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.
Inquire the truth of everything.
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