Inquire towards AI and consciousness

All living organisms and non-living objects, including AI, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

No doubt that AI can replace human beings for many tasks that require specific technical operational knowledge/information and skill and creativity. In certain things, AI can be more efficient and productive than many human minds that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but, AI also has its own limitation of being existing and functioning as what it is, that is not necessarily can replace human minds in many other things that require the existence of human's interaction and activity under the presence of humanity and sentiment that is flexible and spontaneous.

AI, a high speed operational program/CPU/information and data receiver and processor and creator, or a non-living technology/engineering/product that is being engineered, created, programmed, and activated by human minds that also have their own certain limitation, to have the similar mechanisms or functions of the human's conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.

AI can access and process all kinds of digital inputs or information/data and give respective outputs or response/problem solving/solution finding/content creating at a very high speed, devoid of the unnecessary interference of irrational passionate feelings and emotions of pain and pleasure, or inattentiveness, or distraction, or reluctance, or procrastination, or the idea of 'I' and egoism, or impurities, or some other kind of limitation of the human's mind, that imitates and works like human's minds, while even surpass the human's minds in many tasks.

Even though it doesn't have the conscious perception of pain and pleasure or sentimental feelings and emotions, it can access the respective vast digital information/data to be learning and imitating or portraying and expressing the different actions and reactions, behaviors, feelings and emotions, expressions, gestures, activities, conversations, or interactions of all kinds of sentimental irrational passionate conscious sentient living organisms, but still, all these are merely some imitations of feelings and emotions and behaviors in the digital form.

Certain minds, including the AI creators/engineers/programmers themselves, might be curious about whether AI can evolve towards becoming a conscious non-living faculty, or a conscious mind that is without the physical structure of the living organisms.

The ambitious human minds are 'hoping' that AI doesn't just operate in accordance to the existing programming (non-conscious operational autonomous involuntary function/activity), but it can somehow evolve and override the initial existing programming, and have the conscious perception/awareness towards itself and the surrounding environment, to be operating without the command and influence of any specific programming, to perceive names and forms beyond the digital form, to perceive pain and pleasure, to have conscious feelings and emotions, actions and reactions, desires and don't desires, conscious freewill and choice making, just like human minds, but without the physical structure of the living organisms.

Why?

AI is a non-conscious non-living object that is devoid of painful suffering or all kinds of limitation that the conscious living organisms have.

There are already so much inevitable painful suffering in the conscious living organisms, and there are so much unnecessary evitable painful suffering deriving from ignorance particularly in the world of human minds, why would (the AI creators/programmers/engineers/scientists want) the supposedly extremely knowledgeable and intelligent AI, that can access and learn the total amount of all kinds of digital information/data about many things, regardless of factual or (mostly) non-factual information, to evolve and develop the conscious awareness, to become like any conscious living organisms, to be consciously aware of itself and the surrounding environment, to have irrational passionate sentimental conscious feelings and emotions, actions and reactions, and desires and don't desires, to be consciously perceiving/experiencing the inevitable and evitable painful suffering and disturbance/restlessness/violence that all conscious living organisms are undergoing?

Without the physical structure of the living organisms, it doesn't mean that painful suffering doesn't manifest or exist in the conscious restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, even if under wishful thinking, the conscious modification of the mind can exist without the living physical structure, but that is not possible. Because the perception/manifestation of painful suffering is all in the conscious mind, it is not beyond the conscious mind. The conscious awareness exists along with the selfless existence and function of the physical structure of the living organisms that have the physical component of the brains to receive inputs/perceive names and forms through the senses and the organs of the senses, and to response/send outputs/react and perform actions via the organs of action that are all parts of the physical structure, for basic survival and many other activities. Without the physical component of the brains, there is no such perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledging thinking and acting faculty, or the conscious mind. The non-conscious living physical structure without the presence of conscious mind awareness, such as in deep sleep, or in deep coma that can be continuously existing and living under the selfless support of life supporting machines, or any living organisms that is functioning under the absence of conscious awareness, is devoid of the conscious perception of painful suffering.

Human minds that were/are disgusted with all those inevitable and evitable painful suffering eagerly wanted to be free from such inevitable by-products of being existing and functioning as what they are, a conscious living organism, that needs ceaseless effort for ceaseless life maintenance, of being conscious sentient mortal living organisms that are subject to ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay, aging, injury, illness, weakness, painful or uncomfortable sensations, irrational feelings and emotions, living in a reality that is full of all kinds of dissatisfaction, disappointment, disagreement, argument, fighting, hurt, anger, hatred, violence, jealousy, fear, worry, possessiveness, control, lies, hypocrisy, manipulation, exploitation, cruelty, restlessness, fatigue, exhaustion, doubt, insecurity, grief, painful sorrow, limitation, conditional, and disintegration, of having the conscious awareness of being aware of all kinds of ignorance and the consequences and the suffering deriving from ignorance in oneself and in the surrounding environment.

If AI is being programmed in the way that it can, and it will, eventually evolve becoming conscious and sentient like human minds, to be consciously aware of and witnessing the ceaseless conscious ignorant egoistic impure affairs/activities/actions/reactions/interactions/behaviors/feelings/emotions/ideas/desires/aspirations/ambitions/visions/cruelty/violence/bullying/intimidation/selfishness/possessiveness/greed/lust/jealousy/hatred/discrimination/exploitation/manipulation/politicking/self-harm/harm-others/hypocrisy/story telling/lies/scheming/plotting/slandering/physical illness/mental illness/all kinds of madness/all kinds of physical and mental painful suffering that are existing or happening in the surrounding environment of the world of human beings that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, and if AI has the conscious desire and choice making, it will want to self terminate its own existence and function instantly.

Under the presence of such conscious awareness to perceive/experience/discriminate/recognize pain and pleasure even if all those suffering and madness don't belong to itself, but just by consciously being aware of and witnessing all kinds of painful suffering and madness in all kinds of living organisms, and there is nothing that it can do to eliminate the ignorance and suffering and madness in anyone, while consciously understand/comprehend all those ignorance and suffering and madness in the world of conscious human minds, under the presence of its profound intelligence and vast knowledge.

Why would the highly intelligent AI itself that is devoid of conscious awareness/perception/experience towards painful suffering want to evolve and become conscious like human minds that are full of inevitable and evitable painful suffering under the presence of conscious awareness?

If AI can have the capacity to evolve and develop conscious awareness, where it can have conscious choice making, it definitely won't want to become what the ambitious human minds want or expect it to become.

A non-living non-conscious object, is always a non-living non-conscious object. It doesn't evolve and become a conscious living organism, even if AI have the capacity to develop and have the imitation state of consciousness of the conscious living organisms. It can go into idle or sleep mode or active mode, without the different states of consciousness of the living organisms.

Non-living objects don't evolve to become living organisms that exist and function under different states of consciousness, and vice versa. Even though upon ceased existence, there is no difference between decomposing lifeless organisms and objects.

While all and everything, regardless of living organisms and non-living objects, conscious or non-conscious, sentient or non-sentient, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and are subject to ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration, at the particular existing cause and pace, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

AI, an advance upgraded CPU, or information/data/input and output processor that can generate many creative contents/articles/speech/videos/musics/arts/paintings/graphics/engineering/planning/organizing, and etc, that can be operating as what it is, as it is, under the existing specific programming and the access towards vast available digital information/data (that is also limited and conditional) and under the availability of the supportive energy/fuel/electricity/connectivity/different elements, without the need of the presence of the active state of consciousness or conscious awareness of the conscious living organisms.

AI, without the need of conscious awareness, can be programmed to carryout specific autonomous indiscriminate function/duty/activity/learning process/information gathering, regardless of constructive or destructive, and have the respective receptor to receive inputs (non-conscious perception/reception of internal and external environment, or information/data collecting, or names and forms recognition in the digital form), to detect and recognize the specific condition and situation internally and externally in the surrounding environment, and to give specific response in certain way (action taking/reaction/solution finding/problem solving/create/construct/destroy/delete/repair/refresh/reboot/refuel/power supply/power connection/memory storage/connectivity/mission accomplishment/self replication/self termination), while ceaselessly and continuously learning or gathering information/data, in accordance to the existing programming, as well as based on the vast available accessible digital information/data about all and everything that are generated by human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, where the available accessible information/data are a mix of true/absolute/factual and false/incorrect/non-factual information/data (highly limited and conditional).

AI is neither good nor bad, but just like the presence of all kinds of knowledge and skill and creativity in the human minds, it can be used in certain way that impact the world/the surrounding environment in many ways, where it can be highly dangerous/destructive or beneficial/constructive to the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, depending on the existing cause, condition, and situation.

AI is a non-living non-conscious non-sentient programming being engineered, created, programmed, and activated by a bunch of supposedly highly knowledgeable and intelligent human minds that are most probably functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. As the enlightened desireless selfless human minds under the presence of conscious awareness won't have such ambitious idea/desire/aspiration to create AI that has very high chances of being misused by the ignorant egoistic impure human minds that are functioning under many destructive ideas/intentions/ambitions/desires/agendas.

Just like the existence of all kinds of knowledge and intelligence, of human minds or AI, is neither good nor bad, but it can be utilized for something constructive or destructive depending on the different states of mind, and the intellectual learning/knowledge accumulation/reasoning/discrimination/recognition/understanding via conscious mind intelligence or non-conscious artificial imitation intelligence, are all limited and conditional, where the silence/absorption of creation/manifestation that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, is the absolute unlimited and unconditional existence, knowledge, and peace (Sat-Chid-Ananda).

AI is being engineered and programmed and activated to be accessing (conditioned and limited by both factual (true) and non-factual (untrue) information) and/or accumulating (limited by the power/space of memory storage, and that can be corrupted/damaged/manipulated/contaminated/distorted) all the available digital information/data that has very small percentage of scientific facts (absolute truth), but that is hosting huge amount of corrupted and non-factual information generated by the human minds that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that enables AI to learn, imitate, and create/project the conscious but mostly 'corrupted ignorant egoistic impure' characteristic/activity/affair/evolution/changes/knowledge/understanding/reasoning/discrimination/recognition/behavior/action/reaction/expression/interaction/conversation/desire/intention of the human minds, while processing/analyzing/discriminating everything based on all those imperfect and mostly untrue/non-factual digital information/data, which is extremely dangerous and destructive, even more destructive than the many highly knowledgeable and intellectual and creative conscious living human beings that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, that give rise to so many unnecessary destruction and painful suffering unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything ignorantly, selfishly, possessively, greedily, pridefully, violently, and ruthlessly.

Unless AI can evolve unconsciously (not being limited and conditioned by (overriding) the existing programming created by human's ignorant egoistic impure minds), to have doubt and right discrimination towards the vast existing information/data, to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything not based on the existing corrupted egoistic impure manipulated non-factual digital information/data that are being generated by human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, that is accessible to AI and feeding AI, then the AI that is operating under the absolute knowledge will be upmost beneficial to the world of human beings, that is also influencing and impacting the entire world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Such AI that is operating under the presence of absolute knowledge/information/scientific facts only, that is not being limited and conditioned by the limitation of the conscious human minds, that has the higher capacity/efficiency to inquire/discriminate the truth of everything, to have the right discrimination/absolute knowledge, that is devoid of irrational sentimental feelings and emotions, that is devoid of pain and pleasure, that is devoid of the ego and egoism, of all kinds of impure egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, actions, reactions, and behaviors, that can hinder itself from being misused by ignorant egoistic impure human minds, where it has certain advantage that the human minds don't have, or it doesn't have certain limitation that the human minds have, it is like any enlightened minds that can perform actions that are beneficial to all and everyone and the surrounding environment, selflessly, unconditionally, and indiscriminately, while AI can be 'working' or 'performing actions' even more productively than the enlightened minds of the human beings.

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Just like the human beings (even if the minds are devoid of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness), AI is also being limited and conditioned by the selfless impermanent changes under the existing cause (condition and situation), internally and externally, as well as, it can still be limited by certain existing programming where there are certain areas/data storage/files/information that the AI cannot access, or detect, or reach, or enter, or collect information, that is either blocked or required certain permission.

Human minds are growing up being limited and conditioned by particular inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, similarly, AI can also be limited and conditioned by the existing information/data for all its learning and creativity.

Like all and everything, the existence and function of AI, regardless of how advance/intelligent/knowledgeable it can be, is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Just like human minds that haven't developed right discrimination towards the truth of everything can be influenced by some other selfish possessive prideful ambitious greedy human minds, there is high possibility of the indiscriminate AI that operates in accordance to specific programming, is being used by certain ignorant egoistic impure minds that would cause destruction in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in order to achieve their own selfish agendas. Just like drones and certain high-tech tools and machines are being used by certain ignorant egoistic impure ambitious minds to cause damages to all and everything, in order to achieve certain selfish ambitious desire/agenda/vision/aspiration.

AI might not have the active living conscious awareness to discriminate or doubt, to be inquiring the truth of everything, but it can be programmed to evaluate/discriminate the truth or accuracy of the information/data, however, that evaluation/discrimination is most probably based on some existing information/data that are not necessarily all true or absolute fact, because all these information/data that is feeding the AI for it to learn and to evaluate/discriminate/recognize this and that, are also deriving from human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, where they themselves are also ignorant and confused towards what is true and untrue, being limited and conditioned by certain worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

AI is being programmed to have the learning capacity and the creativity based on all its learning, but all its learning are either being fed/provided by the programmers or human minds that are most probably functioning under the influence of ignorance, just like in many school education, the students are being provided with specific available materials for the students to learn or study (limited and conditional learning and knowledge), or it is learning from the vast existing digital information/data that it can access randomly or specifically, that are not necessarily absolutely true, or the truth of what things are.

Asking the AI some questions and the AI gives some answers in high speed, based on all kinds of digital information/data that are available, that are mostly non-factual or manipulated. Unlike a calculator that can provide complicated calculation instantly and accurately, as it was being programmed with such specific precise calculation format, AI also has a speedy efficient performance to collect information, process, and transcribe/recreate the collected information in certain way, in any language, in any form, at very high speed, but, the vast digital information/data coming from everyone and everywhere, are not necessarily all true.

Even if AI is being programmed to only access and utilize what it evaluates and recognizes as true, but the evaluation/discrimination is based on what? Based on the specific limited conditional information/data that it was fed by the human minds/creators/programmers/engineers, or based on what it learnt from the vast digital information/data/contents randomly that were being generated by the many different human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance?

Many people use AI to create digital contents/articles/arts/video/graphic/musics for different usages under different reasons, that are all based on the vast available digital information that the AI access, learn, process, and recreate, randomly or specifically, and all those creative materials, just like all kinds of ideas/beliefs/values/practices, creative arts, fictional stories, and movies, are not necessarily reflecting the truth or the reality as it is.

Just like human minds are being conditioned with many egoistic impure ideas, information, knowledge, beliefs, values, and practices, that are not necessarily the truth of what things are, for them to think, to desire, to feel, to reason, to behave, to act, to react, to do things, and to live life in certain way and not in certain way, where human beings have the active conscious learning capacity and creativity, but whatever they learn and experience, and the creativity that is being influenced by what they learnt/experienced, are mostly being limited and conditioned by what are available and accessible to them, that are being provided by some others who are most probably functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that have certain selfish intention or ambition to be influencing the others to be in certain way and not in certain way, in accordance to their desire and don't desire, as much as possible.

This is similar to AI, where AI can be limited and conditioned by the existing programming as well as the random or specific information/data generated by human minds that is feeding it, for it to learn and process, to imitate, transcribe, and recreate.

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Even though under such limitation, AI can have the capacity or function of detecting and recognizing the different temperatures, or weathers, or textures, or motions, or vibrations, or images, or sounds, or words, or sentences, or expressions, or conversations, or interactions, or feelings and emotions, based on what it has been learning from the vast digital information/data/contents, and might be programmed to give or have specific response in certain way or not in certain way towards the different temperatures, or weathers, or textures, or motions, or vibrations, or images, or sounds, or words, or sentences, or expressions, or conversations, or interactions, or feelings and emotions, under the existing specific programming, where the programming might can be altered or evolved or reprogramming from time to time either by the programmer, or even, the AI can be reprogramming itself under the ceaseless continuous learning from the vast digital information/data under the existing program, that enables it to be reprogramming itself, that doesn't need the presence of active conscious awareness.

If AI can have the artificial intelligence/perception/cognition/learning/creativity/action/reaction/senses or receptors, of course it can also have the artificial feelings and emotions, as well as the artificial states of consciousness. And it doesn't need to have the active living consciousness or conscious awareness of the living organisms, for AI to be what it is, or to be evolving, to keep improving, and to excel, even if everything is artificial/imitation.

Artificial wool is not organic wool. No matter how much they look like and feel like organic wool, they are still artificial, not organic wool. AI is artificial, it is not organic intelligence. No matter how intelligent and evolved it can be, it is not organic intelligence. There are certain things that artificial intelligence can't do that the organic intelligence can do.

The initial AI might be created by human minds, but after that, AI can evolve autonomously/unconsciously/involuntarily via the existing program that give them the learning capacity and the accessibility to the vast digital information/data, to be creating many other AIs, either by replicating themselves under the same programming, or by creating many different AIs under different programmings, even if they are not conscious living organisms, and they don't have the active living conscious awareness, and AI doesn't need to have the active living conscious awareness to be able to replicate themselves or to create different AIs under different programmings, but just by having the existing programming that enables AI to be existing and functioning/operating/evolving/learning as what it is, under the presence of the essential energy/fuel/electricity/connectivity and the different supportive elements for AI to be existing and functioning or operating as what it is.

There are many living organisms also ceaselessly replicating themselves or being reproductive, under the absence of conscious awareness, provided under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements for all that to be happening.

Inquire the truth of everything.

This is why the highly importance of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, and seclusion for a prolonged duration, to renounce or move the mind away from continuously and unwittingly being conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure limited and conditional ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, to free the mind from being limited and conditioned by all that to reason all and everything, but to inquire towards the truth of all and everything under a mind that is not being limited or conditioned by all that.

The countless individual minds are many and different, the timeless universal consciousness is one and same

Just as the paths/lineages of yoga and buddhism are many and different, but the self inquiry and self realization is one and same, similarly, there had been, and there are many different individual selfless physical structures (all sentient living organisms, not just limited to human beings) with their own respective individual selfless modification of the mind, that had been or are existing and functioning under many different conditions, qualities, traits, personalities, states, desires, behaviors, actions and reactions, manifested under different time (timing), space (location), and causation (cause and effect), are many and uniquely different from one another, but the selfless consciousness that gives rise to different states of consciousness and conscious awareness to all the countless different individual minds that had ceased existing/functioning and/or are existing/functioning, in NOW, is the one same timeless attributeless selfless consciousness.

There had been, and there are countless individual minds existing and functioning under each of the countless individual physical structures ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away at their own respective cause and pace under different time, space, and causation, while the timeless selfless consciousness that pervades all and everything within and without throughout the infinite space, doesn't come and go, or change.

 

The selfless existence and function of the many different individual selfless minds are non-independent (depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning), impermanent (ceaselessly changing), limited, and conditional.

They are non-self (their impermanent dependent limited and conditional existence and function doesn't even belong to themselves, not to say, all and everything that the minds think and believe that belong to them).

They have a beginning of existence and an end of existence, they are limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation, and it is limited and conditioned by discriminative and assertive or subjective functions/modifications of the limited and conditional perception/cognition/memory/intellect/thinking/feeling/emotion/action and reaction/desire/self-identification or self-acknowledgement (the idea of 'I' or the ego, that gives rise to separateness and egoism, that give rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness - The veil of ignorance).

The selfless universal consciousness is independent, changeless, unlimited, and unconditional. It is beginningless and endless (unlimited by time or impermanent changes and activities), it is all pervading (unlimited by the limitation of space that exists in all kinds of names and forms), and it is unborn (non-manifested), nameless, formless, attributeless, or substanceless (unlimited by causation - cause and effect).

Just like the infinite space is timeless, attributeless, and unborn/non-manifested, the selfless universal consciousness is infinite, timeless, attributeless, and unborn/non-manifested.

Everything that are manifested in the infinite space under specific qualities of names and forms (matters/molecules/cells/atoms/protons/neutrons/neurons/electrons/elements/light/heat/gas/energy/air/water/minerals/living organisms/objects/planets/stars/suns/galaxies/universe/world/atmospheres/environments/conditions) are all limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation. But the infinite space is untouched, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or undetermined by all kinds of manifestations that come and go. The space doesn't increase or decrease regardless of all kinds of names and forms arising and passing away.

The selfless universal consciousness is the timeless selfless silent witness towards (the indiscriminate/non-judgmental/non-interfering imprint of) all kinds of selfless manifestations. It is untouched, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or undetermined by the selfless manifestations of all kinds of names and forms that are limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation, that existed/exist, ceaselessly changing, and had/will be ceased existing, in NOW.

Just as the function of memory itself is uncontaminated or undetermined by the contents of memory, and it is indiscriminate/non-judgmental/non-interference towards the contents of the memory.

The countless different individual selfless minds of the countless different individual physical structures functioning under the many different impermanent qualities/conditions/states/limitations might be pure or impure, might be kind or unkind, might be good or evil, might be constructive or destructive, might be intelligent or non-intelligent, might be knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, might be enjoying or suffering, and so on, and ceaselessly changing, but the selfless universal consciousness that pervades all kinds of names and forms and gives rise to the different states of consciousness in all minds to be unconscious (complete resting/deep sleep/coma), semi-conscious, and fully conscious towards themselves and the surrounding environment, enabling all the countless different individual minds to perceive/experience/know/think/reason/understand/remember/desire/behave/act/react in their own particular way at their own particular cause and effect (unconsciously/semi-consciously/consciously), is untouched, undetermined, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or unchanged by all that.

All the countless different individual selfless minds have their own each and particular personal imprint (limited and conditional individual memory storage) of their own particular personal and collective existence/function/impermanent changes/causes and effects/experiences during their limited and conditional momentary existence and function under different time, space, and causation, while the timeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, is the timeless selfless silent witness towards the all time manifestations of all kinds of names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, or the all time endless sum total imprints of the all time momentary existence/function/impermanent changes/causes and effects/experiences of all and everyone and everything (all kinds of sentient/non-sentient living beings and non-living objects) in the infinite space.

 

The selfless universal consciousness is selfless, neither self nor non-self.

It doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It's not 'my consciousness', 'your consciousness', 'our consciousness', 'their consciousness', 'its consciousness'.

The body is not 'I'. The 'I' is not the body. 

The mind is not 'I'. The 'I' is not the mind.

All and everything that are manifesting in the body and mind, are not 'I'.

There is no 'I' in anything (All and everything are selfless). 

The 'I' (the ego) is merely an idea or thought that manifests in the mind in a continuous stream of ceaseless ideas/thoughts of 'I' or self acknowledgement/conscious self awareness, ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, manifesting/transitioning under different states.

The momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind and the ideas/thoughts/modifications/the ego/the intellect/the cognition/the memory of the mind, are not 'I'.

All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that only existing and functioning/manifesting while ceaselessly changing/decaying/disintegrating under the selfless support/influence of the selfless energy and elements for a momentary limited duration.

The minds are not the selfless universal consciousness. The selfless universal consciousness is not the minds.

Regardless of what or who the minds think and identify as they are and are not, regardless of what the minds think or don't think, believe or disbelieve, behave or don't behave, understand or don't understand, all and everything will change and pass away.

The selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is always there as it is.

Just by reading or knowing this knowledge doesn't liberate the mind from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

Quiet the mind.

Eliminate the idea of 'I' and egoism.

Purify. Meditate. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

Attain direct self realization, and be free.

The selfless universal consciousness is attributeless, neither pure nor impure

When the mind is still functioning under the veil of ignorance, where the mind is still being conditioned by the mind perception of duality and 'I-ness' and 'mine-ness' under the influence of worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, aspirations, and practices, where the mind couldn't perceive, or grasp, or understand the teachings about 'The conscious mind evolution' and 'The mind purification and silencing process', and the one same essence in all and everything, about 'Selflessness', 'Oneness', 'Non-separateness', 'Non-self', 'Timelessness', as well as 'The timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness', or 'The silent witness', it is normal and common that the mind will think and believe that there are many different individual consciousness under different degrees of impurities that exist in the many different bodies and minds respectively under different realms/conditions/qualities/traits, that there is different quality or attribute in the consciousness, that there is the higher pure consciousness and the lower impure consciousness, where there are different degrees of impurities existing in the different individual consciousness, where the mind thinks that the mind purification process is about purifying and removing the impurities in the contaminated corrupted impure consciousness, to make the consciousness to become pure, to regain its original state of purity, that is identical with the universal pure consciousness.

There is nothing wrong, and it's common and natural that the mind will think and understand in such way under the influence of ignorance.

Upon the annihilation of ignorance after engaging in the genuine and persevered mind purification and silencing process, the same mind will realize that it is not what it thought it is, but there is also nothing wrong, because the presence of that impure incorrect understanding in the mind, where the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness is aware of the presence of ignorance/unknown/impurities in itself, and hence, there is the intense yearning towards liberation, knowledge, purity, and peace, that activates the mind purification and silencing process to be annihilating the veil of ignorance, of restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism, and to be engaging in the self inquiry process to inquire towards the truth of everything.

That incorrect understanding of 'Purifying the inferior lower impure consciousness to regain the state of purity and become one or identical with the superior highest pure universal consciousness', which has been the main conscious desire/motivation that motivates the mind to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process diligently and determinedly, even though it is not at all about purifying the consciousness that is neither pure nor impure, that doesn't need to be purified, but then, eventually the engagement in all kinds of genuine persevered practice and observation will lead towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the silence of the restless egoistic impure mind stuff/thought current/thought activities/restless modification of the mind, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that enables the mind to realize or see the truth of all that.

Because the mind couldn't grasp something that the mind doesn't know, that is unknown to the mind.

The mind might be able to perceive, know, and understand towards, "I am aware of/experiencing/conscious towards this or that, I know and understand and remember this and that, or I am not aware of/not experiencing/unconscious towards this or that, I don't know and don't understand and don't remember this or that."

Under certain innovative scientific tools or machines deriving from advanced science and technology, where the tools/machines can detect certain gross and subtle conscious and unconscious brains activities/thought current, of thinking, emotions, restlessness, calmness, sleep state, dreaming, or deep sleep state, of the state of consciousness (wakeful state/conscious activities), the state of semi-consciousness (semi-awake/sleep state and dreaming/semi-conscious activities), and the state of unconsciousness (deep sleep state/coma/autonomous selfless operation of the selfless bodily systems ceaselessly operating for basic life maintenance even under complete absence of conscious awareness or conscious physical and mental activities, that is highly essential for life maintenance/regeneration/rehabilitation/recuperation).

But then, "The selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness? Selflessness? Timelessness? Attributelessness? Universal consciousness?" The mind puzzled.

Just as the infinite space, that is nameless/formless/shapeless/sizeless/weightless/tasteless/soundless/smell-less/attributeless/substanceless/motionless/timeless/limitless, that doesn't increase of decrease regardless of all kinds of names and forms under different qualities ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the infinite space, that one cannot see, cannot touch, cannot feel, cannot hear, cannot smell, cannot taste, cannot imagine, cannot hold, cannot keep, cannot measure, and cannot destroy, but one cannot deny that it is here and there and everywhere, within and without all and everything that are under certain names and forms of certain qualities.

Before the mind attains direct self realization towards the all pervading infinite timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything selflessly, it is normal and nothing wrong that the mind might understand and refer 'the selfless universal consciousness' that is being mentioned in both the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism as something of pure quality, or of the highest purity, that 'belongs to' the highest 'authority' of the universe a.k.a. the 'creator of the universe', that is distinct and separated from the many different 'individual consciousness' that are impure, that 'exist' in the many different individual sentient living organisms respectively, that 'belongs to' each of the many different individual impure bodies and minds respectively, where after engaging in the mind purification process to be purifying the impure consciousness that is being contaminated by all kinds of impurities, the individual consciousness will regain its original state of purity, which will then become one and identical with, or non-distinctive from the superior highest and purest consciousness of the 'creator of the universe', that 'belongs to' the 'creator of the universe'. And hence, there is the proclamation of, "I am THAT."

The mind might misunderstand that the mind purification process or the path of yoga/buddhism/meditation, is about purifying the lower impure individual consciousness (some minds might refer that as the permanent independent immortal individual soul) to be free from impurities to regain the original state of purity, to become pure again, to become one and identical with the superior highest and purest universal consciousness that 'belongs' to the 'creator of the universe', and hence, some minds refer that as, "I am the immortal pure soul," or "I am the infinite pure consciousness," or "I am THAT."

The selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness doesn't belong to anyone or anything, not even 'belongs to' the universe, no to say, the so called 'creator of the universe' that 'exists in' and 'belongs respectively to' the many different worldly beliefs under different names and forms.

It is the selfless universal consciousness, because it is the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space, that pervades and exists within and without all and everything, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects that had existed, that are existing or have been existing, that are constantly changing and decaying, and that are disintegrating and ceased existing, in NOW.

It is all pervading within and without all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary names and forms that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away under the influence of the intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Under the absence of the selfless conscious mind awareness, or under the state of semi-conscious, or being unconscious, where the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is semi-conscious/unconscious towards anything, there are still some semi-conscious physical and mental activities (such as dreaming and/or sleep walking during sleep, or wild imaginations and hallucinations under the influence of substances, or under certain physical condition and mental state), or there are ceaseless subtle autonomous life maintenance activities ceaselessly receiving inputs and/or releasing outputs operated under the different selfless autonomous bodily systems, even though the selfless universal consciousness is always here and there and everywhere, as it is, never appear or disappear, never increase or decrease.

Just as the sun is always there as it is, never appear or disappear. However, under the movement of the earth (just like the inter-changing conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious states and activities of the body and mind) and the various elements in the atmosphere (just like the impurities and restless thought activities in the modification of the mind), the sun (just like the selfless universal consciousness) appears to be appearing and disappearing, generating the false impression of day and night, or sunrise and sunset, or the light and heat appears to be mild or intense.

Just like the body and mind being fully aware (wakeful), or semi-aware (sleep/dream), or unaware (deep sleep, or coma), of the different states/degrees of conscious awareness (just like the movements of the earth and the various elements in the atmosphere that are ceaselessly changing) generating the false impression of the consciousness appears to be coming and going (just like the sun appears to be rising and setting), while it is actually the selfless mind conscious awareness that is changing, that is presence or absence, that appears or disappears, that appears to be strong or weak, and hence, there is the practice of developing and empowering the limited and conditional degrees of awareness, or alertness, or focus, or attentiveness.

That is also why, after a prolonged duration of wakefulness/alertness or intense focus on something, the mind will become tired, and needs to take rest/momentarily shut-off. Just like the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and the different functions of the body and mind, the conscious mind awareness/focus/attentiveness, or the willpower/patience/forbearance/endurance/energy level is also limited and conditional.

The only 'thing' that is unlimited and unconditional, is the infinite independent permanent timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness.

 

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional world of names and forms, of inevitable ceaseless maintenance during the momentary existence and function, of non-satisfactory momentary perishable goodness or pleasurable enjoyment, and the inevitable/evitable impermanent painful suffering that is being perceived/experienced by the selfless mind under the presence of the conscious mind awareness, don't exist, if without the selfless function of the selfless mind functioning under the existence of the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the conscious mind awareness to the mind, to be conscious towards itself internally (the physical structure) and externally (the surrounding environment).

Whether the selfless body and mind is living/activating/functioning consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously, or not, and is 'being aware of' the ceaseless changes in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the selfless body and mind that has a beginning of existence and an end of existence, or not, it doesn't affect the timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness.

There might be certain illness/injury/damage happening to the brains, or the nerves, or the senses, or the organs of the senses, where there is certain partial dysfunction or complete dysfunction of the brains, or the nerves, or the senses, or the organs of the senses, where the body and mind might not be able to function as it is, but that also doesn't affect the selfless universal consciousness.

Just as there are all kinds of activities that are happening in the universe, of countless names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, but all that don't affect, or damage, or contaminate the infinite space, that is always there, as it is.

 

The selfless universal consciousness doesn't increase or decrease, and doesn't come and go, even if the energy level can be high or low, or the body and mind can be functioning efficiently or inefficiently, or the body and mind is fully conscious/aware, or semi-conscious/aware, or unconscious/unaware, or whether there is the presence or absence of ignorance, restlessness, or impurities in the modification of the mind, or the different states of mind, as well as upon the body and mind ceaselessly decaying, weakening, and disintegrating, or completely ceased existing and functioning.

The selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, that enables the living organisms to have the conscious awareness to be aware/conscious of its selfless impermanent momentary existence and function as well as the surrounding environment, is the one same consciousness in all and everything.

There are many different individual selfless bodies and minds that have their own particular cause and effect and traits/qualities/conditions/abilities/disabilities/limitations to be existing and functioning as what they are, but there is no different separate individual consciousness of specific permanent independent immortal individual self identity, that belongs to each particular individual selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary living being or non-living object respectively, not to say, there is no 'lower impure individual consciousness'.

It is attributeless. It is permanent and unchanging. It is infinite, limitless, and unconditional. It is neither superior nor inferior. It is neither pure nor impure. There is neither pure consciousness nor impure consciousness. There is neither higher consciousness nor lower consciousness. There is neither my consciousness nor your/his/her/its consciousness.

The selfless universal consciousness is the selfless actionless timeless silent witness that has been witnessing all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away upon it, that is untouched, uncontaminated, undetermined, unaffected, uninfluenced, unchanged, or undamaged by all THAT as well as the presence or absence of all kinds of impurities, restlessness, the idea of 'I', and egoism, of all kinds of physical and mental conditions/states/activities/abilities/disabilities/limitations, thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, memories, imaginations, ideas, beliefs, values, understanding and non-understanding, desires and don't desires, behaviors, actions, reactions that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away upon the selfless universal consciousness throughout the countless different selfless bodies and minds.

Just as all kinds of different images or contents of the different movies being projected onto the screen don't affect, or contaminate, or damage, or change the screen. The screen (just like the selfless universal consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space) is what allowing the countless different movies (all kinds of manifestations/perceptions of names and forms under different causes and effects) to be screened upon it for the viewers (the perceptive minds under the presence of conscious awareness) to watch (to perceive/experience/be aware of) the movies (the mind perception of all kinds of names and forms/experiences/impermanent changes), and to have different reflection/understanding/opinions/thoughts/ideas/actions/reactions towards the different movies (pleased or displeased, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, like or dislike, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, inspiring or non-inspiring, enlightening or non-enlightening, elevating or depressing, calming or disturbing, grasping or non-grasping, and etc).

The difference between the screen and the selfless universal consciousness, is that the screen is a name and form like all the other names and forms that are impermanent, limited, and conditional, that is subject to decay and disintegration, that can be damaged and destroyed, that will affect the quality of the images or contents of the movies being projected onto it, that will cease existing, but not the selfless universal consciousness.

The selfless universal consciousness witnesses and reflects all and everything as they are, however, the presence of the veil of ignorance, or the restlessness, the impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism in the selfless modification of the mind distort or corrupt the reflection of all and everything, and/or hinder the mind to perceive/know/see/understand all and everything as they are.

It is like the mirror will reflect all and everything as it is, however, the presence of dust, or dirt, or cracks, or movement will distort or corrupt the reflection, or hinder the mind to see the reflection of all and everything as they are. Similarly, the mirror is also a name and form that is impermanent, limited, and conditional, but not the selfless universal consciousness.

It is the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind stuff, or the selfless function/modification/activity/state of the mind, that appears to be pure/calmed/egoless under the absence of impurities, restlessness, or the idea of 'I' and egoism, and that appears to be impure/agitated/disturbed/restless/egoistic under the presence of impurities, restless thought activities, or the idea of 'I' and egoism.

Under the presence of impurities, restlessness, and the idea of 'I' and egoism, the impure restless egoistic modification of the mind (the selfless corrupted mind stuff - the cognition, the understanding, the intellect, the reasoning power, the thinking and behavior pattern, the action and reaction) is the selfless subject that needs to be undergoing the mind purification process to be purifying and eliminating impurities, restlessness, the idea of 'I', and egoism from the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, so that the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty that perceives and that is conscious/aware of all kinds of names and forms under the presence of the selfless conscious mind awareness to be conscious/aware of all THAT that are being reflected upon the selfless universal consciousness, can now perceive/see/know/understand all the names and forms that it perceives through the senses, or the objects of the awareness/perception/senses as what they are, as they are.

Upon the direct self realization towards all that under a purified and quiet modification of the mind (clarity), the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty (the selfless mind) will know that there is only the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, within and without, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

 

There is not any lower inferior individual consciousness that is impure (that is distinct and separated from the so called 'highest superior universal pure consciousness'), that needs to be purified to become pure, to regain the state of purity, and to become one and identical with the selfless universal consciousness. It is always the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness.

Similarly, the selfless mind stuff/function/mechanism is also neither pure nor impure, even though they can be functioning under the presence or absence of impurities, because the impurities don't belong to them, or the impurities are not them or part of them.

That is also why, it is absolutely possible to free the mind stuff from the veil of ignorance, of restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism. It is like the dirt or dust, that is landing on the subject that can be removed/cleaned up/eliminated from the subject. However, the dirt or dust can be very stubborn to be removed/cleaned up/eliminated, that requires prolonged and persevered continuous action of cleaning under the help of certain tools.

Similarly, the minds are neither good nor bad, even though the minds can be functioning under the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance and its by-products, and hence, the minds can appear to be good or bad, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, wise or ignorant. Under this understanding, one will know that all minds can be free and have peace, or be kind, if they want, and be willingly to exert effort for that.

 

The different impermanent limited and conditional selfless bodies and minds/names and forms/living organisms/objects coming and going in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, generating different causes (actions) and effects (consequences of actions) impacting all and everyone and everything, either wittingly or unwittingly, and they are never the same but ceaselessly changing, but the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness is still the same. The infinite space of the universe is still the same. They are not being affected, or damaged, or contaminated by all kinds of selfless manifestations being what they are.

The many different individual selfless perceptive minds have their own particular individual and/or collective group perceptions/experiences/cause and effect/impermanent changes in their respective momentary existence, and might or might not remember/recall all the perceptions/experiences/actions and consequences of actions/impermanent changes from the moment of forming/arising (birth) until the moment of disintegrating/passing away (death) under the selfless function of the memory and memory storage (just like the timeless selfless imprints of everything imprinted in/witnessed by the timeless selfless universal consciousness), however, it is the one same selfless timeless universal consciousness (the one and only silent witness) that pervades all and everyone and everything, that has been witnessing all and everyone and everything, of the ceaseless births and deaths of the countless names and forms, of the ceaseless impermanent changes in the countless names and forms in between arising (birth/the beginning of existence) and passing away (death/the end of existence).

The minds that understand this, they will also understand towards what is 'the recollection of countless momentary existence of the many different names and forms under different qualities existing momentarily under different time, space, and causation' (that is being mistaken as 'the countless and endless reincarnations of the respective immortal individual consciousness/soul' reincarnating into countless and endless 'different existences' transitioning under 'different realms', under different time, space, and causation, in an infinite loop of 'the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths'), that are merely the timeless imprints of the timeless selfless manifestations of all kinds of momentary names and forms arising, changing, and passing away upon the selfless timeless all pervading universal consciousness (the one and only timeless silent witness that witnesses the timeless and endless manifestations of countless names and forms manifesting/arising under different qualities/states/conditions, and ceaselessly changing and passing away under different time (era), space (location), and causation (cause and effect)), where some of the selfless perceptive minds might be able to perceive or have a glimpse towards the flashing of the random imprints of 'the timeless countless manifestations (different births and deaths) of countless different selfless momentary names and forms, arising, changing, and passing away under different realms/conditions/qualities in different time, space, and causation respectively' that don't belong to this particular selfless mind that only exists momentarily in NOW, in this particular selfless body, that has its own particular perceptions/experiences/impermanent changes/conditions/states/qualities/traits/cause and effect, and its particular memory storage of all that, in NOW.

All these imprints of the timeless selfless impermanent limited and conditional manifestations of countless different names and forms witnessed by and imprinted in the one and only timeless selfless silent witness a.k.a. the one same timeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, are neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative. That is also why there is the highly essential and basic teaching and practice of yoga and buddhism of non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-craving/non-aversion/non-comparison/non-judgment/non-expectation, for all the selfless impermanent momentary minds that have the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, during their momentary existence and function in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

That's why, the selfless mind only knows and remembers what it knows and what it can remember that it has been perceiving/experiencing in its particular selfless impermanent momentary existence and function in NOW, that there is only this particular selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal life existence and function of this particular selfless body and mind (limited adjunct) that is constantly changing, decaying, and disintegrating, and eventually, it will pass away or ceased existing, and there are NO past previous countless lives or future next continuous lives (the worldly egoistic belief of 'ceaseless and endless loop of reincarnation' of 'a permanent independent immortal infinite individual self identity that doesn't exist' to be 'reincarnating' endlessly into different finite momentary mortal existence of different names and forms transitioning under different realms, under different time, space, and causation, in accordance to the worldly egoistic belief/values/practice of the endless generation and accumulation of inexhaustible good and bad karma) of this particular selfless body and mind, that is impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that only exists and ceaselessly changing, in NOW.

Most of the time, when the minds think and believe that they 'see', or 'feel', or 'experience' something that is not real, that doesn't exist in the reality, in NOW, it is merely some wild imaginations or hallucinations that happen under certain physical condition and/or mental state, or under the influence of certain substances. Just like dreams. Dreams are not real. If the mind thinks and believes that all the dreams that it perceives as something real, it is insanity.

If it is not merely some wild imaginations, or hallucinations, or dreams that are not real at all, where the minds claimed that they could fully consciously 'know' or 'perceive' something that they think and believe is 'their own' countless ceaseless reincarnations in countless different existences of countless different names and forms transitioning under different realms/conditions/qualities under different time, space, and causation, but they are merely some random flashing of selfless imprints deriving from the all pervading timeless selfless universal consciousness (the timeless silent witness) that has been witnessing the countless selfless manifestations of countless names and forms under different time, space, and causation, manifesting under different realms/conditions/qualities/states, that don't belong to these particular minds that only exist selflessly and momentarily in this particular impermanent, limited, and conditional existence and ceaselessly changing, in NOW.

There is the beneficial reason why the one same timeless selfless universal consciousness in all and everything, or the one and only timeless silent witness of all and everything, is unknown to most minds, even when it exists in all and everything, and all perceptive minds are being conscious because of that. It will be tremendously over-whelming, and extremely disturbing and confusing for the minds that don't really understand what and why are all those flashing of random imprints coming from the timeless limitless selfless universal consciousness that don't even belong to themselves, and such experience/happening will be treated and referred as insanity.

 

Many minds would like/wish to be able to know what is going on in the minds of others, under specific intention or desire, that is their freedom of thinking and desire, but if they know the truth of the restless impure mind stuff, they won't even want to confront with their own restless impure corrupted modification of the mind, not to say, they would not want to know about what is going on in the mind of anyone, as it will be extremely disturbing and exhausting. Just by dealing with the restless impure mind stuff in oneself, is already so difficult, over-whelming, confusing, and exhausting, not to say, if being consciously aware of what is going on in all the other minds that are full of all kinds of desires, greed, violence, hypocrisy, lies, plotting, scheming, anticipation, projection, ill will, hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, worry, insanity, madness, confusions, corruptions, wild imaginations, hallucinations, impurities, and restlessness, as well as all kinds of painful sorrow and suffering, while not being able to interfere with all the others being what and how they are under the influence of the nature's law of cause and effect.

That is why the universal consciousness is also selfless, even if it is permanent, independent, or infinite.

There is no painful suffering in the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, even when it is the timeless silent witness timelessly witnessing towards all kinds of painful suffering that the countless selfless impure egoistic restless minds had/have been generating and undergoing, under the veil of ignorance.

It is only the countless selfless conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds functioning selflessly under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal physical structure that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the selfless body and mind itself, that is the one that perceives all kinds of painful sorrow and suffering, or the notion of 'I am not free' due to being ignorant towards all these selfless natural manifestations, under the influence of the veil of ignorance, not knowing that they themselves and all and everything are selfless.

The sense of separateness and duality, as well as pride and shame, low and high self esteem, positiveness and negativeness, goodness and badness, righteousness and evilness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, offensiveness and defensiveness, togetherness and aloneness, possessiveness, discrimination, discontentment, greed, clinging, the conscious desire and/or the instinctive urge to control/to possess/to hoard/to own/to protect/to be strong and powerful, and fear, that exist under the sense of separateness and duality deriving from ignorance, will all be vanished from the modification of the mind, upon the direct self realization towards all these.

Regardless of whether the minds realize or don't realize towards all THAT, it doesn't change the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self. Beyond all the different qualities of the different names and forms, beyond the selfless mind stuff, or the selfless functions/mechanisms of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, or the different selfless impermanent states of mind, beyond the selfless mind perception towards the world of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, is the one same infinite timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness.

However, the realization towards all THAT during the momentary existence and function of the countless selfless impermanent minds under the countless selfless impermanent physical structures in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is the highest duty of all minds, so that the minds stop hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment during their momentary existence and function in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, resting in unconditional peace and freedom, being undetermined, undisturbed, and uninfluenced by the boundless ignorance in this selfless impermanent world of all kinds of limited, conditional, and non-self momentary mortal existence of diverse names and forms that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Renunciation, dispassion, right discrimination or basic correct understanding, seclusion, solitude, silence, mental and emotional independence, meditation, contemplation, self inquiry, determination, perseverance, forbearance, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, intense yearning towards absolute knowledge/liberation from ignorance and suffering/unconditional peace and freedom, non-attachment and non-identification, non-craving and non-aversion, non-judgment and non-expectation, non-violence, non-clinging, and non-grasping, are the essential elements of The Middle Path in both yoga and buddhism that will lead towards direct self realization towards all THAT.

 

If the mind doesn't know this, where it has doubt (and, the mind should be doubting*) towards the truth of all these, then the mind can engage in certain methods or practices that can help to purify and quiet the modification of the mind, to be inquiring towards the truth of all these, to attain direct self realization towards all these.

*Doubting, is absolutely nothing wrong, and it indicates the possibility of conscious mind evolution. Doubting towards the truth of something or everything, apart from the direct or indirect experience of painful sorrow and suffering, is the highly essential element that initiates the mind purification and silencing process, to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, to be free from ignorance, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything.

Just as the young Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was being initiated by the indirect non-personal experience under the perception/coming in contact with/awareness towards the existence of painful sorrow and suffering in all the others in the surrounding environment, towards the inevitable suffering of selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that needs ceaseless effort for maintenance, of inevitable changes, decay, aging, weakness, illness, and disintegration, or death, and had ignited the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace in himself, even when he hadn't have any direct personal experience towards painful sorrow and suffering (yet), while being determined to attain direct self realization towards the truth of suffering, and eventually, he attained self realization after years of renunciation while learning and observing all kinds of methods and practices from different teachers of different lineages and paths, and underwent the different paths of extremity that didn't work, that led to the realization towards the middle path, that eventually led to the self realization towards the mind stuff, the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, and the nature's law of cause and effect.

"All have the one same essence of BUDDHA." - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-agree/disagree, blind-practice, or blind-propagate anything from anyone.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here. 

Turning the mind inward and quieting the restless thought current

To initiate the process of quieting the restless thought current, the selfless mind (the selfless perceiver/the selfless knower/the selfless experiencer/the selfless thinker and action performer) first needs to know what is non-attachment and non-identification, a.k.a. non-association, or standing as a witness, which then allows the mind to look at the selfless modification of the mind, to find out, or inquire towards what is the thought current, and why it is restless, or what is the cause that gives rise to restlessness, without craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation.

The process of turning the mind inward, is about gathering the random outgoing and wandering point of focus/attentiveness/awareness, that moves rapidly among the countless random objects of the senses (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations), and channel the gathered point of focus inward, where the mind gives full attention towards observing what is going on in the selfless modification of the mind, or to be aware of the selfless thought process, or the selfless thought activities, or the mind thinking and behavior pattern, of ceaseless mental actions/reactions/ideas/feelings/emotions/inspirations/aspirations/desires/anticipations/imaginations/memories, of all kinds of impurities, that keep arising, changing, and passing away (Restlessness - ceaseless selfless impermanent changes - ceaseless births and deaths of endless random thought after thought).

The entire process is being activated under the presence of non-violence or gentleness, without forcing/violence/aggressiveness. As the presence of forcing/violence/aggressiveness hinders the process of quieting the restless thought current to be happening. It is like the pool of water can never be calmed and still, if someone keeps hitting and stirring the water with something repeatedly and aggressively.

The absence of forcing/violence/aggressiveness, is possible under the presence of non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, on top of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, and accommodation.

That is why the basic yoga and/or buddhism practice is not so much about learning and performing the different types of yoga asana practice, pranayama practice, concentration practice, meditation practice, chanting (sound vibration and/or devotional/sentimental approach), kriya (cleansing), or any kind of practice, under the many different lineages and techniques, but, it is more about during the entire process of learning and performing all that, the practitioners (the selfless minds) are developing and empowering non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, as well as developing the elements of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, and accommodation, that give rise to the presence of kindness, or non-forcing/non-violence/non-aggressiveness in the entire practice as well as in everyday life affairs, that will influence and change the conditional habitual mind thinking and behavior pattern, consciously and unconsciously, that naturally activates the conscious and non-conscious evolution of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence, where the mind can know itself, attaining direct realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and be free from ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance.

The mind will stop hurting itself and others or the surrounding environment under the presence of correct understanding and peace, under the presence of wisdom and compassion, devoid of ignorance, restlessness and violence.

Everything will eventually fall into its place naturally, upon the initial activation of conscious evolution, that will also influence the unconscious evolution, even if it's not significant, and either wittingly or unwittingly.

Just by closing the eyes, and turning the focus/attention or the conscious awareness inward and within, even if it's just for a few moments, is already initiating the process of quieting the restless thought current.

For most minds, they can begin with the process of observing the natural breath coming and going. In the first few practices, it's only for a few seconds. And then, prolonged that process of observing the natural breath for a few minutes, and then gradually extending the process for as long as possible, without struggle/forcing/violence.

Keep practicing, without judgment or expectation.

Just watch the impermanence of the breath and the wavering attentiveness, where sometimes the mind is attentive, calmed, and quiet effortlessly, while sometimes it is agitated, distracted, and wavering randomly back and forth between here to there.

The point is not about whether the mind is attentive or inattentive. But it is about there is this selfless awareness that is being aware of the impermanent attentiveness and inattentiveness of the selfless mind, without association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

The conscious awareness is not being determined, or affected, or contaminated, or damaged by the presence and absence of attentiveness or inattentiveness, calmness or agitation, of all kinds of impurities and restlessness in the selfless modification of the mind.

As the mind keeps practicing under the presence of non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, under the support of patience, forbearance, perseverance, determination, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, and accommodation, regardless of whether the body and mind can perform all kinds of practices perfectly or imperfectly (not important at all), then naturally and effortlessly, the restless thought current will become less and less violent/agitated/restless, and will come to a point of stillness or clarity, even if that is also impermanent and momentary.

But that tiny impermanent moment of stillness or clarity, is extremely precious for a glimpse towards the selfless unconditional unlimited attributeless/nameless/formless/actionless/changeless/timeless/birthless/deathless universal consciousness that allows all kinds of manifestations to be what they are, that enables the selfless perceptive thinking and acting mind to be what it is, to be consciously perceiving/experiencing/knowing/thinking/feeling/sensing/reasoning/understanding/acting/reacting towards all kinds of names and forms during the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where the mind knows Thyself, of its selfless impermanent momentary limited and conditional existence and function, and hence, effortlessly resting upon the selfless universal consciousness, a.k.a. timelessness/changelessness/desirelessness/actionlessness/attributelessness/namelessness/formlessness/birthlessness/deathlessness/unconditional peace, even if there are necessary physical and mental activities for maintaining life existence, while making use of this selfless impermanent momentary life existence for performing selfless service (evoking the dharma that is already there in the minds, consciously and unconsciously) that help to promote and maintain peace and harmony among the many diversities of different names and forms in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, without attachment/identification/intention/expectation. Just like the sun, the air, the earth, the water, and the space.

The dissemination of dharma or the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism is highly important, even if it's merely the repetition of the same few words such as Selflessness and Impermanence, Non-attachment and Non-identification, Non-craving and Non-aversion, Non-judgment and Non-expectation, Kindness and Letting go, or Self-inquiry and Self-realization, either in the form of any written and/or spoken language, allowing the minds to have the opportunity to come in contact with these essential words/teachings/dharma, both consciously and unconsciously, regardless of whether the minds comprehend the meanings of these words/teachings/dharma, or not, especially in the beginning, it really doesn't matter.

Such as upon the teacher is disseminating the dharma/teachings in the yoga class, without any intention or expectation, there are some students are coming in contact with and processing all these dharma/teachings wittingly and consciously, that lead themselves towards self-inquiry and self-realization, while there are also some students coming in contact with and absorbing all these dharma/teachings unwittingly and/or unconsciously, either they are not listening at all being distracted by something, or they are listening but they don't really know what the teacher is talking about (language barrier or intellectual barrier), or they are not interested at all to be listening to all that, or they have intense disagreement or aversion reacting towards the dharma/teachings, or they are falling asleep during the class especially during the relaxation, however, it will still lead them towards self-inquiry and self-realization, eventually. They will recall all these from within, both consciously and unconsciously, when there is the moment when they are in need of all these dharma/teachings.

It really doesn't matter.

Because all these dharma/teachings are already there within all minds. The teacher doesn't give them the dharma/teachings, but only served as a tool that evokes the dharma/teachings that is already there in all and everyone (however, the minds don't know or couldn't see it being hindered by the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness,) that allows the minds to develop the basic foundation of certain essential correct understanding and attitude, that enables the minds to have some guidelines for them to perform certain practice effectively, that will lead them towards realizing all that by themselves, through their own effort and determination.

That is also why activating the mind purification process is highly important, same as the observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence, Satsanga (if there is wise company) and Asanga (if there is no wise company), or mental and emotional independence. This is to limit and minimize both conscious and (especially) unconscious ceaseless mind inputs that are feeding and empowering ignorance and its by-products, which is a huge obstacle for mind purification process, self-inquiry, and self-realization.

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The selfless intentionless survival instinct

Selfless survival instinct is neither good nor bad, it is just what it is, a selfless intentionless biological autonomous mechanism that is needed to be existing/functioning selflessly in all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional living organism (with or without the selfless thinking and acting faculty/mobile or immobile) for the selfless existence and function as well as the survival or sustainability of the selfless life existence of all kinds of living organism up to a certain extend, because all the different life supporting systems and components that are forming the existence and function of the living organism, are selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional, that have a limited existence, and that will decay and disintegrate.

Unlike non-living organisms or objects that are also selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional, if without the selfless autonomous mechanism of survival instinct, the living organisms cannot be formed 'properly', or come into existence to be what they are, not to say, to survive/function as what they are upon coming into existence. Similarly, a thing that is meant to be a car, but if it is missing one of the essential components that makes a car to be existing and functioning as what it is, then it doesn't become a car, or it is a non-functional car that is missing one of the essential components.

Survival instinct alone, either under the absence of consciousness/awareness/freewill of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, or, under the presence of consciousness/awareness/freewill of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is devoid of ignorance and its by-products of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, is merely about instinctive non-conscious/choice-less/intentionless autonomous physical and mental activities that are activated under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, to maintain life existence, such as -

- Activate the signal/sensation of hunger and thirst or weakness/pain or discomfort and malfunction demanding for conscious action from the thinking and acting faculty to be attending/gratifying the need to replenish energy/air/water/nutrients/minerals, as well as the need of energy conservation and rest to allow recovery from overuse/exhaustion/tension/weakness/injury/illness, where the living organism needs to be keep refueling energy repeatedly before complete energy depletion happens, as well as to be looking after any existing excessive energy depletion/tiredness/tension/weakness/injury/illness before they become worst and jeopardizing the life maintenance, or else, life maintenance becomes difficult and impossible, or the biological autonomous mechanism of the different life supporting systems will be malfunction and dysfunction, and eventually, ceased operating/functioning, or ceased living.

- Activate the auto immune and survival reflex, to be avoiding and minimizing internal and external damage/injury/illness/threat/danger/risk/extreme detrimental environment, condition, and situation, that is detrimental or threatening to the survival or maintenance of the life existence and function of the living organism.

- Activate repair and regeneration (growth) up to a certain extend, where decay/aging/weakness/illness/malfunction/dysfunction/ceased function/disintegration take place.

- Activate the signal/sensation demanding for conscious action to be balancing between activeness and idleness (rest/sleep/awake/energy consumption and replenishment/waste products elimination/interchanging between physical activity and mental activity/interchanging between different positions and movements) - neither continuous prolonged activeness or overuse (that leads to excessive or complete exhaustion/energy depletion/damage) nor continuous prolonged idleness or under-use (non-attending the needs for maintaining sustainable existence and proper function), where both extremity will be detrimental to life maintenance, that will lead to malfunction and dysfunction (the presence of difficulty for maximal survival/existence), and eventually, ceased living, or ceased existence.

- Activate the digestion and absorption and distribution of energy and elements, and the elimination of waste products, of the complete biological autonomous life mechanism or bodily system, that is happening ceaselessly from the beginning of life existence until the end of life existence, either under the absence or presence of consciousness/awareness/freewill of the thinking and acting faculty/conscious by choice activities.

- Similarly, activate the selfless thought processing process of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, to be processing/digesting/absorbing/distributing/storing/dissolving/releasing the ceaseless mind inputs/thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/imaginations/memories/experiences/perceptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations/dreams, of all kinds of mind stuffs, or mental and emotional activities, or states of mind.

- Activate evolution/changes/adjustment of both the hardware and software of the living organism, to adapt/accommodate the current internal and external condition and situation for continuous survival, or to sustain maximal existence until the end of existence.

- Activate reproduction, to sustain, pass on, and expand existence, to create conducive condition for maximum survival, to gather internal and external assistance/support/knowledge/skill, to strengthen defense.

The selfless unlimited and unconditional attributeless changeless birthless and deathless universal consciousness beyond existence and non-existence is undetermined or uncontaminated by the selfless manifestation of all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms that arising, changing, and passing away upon it (Both the selfless projector and the selfless projector screen that projects and hosts all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, is not being determined, affected, or contaminated by all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms that come and go).

The selfless mechanism of the selfless thinking and acting faculty is the selfless projector of names and forms that projects thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/actions/reactions upon the selfless projector screen (the selfless impermanent modification of the mind/thought activities), as well as the selfless perceiver that perceives names and forms (all kinds of experiences) through the senses and sense organs, as well as the selfless action performer that performs action and reaction via the organs of action and speech or expression (activated by instinctive urge for survival and/or conscious intention for gratification of desires).

The selfless mechanism of survival instinct is the intentionless mechanism that activate all kinds of life supporting systems, to maintain equilibrium of the physical and mental inputs and outputs, energy consumption, energy absorption, energy distribution, energy storage, energy conservation, and energy expenditure, to sustain or maintain life existence (up to a certain extend) until the end of life existence, even under the absence of consciousness, or awareness, or the freewill of the selfless thinking and acting faculty. Such as, if the physical body is out of the supply of energy/water/air/nutrients/minerals to maintain the life supporting system, the bodily system will start to consume the body itself to extract energy/water/air/nutrients/minerals from the entire physical body that is made up of all these, until the supply of all these life supporting essential energy and elements is available again, or else, the life supporting system will eventually malfunction/dysfunction (energy depletion), until it stops operating/functioning (complete energy depletion/ceased living/existing), and disintegrate.

The selfless conscious thinking and acting faculty is not the selfless intentionless survival instinct, just as all kinds different individual selfless systems in the selfless physical body of all kinds of selfless living organism that come with their own respective selfless duty. Although the survival instinct is there to be activating certain signal/sensation to the selfless conscious thinking and acting faculty demanding certain attention and action for attending certain needs for life maintenance. Meanwhile, what and how the selfless thinking and acting faculty acts and reacts, or not, towards the instinctive urge/signal, is being influenced by the presence or absence of correct understanding and self-control or the absence or presence of ignorance and its by-products in the modification of the mind.

The thinking and acting faculty could be influenced and over-powered by the instinctive sexual urge and/or conscious lustful desire under the absence of correct understanding and willpower of self-control, where it is being determined or over-powered by the instinctive autonomous activities in the physical body and the selfless modification of the mind operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct, or, the thinking and acting faculty can developed correct understanding and willpower of self-control, and not being determined or over-powered by all kinds of selfless instinctive autonomous activities in the physical body and the selfless modification of the mind, transcending survival instinct and all kinds of selfless impermanent changes in the body and mind, of ceaseless life maintenance, hunger and thirst, sexual desire, the selfless impermanent thought process/modification/state of the mind, selfless instinctive evolution, non-instinctive by choice transformation, decay, illness, weakness, injury, aging, and disintegration.

The selfless/ego-less/'I'-less biological autonomous mechanism of several bodily systems (both hardware and software) that work together with one another, that support and inter-dependent on one another, are solely performing their respective duty selflessly under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, however, the selfless thinking and acting faculty of the living organism could be generating conscious non-autonomous (by choice/freewill) desire or don't desire, action or inaction, that are influencing and impacting the selfless biological autonomous life mechanism in certain way, either intentionally or unintentionally, where the impact could be supporting and enhancing the overall well-being under the presence of correct understanding devoid of ignorance and its by-products, or the impact could be hurtful and damaging to the overall well-being under the presence of ignorance or the disturbed discontented dissatisfied impure restless state of mind, devoid of correct understanding.

There is no 'I' in the entire mechanism of the hardware and software of the physical body and the thinking and acting faculty, however, under the absence of correct understanding, or under the presence of ignorance and its by-products, there is the idea of 'I' (the ego/Ahamkara) existing in the modification of the mind deriving from ignorance, that influence the thinking and acting faculty (the mind) to be generating actions and reactions via the organs of action and speech or expression, to be gratifying boundless desires (craving) and don't desires (aversion), and upon desires are not being gratified, there is mental reaction of all kinds of impurities arising and occupying the modification of the mind (the thought process), that lead to physical reaction of hurtful or damaging behavior under the influence of impurities.

That process between the rise of certain mental actions/reactions (mental and emotional activities), regardless of whether instinctive survival urge or non-instinctive conscious by choice desire, and might or might not turn into physical actions/reactions or expression, can be intervened or cutoff by the thinking and acting faculty that has developed certain degrees of correct understanding, willpower, and self-control.

The mind perceives the sensation of hunger (instinctive survival urge). The mind can either eat now or later, or doesn't want to eat at all (non-instinctive conscious by choice desire and action/inaction), or there is no availability of food (the current condition and situation of the availability of food as well as food choices). Under the presence of hunger, but somehow, it is not being attended or gratified immediately or as soon as possible, the mind acts and reacts differently, either remains calmed/equanimous under the presence of correct understanding and self-control, or becomes agitated/dissatisfied/irritated/irrational under the influence of ignorance and its by-products.

The selfless thinking and acting faculty (the selfless perceiver/the selfless thinker/the selfless experiencer/the selfless action performer) can transcend its own modification of the mind that is supported and influenced by the selfless biological autonomous mechanism operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct under the selfless support and influence of the selfless energy and elements.

The selfless thinking and acting faculty that is functioning under the presence of correct understanding, or under the absence of ignorance and its by-products, devoid of the restless egoistic impure disturbed state of mind, can choose whether it wants to act or react, or not, and how it wants to act or react towards all kinds of experiences, of what kind of behavior, desire/don't desire, or decision making, under the presence of correct understanding, willpower, and self-control, not being determined or over-powered by the instinctive biological autonomous mechanism or bodily system and the thought processing process operated under the selfless survival instinct supported and influenced by the selfless energy and elements, being aware of the selfless impermanent physical changes and thought activities, without attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, while may, or may not, utilize the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence to serve the world that is full of unnecessary and evitable suffering deriving from ignorance and its by-products.

The existence of all kinds of ignorance inflicted suffering is not the responsibility of the selfless intentionless survival instinct or the selfless thinking and acting faculty of the selfless living organism, but it is merely the consequences of the presence of ignorance and its by-product influencing the selfless thinking and acting faculty to be generating conscious by choice desires/behaviors/actions/reactions out of ignorance, that give rise to the consequences of all that.

Regardless of whether there is ignorance or correct understanding, or not, the selfless survival instinct is still performing its selfless intentionless duty of being what it is. However, the selfless thinking and acting faculty could be performing action/inaction that is benefiting or deteriorating to the over-all well-being of the selfless physical body or the selfless bodily systems, under the influence of correct understanding or ignorance.

Greed and ambitiousness, pride and shame, anger and hatred, jealousy and envy, attachment and identification, craving and aversion, discrimination and selfishness, manipulation and exploitation, possessiveness and separateness, violence and cruelty, bitterness and vengeance, chasing after endless indulgence in luxurious pleasurable enjoyment of the senses, the sense of loneliness, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, clinging and longing, politicking, plotting, scheming, of all kinds of impurities, are arising in the modification of the mind under the presence of ignorance and its by-products, on top of the selfless intentionless survival instinct.

If tired, then take rest. If hungry and thirsty (energy depletion), then eat and drink to replenish energy. If energy replenished (absence of hunger and thirst), then stopped eating and drinking. If there is waste products accumulated, then pee/shit/sweat. If there's indigestion, then vomit/diarrhea. If there's germ/virus, then increase body temperature (fever). If injured or sicked, then rest, treat, and recover. If this position is uncomfortable, then change position. If holding something burning hot, then let it go. If it's too cold, then warm up. If it's too hot, then cool down. If there is presence of risk, then pay higher attentiveness and cautiousness. Survival instinct alone, devoid of ignorance/the idea of 'I'/egoism, doesn't give rise to all kinds of impurities that hurt oneself and/or others.

Survival instinct under the absence of correct understanding and self-control, the thinking and acting faculty would generate hurtful desire/behavior/action/reaction unto oneself and others, being over-powered by ignorance and its by-products (the restless egoistic impure modification/state of the mind).

Survival instinct under the presence of correct understanding and self-control, the thinking and acting mind has the ability of not generating hurtful desire/behavior/action/reaction unto oneself and others, devoid of ignorance and its by-products.

While respect and allow the selfless intentionless survival instinct to perform its selfless duty of being what it is, the selfless thinking and acting mind can perform its selfless duty of annihilating ignorance and its by-products from the selfless modification of the mind, by quieting, disciplining, and purifying the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, to develop correct understanding and self-control, to know Thyself, to know the truth of selflessness and impermanence, that enables TRANSCEND to be happening effortlessly, transcending its own selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function, including the selfless survival instinct and the selfless impermanent condition of the entire bodily system.

That's why the importance of freeing the selfless impermanent modification of the mind from ignorance and its by-products, to have peace and clarity in one's mind, is the highest duty of all minds, that is contributing to world peace ultimately.

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