Some minds think and believe that, "Everything happen under 'God's creation, knowledge, power, and will. Goodness are blessing and reward from 'God' because we have been good. Badness are lessons and warnings and punishments from 'God' because we have been bad, reminding us to be grateful and thankful for all the goodness, while do everything good and don't do anything bad to avoid badness (painful punishment)."
Some minds think and believe that, "There is a cause or reason behind all and everything. The cause of goodness and easiness and success is good karma, or merits and virtues. The cause of badness and difficulty and failure is bad karma, or sins. We do everything good if we want all kinds of goodness, pleasurable enjoyment, easiness, and success. We don't do anything bad if we don't want any kind of badness, painful suffering, difficulty, and failure. We plant orange seeds, we will get orange trees and orange fruits. We plant mango seeds, we will get mango trees and mango fruits. We plant the seeds of the things, happenings, and experiences that we like and desire. We don't plant the seeds of the things, happenings, and experiences that we don't like and don't desire. If we think positively, then everything will become positive. If we think negatively, then everything will become negative."
That is their freedom of thinking and belief and understanding. There is neither right nor wrong.
The minds that understand, "Everything are neither good nor bad. Everything are manifesting/existing/happening/changing/passing away as they are under their own cause and pace that also inter-influencing and inter-affecting all and everything simultaneously, directly and indirectly.
Even if you do everything that you think and believe is good, it's not necessarily that everything will be all good in the way that you think and believe is good. Even if you don't do anything that you think and believe is bad, it's not necessarily that there will be nothing bad in the way that you think and believe is bad. This is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'.
The mango tree is not healthy enough to give flowers and fruits, or the mangoes are infested by worms or diseases, or they are not perfectly sweet and tangy, but they are either not sweet enough, or not tangy enough, or overly sweet, or overly tangy, and there are some people don't like mangoes, or are allergic to mangoes, or the mango tree is being destroyed by intentionless natural disaster or intentional human's activity at some stage, it's not because of 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'.
Similarly, the manifestation or experience of all kinds of inevitable suffering due to the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of the mortal physical body existing and functioning under the different bodily systems and operating under the mechanism of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind functioning under the different states of consciousness being what they are - being selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that are ceaselessly changing, decaying, and disintegrating, that need ceaseless effort for maintenance, while perceiving, acknowledging, experiencing, or undergoing all kinds of inevitable unpleasantness, discomfort, weakness, stiffness, pain, injury, illness, limitation, exhaustion, hunger and thirst, and decaying or aging process, and coming in contact with the external surrounding environment that is full of all kinds of disturbance, conflicts, anger, hatred, fear, discrimination, prejudice, unjust, violence, unrest, disharmony, cruelty, corruption, exploitation, bullying, limitation, restriction, oppression, interference, and undesirable, disagreeable, unpleasant, difficult, challenging, or hurtful experiences, affairs, conditions, situations, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, activities, painful sorrow from loosing beloved beings and possessions, failures, or non-accomplishments, are not due to 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'.
Cause and effect is both limited and conditional. We plant orange seeds and we will get orange trees and orange fruits, while we plant mango seeds and we will get mango trees and mango fruits, and that is limited and that doesn't change. But the entire seedling, growing, flowering, and fruiting process of any kind of fruit trees, is not necessarily the way that we think and expect and desire how it should be or shouldn't be, where the entire process is being influenced, affected, determined, or conditioned by the presence and absence of many different internal and external impermanent changes, external interference, elements, conditions, locations, climate, weather, soil and nutrients, heat and cold, sunlight and shade, wetness and dryness, wind and air quality, insects and birds and animals, and all kinds of activities in the surrounding environment that are either depriving/detrimental or supporting/beneficial to the growth of the trees and their flowers and fruits.
The cause is limited and fixed, it is what it is, but the actions, or activities, or conditions and situations that are present or absent during the entire process of cause coming into effect, is conditional, and is even more powerful than the cause itself, even if there is limitation, such as the particular cause or the particular seed cannot be changed into something else, but the following effects or the impermanent changes of the trees and their flowers and fruits, are conditional and impermanent, that can be modified, either improving or declining, under different degrees, and up to certain extend or limitation, where all trees have their own limited life span and youthfulness or optimal productivity, at their own cause and pace, even under the availability of the best supportive and conducive optimizing elements, conditions, and situations.
Under the absence of essential supportive and conducive elements and conditions and situations for optimal growth, flowering, and fruiting, and under the presence of detrimental impactful elements and conditions and situations, the trees will not grow or give fruits healthily, even if the seeds or the trees that have been planted are the best among the best quality, and even if the minds in the surrounding environment try to think positively and optimistically that the trees will grow and give fruit healthily, but without action taking to nurture and provide the trees with the best supportive and conducive essential elements and conditions and situations, other than the nature in the surrounding environment being what they are, as they are, that are intentionlessly and indiscriminately influencing the entire growing and flowering and/or fruiting process of the plants or the trees constructively or destructively.
Even if you think negatively all the time, there are still many positive things manifesting and happening here and there as they are. Even if you think positively and optimistically throughout your entire life existence, there are still many negative things happening here and there, and your life existence and function that doesn't even belong to you, will still be influenced and affected by the internal and external influential and conditional supportive and conducive or detrimental and impactful elements and conditions, and even if you eat healthily and do everything right to optimize and maintain good health and fitness condition, and think positively and optimistically being happy and cheerful all the time, you will still go through decay (weakness/stiffness/aging/injury/illness) and disintegration (ceased functioning and ceased existing, and separation from your beloved beings and things).
Even after you have work very hard to achieve something that you want, and you might have the best quality and qualification, or the best skill and experience and performance among all competitors, but you may not necessarily achieve what you want, or you may achieve what you want but not necessarily the way that you expect how it should be. It doesn't mean that you are not good enough, or not working hard enough, or this is due to 'karma', or 'fate', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'.
And more importantly, you can be determined and not giving up, and keep working towards achieving what you want to achieve, as long as you have the possibility and opportunity to do so, but without forcing yourself, without hurting your body and mind or challenging your body and mind to go beyond their limitation until they breakdown, not to say, without exploiting or hurting others and the surrounding environment in the process of achieving what you want."
The mind that understands this, it's not being determined, or conditioned, or limited by abilities and disabilities, limitation and condition, action and inaction and the fruit/outcome/consequences of action and inaction, success or failure, accomplishment or non-accomplishment, as well as the likes or dislikes, agreements or disagreements, acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement, appreciation or non-appreciation, and praise or criticism coming from any others, but will only focusing on doing one's best in performing all kinds of actions, duties, and responsibilities towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment, but without grasping, not being determined or disturbed, promoted or demoted, motivated or demotivated, and elevated or depressed, by the fruit/result/outcome of actions, duties, and responsibilities, or how others react or don't react towards one's actions and the fruit of actions.
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If all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism practice is not suitable or available for you, then gardening and planting, even if just planting one particular plant, not to say, planting several different plants that have different characteristics and that need different types of supportive conditions and elements, is one of the highly efficient alternative ways for attaining direct experience and realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, and the intentionless and indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect, practically.
All children (the future powerful influential community and leaders in the world), besides undergoing the many years of common standard traditional educational and cultural curriculum to be equipped with the basic and higher knowledge and skill to become literate and skillful, to be socializing, interacting, and communicating with others, and to be making a living, but if possible, they can also be encouraged (not by forced, but out of their own freewill and interest) to be engaging in the activity of gardening and planting while themselves are still undergoing the crucial process of physical and mental/emotional growth and development.
Gardening and planting will give them the direct experience to observe and reflect, and to reason and understand the entire process of manifestation/formation/growing/maintaining/nurturing/impermanent changes/uncertainty/blooming/decaying/disintegrating that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, from planting any kind of seeds or plants that is suitable for particular setting, location, climate, weather, soil, environment, condition, or situation.
It will help them to develop the essential reflective intellectual reasoning power, to have understanding towards actions and consequences of actions, or the nature's law of cause and effect, and to develop non-grasping, non-comparison, non-judgment, non-expectation, letting go, generosity, kindness, giving, serving, responsibility, mental or inner strength and flexibility, patience, forbearance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, acceptance, the middle path or moderation, open-mind, attentiveness, quietness, respect and non-discrimination towards countless diversities and differences, down to earth, contentment, gratitude, simplicity, appreciation without attachment or clinging or possessiveness, non-violence or non-harming or non-forcing, and the most essential basic correct understanding about the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self life existence and function that depends on the availability of many supportive elements, conditions, or energy to be existing and functioning, and that ceaselessly changing, decaying, and disintegrating, as well as about many things in life, or in the relationships and interactions with others, or in their study, sports activity, leisure activity, work, or profession that are all impermanent, limited, and conditional.
Such children will most probably be growing up to become mentally and emotionally matured, understanding, kind, generous, accommodating, independent, and responsible grown up human beings that will be benefiting the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything in certain way, in their own way, with their own particular background, experience, learning, knowledge, talent, skill, interest, ability, and possibility, out of their own conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, conscious understanding, and conscious effort.
All are actions, including inaction. There is nothing that is not an action. Sleeping, resting, not thinking, not eating, not moving, not acting, not reacting, non-grasping, letting go, not doing anything, and etc, are all an action itself.
Anything is possible, including different types of impossibility as well as the unthinkable or the unknown.
"It is impossible for all and everything to be possible" itself is a possibility. And hence, "Not everything are possible, but anything is possible," where impossibility is also a possibility.
"There is possibility that something is impossible."
The all time unchanging possibility and reality of something is impossible, such as, "Without energy, none and nothing can exist and function as what they are."
None and nothing can manifest, happen, exist, and function independently without energy, even the formation of any kind of object being what it is, also requires energy for it to be existing as what it is, not to say, living organisms, or the food that all living organisms eat or consume that is being transformed into energy for the entire physical structure and the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty to be existing and functioning as what they are, is also requiring energy to be what they are, and the entire process of food finding, hunting, planting, nurturing, harvesting, preparing, cooking, eating, digesting, and transforming the digested food into energy, also requires energy.
"Impermanence is the all time permanent unchanging truth of all kinds of names and forms and qualities."
The mind that understands this, there is neither positivity nor negativity in anything. Impossibility for doing and achieving something is neither negative nor positive. Possibility to be doing and achieving something is neither positive nor negative. And both possibility and impossibility for doing or not doing something, and to be achieving or not achieving something, in NOW, is impermanent, that might change in any direction.
All and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and this timeless attributeless indiscriminate truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms (selfless formation or coming into existence under particular name and form, ceaseless changes of growth, maintenance, decay, and disintegration - existence and ceased existence) cannot or is impossible to be changed, or altered, or modified.
None and nothing can escape, or avoid, or prevent, or be untouched by mortality.
It is impossible for any names and forms to be existing infinitely without impermanent changes of ceaseless maintenance and inevitable decay and disintegration, including the longest life span living organism or non-living object, or the strongest/toughest compound/material/structure/object, or the most powerful living being or thing, or the oldest existence that is still existing in NOW in the world, or the universe.
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