There is no doubt that there are many evitable painful suffering and desperation or difficulty that are truly unnecessary, but are happening everywhere in the world deriving from the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in the minds of the human beings that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, on top of there are certain inevitable painful suffering in all and everyone (regardless of good or bad behavior, wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, happy or unhappy, healthy or unhealthy, and etc) that come along with the existence and function of the mortal physical body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.
Unless the physical body is being formed and born under the absence of the conscious thinking and acting faculty functioning under the presence of conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness to be perceiving/recognizing/discriminating/experiencing pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering consciously, if not, the minds that come with the conscious thinking and acting faculty functioning under the presence of conscious awareness and intellectual cognition of perceiving/recognizing/discriminating/acknowledging or being aware of pleasurable enjoyment as well as the evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty, they can develop correct understanding towards what is going on in the mind, to know Thyself, to transcend or overcome all those evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty in oneself and/or in the others, if they want, and out of their own conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, and conscious effort or action taking under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/knowledge/freedom/peace, to be free from suffering, under the presence of immovable determination and perseverance and some basic correct understanding or intellectual reasoning power.
There is nothing wrong and it is true that, regardless of whether the minds that are having a rather easy and comfortable life without much difficulty or suffering to deal with, or the minds that are dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty in life, will think and believe and feel that they are limited and powerless (vulnerability), where they are aware of the many painful suffering and difficulty in all the others or in themselves, but they can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, even if they have the goodwill and kindness of want to help the world or themselves to have less painful suffering and difficulty, as much as possible.
The minds that are having a rather easy and comfortable life without much difficulty or suffering to deal with, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'good karma', or 'merits and virtues'.
The minds that are dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty in life, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'.
The reality of the minds can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, as well as the presence of limitation, or powerlessness, or vulnerability, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins'.
Some minds understood and acknowledged that they are limited and powerless, even if they themselves are having a rather easy and comfortable life, but they are aware of there are many others are undergoing and dealing with certain painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in life, while they would do whatever they can to help to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and desperation in all the others as much as possible, even when they can just ignore all that, not doing anything, and be comfortable in their own easy and comfortable life, even if they can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, without the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and without the need of justification towards anything.
Some minds understood and acknowledged that they are limited and powerless, as they themselves are undergoing and dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty, while they might or might not be doing whatever they can to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and difficulty in themselves, as well as simultaneously, they might or might not be also doing whatever they can to help to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and difficulty in all the others, even if they can't change or interfere with many things in themselves or in the others that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, without the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and without the need of justification towards anything.
That is the essential basic correct understanding or mentality. There is nothing wrong or bad or negative with the perception/acknowledgement/understanding/realization of there is presence of limitation, powerlessness, or vulnerability in the minds, that there are many things that are not in the control of anyone and that are beyond their capability to change or interfere with.
Meanwhile, under the absence of correct understanding or mentality, some minds are troubled or over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or pride and shame, upon the presence of limitation, powerlessness, or vulnerability in themselves towards many things that are not in the control of themselves and that are beyond their capability to change or interfere with, where they need to have some reasonable justifications to justify the many painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in themselves that are not in their control, that they can't change, that they can't do much to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in themselves, or in the others, while they themselves need to deal with their own painful suffering and difficulty, so that they can feel better about themselves for being limited, powerless, or vulnerable.
Some minds that are having the privilege to be enjoying a rather easy and comfortable life, devoid of the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty that many others are dealing with, however, they are being troubled or over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and they don't like the sense of vulnerability, powerlessness, and limitation in themself, where they need to have some reasonable justifications to justify the many painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in the others that are not in their control, that they can't change, that they can't do much to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in the others, and hence, they choose to just ignore all that and be comfortable in their own life, but then there is the sense of guilt or pride and shame as well as powerlessness and limitation in them, where they want to think and believe and acknowledge that they are good and righteous people, that they are not selfish, where they would donate some money here and there, or to do some charity work from time to time, or regularly, in order to empower the sense of kindness, generosity, powerfulness, and unselfishness, to over-come the sense of powerlessness, limitation, selfishness, and guilt.
While some highly empathetic minds will feel disturbed and depressed by the sense of vulnerability, powerlessness, and limitation towards all the painful suffering and desperation in the others that they can't change, that they can't help to relieve or reduce, even after they continuously give everything that they can give, that they have to, to help as much as they can, to the point of depriving and damaging their own over-all well-being, but there are still inevitable painful suffering as well as ceaseless and boundless evitable painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in many others that are deriving from the ignorance and consequences of ignorance either inflicted by themselves and/or by some others. They might also need to have some reasonable justifications to justify towards all kinds of painful suffering and desperation or difficulty, in order to feel better and less disturbed.
There is nothing wrong with all that, as all the minds have their own freedom of thinking and action/reaction and expression.
It is all good, regardless of whether the minds are troubled or not troubled by the sense of powerlessness and limitation, or the sense of guilt or pride and shame, or the sense of selfishness and unselfishness, but at least the minds are trying to do something if they can, to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation in the world or in themselves, even if there are many things that they can't change or interfere, that are beyond their capability.
Meanwhile, there are many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance would be deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, inflicting and promoting painful suffering and difficulty unto themselves and/or the others, directly or indirectly.
Some of these minds might be troubled by the sense of guilt and regret, while some are guiltless while taking pride in such 'accomplishment' of being 'successfully' inflicting and promoting painful suffering and difficulty onto the others and/or themselves, because it gives rise to and empowers the sense of powerfulness in them, that they can destroy something or anything that they want, as they wish, easily, instead of feeling vulnerable, powerless, and limited dealing with the undesirable reality of they can't change or interfere with many things in themselves or in the others that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, but the activity of hurting and destroying someone or everyone and something or anything that are destructible, is not difficult.
These minds might or might not need some justifications to justify their hurtful destructive behaviors that inflict and promote painful suffering and difficulty in the others and/or in themselves.
And hence, there come the idea, belief, values, and practice of 'karma', or more precisely, 'bad karma' or 'sins', stands as the reasonable justification to justify what the minds think and believe that needed to be justified, that is nothing but complicates everything even more, while empowers the ignorance in oneself and in others that are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.
"It is all because of my/your/our/their/his/her own 'bad karma' or 'sins'."
Regardless of the presence of painful suffering and difficulty in oneself, or in the others, regardless of evitable or inevitable, regardless of the evitable painful suffering and difficulty are being inflicted and promoted deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, unto themselves and/or the others, directly or indirectly.
"I am suffering, or you are suffering, regardless of whether it is inflicted by oneself or by others, are all because of 'bad karma' or 'sins'."
"It is good to burn-off the 'bad karma' or to repent the 'sins' by undergoing all kinds of painful suffering and difficulty in oneself or in others, regardless of being inflicted and promoted by oneself and/or others."
"I need to inflict painful suffering and difficulty unto myself to burn-off the 'bad karma', or to reduce the 'sins'."
"I am doing you a favor to help you to burn-off your 'bad karma', or to reduce your 'sins', by inflicting painful suffering and difficulty unto you."
Ignorance deriving from ignorance and empowers ignorance.
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Inquire the truth of everything.
Regardless of evitable or inevitable painful suffering and difficulty, or all kinds of abusive relationship, unhappiness, hardship, difficult condition, difficult situation, undesirable happening, limitation, disability, illness, injury, painful sensation, weakness, stiffness, ill treatment and prejudice or disagreement and dislike from others, and failure, it is not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'.
Inevitable painful suffering and difficulty are merely the inevitable permanent unchanging all time truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of the mortal physical body and the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.
Not to say,
All kinds of additional evitable unnecessary painful suffering and difficulty that don't need to be there at all, are being inflicted, generated, and promoted unto oneself and/or the others, out of ignorance, by the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, either deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, and directly or indirectly.
The minds that inquire and realize this, will know towards the truth of 'the idea, belief, values, and practice of karma' that is being created and used as a reasonable justification for many things or behaviors that are hurtful and destructive, that inflict and promote evitable painful suffering and difficulty in oneself and unto others, as well as the inevitable painful suffering in the mortal physical body existing and functioning under the mechanism/function/modification of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, just for being existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-selfly, for a momentary fleeting short duration in this world of diverse names and forms.
Some minds also use 'the idea, belief, values, and practice of karma' as a tool to manipulate, or threaten, or intimidate, or bully, or oppress others to be or not to be in certain way, in order to gratify all one's desires, as well as using that to hurt and punish the others, upon one's desires are not being gratified.
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Under the presence of grasping under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the minds are being over-powered by the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty.
Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, the minds transcend or over-come and not being disturbed by the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty.
It doesn't mean that all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering disappear or stop existing in the world, or in life, or in oneself and/or others upon the direct realization towards the truth of all these, but suffering doesn't and cannot arise or manifest in the mind that is devoid of grasping and the veil of ignorance, while resting in unconditional peace amidst all kinds of unpleasant and even painful evitable and inevitable impermanent changes in the physical body and modification of the mind, and upon coming in contact with evitable and inevitable undesirable and unpleasant events, happenings, affairs, conditions, situations, ties and connections, relationships, interaction, and activities in the surrounding environment.
And more importantly, such mind doesn't hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment under the presence of clarity, or wisdom and unconditional peace.
There is nothing super extraordinary, mystical, spiritual, or magical, about the mind, or the modification of the mind, or the mind thinking behavior pattern, or the conquest of the mind, or yoga and the self-realized yogi, or buddhism and the enlightened buddha, pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering, all kinds of duality, selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging, self-righteousness, offensiveness, defensiveness, cruelty, violence, unrest, hurtful and destructive behaviors, actions, and reactions, all kinds of comforting story telling and justifications, and the direct self realization towards the truth of all these names and forms, of knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all and everything, that enables the mind to transcend the selfless impermanent limited conditional restless modification of itself that doesn't even belong to itself, and transcending the mind perception towards all kinds of dualities, or towards all kinds of names and forms manifesting or coming and going under different qualities and that ceaselessly changing in between arising and passing away, where the mind doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment, and is resting in unconditional peace, being undetermined and undisturbed by the ignorance and consequences of ignorance of all the others.
Inquire the truth of everything.
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