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Sunday, February 9, 2025

How to deal with all kinds of ignorance and ignorant affairs in this world

No doubt that there are many people/minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products, and hence, there are many ignorant affairs that are happening in this world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything.

How to deal with all kinds of ignorance and ignorant affairs in this world is the same as how would one be dealing with the many people/minds that are suffering from certain degrees of certain kind of mental illness. And there are many people/minds are not aware of themselves are mentally ill, and they don't like and would feel very disturbed and offended when they are being referred as 'mentally ill'.

Pride is a form of mental illness. Possessiveness is a form of mental illness. Greed and jealousy is a form of mental illness. Anger and hatred is a form of mental illness. Being over-powered by all kinds of impurities influencing one's behavior/action/reaction is a serious form of mental illness. Being ignorant towards ignorance in oneself is the most serious form of mental illness. The minds that are ignorant towards ignorance in themselves don't have any self-control or reasoning power. They are existing and functioning on the instinctive level, being over-powered by or operating under 'the basic survival instinct' that exists in all living organisms, even if they are well educated, highly knowledgeable, or talented and skillful in many things.

The people/minds that are mentally healthy, they don't perceive 'those who are mentally ill' or 'mental illness' or 'ignorance and impurities' as something bad, negative, wrong, inferior, shortcoming, insulting, humiliating, or shameful.

The people/minds that suffering from some kind of mental illness, that are mentally ill, are not different from wild animals, where sometimes they are very calmed and 'cute', while some other times they are very disturbed, agitated, aggressive, violent, and 'hurtful', where they might behave/act/react spontaneously and irrationally, that would hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment, either intentionally or unintentionally, and either deliberately or randomly.

One cannot reason with those who are mentally ill.

One doesn't need to be angry with those who are mentally ill, and doesn't need to be determined or disturbed by their 'damaging hurtful destructive behaviors'.

Just as one cannot reason or be angry with the wild animals for their unpredictable behaviors most of the time.

Ignorance is destructive. It is like any of the destructive 'natural disasters'. One doesn't need to or cannot be angry with the destructive natural disasters being what they are. One can be angry, if one wants to be angry, but it's one's own responsibility for hurting oneself with anger.

Just as one accidentally (or deliberately) fall into a 'hole' that is there being what it is, and got injured and feels pain, one cannot be angry with the hole, or out of annoyance and anger, one kicks and punches the space of the hole or the wall of the hole in order to release one's anger and pain, to revenge, but it is hurting and injuring oneself further out of one's action/reaction, while it doesn't change the hole being what it is. One might want to fill up the hole with earth, to make the hole disappear, and hence, one digs another hole to get the earth for filling the existing hole, which doesn't make sense.

One can only be vigilant not to fall into any holes. And there are many 'holes' and there will be more and more 'holes' everywhere in this world.

One can only see what one can do, to watch out for any kinds of 'natural disasters', to avoid or minimize coming in contact with 'natural disasters' directly, and see what one can do to 'clean up the mess' and/or 'repair or rebuild what have been damaged or destroyed', or not, without attachment or expectation.

If one wants to clean up the mess and/or repair or rebuild what have been damaged or destroyed, then know that there might be another and/or many other natural disasters will be happening again or repeatedly, where all and everything would be damaged or destroyed again and again after one's continuous effort of 'cleaning up' and 'repairing/rebuilding' the aftermath every time, while remains equanimous and at peace, without being determined, or disturbed, or disappointed, or hurt, or angered by all that.

Just as those who are looking after the people that are suffering from certain serious mental illness, where mentally ill people are not aware of (ignorant towards) what is happening in themselves or their behaviors. They are dealing with a very difficult situation, as they might be 'attacked' and 'injured' at anytime by those that they are looking after with care and loving kindness.

The healthy people/minds that have certain degrees of correct understanding, they don't suffer for other people's/minds' ignorance and the consequences of their ignorance, even if they are being affected physically and mentally, directly or indirectly.

Why hurt oneself further or continuously by something that the mind thinks and believes as other people's 'ignorance', that is 'bad' and 'wrong'?

Under the presence of correct understanding (wisdom), the selfless thinking and acting mind is not being determined or disturbed by the ignorance and ignorant affairs in this world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything. The physical body might be in a bad or weak and uncomfortable condition, but that also doesn't determine the thinking and acting mind that is devoid of ignorance, the idea of 'I' and egoism, that has transcended the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, that is being aware of the selfless impermanent physical condition under the absence of grasping, or attachment, or identification.

There are minds that have not yet developed any degree of self-control (the absence of freewill to make choices to behave/act/react in certain way, or not) or reasoning power (correct understanding) at all, being completely over-powered by survival instinct and influential elements, ignorantly attaching and identifying and associating with the restless impure modification of the mind/the selfless impermanent state of mind, and being the slave of the influential elements/ignorance/egoism/desires/impurities/restlessness.

There are minds that have developed different degrees of self-control and reasoning power of choosing how to behave/act/react in certain way, or not, transcending the survival instinct and all kinds of influential elements, or transcending the selfless and impermanent modification of the mind/the state of mind, via non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-association and thinning-out/annihilating the ignorance/egoism/desires/impurities/restlessness.

Patience, tolerance, forbearance, perseverance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, acceptance, contentment, calmness, generosity, letting go, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, non-expectation, non-violence, self-control, reasoning power, correct understanding, determination, and etc, might be presence or absence in different minds, or might be presence under different degrees in different minds, but at the same time, all that can be developed or be strengthened, under self-initiation and self-effort.

"I am disturbed and angry. I want to behave destructively to hurt everyone and everything to express and release my anger."

Or,

"There is disturbance and anger arise in the mind. This is impermanent. It will pass away. It's neither 'I' nor 'mine'. There is no need to behave destructively to hurt anyone and anything."

What will this mind choose?

Inquire the truth of everything.

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