The corrupted impure egoistic restless selfless intentionless modification of the mind

The corrupted impure egoistic restless selfless intentionless modification of the mind, is the IGNORANCE that is being mentioned in the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism, that hinders the selfless thinking and acting mind to know itself, of what it is, as it is.

This IGNORANCE is not about non-intelligent or low intelligence, non-educated or low education, non-knowledgeable or low knowledge, stupidity, or laziness, as being translated literary under the worldly knowledge and understanding.

This IGNORANCE exists in all minds, including the minds that are highly intelligent, highly educated, highly knowledgeable, extremely smart, and extremely hardworking, except the minds that are free from the veil or the influence of IGNORANCE, that know Thyself.

This IGNORANCE is the root cause of why the mind perceives all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering, being determined or over-powered by the mind perception towards a momentary mortal worldly life existence that is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, of experiencing all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional ties and connections, relationships, affairs, objects, activities, interactions, conditions, and situations, that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or painful suffering, that are non-self, that are not in the control of the mind to be or not to be in certain way.

Ignorance is neither good nor bad. There is nothing wrong, bad, negative, weak, shortcoming, or to be shameful, humiliating, condemning, or criticizing towards the presence of ignorance in the modification of the mind. However, under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, and impurities, the minds would perceive or interpret that as something wrong, bad, negative, weakness, shortcoming, shameful, humiliating, or condemn and criticism deserving.

Upon the annihilation of ignorance, upon the mind knows itself, upon the knower knows the knowledge of Thyself, upon the experiencer knows the experiences, the mind transcends all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering, even if the life existence is still what it is, selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, and all and everything are non-self, not in the control of the mind to be or not to be in certain way, where all and everything are governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

The liberated mind under the presence of conscious awareness, devoid of the veil of ignorance, can be performing or not performing certain action that would give rise to the respective consequences of action/inaction, under the presence of correct understanding and self control (under the presence of conscious freewill, not being over-powered by the selfless intentionless mind stuff).

To annihilate the corruption in the modification of the mind, a.k.a. the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, impurities, egoism, the idea of 'I', and restlessness (the veil of ignorance) from the selfless intentionless modification of the mind, is to know and uproot the root cause that gives rise to the corruption, or the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, impurities, egoism, the idea of 'I', and restlessness.

What is the root cause that gives rise to the veil of ignorance that arises/appears/exists in the selfless intentionless modification of the mind?

The limited and conditional inherited genetic traits, personality, characteristics under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, as well as the limited and conditional inherited and adopted worldly passionate impure egoistic beliefs, ideas, values, and practices, that are influencing the thinking and behavior pattern to be and not to be in certain way. Both inherited and adopted influences are limited and conditional, selfless and impermanent, that is constantly evolving either unconsciously (absence of freewill) or consciously (presence of freewill), as well as both consciously and unconsciously.

The unconscious evolution might be more or less dominant than the conscious evolution, and vice versa, and can be reversible.

The liberated mind transcends (not being determined by) what is inevitable under the truth of selflessness, impermanence, non-self, and limitation of being limited by the presence and absence of condition, of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal life existence that is not in its control, of forming, decaying and disintegrating, of existing, decaying, and ceased existing.

The liberated mind also can transcend (not being over-powered by) the limited and conditional inherited genetic qualities, personality, and characteristics under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, that is being what it is, and evolves as it is.

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The liberated mind also can transcend or not being determined by the limited and conditional inherited and/or adopted worldly passionate impure egoistic beliefs, ideas, values, and practices, and hence, not being over-powered by the limited and conditional thinking and behavior pattern, but having the conscious freewill, correct understanding, and self-control, to be performing or not performing certain action that would give rise to the respective consequences of action/inaction, that would be benefiting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, that would help other minds to have a starting point or direction to be reflecting/inquiring upon, to be engaging in the process of eliminating the idea of 'I' and egoism and impurities, purifying the intellectual reasoning power and understanding, modifying the thinking and behavior pattern, and quieting the restless modification of the mind, without desire, intention, or expectation to change or control anything or anyone to be or not to be in certain way.

The minds, including the minds that are highly intelligent, highly educated, highly knowledgeable, extremely smart, and extremely hardworking, that think and believe, and conclude that, "There is absolutely/completely no freewill to be transcending all these," that is because they still haven't attained the direct self realization towards the absolute knowledge that is always there, of knowing Thyself. They might have some partial understanding towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditioning, and non-self, but they need to attain direct self realization towards all that, to know Thyself.

That is due to the thinking and acting faculty is identifying and associating with the subjects that it is inquiring. The thinking and acting faculty is unwittingly identifying and associating with the cognition/the existing knowledge, information, ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, the intellect/the reasoning/the understanding, the thoughts/the thinking, the sensations, the feelings and emotions, and the action of inquiring. Just like the investigator is investigating towards all and everyone and everything, except itself.

The mind is reasoning/inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, but it didn't inquire towards the truth of the existing accumulated knowledge and understanding in itself, of what it thinks it knows and understands that is influencing the intellectual reasoning power to be reasoning/inquiring towards all and everything in certain way.

That is why the highly essential of self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of 'I', or "Who am I?", or "What is the self identity of 'I' that the thinking in the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I'?"

That is why the highly importance of engaging in the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence. To move the mind away from the continuous influence of the worldly passionate egoistic ideas, habits, affairs, activities, connections, communications, and interactions (inputs and outputs), that ceaselessly empower the idea of 'I' and egoism, impurities and restlessness, that hinders the mind from performing self inquiry to be inquiring towards everything about itself, towards its selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional existence and function being part of the selfless bodily functions/mechanisms of the selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional physical body, of having a momentary mortal selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional life existence perceiving and experiencing all kinds of names and forms, that are non-self, that are not in its control or desire to be or not to be in certain way.

Under the influence of ignorance and under the absence of correct understanding, the mind perceives the perception of 'being not free', as it is being determined and disturbed by the selfless impermanent changes that are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable, and it is being bound by the actions and consequences of actions governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

There is neither right nor wrong. The minds just need to keep inquiring under a pure, calm, and quiet state of mind, devoid of the idea of 'I'/grasping/attachment/identification/craving/aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation, not being influenced by the existing understanding and accumulated knowledge and information in the mind stuff to reason and judge, or to analyze and conclude. But, just to see/witness/observe things as they are, under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness.

Only upon the silence of the modification of the mind, where there is the absence of mental actions/reactions even just for a few moments (the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty paused functioning momentary) under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness, but merely being aware of/witnessing/observing the object of awareness as it is, that gives rise to the precious glimpse towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditioning, and non-self, in all and everything, including the mind that perceives suffering, that has the intense yearning towards knowledge/liberation/freedom/peace, that is performing the yoga and/or buddhism practice, that is purifying and quieting the modification of the mind, that is inquiring the truth of everything, that attains direct self-realization towards the truth of everything, and that transcends the evitable and inevitable mind stuff or suffering.

The selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body is impermanent, limited, and conditional, that will decay and disintegrate, that will ceased functioning and existing.

Without the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness, there is no conscious perceiving, knowing, recognizing, intellectual reasoning, discriminating, experiencing, learning, understanding, thinking, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, enjoying, or suffering. Under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body is consciously perceiving, knowing, recognizing, intellectual reasoning, discriminating, experiencing, learning, understanding, thinking, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, enjoying, or suffering, through the organs of the senses and the organs of actions, of the physical body.

Under the presence or absence of the conscious awareness, the selfless mind perceives/experiences or doesn't perceive/experience pleasurable enjoyment or painful suffering, but the selfless conscious awareness doesn't enjoy or suffer.

All are selfless. All are just what they are. All are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither positive nor negative.

There is no good or evil, no right or wrong, no positive or negative in the selfless intentionless thoughtless actionless changeless timeless causeless attributeless conscious awareness. The conscious awareness (the silent witness) is just what it is. It is not being contaminated, or determined, or disturbed, or damaged, or destroyed by the ceaseless changes (the limitation of time, space, and causation/the restlessness of births and deaths of ceaseless thoughts arising, changing, and passing away transitioning in different realms/states of mind) in the names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, that are just being what they are, neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither positive nor negative.

The different qualities in the names and forms are just what they are, neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, neither positive nor negative. These qualities appeared to be having the quality/attribute of good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, are being projected by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty unto all kinds of names and forms, as well as being perceived/recognized by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty as something good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, based on the existing inherited and/or adopted beliefs, ideas, values, and practices in the selfless intentionless modification of the mind, under the presence of the selfless intentionless conscious awareness.

Similarly, there is no good or evil, no right or wrong, no positive or negative in the selfless impermanent existence and function of the body and mind, even though the selfless existence and function of the body and mind is limited, conditional, impermanent, and momentary, where it can be functioning efficiently or inefficiently, consciously or instinctively/unconsciously, and it is constantly changing, and eventually stops functioning.

However, under the presence and influence of ignorance in the selfless intentionless modification of the mind, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty and its selfless intentionless modification of the mind, give rise to all kinds of impure egoistic mental ideas, desires, actions, and reactions under the influence of instinctive/unconscious urges and/or conscious choices, that turn into physical activities/actions/reactions/behaviors, that give rise to the respective consequences, and hence, the body and mind and its ideas, desires, actions, reactions, activities, and behaviors, appeared to be having the quality/attribute of good or evil, right or wrong, positive or negative.

The selfless intentionless conscious awareness is not being contaminated, or determined, or changed, or damaged, or destroyed by the objects of awareness, or the presence and absence of what the mind perceives, recognizes, reasons, discriminates, thinks, believes, and judges as the quality/attribute of good or evil, right or wrong, positive or negative.

Non-blind believing. Non-blind following. Non-blind-agreeing/disagreeing. Non-blind practicing. Non-blind propagating.

Inquire the truth of everything.