Silence (the silent undisturbed clarity/state/modification of the mind under the absence of restless egoistic impure veil of ignorance), is the most precious thing in this world of human beings/minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, regardless of the different qualities of names and forms that all and everyone inherited from birth and changing/adopted/developed after birth.
Silence, gives rise to correct understanding, or clarity of thinking and reasoning, or absolute knowledge, or wisdom.
Wisdom, gives rise to unconditional freedom and peace in oneself.
Unconditional freedom and peace in oneself, gives rise to unconditional and indiscriminate respect and kindness towards all kinds of diversities being what they are, as they are, transcending all kinds of duality of good and bad, right and wrong, positivity and negativity, purity and impurity, superiority and inferiority, deserving and undeserving, appropriateness and disappropriateness, accomplished and non-accomplished, success and failure, gain and loss, joyful and joyless, wise and unwise, kind and unkind, selfish and unselfish, and so on.
Unconditional and indiscriminate respect and kindness among all kinds of diversities, regardless of what and how all and everything are, gives rise to world peace in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
The mind that is observing all and everything in silence, as well as performing selfless actions under clarity in silence, understands towards the many other restless minds that are behaving in the way that they behave, where the many restless minds are functioning under the influence of restlessness or ignorance, under the absence of correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, or wisdom.
The silent mind is being undetermined and undisturbed by the disturbing ignorant violent aggressive hurtful destructive behaviors of the restless ignorant minds, and doesn't need to question the restless ignorant minds about why they behave in the way that they behave.
The minds that are restless and ignorant, cannot understand the mind that is silent, that is behaving in the way that it behaves, where the silent mind is functioning under the absence of restlessness or ignorance, under the presence of correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, or wisdom.
The restless ignorant minds are being intimidated, offended, and disturbed by the behavior of the silent mind that they recognized as abnormal, inappropriate, non-acceptable, unreasonable, disrespect, wrong, and bad, and they have the urge to be questioning the silent mind about why it behaves in the way that it behaves.
The restless ignorant minds are ceaselessly dissatisfying, complaining, arguing, criticizing, condemning, threatening, opposing, protesting, disallowing, disrespecting, causing disturbance and obstruction and destruction towards all and everything that they dislike and disagree with, that they think and believe and judge and recognize as abnormal, bad, wrong, inappropriate, disrespect, non-acceptable, or unreasonable based on their own particular inherited and adopted/developed ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that are different from or going against their particular inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that they think and believe as normal, good, right, appropriate, respectable, acceptable, and reasonable.
Because the restless ignorant minds are being disturbed, intimidated, or threatened by their own ignorance of what they don't know and can't understand, such as the mind that is silent, because they cannot and don't know how to control, or influence, or manipulate, or oppress, or bully, or conquer something and anything (such as the mind that is silent) that they don't know and don't understand.
The silent mind understands and respects the restless ignorant minds being what they are, as they are, where there is needless of argument or criticism, which only wasting the precious energy and life existence and function, that can be reserved and conserved for performing many other beneficial activities/actions that benefit all and everyone and everything.
The restless ignorant minds couldn't comprehend or respect the silent mind being what it is, as it is, and they have intense desire to be interfering, arguing with, and criticizing the silent mind that is silent, that doesn't interfere with anyone, not to say, that doesn't argue with or criticize anyone for being what they are, as they are, even though the silent mind can utilize the existing available energy, life existence and function, knowledge, understanding, experience, talent, skill, and opportunity, that don't even belong to itself, to be performing certain activities/actions and/or carrying-out all its duty and responsibility towards itself and others and the surrounding environment.
The restless ignorant minds become even more offended, dissatisfied, and disturbed (angry and violent) when the silent mind remains silent, and doesn't gratify their desire of what they want (to be engaging in and empowering argument and criticism that derived from and that also feeds/empowers restlessness and ignorance).
It is like the mad person who is holding and wavering some kind of hurtful weapons in both his hands and keeps shouting aggressively towards the others, "Hey, you all stupid wrongful terrible people! Why are you all going away from me? Why you all don't come to me? I want you all to come to me, so that I can shout at you all to express and relieve my anger, so that I can criticize, discipline, punish, and hurt you all stupid wrongful terrible people, so that you all can hear me shouting at you all, and you all can receive criticism and painful punishment from me. You won't be able to hear me shouting all my anger unto you, and you won't be able to receive criticism and painful punishment from me, if you don't come to me, if you are staying faraway from me. Come to me, now! You are bad and wrong if you don't obey me and don't do as what I tell you to do. Look what you did to me. You made me so angry. You are responsible and accountable for my anger. If you don't come to me now as I am telling you, if you don't let me shout at you, criticize you, and hurt you, I will be getting more angry, and I will hurt and destroy you even more!"
How many minds are drowning in such suffering restless disturbed violent state of mind? Plenty.
Functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, unwittingly and ignorantly, it is common and natural that the minds are under the state of pain/discomfort/dissatisfaction/unhappiness/disturbance/anger/ignorance/hatred/jealousy/fear/unable to dominate, or control, or over-power something or everything, but they don't know or understand why or what is happening in themselves, and they don't know how to be free from all THAT, and hence, naturally, in order to express and relieve the pain/discomfort/dissatisfaction/unhappiness/disturbance/anger/ignorance/hatred/jealousy/fear/unable to dominate, or control, or over-power something or everything, they inflict pain/damage/disturbance/destruction unto the others and the surrounding environment.
The minds that understand all THAT, they know that all THAT are neither good nor bad.
There is nothing to be arguing or criticizing about the ignorance and the by-products of ignorance in any mind.
The mind only knows what it knows (what it thinks and believes). What the mind doesn't know (what it doesn't think and doesn't believe), it doesn't know.
None can liberate another.
None can remove ignorance in and for another.
Not even buddhas, or yogis, or gurus.
One can only liberate oneself.
One can only remove ignorance in and by oneself.
While all and everyone and everything can help, show, guide, or initiate the others to be aware of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.
That's why all and everyone and everything, including this mind itself, regardless of good and bad, right and wrong, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, pleasant and unpleasant, comforting and hurting, constructive and destructive, kind and unkind, wise and unwise, selfish and unselfish, happy and unhappy, peaceful and peaceless, and etc, are the teachers, the teachings, the practice, the realization, the knowledge, or the dhamma itself.
Ignorance is the by-product of ignorance itself.
Ignorance hinders the mind to know and understand everything as it is.
Not knowing or understanding everything as it is, empowers ignorance.
The mind is ignorant towards ignorance due to ignorance.
It has to come from the mind itself, to be aware of ignorance, to have the intense yearning to be free from ignorance, and to have the ceaseless effort/perseverance and determination to be free from ignorance.
And, under such awareness, or condition, or opportunity, or disturbance, or dissatisfaction, or pain, or suffering, or yearning, or effort, it is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.
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