There are many different kinds of story telling and justification (lies and untruthfulness and manipulations) existing in this world of human beings functioning under the influence of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness.
In the beginning, it were just a few little lies and stories making and telling, or justifications, to justify certain things that the mind doesn't know and doesn't understand, as well as to cover up the ignorance or the sense of inferiority in the minds of being ignorant towards what the mind doesn't know and doesn't understand, regardless of whether it's about comforting oneself for being ignorant, or to be 'shutting up' all the others, especially the children, or the youngsters, or the students, or the members of the community, or the followers who have so much curiosities, doubts, and questions towards many things.
But then, in order to cover up the existing untruthfulness, or lies, or made up stories, and to upkeep or uphold the 'validation' or 'legitimacy' of those existing few lies and stories making and telling, on top of the selfish intention of to be manipulating certain people, or relationships, or things, or affairs to be in certain way or not in certain way in order to fulfill or gratify all ones boundless greedy desires and ambitions, the minds have to and want to keep telling more and more lies, and to be making and telling more and more stories to justify and validate all the accumulation of endless lies and boundless stories making and telling.
It doesn't have to be like this at all, if from the beginning, if the mind is being honest and truthful towards, "I don't know and I don't understand about many things. And it's okay that there are many things that I don't know and don't understand. And I can try my best to know and understand many things that I don't know and don't understand," as well as to be answering the questions coming from the others that oneself doesn't know how to answer, "I can't give you the answers to your questions because I don't know and don't understand towards the things that you want to know and understand."
Just as the young children or the grown up people that were/are being threatened by their parents/elders/teachers/leaders/authority/friends/community/lovers/partners with 'fearful and hurtful punishment' for 'making mistakes'/'being bad'/'being wrong', or for not behaving in the way that pleases others, but behaving in the way that upsets others, or more precisely, for not conforming to the desires and don't desires of others, then of course, they will make up stories, or lies, or untruthfulness, in order to cover up 'what is really happening, or what has really happened, as it is,' or 'the truth as it is', that they were being told that it will bring 'fearful and hurtful punishment' in return.
If the young children or the grown up people were/are not being threatened, where all and everyone can be completely honest and truthful towards themselves and others, while ceaselessly learn from the mistakes or ignorance, or the consequences of their actions under the nature's law of cause and effect, not based on the specific worldly egoistic impure thinking, beliefs, values and practices about what is right or wrong, good or bad, punishment deserving or reward deserving, and attain physical/mental/emotional maturity or mental and emotional independence in the development of the human's mind, devoid of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, the world wouldn't be like what it is now, full of madness and unnecessary evitable/avoidable painful suffering, deriving from all kinds of hurtful destructive human activities hurting and destroying all and everyone and everything.
Inquire towards the truth of everything.
It is okay, that there is nothing bad, or wrong, or shameful, or inferior, or sinful, or bad karma, and it is common that most minds are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance due to the existence of the idea of 'I', egoism, and impurities in the selfless impermanent ceaseless thought activities or restless thought current, even if the minds are highly intelligent, highly educated, highly knowledgeable, or highly accomplished and successful, and because of the veil of ignorance, the mind is being ignorant towards many things, that there are many things that the mind doesn't know and doesn't understand.
The mind can be free from ignorance, if it wants.
It is the freedom of all minds whether they want to inquire towards the truth of everything through self investigation and self inquiry, via certain observations and methods or practices, out of their own self initiative and self effort, under the presence of the intense yearning towards liberation, willpower, perseverance, and determination, as all the answers to all the doubts towards the unknown in one's mind, is within oneself.
All the answers are within the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind that is Non-self, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, not even the selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind itself.
The basic step to be free from ignorance, is to stop living and functioning in endless and boundless lies, untruthfulness, story telling, or justification.
Be bold to acknowledge the ignorance in oneself, without identification or judgment.
The selfless mind is aware of the ignorance in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind that is hindering the mind to know and understand towards itself, its selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function/mechanism/modification that is Non-self, and towards everything that it perceives or experiences.
The ignorance, a.k.a. the restless impure egoistic modifications of the mind, or the restless mind stuff, is not 'I' (the self aware/acknowledge perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind.)
The ignorance doesn't belong to 'I', or the self aware/acknowledge mind.
The ignorance in the mind is neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, neither right nor wrong, even if under the influence of ignorance, the minds are ignorantly generating ideas, behaviors/actions/reactions, or activities that are harmful and destructive unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment.
The ignorance in the mind is not something bad, or wrong, or shameful, or inferior, or sinful, or bad karma, or punishable, or humiliation deserving.
The ignorance can be eliminated by the mind itself, and only by the mind itself, alone, through one's own self initiative, self effort, willpower, perseverance, determination, to be engaging in self purification (mind purification and silencing the restless thought current), self discipline, self inquiry, and attain direct self realization.
Mind purification and silencing the restless thought current, is about freeing the mind from the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, moving away from the physical/mental/emotional engagement in worldly passionate impure egoistic affairs, interactions, communications, activities, or relationships that are full of untruthfulness, story making and telling, justification, or manipulation, by observing dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence (Mauna), mental and emotional independence, truthfulness, desirelessness, simplicity, and being/living in the NOW.
The entire practice or journey on the path of yoga/buddhism/self inquiry towards knowing the truth of Thyself and everything, or to be free from suffering, is the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', that gives rise to and fed by egoism, that gives rise to and fed by impurities, that gives rise to and fed by restlessness, that gives rise to and fed by the veil of ignorance, the seemingly endless loop of infinite ignorance and the by-products of ignorance. But, it is absolutely POSSIBLE to be free from that.
The chain can be broken, and ceased existing, if one or any of the elements that make up the chain, is absence. It is science, or fact. It is not a belief or philosophy.
The basic practice in order to break that loop of chain that generates the veil of ignorance, is developing the practice of non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation (weakening and eliminate egoism), that can be practically implemented into the different types of yoga and meditation practice, as well as in everyday life affairs. That will eventually weakening and thinning-out the egoism and the idea of 'I', and thus, reducing the impurities, which naturally will slow down the restless thought current or thought activities, especially under the observation of dispassion and renunciation, solitude and seclusion, that can be effectively cutting down the amount and filtering the type of the physical/mental activities and inputs, and if persisted, it will eventually lead to the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, even if just for a few moments, that enables the mind to have a direct glimpse or experience towards Selflessness and Non-self, where there will be less and less impurities or egoism arising in the mind, as there is already the foundation of basic correct understanding, and eventually, all kinds of impurities and egoism ceased arising in the mind, effortlessly.
Such mind won't be generating hurtful ideas, behaviors, actions, reactions, or desires.
Only upon the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, a.k.a. the veil of ignorance, all the answers to all the doubts that are always there, will be known to the mind, as they are, intentionlessly, and effortlessly.
Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-agree/disagree, blind-practice, blind-glorify, blind-admire, blind-propagate anything or anyone.
Inquire the truth of everything.
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