The minds that couldn't understand 'completely' towards the importance of the priority to be looking after the over-all physical and mental well-being of oneself, might think and believe that it is a form of selfishness, that it is empowering selfishness, and that it becomes a rightful justification for anyone to be selfish.
While some minds might think that to be looking after the over-all physical and mental well-being of oneself, or self-care, or to love oneself and be kind to oneself, is about passionately indulging in all kinds of physical and mental pleasurable enjoyments for the body and mind, as much as possible, and at all cost. But, it is absolutely nothing to do with all that.
Destructive hurtful self-righteousness and all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, hoarding, cruelty, oppression, control, anger, hatred, discontentment, greed, prejudice, discrimination, unjust, and violence in the world, are deriving from the minds that have been neglecting their own mental health well-being, or don't know how to look after themselves, or being conditioned and impacted by the many ignorant ideas, affairs, activities, interactions, and behaviors in the world of ignorance, where the selfless modification/state/function of their mind, or the selfless mind stuff, is unwittingly/unconsciously being conditioned or over-powered by the veil of ignorance a.k.a. restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I', to think and behave in certain way and not in certain way.
The minds that want to exercise the priority to be looking after oneself first before one looks after the others, they need to know that there might be different intentions behind the notion or the priority to be looking after the over-all well-being of oneself, that significantly differentiate the act of "looking after oneself before one can look after the others" as something selfish or unselfish.
It is also not about "If I don't survive, or if I died, then how can I be here to look after or help the others? And hence, my survival and my well-being is the highest importance or priority." That is an incorrect understanding.
The teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about, "In order to be able to be looking after all and everyone and everything (including oneself) as well as the surrounding environment effectively and unselfishly, all and everyone needs to know how to look after the over-all physical and mental well-being of oneself independently, by freeing one's modification of the mind from the influence of the veil of ignorance, to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, out of one's own freewill or initiative, via one's own effort and determination, without forcing or violence. Only upon the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, one can truly contribute peace and harmony in oneself and in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, effectively and unselfishly."
No doubt that one needs to be able to survive in order to be existing in this space to be looking after all the others, if possible, but it is not at all about 'the survival of myself', or 'the survival of my family/community/people', but it is purely about 'the survival of all and everyone and everything that is only possible under the selfless cooperation of all and everyone and everything to be working together selflessly, and inter-supporting one another indiscriminately and unconditionally'.
Just like all the many different selfless individual cells/components/systems in the selfless body and mind, that exist and function as what they are individually, that perform their own respective duty and responsibility as it is under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements, until they ceased functioning and ceased existing, where all the many different individual cells/components/systems are functioning as what they are selflessly and independently, while at the same time, they all work together and inter-supporting one another selflessly, unconditionally, and indiscriminately, just by focusing on performing their own respective duty and responsibility, that enables the selfless body and mind to be existing and functioning as what it is.
If the body and mind cannot function or exist as what it is, and ceased functioning/existing because of some cells/components/systems are corrupted or dysfunction where they are hurting/damaging/fighting against one another, then what are all those cells/components/systems? They all are nothing.
If the surrounding living environment, or the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is being damaged and becomes unsuitable for living/surviving, what are we? Who am I? What are you? We all are nothing.
What is pride and arrogance? What is superiority and inferiority? What is my survival and your survival?
It is merely about "Serving all the others of countless diverse living organisms, non-living objects, and the surrounding environment in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, selflessly, unselfishly, unconditionally, and indiscriminately. To be maintaining peace and harmony among one another by looking after one another unselfishly, is the one and only way for the survival of all and everyone."
It is not about 'I', or 'me', or 'myself', or 'the survival of myself', or 'the survival of my family and my community', or 'the survival of the others', or 'I sacrifice myself for you and the others', or 'materializing all my desires and aspirations towards building a desirable world according to my desire', or 'my achievement and enjoyment to the maximum before I die'.
Everything that we consciously do (constructive and wholesome activities) or don't do (destructive and unwholesome activities), regardless of something that we do for ourselves, or for the family, friends, and community, or for the neighbours, or for the livelihood/job/work/business, or for the world, is all about "To serve all and everyone and everything selflessly, unselfishly, independently, indiscriminately, and unconditionally."
That is the ONLY conscious intention, or reason, or motivation behind the priority of looking after the over-all well-being of oneself, that will contribute peace and harmony in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
The many different individual selfless minds need to be looking after the well-being of themselves independently, that allows them to have the mental fitness of the clarity of thinking and correct understanding, as well as the physical fitness, to be performing their respective duty and responsibility independently and effectively, which then allows all and everyone to be working together and inter-supporting one another selflessly, unselfishly, unconditionally, and indiscriminately, not merely for the survival of all and everyone, that means nothing if without peace and harmony in oneself and in the world of many diversities, but also for the over-all physical and mental well being of all and everyone as well as for the general well-being of everything and the surrounding environment, that allows all and everyone and everything to be here, existing and functioning as what all and everyone and everything are, under the presence of peace and harmony among the many diversities in the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
First, one stops hurting oneself, then, one stops hurting all the others and the surrounding environment.
That is already contributing peace and harmony into the world.
And if there is opportunity and possibility to be doing something for others utilizing the availability of one's physical and mental good health condition, energy, intelligence, knowledge, experience, position, skill, and talent that can benefit all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, one can do so without the sense of obligation/duty/responsibility, but merely for the sake of upholding world peace and harmony, selflessly and unconditionally.
Self-righteousness, pride, fear, possessiveness, greed, anger, hatred, discrimination, unjust, prejudice, temptation, threat, force, bullying, oppression, control, and violence, or the idea of "I am (We are) stronger and more powerful than the others", can never promote or achieve world peace and harmony, but will only cause deeper damage and destruction unto all and everyone and everything and the surrounding living environment to the maximum.
The only thing that hinders world peace and harmony, is the minds that are too proud to let go all that.
The world of human beings doesn't have to be like that.
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