Firstly, the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance are unaware of the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves. And they perceive/refer/understand towards 'ignorance' as something evil, or bad, or wrongful, or inferior, or shameful, or shortcoming, or weakness, or sinful, or bad karma, or punishable, or humiliation deserving, and hence, they would feel humiliated, belittled, or offended, if they are being acknowledged by others about the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves.
The minds that are aware of and acknowledging towards the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves, that understood that ignorance is merely a normal and common manifestation of all selfless and restless modification of all minds, that ignorance (the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restless thought activities/thought current) is not something evil, or bad, or wrongful, or inferior, or shameful, or shortcoming, or weakness, or sinful, or bad karma, or punishable, or humiliation deserving, they won't feel humiliated, or belittled, or offended, if they are being acknowledged by others and themselves about the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves.
It is the same reason that is why the minds that are not intelligent enough to be knowing and understanding the different degrees of intelligence in all and every minds, while they strongly think and believe and desire that themselves are highly intelligent, and that they are more intelligent than many other minds, and they would feel humiliated, or belittled, or offended if they are being pointed out or acknowledged that they are not as intelligent as what they would like to think and believe and desire themselves to be.
The minds that are intelligent enough to be aware of the different degrees of intelligence in all minds, including in themselves, they won't feel humiliated, or belittled, or offended, if they are being acknowledged by others and themselves as not highly intelligent, that they might not be intelligent enough to know and understand certain things or many things, that there are many things are beyond their knowledge and understanding, while at the same time, they can purify the function of the intellect, and develop a higher degrees of intellectual reasoning power to be attaining unlimited knowledge under better, or correct, or absolute understanding, to be knowing and understanding more and more things that they don't know and don't understand in the present moment NOW.
Secondly, most minds are being conditioned to be fearful towards doubting and questioning, not to say, to be investigating and inquiring the truth about many things, especially towards their own particular inherited and/or adopted belief, traditions, values, and practices, and towards their elders or teachers and/or leader or authority.
Doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, or inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, have been being oppressed and suppressed or prohibited under the many worldly egoistic beliefs, values, and practices, that are full of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, justification, and manipulation, being generated under the instinctive urge and conscious desire of the many minds to be in control of everything that are related to one's own existence, as well as to be controlling/manipulating others and everything to be in certain way or not in certain way, in accordance to one's desire and don't desire, and to justify their own ignorance of being ignorant towards many things that they don't know and don't understand, as well as to justify their own behavior, actions, and reactions that are unreasonable and hurtful or destructive unto themselves and others and the surrounding environment.
Doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, or inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, is being perceived by certain minds as a threat towards many existing egoistic beliefs, values, and practices, because the minds know that all these egoistic beliefs, values, and practices are made of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, justification, and manipulation, but it can give them certain power of control/manipulation.
Most minds are not aware of themselves are being conditioned by the existing beliefs, values, and practices in their mind that has been accumulated not only from the inherited genetic traits of their particular parental ancestry lineage, but even more so, coming from the surrounding all and everyone and everything that they come in contact with, consciously and/or unconsciously, to think in certain way, to reason in certain way, to evaluate all and everything in certain way, to behave, act, and react in certain way, to feel or don't feel in certain way, to desire or don't desire in certain way, or to live life in certain way.
Thirdly, due to the many previous generations have been undergoing the oppression and suppression towards the growth or the development of intellectual reasoning power, even if they still have the function of cognitive and intellect to be learning and knowing and accumulating all kinds of information, knowledge and skills, the many minds have either lost the self-initiative or basic instinct to be doubting/questioning/reasoning/investigating/inquiring towards all and everything, or the intellectual power of reasoning is insignificant even if they have tried to reason and understand something, or the intellectual reasoning faculty is being contaminated and conditioned by the existing beliefs, values, and practices that are full of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation, as well as many minds in the present moment NOW, are continuously being oppressed/suppressed/prohibited by the family/community/authority to be doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, or inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, under intense fear towards possible painful punishment.
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All kinds of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation are generated by the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance. They exist in all and everywhere, at all levels, in the thinking, in the modification of the mind, in oneself, in the family, in the relationships with all and everyone, in each community, and among the diverse community of the world.
In fact, there are many minds welcome, agree with, and desire the existence of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation in their life existence and in their relationship with all and everyone, to feel that they are in control of their own existence, as well as to feel that they can be controlling (manipulating) all and everyone and everything to be or not to be in certain way, in accordance to their desire and don't desire.
Almost all and everyone are living and functioning in lies or untruthfulness, or hypocrisy, story telling, and manipulation all the time, and they think and believe that they (the personal and group relationship/interaction with all and everyone, or the mass community of many diversities) cannot live or function anymore if under the presence of truthfulness, or under the absence of lies, hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, or manipulation, because most mind are egoistic, impure, and restless, where they can't even deal with themselves, that they don't like the truth of themselves, that there are many things that they disagree with, dissatisfied, disappointed, dislike or hate, and don't desire about themselves, that they can't accept and love themselves as they are, and that they don't even want to know the truth of themselves, or present themselves to the world as they are, while create many idealistic images for themselves that they prefer, agree with, like, and desire.
If human beings really desire or wish for a better and healthier, a more peaceful and harmonious living environment for the next and next generations to come, the world needs to be free from all these impure egoistic ideas and practices.
Even if the existence of all kinds of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation might be giving some sorts of justification and comforting element to the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, for them to feel that they have certain power of control (manipulation) over themselves and others, to justify what is unknown to them, and to justify certain unreasonable and hurtful happening, event, affair, behavior, action, and reaction, but all that are indeed contributing towards deeper or stronger ignorance, than to help to weaken, thin-out, or annihilate ignorance in all minds.
The minds that are free from ignorance, they don't need any kind of justification for anything, or to be comforted by anything, not to say, something that is in the form of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, or manipulation.
For the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, the truth or truthfulness appears to be something painful/disagreeable/unpleasant/undesirable/bad/wrong, and is hurting them and their relationship with all and everyone, that is jeopardizing their business affairs and dealings in the world of commercialism that mainly built on hypocrisy/untruthfulness/manipulation, as well as hurting their existing belief, values, and practices, where they feel 'powerless' or 'not in control', if they cannot control/manipulate their own selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence as well as all and everyone and everything that don't belong to anyone or anything, to be the way that they desire and like it to be, in this momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence that doesn't even belong to themselves (Non-self).
For the minds that are free from ignorance, the truth is absolute liberating, and it is just what it is, neither good nor bad, where it is absolutely liberating for the minds that are free from ignorance, and they stop hurting themselves and/or others and the surrounding environment, while the truth appears to be something bad and hurtful for the minds that are not free from ignorance, that love and embrace hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation that give them a momentary limited power of control/manipulation, and they keep hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment in the process of trying to 'control'/'manipulate' all and everything to be the way that they desire, or not to be the way that they don't desire.
The parents/the fathers/the mothers/the grand parents want to 'control' the children/grandchildren to be or not to be in certain way.
The spouse/the lover wants to 'control' the partner and the relationship to be or not to be in certain way.
The teacher wants to 'control' the students to be or not to be in certain way.
The leader of a community wants to 'control' the community to be or not to be in certain way.
The authority wants to 'control' all and everything to be or not to be in certain way.
The leader of one country wants to 'control' some other countries to be or not to be in certain way.
The leaders of all countries wants to 'control' the world to be or not to be in certain way that will give them the maximum power of control.
The business men/women want to 'control' all and everything to be or not to be in certain way that will bring them maximum profits in return.
And it has to come from the minds themselves, to be aware of and to be liberated from ignorance, or not.
The presence or existence of ignorance is merely part of the selfless manifestations of all selfless minds, that are existing and functioning under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mechanism of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements that enable the minds to be existing and functioning as what they are. It is not something evil, bad, wrong, inferior, shameful, shortcoming, weakness, sinful, bad karma, punishable, or humiliation deserving, even if it has a destructive and hurtful nature, or influence, or consequences.
Even if some minds had/have been engaging in prolonged and persevered practice of yoga and/or buddhism, and had/have attained certain degrees of understanding towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, however, they were/are not completely be free from ignorance yet, where there were/are still some subtle instinctive urges/desires/fear in the minds, influencing them to think and believe that upholding certain traditional cultural/spiritual belief, values, and practice that they knew/know it involved some sorts of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation, but it will continue to give them certain limited power of control/manipulation over the mass community that are functioning under the influence of ignorance to desire, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way, that they think is the good, right, positive, and meaningful way.
That is the power of ignorance.
And that is also the freedom of all minds towards what they think, believe, feel, desire, behave, act, and react, or not. There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, even if all that didn't/doesn't help the minds to be free from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, but it is feeding and empowering all that.
The minds that are free from ignorance, they have no fear that the majority of the minds are functioning under the influence of ignorance, and that all minds need to be self initiative to activate the mind purification process, to be engaging in persevered and diligent practice of purifying the different selfless mechanisms/functions of the mind and quieting/silencing/annihilating the selfless restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, that enabling the minds to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything without the influence of worldly passionate egoistic impure beliefs, values, and practices, to be weakening, thinning-out, and annihilating the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, until self realization or TRANSCEND takes place, where the mind transcends its own selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that is non-self, that doesn't belong to the self conscious/aware/acknowledge, perceptive, cognitive, intellectual, emotional, thinking and acting mind itself.
They don't have the desire/aspiration/vision of 'controlling'/'influencing'/'manipulating' the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance to be or not to be in certain way, although they can be performing actions as much as they can, to randomly plant as many seeds of wisdom (correct understanding) as possible, that can help the minds to be self-initiative to activate the mind purification process, to be aware of the presence of ignorance in themselves, to be developing certain degrees of correct understanding, right attitude, right attentiveness, and right effort, to be engaging in the practice that can lead towards self-inquiry and self-realization towards Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, all by themselves, through their own initiation and effort, via self inquiry and direct self realization.
Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind agree/disagree, blind-glorify, blind-admire, or blind-propagate anyone or anything coming from everyone and everywhere.
"All karma (regardless of good or bad) burnt in toto (don't exist) in the state of Turiya, upon the attainment of self realization."
"The world ceased existing upon the annihilation of the mind stuff."
"All are MAYA. Brahman is real. The world is unreal."
"Reincarnation, or the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths ceased existing upon Silence."
"Inquire the truth of everything. Attain direct experience and self realization."
All past existed and present existing gurus and buddhas (except pseudo gurus or buddhas), or all wise and compassionate saints and sages, regardless of which continent, ancestry, tribe, or cultural/spiritual background that they came/come from, they didn't and don't want/request any kind of worshiping, or glorifying, or offering, or rituals, or celebration events. They didn't/don't get offended, or insulted, or humiliated, or belittled, or angry, if the minds are doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, and inquiring towards the truth of the dhamma or the teachings that exists under certain names and forms that they come in contact with. In fact, that is the main essential teachings and practice and advice to all minds. The dhamma, or the truth of everything, cannot be contaminated or damaged. But the dhamma that exists under certain names and forms can be contaminated or damaged. And hence, there will come to a point that there will be the end of pure or uncontaminated dhamma as it is that exists under certain names and forms in this world. There is neither good nor bad.
That's why the highly importance of self initiation, self reliance, self effort, self inquiry, and self realization.
That's why the highly essential of the observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, mental and emotional independence, and silence.
If it is something true, there is no fear or resistance, not to say, painful punishment for being doubted, questioned, reasoned, investigated, or inquired.
Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, are always here and everywhere as they are, and all and everyone are free to doubt, to question, to reason, to investigate, or to inquire towards the truth of all these.
Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here.
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