend anyone, to avoid painful punishment), or become an aggressive violent authoritarian bully themselves.

That kind of ignorant egoistic mentality, thinking, understanding, reasoning, ideas, beliefs, values, and practice, is not merely being conditioned and influenced by a particular type of thinking and behavior pattern under the influence of the internal biological genetic traits inheritance that was passed down from many generations, hormonal activity, food consumption, energy and elements, and the selfless intentionless survival instinct influence, but more so, being conditioned and influenced (restricted and oppressed and manipulated) by external environmental influence and empowerment, of unwittingly and ceaselessly being influenced by the particular type of mentality, thinking, reasoning, understanding, ideas, beliefs, values, desires, visions, and practices, that are not only inherited from birth, but even more so, that are adopted/picked up after birth coming from someone and/or everyone, from the family/community/social circle/medias/spirituality/politics.

There is extremely limited freedom of existence and function, of limited physical/mental/emotional freedom of being what all and everything are, and a highly restricted conscious evolution. It's like a watermelon is being constraint in a box of a particular shape, to be growing into that particular shape. Human minds are also being constraint in a 'box' of a particular shape that is full of fear, lies, hypocrisy, untruthfulness, politics, possessiveness, selfishness, discrimination, separateness, greed, oppression, intimidation, threat, painful punishment, violence, pride and shame, and etc, to be evolving into that particular shape. Limiting the unlimited conscious evolution of the mind, to attain the absolute knowledge of ALL THESE, to be free from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, that would be beneficial to humanity, and all and everything in this world of many diversities.

Conscious evolution is neither good nor bad. Some minds evolve consciously and intentionally towards constructive thinking and behavior, while some minds evolve consciously and intentionally towards destructive thinking and behavior.

But it is highly essential for the mind to be opened, not being limited and constraint in a 'box' of a particular shape, to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, to learn and experience without constraint, to evolve consciously and freely towards attaining correct understanding and peace, that lead to constructive thinking and behavior in oneself.

All minds need to be allowed to be free to inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct experience and self realization and correct understanding, even if all minds need to learn from their own ignorance and mistakes/misunderstanding/non-understanding, and learn from the consequences of ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior, all by themselves, and not by being controlled, oppressed, intimidated, threatened, disciplined, bullied, or punished with painful punishment inflicted by some others.

It's about coming from oneself, having the conscious awareness towards the presence of limited knowledge in itself (that there are many things that it doesn't know), and be initiative to acquire not only unlimited but absolute knowledge, as well as doubting the truth of many things, and be free to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, to attain direct experience and self realization, without blind-believing, blind-following, blind-practicing, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, or blind-propagating anything from anyone.

The physical, mental, and emotional freedom, that reflects and impacts the physical, mental, and emotional well-being, is being highly restricted, oppressed, and conditioned by the many man made egoistic restrictions, control, rules and regulations in the family, at school, at work place, in the particular community, in the country, and in the world of many diversities.

One of the basic essential function/natural instinct of the mind, of 'doubting'/'questioning'/'inquiring' towards the truth of something and anything is being perceived and recognized as something 'sinful' and punishable in certain community under certain beliefs, values, visions, and practices. How absurd is that? This ignorance exists even in the minds that are so called highly 'educated', 'knowledgeable', 'successful', or 'powerful' in this world, while they think and behave in the way that hurt all and everyone and the surrounding environment, out of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

Many physical/mental/emotional health problems are not (merely) genetically inherited from parental ancestry genes inheritance, but, even more so, being impacted greatly by the highly limited and restricted freedom of existence and function, or, simply being what all and everyone are, as they are, where there is absence of peace in the mind that would give rise to correct understanding that lead to wholesome behavior/action/reaction, as all these human minds are constantly being constraint, disturbed, over-whelmed, and hammered by the ongoing fear, worry, exhaustion, exploitation, discrimination, intimidation, threat, bully, restriction, limitation, uncertainty, confusion of "You (of father, mother, brother, sister, friend, lover, partner, children, community, teacher, leader, authority, or even, 'The One' that is forbidden and punishable in many countries to say its name) said that you love me and that I shouldn't hurt you, but you keep hurting me repeatedly and constantly", violence, cruelty, selfishness, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, despair, anger, betrayal, lies, story telling, untruthfulness, hypocrisy, authoritarianism, politics, empty promises, and etc, since the moment of birth and growing up into adulthood and until the end of the momentary life existence.

The minds have been being restricted/hammered in such way, and they also restrict/hammer all the others in such way. Ignorance feeds and empowers deeper ignorance.

All that can be reversed, be weakened and thinned-out, or even, be annihilated completely. The disturbed peaceless unhappy dissatisfied hurtful fearful suffering state of mind, the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, the ignorance, the idea of 'I', the egoism, the impurities, the restlessness, and the by-product of all that, all kinds of evitable suffering, can be empowered by ignorance, but even more importantly, all that can be weakened, and annihilated, under intense yearning towards liberation, freedom, and peace.

There is nothing wrong with all kinds of agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, pure or impure, good or evil, and positive or negative thinking, thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, and don't desires in the minds.

The most important thing is that, there is the basic correct understanding, or even the essential presence of doubt/ignorance of "I don't know, and hence, I want to know about everything that I don't even know what they are (the unknown)", towards the selfless manifestation of all these selfless impermanent names and forms in the selfless modification of the mind, that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the modification of the mind, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, where the thinking and acting faculty is consciously aware of all these selfless impermanent thinking, thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, and don't desires in the modification of the mind, and it realizes, knows, and understands that all these are merely some selfless impermanent names and forms that come and go in the modification of the mind, without grasping, association, attachment, identification, clinging, craving, aversion, judgment, or expectation towards all that, to be in certain way or not to be in certain way, allowing all that to arise, to stay for a while, to change, and to pass away, as they are.

Allow all kinds of thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, and don't desires to be there in the mind, as they are, but without being over-powered by all these selfless impermanent names and forms. They are impermanent. They are not the selfless think and acting faculty. The selfless thinking and acting faculty doesn't need to be the slave of all that. They are not 'I'. There is no 'I' existing to be identifying with all that.

Not coming from some others restricting and commanding the mind to live life, think, feel, desire, behave, act and react like this, or don't live life, think, feel, desire, behave, act and react like that, but coming from the mind itself, having the basic correct understanding, out of its own conscious awareness/freewill/desire/choice/action, not generating grasping, association, attachment, identification, clinging, craving, aversion, judgment, or expectation towards all that in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind. Transcending both the internal genetic traits inheritance influence that is inevitable (not by conscious choice) as well as the external surrounding environment influence that is evitable, that can be filtered by conscious choice and action, to move away from certain detrimental influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities, or to be engaging in certain beneficial influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities, as much as possible, if it is possible.

Unlike unconscious evolution that is unwittingly being limited and conditioned by the internal genetic traits inheritance and the external surrounding environment, conscious evolution can be activated even under the presence of detrimental influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities and/or under the absence of beneficial influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities, under the presence of doubt and suffering that gives rise to the intense yearning towards attaining absolute knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, via certain observations and methods under the presence of non-violence/non-forcing, on top of the presence of certain degrees of willpower, forbearance, patience, adaptation, adjustment, accommodation, perseverance, and determination.

That is freedom, liberation, or peace.

Not being over-powered or determined by the internal selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless modification of the mind, as well as all kinds of external influences/conditions/situations/experiences in the surrounding environment, regardless of agreeable or disagreeable, is the highest freedom, even though the existence and function of the body and mind, is non-self, momentary, selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional.

Which means, even this freedom, liberation, or peace, that is highly important for the selfless mind that is existing and functioning selflessly in this present moment now, to be free as it is, is also momentary, because there is no permanent independent self existence of 'I' that 'exists', or 'keeps existing', that 'needs to have' the infinite or unlimited freedom and peace.

There is no existence of an infinite independent permanent self existence of 'I' that needs to be liberated, or to be free, or to be peaceful, but while under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning as what it is, and under the presence of the selfless intentionless actionless changeless timeless attributeless universal consciousness, the selfless impermanent thinking and acting mind that is consciously aware of the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind, while perceiving the sense of 'not free', 'emptiness', 'loneliness', 'meaninglessness', 'limitation', 'imperfection', 'dissatisfaction', 'disappointment', 'confusion', 'doubt', 'unhappiness', 'fear', 'uncertainty', 'sorrow', 'restlessness', 'fatigue', 'exhaustion', 'hurts', 'despair', and all kinds of physical, mental, and emotional 'suffering', can attain self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and can be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless universal consciousness, during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function.

Meanwhile, the selfless thinking and acting mind can make use of the precious selfless momentary life existence, of the selfless physical body, the selfless organs of the selfless senses, the selfless organs of actions, and the selfless impermanent mechanisms of the conscious perceptive thinking mind, the cognition, the intellect, the reasoning, the emotion, the memory, the understanding, the knowledge, the experience, the talent, the skill, and the opportunity and possibility that are non-self, to be performing selfless actions that would bring constructive changes/evolution to the selfless momentary life existence of oneself and others, as well as to be looking after the surrounding environment in the world of countless diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The presence/availability of the freedom of existence and function, is highly essential during the entire duration of the momentary life existence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, in order for the mind to have peace or clarity, that gives rise to correct understanding (the wisdom and compassion that is always there within all minds but is veiled by restlessness that feed and powered by ignorance and its by-products), so that it doesn't hurt itself and/or others out of the restricted disturbed dissatisfied restless unhappy suffering state of mind.

'Freedom' and/or 'peace' is no longer valid or needed, upon the selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind ceased functioning and existing.

Develop correct understanding. Develop non-grasping, non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, and non-expectation. That is the most constructive beneficial education for all and everyone in this world of human beings of many diversities.

Without the essential education or correct understanding to be looking after the physical, mental, and emotional health of the minds, all kinds of knowledge and skills, advanced technology, creativity, and invention deriving from worldly education that lead to certain achievements and success in life, as well as the existence of all kinds of control, rules and regulations, and painful punishments, don't necessarily guarantee that the minds will be peaceful and happy, or won't be hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment, out of the highly restricted dissatisfied disturbed unhappy suffering state of mind, deriving from ignorance and its by-products.

Out of correct understanding, and out of one's own conscious awareness/freewill/choice/desire/action/inaction, one won't be generating behavior, action, and speech that would be hurtful and damaging unto oneself and others or the surrounding environment, intentionally or unintentionally, deliberately or randomly, which is not because of 'the restriction of all kinds of freedom being restricted/oppressed/disciplined/threatened/controlled by some others under the many rules and regulations and punishments' in this world of ignorance.

Allow this mind to be free, to be what and how it is. This mind is impermanent. And it is selfless.

Allow all the other minds to be free, to be what and how they are. All minds are impermanent. And they all are selfless.

All and everyone have the freedom to think, to feel, to express, to desire and don't desire, to like and dislike, to agree and disagree, to be kind or unkind, to be selfish or unselfish, to be whatever they are.

Allow all and everyone to dislike and disagree with oneself. Allow others to express their dissatisfaction and unhappiness towards oneself. Allow others to behave the way that they behave, either intentionally or unintentionally. One can move away from the hurtful damaging behavior of others, as much as possible. One doesn't need to stand there not moving away from the hurtful damaging behavior of others, if possible. One doesn't need to accept the hurtful damaging behavior of others. But one is not being determined or disturbed by the thinking, feelings, desires, points of views, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, praise or condemn, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness or unhappiness, behavior, action, and reaction of all and everyone.

The absence/lack of physical, mental, and emotional freedom, or the freedom of existence/function of the body and mind is being restricted/oppressed/disciplined/threatened by others or even by oneself, to be and not to be in certain way, by force or control, will only be damaging the physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Under the presence of more and more rules and regulations and control, the world didn't and doesn't become more peaceful, but contributes to more and more disturbing minds and disturbing human's behavior, or violence and unrest.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice, is not about restricting the modification of the mind to be or not to be in certain way, but more so, to be aware of and observing the selfless impermanent restless impure modification of the mind, allowing the imperfect thinking and acting mind and the restless impure modification of the mind (the limited and conditional mind stuff) to be what it is, while devoid of grasping, association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, judgment, or expectation towards the imperfect selfless existence and function of the thinking and acting mind, and the mind perception towards all kinds of names and forms, of desirable or undesirable, pleasant or unpleasant, positive or negative, and pure or impure thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, sensations, memories, dreams, desires, or imaginations ceaselessly arising and passing away in the selfless modification of the mind, without forcing or controlling the mind to be quiet or silent, but eventually, the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind will calm down by itself, naturally and effortlessly, under a prolonged persistent observation devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism, and free from violence/force/control. That is the real meaning of non-violence.

Actions/practices are being performed that will lead towards the thinning-out, annihilation, or silence of the restless modification of the mind, but not by violence, force, or control.

Such as observing certain type of food consumption and physical/mental practices that suits the particular condition of the body and mind most, that can help to calm down the over stimulated restless thought current, that can help to remove laziness or idleness, balancing the two extremities of activeness and idleness, as well as the observation of dispassion, renunciation, silence, solitude, and seclusion, to move the mind away from the external influence of worldly passionate egoistic impure affairs, connections, communications, interactions, and activities as much as possible for a prolonged duration, while allowing the result or the fruit of actions/practices/observations to be what it is, allowing the annihilation or silence of the restless modification of the mind to be happening as it is, at its own pace.

Just as the action of preparing oneself to go to sleep, while allowing the mind to fall asleep as it is. The more the mind expects and forces itself to fall asleep, the more difficult it is for sleep to be happening. Similarly, one can only perform many actions/practices of purifying, calming, and quieting the restless impure modification of the mind, to be preparing the mind for self-inquiry and meditation, while allowing self-inquiry and meditation to be happening as it is, at its own pace, upon the cause is ripened.

Embrace and respect the freedom of existence and function, or the freedom of being what all and everything are, as they are, and all are selfless and impermanent, all are limited and conditional, all and everything are non-self, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

Allow the selfless mechanism or function of the mind perception, the senses, the organs of the senses, the cognition, the intellect, the reasoning, the memory, the emotion, the thinking faculty, the thought process, the different bodily systems and organs, the organs of actions, the ability and disability, and the opportunity and possibility, to be what they are, as they are, that they are imperfect and non-self, and there are certain inevitable defects, condition, or limitation, but without being over-powered or determined by all those ability and disability, condition and limitation, imperfection and defects, and the absence of opportunity and possibility, without hurting oneself and/or others under the presence of correct understanding that can be developed and empowered, and out of one's conscious awareness/freewill/choice/desire/don't desire/action/inaction.

Perform action/practice/duty/responsibility, and renounce the fruit of action/practice/duty/responsibility, allowing the fruit to be what it is, and evolves as it is - The essence of the yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practice.

Renounce the fruit of action/practice/duty/responsibility doesn't mean that being irresponsible towards one's action and the consequences of one's action, but it is about fearlessly taking full responsibility towards one's thinking and action and the consequences of one's thinking and action, by consciously looking after the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of oneself, by oneself, which is about attaining correct understanding and peace, by freeing the mind from the influence of ignorance and its by-products.

Meanwhile, one also has the freedom of performing or not performing certain actions that might bring constructive beneficial changes/improvements, or more peace and harmony into one's selfless impermanent momentary life existence and into the surrounding environment or the world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything. There is neither right nor wrong.

It's the freedom of all minds towards what they want or don't want to practice, and what they want or don't want to do with their selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function.

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Renunciation and dispassion

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha let go or renounced the family life and the worldly way of living, and the title, power, wealth, easiness, enjoyment, or comfort of being a prince as well as the future ruler of a kingdom that he inherited from birth.

Swami Sivananda also let go or renounced the family life and the worldly way of living, and the title, power, wealth, easiness, enjoyment, or comfort of being a Brahmin that he inherited from birth, as well as the worldly profession of a medical doctor that he achieved through academic education, although he continued to provide charitable medical consultation/dispensary to the public throughout his lifetime.

Upon attaining self-realization (after a prolonged duration of retreating into solitude and seclusion), they came back to the world to disseminate the dharma into the world selflessly, until the end of their life existence.

Renunciation from worldly life, retreat into solitude and seclusion, is an inevitable important observation that allows the mind to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process effectively under right attitude, right attentiveness, and right effort via the middle path, that enables the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the selfless modification of the mind effectively, where the selfless thinking and acting mind knows Thyself, and transcends the selfless impermanent existence and function of itself, transcending the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, or the selfless impermanent limited and conditional worldly life existence.

Under the presence of the wise companies, Satsanga, one also needs to retreat into solitude and seclusion (Asanga - the absence of Satsanga and Kutsanga) for certain extended duration (minimum 5 to 6 years, or even longer) to be observing complete silence of physical and mental activity, including both worldly and spiritual activity (The absence of attachment, clinging, longing, and craving towards the presence of goodness, kindness, easiness, joyfulness, meaningfulness, agreement, love, support, acknowledgement, interaction, companionship, or Satsanga), not to say, under the presence of Kutsanga (Being surrounded by the worldly passionate impure egoistic minds and engaging in the worldly passionate impure egoistic affairs, activities, ties and connections, communications, and interactions), that are draining one's energy, and pulling/distracting oneself away from the highest duty of mankind to be looking after one's over-all physical and mental well-being, to attain direct experience and self-realization towards Selflessness and Impermanence, to stop hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment out of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

There is the inevitable necessity of renouncing family and community life/affairs/activities/interactions/communications/ties and connections to be observing complete silence in solitude and seclusion even when the family members and the surrounding community are like-minded and agreeable as well as uplifting with correct understanding (Satsanga), not to say, when the family members and/or the surrounding community (Passionate egoistic impure worldly minded Kutsanga) are ceaselessly draining one's energy and pulling/distracting oneself away from the highest duty of mankind.

None can tell another about what they should do or shouldn't do, or how they should live their life.

None can tell another, "Your daily 'normal' way of life of engaging in family ties and social connections, communication, interaction, affair, and activity with your direct and indirect family ties and connections and the worldly community are the main reason why you didn't make any progress on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization (even when you practice some kind of yoga and meditation practice from time to time or regularly, and that you have the great aspiration towards (and have been) observing a 'healthy and simple' way of living, 'high and positive' thinking, 'good and righteous' conduct, and 'clean and pure' eating), however, you are still very much unwittingly being the slave of ignorance, the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism of attachment/identification/craving/aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation, worldly and spiritual passionate desires/inspirations/aspirations/ambitions, worldly and spiritual knowledge and achievement, physical/mental/emotional inter-dependence and comfort, pleasurable enjoyments of the senses, the sense of pride/self-esteem/self-worth/goodness/righteousness/joyfulness/positiveness/meaningfulness/accomplishment, all kinds of impurities, and restlessness, while you strongly think and believe that you are the victim of the imperfect physical/mental/emotional genetic inheritance from your parental ancestry lineage, that you are the victim of other people's bad and wrongful behavior and undeserving ill treatment, and that all kinds of bad/unfair/wrongful/hurtful/disagreeable/unpleasant/disappointing affairs in the family/relationship/community/country/world, and all kinds of undeserving experiences or ill treatments from others are the cause of all your unhappiness, dissatisfaction, disappointment, disturbance, resentment, bitterness, hurts, anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, selfishness, shortcomings, failures, painful suffering, as well as your own disturbing hurtful behavior/action/reaction unto yourself and others out of the disturbed unhappy restless state of mind."

None can tell another, "Your ignorant egoistic impure restless way of thinking and behavior pattern that is constantly hurting yourself and others, is no doubt being conditioned and influenced by your family ancestry genetic inheritance, but even more so, by your continuous engagement, connection, communication, activity, and interaction with your family ties and connections that are under such ignorant egoistic impure restless mind thinking and behavior pattern that is highly detrimental to your physical/mental/emotional well-being. You can't change your family ancestry genetic inheritance that gives rise to a particular mind thinking and behavior pattern that are under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, but you have the conscious choice of moving away from such conditioning influential surrounding environment, in order to not continuously empowering such ignorant egoistic impure restless mind thinking and behavior pattern in yourself, but even more importantly, to be determined to purify, modify, and change such ignorant egoistic impure restless mind thinking and behavior pattern via many different types of methods or techniques."

None can tell another, "The worldly passionate egoistic thinking/belief/idea/values/practice about 'I need to be proud of myself' and 'I need to make others to be proud of me' and 'I need to be able to be good enough to be qualified/deserving to attain love/attention/encouragement/support/agreement/approval/acknowledgement/recognition/praise/compliment/acceptance/respect from myself, my family, my parents, my siblings, my relatives, my friends, my spouse, my children, my teachers, my students, my employers, my colleagues, my community, my leader, my followers, my country, my authority, and the world' are the cause of why you are what you are (devoid of peace and freedom), or why you are thinking, feeling, and behaving in the way that you are, ceaselessly longing/craving/missing/chasing after towards the gratification of the desires of craving (wants) towards the presence of love, support, accomplishment, acknowledgement, recognition, agreement, approval, acceptance, praise and compliment, understanding, happiness, goodness, positiveness, joyfulness, meaningfulness, easiness, or the pleasurable enjoyment of the body and mind/the senses, and towards the gratification of the desires of aversion (don't wants) towards the absence of all those agreeable and desirable names and forms, as well as the presence of the opposite of all that."

It has to come from the selfless thinking and acting mind itself, having the precious self awareness and basic understanding, to be self-initiative to be renouncing all that, to initiate both conscious and unconscious evolution of the conditioned and limited mind thinking and behavior pattern to be directed towards particular direction, towards attaining liberation from ignorance and the ignorant way of thinking and behavior pattern deriving from ignorance, of the path of wisdom and compassion, under intense will power and determination.

There is needless of renunciation, solitude, and seclusion, if the mind is devoid of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, where the mind is okay and free as it is, regardless of what it perceives/experiences/knows and doesn't perceive/experience/know, under any condition and situation, that it doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment, that it is uninfluenced and undetermined (not being over-powered) by all kinds of names and forms that it perceived through the senses or physical/mental inputs.

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The realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, is not depressive at all.

If the mind thinks and believes that it has attained self-realization, or, it thinks and believes that it knows what is selflessness, impermanence, non-self, or cause and effect, but then, it becomes highly depressed, and reluctant to perform any wholesome action, or even, it deliberately performs all kinds of unwholesome actions, as it perceives and understands that, "All and everything are meaningless, life existence is meaningless, because there is no freewill, because there is no 'I' existing to be in control of anything, where it is meaningless of trying to make any effort to be performing any actions to direct selfless impermanent changes/evolution of the body and mind in certain way, as everything is already destined to be and not to be in certain way, as well as to evolve and not evolving in certain way, governed by an existing cause that came into effect. This body and mind and its behavior/action/reaction influenced by a limited and conditional mind thinking and behavior pattern, is being conditioned and determined by inevitable ancestry genetic inheritance to be in specific condition/traits, and being influenced and determined by all kinds of physical/mental inputs that is not in the control of anything, for the mind to think, feel, desire, and behave/act/react in certain way, as well as to be experiencing or not experiencing this or that from the beginning to the end of this life existence, of every single event and happening and relationship, are all fixed and destined. I am a person that I am, of how I think, feel, desire, and behave or not, regardless of whether I am good or bad, happy or unhappy, healthy or unhealthy, fit or unfit, lazy or not lazy, selfish or unselfish, wise or ignorant, peaceful or not peaceful, I have no choice, it's not my choice, as I don't have freewill to make any choices, and I have no responsibility or control towards anything, because it is in my genes and determined by all kinds of existing or non-existing elements. I am changing into a different person also it is because of my genes is evolving in certain way accordingly under the existing cause. There is no freewill to direct the evolution of anything in certain way, because everything is selfless, inter-dependent, limited, and conditional." That clearly indicates that the mind hasn't attained self-realization yet.

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Regardless of whether existing and living (as well as travelling and migrating) in any where in this world, all and everyone have been brought up, or told, or educated, or tempted, or threatened, or oppressed, or being influenced and conditioned throughout their entire life existence about how human beings under specific gender/heritage/tribe/caste/sect/title/social class/financial status/spirituality/religion/culture/nationality should or shouldn't live life in certain way, think or shouldn't think, believe or shouldn't believe, give specific value or give no value, appreciate or shouldn't appreciate, practice or shouldn't practice, should and shouldn't behave/act/react/feel/desire in certain way or not in certain way, of complying to a particular way of living/thinking/reasoning/vision/behavior/inspiration/aspiration, being conditioned not only by a particular family ancestry genetic inheritance (inevitable internal biological influence), but even more so, being conditioned largely by parental upbringing, childhood growing up environment, personal life experiences coming in contact with different experiences, events, conditions, and situations, family/community/tribal/social/national/regional/global affairs, engagements, activities, and interactions, ties and connections, friendships and relationships, cultural belief and values, spirituality and/or religion belief and practice, educational system influence, political and economical system influence, commercialism influence, philosophical influence, story telling/fairy tales/fictions/science fictions/movies/TV series/all kinds of lies and false information influence, as well as higher advanced technology inventions, public and social medias influence, of all kinds of evitable external influence,

where life existence of human beings is all about 'I', me, my self, my existence, my body, my mind, my soul, my look, my appearance, my family, my parents, my siblings, my relatives, my pets, my children, my grand children, my next generations, my friends, my community, my origin, my ancestry, my lineage, my heritage, my culture, my belief, my values, my spirituality, my religion, my ideas, my thinking, my feelings, my survival, my career, my ability, my limitation, my past, my future, my hard-work, my dedication, my contribution, my home, my country, my birth place, my nationality, my world, my pride, academic education, studying, working, eating, sleeping, playing, gathering, flirting, procreating, celebrating, mourning, gossiping, slandering, back-biting, complaining, moaning, arguing, fighting, hurting, intimidating, boasting, pretending, comparing, competing, admiring, envying, story telling, fairy tales, socializing, grouping, plotting, expectation, success, higher success, achievement, more achievement, possessions, ownership, status, title, power, wealth, endless accumulation of wealth, security, control, authorization, rules and regulations, documentation, discrimination, approval, recognition, qualification, acknowledgement, ambition, vision, inspiration, aspiration, meaningfulness, joyfulness, goodness, righteousness, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, holding onto the past, projecting into the future, stimulation and entertainment, endless higher stimulation and entertainment, enjoyment, more enjoyment, higher enjoyment, endless enjoyment, fear, worry, guilt, regret, resentment, endless desire, craving, longing, and clinging, endless disappointment, and endless dissatisfaction.

An extremely limited freedom of existence/being/evolution.

Being a plant/insect/bird/animal/uncultured human being in the wild, has a lot more freedom of existence/being/evolution than being any 'cultured' human being that exists and lives among the 'conditioned' community of so called 'cultured' human beings.

Upon the absence of all or some of those physical/mental/emotional affairs/activities/connections/interactions/stimulation/entertainments/enjoyments, the mind perceives the sense of loneliness and meaninglessness.

The minds are being conditioned by all those passionate egoistic affairs/activities/connections/interactions/stimulation/entertainments/enjoyments in the 'normal' way of living, to think and believe that all human beings need to find out the meaning of life in order to have the sense of meaningfulness that keeps them motivated in life, where they need to depend on something that make them feel nice, enjoyable, deserving, accomplished, proud, good, positive, happy, joyful, and meaningful, in order to be motivated for anything, or else, life is meaningless.

Life is not meaningless, and it doesn't have to be meaningful either. Under the different states of mind under the different impure incomplete understanding (under the presence of ignorance and its by-products), there are many things appeared to be meaningless and there are many things appeared to be meaningful, based on the different thinking, beliefs, values, desires, and practices in the different minds or community. And regardless of whether they appeared to be something meaningless or something meaningful, they all are selfless and impermanent.

If the mind truly understands that (under the absence of ignorance and its by-products), it will be free from the sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness. It doesn't need to have the sense of meaningfulness to chase away or get rid of the sense of meaninglessness. It doesn't need to chase after and hold onto what appeared to be meaningful, and it doesn't need to be disturbed by what appeared to be meaningless. It is not being determined by something appeared to be meaningful or meaningless, where all are impermanent, all will change and pass away.

Life is neither meaningful nor meaningless. Life is just what it is. Similarly all kinds of names and forms are neither meaningful nor meaningless. All and everything are just what they are.

It depends on the state of the mind (under the presence or absence of ignorance and its by-products) and how the selfless thinking and acting mind makes use of its selfless impermanent existence and function in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence of the selfless impermanent mechanism of a body and mind existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where some minds contribute many constructive and beneficial ideas and activities, while some minds contribute many destructive and harmful ideas and activities, both consciously and unconsciously, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or unintentionally, into the surrounding environment or the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

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Ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior is not something that can only exist in human beings that are uncivilized and non-educated, that are living in an area that is not being developed, but it also exists in the minds of the human beings that are highly civilized and educated, that are living in an area that is highly developed. Undeveloped poor countries have their own problems deriving from ignorance and its by-products, and highly developed rich countries also have their own problems deriving from ignorance and its by-products. It is not about the different degrees of civilization and education/development and wealthiness of the country. It is about whether the minds of the human beings are functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products, or not.

Upon experiencing great physical/mental/emotional painful suffering, disappointment, physical/mental/emotional fatigue, hurts, or despair, some minds might not know what to think or do anymore, and might turn to intoxicants or substances for getting a momentary relief, but that would inflict further physical/mental damages. That is their freedom of choice.

Or, the experience of great physical/mental/emotional painful suffering, disappointment, physical/mental/emotional fatigue, hurts, or despair, especially when the mind thinks and believes that it can't deal with life anymore, that it can't deal with any physical/mental/emotional stress and problems anymore, and that it cannot trust anyone or anything anymore, that can be the precious moment that ignites the intense desire towards liberation in the mind, where it can choose to step back from all those worldly egoistic impure affairs, ties and connections, communications, interactions, and activities, to focus fully onto itself, to be looking after its physical and mental well-being, and embarks on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization. That is not selfishness. That is the highest contribution to the world, the community, the parents, and the family.

Selflessness, where there is no permanent independent self existence of 'I' existing in the body and mind, and non-self, where all and everything are governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, it doesn't mean that there is no freewill of conscious choice making in the selfless thinking and acting mind to direct the selfless impermanent changes or evolution of the selfless impermanent body and mind, or the selfless impermanent life existence towards certain direction.

The cause (action) in this present moment now, that will give rise to effect (fruit of action), is determined by the constant conscious choice making in this present moment now. The past cannot be undone (the seed is fixed) and it influences the present in certain way, but the impermanent changes/evolution in the present can be influenced by the conscious choice making and action in this present moment now (the fruit is what it is, that it doesn't change into another different type of fruit, but the impermanent condition of the fruit is conditional, or not fixed).

The constant choice making in the present moment now, is influenced by the presence or absence of ignorance and its by-products.

Ignorance and its by-products can be present or absent. It can be manifested/formed/existing (non-self, not by conscious choice of the selfless thinking and acting mind), empowered and sustained (by the selfless thinking and acting mind, keeps feeding ignorance out of ignorant choices and actions consciously and unconsciously), or it can be weakened and thinned-out (by the selfless thinking and acting mind, stops feeding ignorance under conscious choices and actions), and be annihilated at its own pace (non-self, upon the absence of elements that give rise to ignorance). Just as a fire dies out itself eventually upon the absence of the elements that give rise to fire.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function (mechanism) of the selfless body and the selfless thinking and acting mind is depending on the availability of the selfless support of the selfless intentionless attributeless energy and/or the elements of air/water/nutrients/minerals to be existing and functioning, where the condition of the body (low energy or high energy, and etc) and the selfless impermanent states of the mind (calmed or agitated, and etc) is influenced by the level of energy and the types of influential elements (the fuel and the physical/mental inputs/activities of the body and mind), which can be navigated or influenced by the conscious choice making and action in the present moment now.

The type of food/fuel consumption and the type of physical/mental/emotional inputs and activities is influencing the condition of the body and the states of the mind, but the selfless thinking and acting mind has the conscious choice making of choosing what type of food/fuel consumption that it takes or doesn't take, and choose what type of physical/mental/emotional inputs and activities that it wants or doesn't want to be engaging with.

Poison is just what it is, neither good nor bad, but it can give rise to certain harmful effect. Having the conscious awareness and knowledge or direct experience towards the harmful effect of the poison, one has the conscious choice making of whether to consume it or to stay away from it, unless one is ignorantly consuming the poison unintentionally, or it is being forced feed the poison by some others either randomly or deliberately under the influence of ignorance.

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How the selfless thinking and acting faculty of the selfless body wants to live and make use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence, is at its own choice. The mind that strongly thinks and believes that, "There is no freewill of choice making, that all and everything are destined to be in certain way by the existing cause and effect, and whatever happens it is not my responsibility," is due to ignorance towards Selflessness and Non-self and cause and effect, but also due to the fear of taking the responsibility towards making the wrong choice that lead to worse, unpleasant, painful, and undesirable consequences, which that itself is also one of the by-products of ignorance.

The mind thinks and believes that, "I would like to live life and behave in my own way, but, my parents and my community want me to live life and behave in their way that is not what I want. I don't want to upset them. I should live life and behave according to the wish of my parents and my community." That is its own choice. Or, "I have no choice but I am 'being threatened and forced' to live life and behave in the way according to the wish of my parents and my community because I do not want to undergo painful punishment being punished by them if I don't live life and behave in the way that they want me to live life and behave." That is also its own choice.

The parents and/or the community that will inflict any kind of painful punishment unto those who don't comply to their wish/desire/command/expectation/control/authorization, are mentally sick, functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products. The parents and the community that are not mentally sick, that truly love others whom they love very much, will not inflict painful punishment unto those whom they love upon non-complying to their wish or desire, as there is absence of command/expectation/control/authorization in those who are mentally healthy, and who truly love others, where they will love others as they are, and they will not hurt themselves and others.

If someone will hurt some others physically/mentally/emotionally, either directly or indirectly, out of ungratified desires/dissatisfaction/disappointment/humiliation/anger/jealousy/resentment/bitterness/lust/possessiveness/annoyance/disturbed state of mind, while telling them, "I love you very much. I am doing this to you is for your own good. I want you to be good. Don't make me hurt you. I don't want to hurt you. So, please be good. Just listen and obey to my command. Please do as I wish and desire. Or else, I have no choice but to punish/hurt you. I don't want to hurt you, but it's you that made me hurt you." That is seriously mentally very sick. How many minds are thinking and behaving like that in this world of ignorance? Plenty. In family, in relationships, in community, in schools, in work place. Including some, or even many of those who have high level of power that can make crucial decisions and perform actions that impact the physical and mental well being of all and everyone and the surrounding environment in this world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything.

Just as many kinds of physical sickness, mentally sick or the corrupted mind thinking and behavior pattern functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products, is not something terrible, bad, wrong, or humiliating, although one can be constantly hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment out of ignorance, and more importantly, one can do something about it, to be free from ignorance and its by-products, all by oneself, via one's effort and determination, before it becomes too difficult to do anything about it.

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The states of mind is selfless and impermanent, constantly changing. It can be calmed or agitated. It can be positive or negative. It can be happy or unhappy. It can be active/hard-working or idle/lazy. But the selfless thinking and acting faculty that is aware of the selfless impermanent states of mind under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness can be consciously aware of the selfless impermanent changes of the states of mind without egoistic association, attachment, identification, judgment, or expectation towards the selfless impermanent states of mind, as well as can be influencing and modifying, purifying and silencing the states of mind under certain conscious choice making and action.

The selfless conscious awareness that comes from the selfless universal consciousness, that enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty of the selfless body to be functioning as what it is, to be conscious, to be aware, to perceive, to know, to experience, to learn, to reflect, to inquire, to reason, to understand, to remember, to think, to feel, to desire, and to act/react consciously and unconsciously, is unaffected, undetermined, undisturbed, unchanged, uncontaminated, unhurt, or undamaged by the objects of awareness, or the selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, of the perceiver and the perceived, or the senses and the objects of the senses, or the thinker and the thinking, or the knower and the knowledge, or the experiencer and the experiences. All these names and forms are merely some non-conscious names and forms, or they don't function as what they are, if without the selfless conscious awareness coming from the selfless universal consciousness.

If there is no consciousness or conscious awareness in anything, even if there is the selfless manifestation of all kinds of names and forms (non-conscious living organisms and non-living objects, where there is only unconscious evolution and absolutely no conscious evolution) in this space of the universe under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, then what is the world and worldly life existence?

What is cognition, intellect, emotion, thinking, knowledge, experience, understanding, and desire?

What is ignorance, the ego/the idea of 'I', egoism of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, comparison, and expectation?

What is 'I', 'my', and 'mine'?

What is father, mother, brother, sister, friend, community, country, nationality, authority and authorization, oppression and control, rules and regulations, legality and illegality, prosecution and punishment?

What is culture, belief, values, or practice?

What is good or bad, right or wrong, kind or unkind, positive or negative, meaningfulness or meaninglessness, joyfulness or joylessness, superiority or inferiority, pride or shame, selfishness or unselfishness, happiness or unhappiness, appropriateness or inappropriateness, praise or criticism?

What is purity or impurity, strength or weakness, beautiful or ugly, ordinary or extra ordinary, standard or non-standard, acceptable or non-acceptable, deserving or non-deserving, wholesome or unwholesome, constructive or destructive, progression or regression, civilized or uncivilized, cultured or uncultured?

What is easiness or difficulty, painful suffering or pleasurable enjoyment?

What is possessiveness, ownership, discrimination, separateness, exploitation, cruelty, violence, argument, fighting, or wars?

What is dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, hurt, resentment, bitterness, greed, offensiveness, defensiveness, fear and worry?

What is truthfulness and untruthfulness, lies and betrayal?

What is limitation and disability?

What is permanence/infinite and impermanence/finite?

What is freedom and peace, or the absence of freedom and peace? What is the yearning towards freedom and peace? What is doubt, inquiry, and realization?

What is the presence and/or absence of freewill?

What is actions and consequences of actions?

What is existence and ceased existence, or momentary finite existence and permanent infinite existence? 

What is conscious evolution?

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Selflessness in all kinds of living organisms (and non-living objects), where there is no existence of a permanent independent infinite self existence/identity of 'I' existing in all and everything to be experiencing life existence and undergoing selfless impermanent changes or evolution that are non-self, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, and depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning, it doesn't mean that there is only unconscious physical and mental activities (absence of conscious freewill/choice/action/desire), or there is no selfless conscious awareness for each selfless mind to be perceiving, knowing, processing, understanding, learning, thinking, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, and evolving consciously and individually in certain way or not in certain way (presence of conscious freewill/choice/action/desire), that can also influence the unconscious evolution.

Regardless of the presence or absence of ignorance and its by-products in the modification of the mind, regardless of the different pleasant or unpleasant states of the mind, the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the selfless conscious awareness, is still what it is. There might be impermanent different elements/qualities of goodness or evilness arising, changing, and passing away in the modification of the mind that influence the personality, the thinking, the feelings and emotions, the desires, and the behavior/action/reaction of the mind, but the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the selfless conscious awareness for the selfless thinking and acting faculty to be conscious/aware of the arising, changing, and passing away (the impermanent manifestation) of all kinds of impermanent qualities/elements of goodness and evilness in the modification of the mind, is unaffected, undetermined, uncontaminated, unhurt, or undamaged by all that.

There might be good or bad personalities/qualities/elements/traits/ideas/desires/behavior, there might be good mood or bad mood/happy or unhappy feelings, there might be kindness or cruelty, there might be selfishness or unselfishness, there might be wisdom (correct understanding) or ignorance (corrupted understanding), and so on, in the many different minds, but the selfless conscious awareness that enables the mind to be conscious/aware of all that, is neither good nor bad, neither happy nor unhappy, neither kind nor cruel, neither selfish nor unselfish, neither wise nor ignorant, and so on.

Regardless of whether the selfless mind is in the state of awake, semi awake/sleep, asleep, dreaming, or deep sleep, regardless of whether the selfless mind is fully conscious/aware, or semi-conscious/aware, or unconscious/unaware, being fully/partially connected to or disconnected from the selfless conscious awareness, the selfless universal consciousness is still there as it is, neither appear nor disappear, neither increase nor decrease.

The personality and/or the mind thinking and behavior pattern of the selfless mind is the reflection of the modification/states of the mind, and vice versa. Everyone has different states of mind, or different personality and mind thinking and behavior pattern, and has different personal experiences as well as different collective group experiences. The modification/states of the mind is ceaselessly changing, significantly or insignificantly. People's personality/thinking/desire/feelings/emotions/behavior/action/reaction are ceaselessly changing, significantly or insignificantly. The personal experiences and collective group experiences are ceaselessly changing, significantly or insignificantly. But, the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the selfless conscious awareness in all and every different minds that come under each of their own particular different personalities, different mind thinking and behavior pattern, different personal and collective group experiences, and different modification/states of mind, regardless of low or high energy level, and regardless of being influenced by what type of food consumption (fuel)/elements/qualities/inputs/activities, is the same, and unchanged.

The selfless existence and function of the selfless body and mind is limited, conditional, impermanent, and momentary. But, the selfless attributeless nameless formless timeless changeless thoughtless intentionless actionless universal consciousness (the selfless silent witness) that gives rise to the selfless intentionless attributeless conscious awareness in the countless different selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds of the many different personalities/traits/characteristics/thinking/desires/behaviors/actions/reactions/experiences, is unlimited, unconditional, permanent, and infinite. It is neither 'I', nor 'you', nor, 'us', nor 'them'. It doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The 'I', 'you', 'us', and 'them', are merely some momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional adjuncts or mechanisms (names and forms) that inter-dependent on the many different selfless cells/systems/organs/bodily structures/duties/responsibilities and etc, to be working together selflessly under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, in order to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are. There is neither superiority nor inferiority.

The selfless universal consciousness isn't something that 'contained' in the names and forms, just as the space. Everything manifested under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where all and everything formed/existing, constantly changing, and passing away in the space, but all that doesn't affect, determine, contaminate, hurt, damage, increase, or decrease the attributeless infinite space.

The selfless universal consciousness 'doesn't control' the selfless impermanent changes in all kinds of selfless names and forms that ceaselessly arise, change, and pass away upon it, and it doesn't initiate conscious and/or unconscious evolution of the living beings/organisms to be or not to be in certain way. It doesn't give rise to the survival instinct in all kinds of living beings/organisms for life maintenance, or the presence and/or absence of ignorance/the idea of 'I'/egoism/impurities/restlessness in the minds. It doesn't create or responsible for the existence and ceased existence of all kinds of names and forms, or the different personalities, qualities, traits, conditions, mind thinking and behavior patterns, desires, actions/reactions, experiences, and the consequences of all that (selfless impermanent limited and conditional conscious and unconscious evolution) in the different selfless thinking and acting minds.

It is coming from each and every single thinking and acting mind itself, having the 'intentionless gift' of the selfless intentionless attributeless actionless changeless conscious awareness coming from the selfless universal consciousness, being conscious/aware, perceiving all kinds of qualities of names and forms consciously and unconsciously, to be experiencing, learning, reasoning, understanding, thinking, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, and evolving consciously and unconsciously in certain way or not in certain way, influenced by the ceaseless cause or ceaseless conscious and unconscious actions that are being generated by each and every mind themselves.

Unless there is certain deformation, or malfunction, or dysfunction, or damage, or injury in the physical body, especially in the brains and the central and peripheral nervous system (the hardware of the thinking and acting faculty of the physical body that receive and process inputs/information, and give command/signal to the organs of actions for performing actions), where there is absence of conscious awareness, even though there might be some unconscious physical and mental bodily systems/activities ceaselessly happening operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct, under the presence of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, then there is completely no freewill of conscious choice making/action performing of the selfless thinking and acting mind to navigate/direct/influence the selfless impermanent changes of the physical body and the conscious evolution of the selfless impermanent modification of the mind or the mind thinking and behavior pattern in certain way or not in certain way.

The selfless universal consciousness/awareness doesn't perform actions.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body with the conscious thinking and acting mind has the selfless function of performing both conscious by choice (wittingly) and unconscious non by-choice actions (unwittingly) via the organs of action (under the presence of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements), that are influencing the conscious and unconscious evolution of the existence (duration of existence/life span), condition, and function (mechanism) of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind in certain way (effect of the cause, of the conscious and unconscious actions after the body and mind is being formed/existing and functioning).

Regardless of the absence or presence of the different degrees of ignorance, regardless of what are the different personalities/qualities/traits/characteristics/conditions/ways of thinking/beliefs/understanding/desires/behaviors/actions/reactions/states of mind, as long as the selfless organs of perception/cognition/intellect/emotion/thinking/acting, the organs of the senses, and the organs of actions are existing and functioning as what they are, as long as one has the basic function or ability of to be conscious/aware, to be consciously perceiving names and forms through the senses, to experience, to know, to learn, to reason, to inquire, to understand, to think, to feel, to desire, to act and react, and to be performing actions via the organs of actions, then there is the freewill of conscious choice making and action performing to navigate/direct/influence the conscious and unconscious evolution in certain way, under the presence of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements (non-self, not in the control of anyone or anything).

Just as fire exists under a cause (the presence of certain elements that give rise to fire), and it will die off of by itself eventually upon the absence of the elements that give rise to fire (non-self). But one who has the conscious awareness and the organs of actions can perform certain action under the presence of certain knowledge and understanding, that can keep away unnecessary fire as much as possible. And if one is aware of there is the existence of fire that doesn't need to be there, that can damage the surrounding environment, lives, and objects, one can have the conscious awareness/choice/action to do one's best to put out the fire by performing certain actions before the fire becomes uncontrollable and cause serious damages unto the surrounding environment, lives, and objects, where the fruit of action (whether the fire will ceased existing at certain timing, or not, after actions are being performed to put out the fire) is not in the control of the performer of action. The action is being performed out of one's conscious awareness/choice/effort/desire (freewill), but the result/fruit of action is what it is (non-self, not in the control of the performer of action).

One can do one's best to perform actions/practices to be purifying and quieting the restless modification of the mind, out of conscious awareness/choice/action/freewill, diligently and determinedly, but the fruit of action/practice will be there as it is, at its own pace (non-self).

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A seed needs to be planted either wittingly or unwittingly, in order to have the existence of a matured plant that gives specific type of fruit of that particular type of seed, and how the seed is being nurtured to become a matured plant that gives fruits, can influence the entire condition of the plant and the fruits to be in certain way. If no seed is being planted, there is no plant or fruit. If the seed is damaged or already dead, it won't grow and turn into a plant no matter how much proper care is being given to it. Or, a healthy seed is being planted, but it is not being nurtured properly to become a healthy matured plant of the best condition that gives fruits of the best taste.

How one wants to live life and behave, and what one wants to do with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence, it is at one's own conscious choice/freewill (the ceaseless cause in the present moment), while allowing life to be what it is (the effect of cause), evolving at its own pace, under the seeds and nurture (the cause or the conscious and unconscious choice/action in the present moment) that one has been planting and nurturing throughout one's selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence.

Existence is only in NOW. There is only NOW. There is neither past nor future in NOW. While everything in NOW, is ceaselessly changing. Time is merely the reflection of impermanent changes and movements. Day and night and year is merely the ceaseless movements of the earth in itself, and around the sun. Age is merely the impermanent changes of the physical body. Timelessness doesn't mean that history didn't exist, and the effect of the history is still lingering in this world in NOW. It doesn't mean that memories of what have been happening/experiencing don't exist. It doesn't mean that everything and everyone before NOW, didn't and don't exist. But, none can undo or change what had happened. Let it go.

Meanwhile, all and everyone can learn from what have been happening and experiencing, and have the conscious choice to be performing actions in NOW, that would lead to constructive consequences, that would help the world to have more peace and kindness and correct understanding, and less unrest/cruelty/fear/suffering/violence.

Inquire what is the 'I' that the thinking in the mind that thinks and believes and identifies as 'my individual independent self existence', and attain direct self realization towards Selflessness and Impermanence (Timelessness), one will be free from doubts and fear, and all kinds of superstitious beliefs, or the many contaminated corrupted incorrect misinterpreted information about this or that in this worldly life existence of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, or blind-propagate anything from anyone and anywhere, including all that is here.

Inquire the truth of everything.