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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

To speak or not to speak

The wise don't speak much.

They speak only what and when is necessary to speak.

They only engage in dhamma talk, or the truth of what things are. 

The others engage in random restless vain talk, small talk, big talk, interacting, chit-chatting, socializing, flirting, commenting, praising, criticizing, gossiping, slandering, arguing, debating, justifying, manipulating, politicking, scheming, plotting, complaining, moaning, bitching, back-biting, boasting, glorifying, belittling, humiliating, shaming, intimidating, threatening, bullying, story telling, lying, envying, admiring, possessing, clinging, craving, longing, flattering, mourning, comforting, provoking, claiming, proclaiming, blaming, joking, teasing, competing, comparing, judging, expecting, encouraging, discouraging, creating, hoarding, destroying, interfering, controlling, forcing, persuading, luring, tempting, converting, accumulating, empowering, and etc, while righteously think and believe that such action or activity is highly essential for developing and maintaining physical and mental health well being.

The minds justify and proclaim that all those activities are normal and healthy human's behavior, that all human beings are born like that (to be socializing/talking/interacting/mingling), and that it is part of the survival instinct for actively engaging in such activities in order not only to survive but also to expand and prosper, a.k.a. GREED/craving/clinging/longing (to endlessly create and hoard and enjoy more than basic needs for survival).

The wise understand that such ideas, thinking, belief, values, and practice, or such common activities of human beings, are merely the by-products of ignorance or mental corruption/illness, of some physical and mental habits or the conditional thinking and behavior pattern that is partially genetic inherited/engineered but mostly being influenced, developed, cultured, conditioned, and empowered in such way from young (parenting and community social influence), which can be reversed or renounced, by the mind itself, under the presence of the limited conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious choice, conscious desire, and conscious effort.

Such as the veil of ignorance that gives rise to the by-products and consequences of ignorance, manifests and exists 'naturally' and 'autonomously' in all minds from the beginning of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional formation and operation of the existence and function of the mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind itself, or all minds are existing and functioning under the presence of the veil of ignorance (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional random restless thought process/thought current/modification of the mind under the presence and absence of consciousness/awareness), however, it is absolutely possible for the mind to be aware of that, and be free from that, via self-inquiry, self-realization, and self-effort, through quieting and silencing the restless modification of the mind/thought process/thought current (a.k.a. the annihilation of the veil of ignorance), via the practice of silence under the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, and seclusion, under the help of asana, pranayama, yama, niyama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi, under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, to render the mind one-pointed (stillness/non-wavering) and quiet (the state of clarity).

Even when the mind is alone being isolated from all the others and without any active physical/mental/verbal social interaction or communication or mingling with any other minds, the mind is still restlessly functioning as what it is, the random restless selfless impermanent thought process/thought current/modification of the mind is ceaselessly happening under the presence and absence of consciousness/awareness, consciously and unconsciously undergoing the selfless impermanent states of mind (selfless impermanent changes of ceaseless births and deaths of countless thoughts after thoughts of ceaseless ideas/feelings/emotions/states/memories/imaginations/dreams arising, changing, and passing away) selflessly and ceaselessly processing the mind perception/cognition towards all kinds of names and forms, of sight, sound, smell, taste, sensation, feeling, emotion, thought, memory, imagination, dream, problem solving, solution finding, reasoning, understanding, learning, experiencing, surviving, choosing, desiring, discriminating, and etc.

The mind that understands this, will also understand that the saying/information/proclamation about the cause of loneliness, or depression, or meaninglessness, or joylessness, or some other forms of mental problem or illness, is the lack of or the complete absence of physical/mental/verbal social interaction or communication or mingling with some other minds, is incorrect.

Even when a body and mind that doesn't have the organ of speech or doesn't have the language ability to express and communicate, and/or doesn't have the organs of action to be doing something physical, it doesn't determine the function and the state of mind, or its understanding and non-understanding, unless there is complete absence of the existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind or faculty, or if there is complete absence of conscious awareness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The common worldly empowerment towards all kinds of personal and group attachment and identification

Renunciation and the observation of silence (Mauna), is the basic essential teaching, observation, and practice of yoga and/or buddhism,

- To renounce or let go all kinds of worldly egoistic personal and group physical/mental/emotional attachment and identification,

- To move away from the engagement in restless worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/family/national/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, practices, rituals, ways of living, aspirations, affairs, ties and connections, communications, activities, and interactions,

- To be restraining, minimizing, and cutting-off all kinds of worldly egoistic conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious boundless inputs and outputs completely or as much as possible, to practically and effectively purify and quiet the conditional restless egoistic impure modification of the mind physically/mentally/emotionally,

- To turn the common outgoing tendency of the mind inward, to withdraw the senses from the objects of the senses, to focus within,

- To develop self-introspection to know what is going on in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the physical body that comes with the perceptive thinking mind under different states of consciousness, to know Thyself, that leads towards self-inquiry and self-realization towards the truth of everything, 

- To develop and empower and attain mental and emotional independence through non-grasping and letting go, not being determined by all kinds of duality, or the perception of sight, smell, taste, sensation, feeling/emotion, thought/idea/desire, remembrance towards this and that, wild imaginations, and dreams, or all kinds of experience/affair/ties and connection/relationship/interaction/condition/situation that are pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, or enjoyable and non-enjoyable or even painful.

- To change the conditional restless egoistic impure thinking and behavior pattern that is being conditioned by internal genetic inheritance and external conditions and ceaseless inputs that are being empowered by ceaseless outputs/reactions under the influence of ignorance, either consciously, or semi-consciously, or unconsciously,

- To annihilate the veil of ignorance that is naturally manifested or formed under the presence of the ego or the idea of 'I' (conscious and semi-conscious self awareness or self acknowledgement under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness) that gives rise to the natural by-products of egoism of attachment/identification/craving and aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation which also feed and empower the idea of 'I', all kinds of impurities, and restlessness (restless modification/thought current/thought process/state of the mind a.k.a the veil of ignorance, where the veil of ignorance vanished upon silence or cessation of the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, or upon the state of clarity), upon the activation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional function/mechanism/modification of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledging thinking and acting mind under the different states of consciousness, that is existing and functioning being part of the many different components/systems/mechanisms of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body, where all that is non-self, where the momentary finite existence and function of the mortal body and mind doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, not to say, nothing belong to anyone or anything,

- To perform self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, particularly what is the 'I' that the mind perceives/thinks/believes/acknowledges/identifies as its own infinite permanent independent self existence as an immortal individual being/identity/consciousness/soul/spirit that is permanent and independent (that doesn't exist at all), that belongs to itself, that is residing in the mortal finite physical body, where the thinking mind thinks and believes and desires, "The body is mortal, impure, impermanent, limited, conditional, finite, and imperfect. I am immortal, pure, permanent, unlimited, infinite, and perfect,"

- To attain direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self,

- To realize unconditional peace,

- To have clarity of thinking and correct understanding (absolute knowledge or wisdom),

- To cease harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment (unconditional indiscriminate kindness),

- To perform selfless actions that are possible within one's ability and limitation, including certain existing worldly duties and responsibilities towards looking after oneself and others and the surrounding environment, that benefit oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, out of compassion - the selfless indiscriminate power of creation/action/activity, that can be constructive or destructive, depending on the different states of mind under different intentions and understanding. All actions are selfless actions, regardless of whether conscious or unconscious, intentional or intentionless, constructive or destructive. Perform possible actions that are benefiting all and everyone and everything unconditionally and indiscriminately, without forcing, without grasping, devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism, under the presence of conscious awareness.

All kinds of autonomous/absence of conscious freewill/involuntary ceaseless selfless physical and mental activities for life maintenance throughout the entire physical body where all the different bodily systems/components/mechanisms/each and every single individual cells/neutrons/protons/neurons/atoms are all selflessly performing their own respective duty/function as well as communicating and responding among one another throughout all states of consciousness, are all selfless actions and selfless actions performers, not to say, all that are happening devoid of the idea/thought/notion of 'I' (the ego) and egoism, that only exists selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally in the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind upon the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness during the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

All these ceaseless selfless physical activities are being performed/operated by all these selfless different bodily systems/components/mechanisms/each and every single individual cells/neutrons/protons/neurons/atoms throughout the entire physical body and throughout all states of consciousness/semi-consciousness/unconsciousness, under the selfless support of the selfless supportive energy and elements, until they completely breakdown and ceased functioning/operating eventually, regardless of whether there is presence or absence of conscious awareness in the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind during the different states of consciousness/awake, semi-consciousness/semi-awake/semi-asleep/dreaming, and unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma.

Many minds that are operating/functioning consciously/semi-consciously during the state of consciousness/semi-consciousness are not aware of or are ignorant towards the function/modification of themselves are being over-powered by the existing conditional thinking and behavior pattern under the influence of genetic inherited condition, and even more so, the influence of external conditioning inputs/influences/adopted egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices, to reason/understand/judge/feel/desire/behave/act/react spontaneously in certain way, that impact oneself and others and the surrounding environment in certain way.

The momentary existence and function of the body and mind is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, however, under the selfless impermanent intentionless manifestation of the veil of ignorance that naturally manifests as it is upon the rise of the continuous stream of the idea/thought/notion of 'I' (the ego/self acknowledgement/the illusive existence of a permanent independent individual self) that also gives rise to egoism, that gives rise to all kinds of impurities (restless modification of the mind/the turbulent state of mind/the veil of ignorance/the absence of clarity), under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness during the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, the mind is naturally being ignorant towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to itself, that itself is merely a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary continuous stream of idea/thought/notion that appears (birth/arising) under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness and that disappears (death/passing away) under the absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, that manifests/changes under different shapes and qualities (selfless impermanent changes) between appearance (arising) and disappearance (passing away), that is being powered as well as over-powered by egoism and impurities, or restlessness, or ignorance, where the selfless impermanent limited and conditional thinking is wishfully thinking and believing and desiring itself is and/or has an all time, all perfect, all knowing, all pure, and all powerful infinite immortal permanent independent existence.

The yoga and buddhism teachings and practice is all about the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, that naturally enables the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind/the knower/the experiencer/the thinker/the action performer to know Thyself, that is nothing to do with trying to find out and reconnect with an original, ancient, all time, all pure, all perfect, and all powerful permanent independent infinite immortal individual identity/existence/consciousness of a real I/self, that many minds interpreted and referred as "who I really am", that doesn't exist at all.

While the all time infinite selfless attributeless changeless universal consciousness (that is unborn/non-manifested/beginningless and endless/causeless, that doesn't increase nor decrease, that isn't pure nor impure, that pervades all and everything within and without, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that enabling the selfless manifestation of all and everything to be what they are, as they are, governed under the nature's law of cause and effect, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where all and everything selflessly arising, changing, and passing away impermanently/limitedly/conditionally/momentarily upon the selfless universal consciousness, at particular cause and pace) doesn't have such identification with anything, not even, "I am the all time infinite selfless attributeless changeless universal consciousness."

That is why, the selfless mind that realizes this, is silent.

There is not even "I am THAT (that is infinite, immortal, permanent, unlimited, unconditional, all time, all pure, all knowledge, all powerful, all perfect, causeless, changeless, birthless and deathless, beginningless and endless existence)," or "I am selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that is impure, finite, and mortal."

There is neither permanent I (the truth of selflessness) nor impermanent I (the absence of the selfless impermanent, limited, and conditional ego/idea/notion of 'I') existing to be identifying with something that doesn't exist.

There is no I existing to be identifying with something that is not I.

The selfless plant doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless plant." 

The selfless cell doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless cell."

The selfless element doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless element." 

The selfless infinite attributeless universal consciousness doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless infinite attributeless universal consciousness."

But under the influence of the veil of ignorance upon the rise of the continuous stream of the selfless idea/thought/notion of 'I', the selfless human minds think/believe/acknowledge/attach unto/identify themselves as, "I am this and that," or "I am not this and not that," under the presence of selfless conscious/semi-conscious awareness, that can only be existing and functioning momentarily under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements.

 

Meanwhile, the yoga and/or buddhism practitioner that encounters some obstacles or difficulties on the path of yoga and/or buddhism while observing renunciation and silence in solitude and seclusion away from the distractive worldly passionate egoistic impure ambitious restless minds (Kutsanga - ignorant company that empowers ignorance, that inflicts unnecessary problematic disturbance, affairs, situations, and conditions unto oneself and others), may seek the advice or guidance from Satsanga (wise company that empowers wisdom) if there is availability, where it is

Not only about the coming in contact with the dispassionate minds that have either attained direct self realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, that are resting upon unconditional peace, or the dispassionate minds that haven't yet attained direct realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence of all kinds of names and forms, but have been established firmly in the basic essential observation and practice of dispassion and renunciation, solitude and seclusion, and silence, that have attained certain degrees of correct understanding and mental and emotional independence, that have intense yearning towards liberation from ignorance and suffering, that have immovable determination and perseverance on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization, that can guide the yoga and/or buddhism practitioner towards the direction of self-realization.

But also, the coming in contact with or the engagement in beneficial uplifting inputs/conditions/influences/physical and mental activities, such as regular yoga asana and pranayama practice, energy consumption choices and regulation (that might be different for the different bodies under different conditions and different states of mind, depending on the current predominant energy field (Gunas) - Rajas/Tamas/Sattva), concentration and meditation practice, studying the uncontaminated genuine scriptures/teachings/dhamma, balance in between activity and inactivity/work and rest/eating and fasting/awake and asleep/physical and mental activity (the middle path), and etc, that are conducive and supportive towards the activation of the conscious mind evolution process, of changing/modifying/conquering the hard-wired conditional egoistic impure restless thinking and behavior pattern, towards the thinning-out and annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, restlessness, and all kinds of disturbance, or affliction, or violence deriving from all that, and not towards the empowerment and stimulation of all that.

- If wise company is not available, then Asanga (devoid of company - solitude and seclusion in silence, not reading, not studying, not looking out) is absolutely fine, and even better, as the mind has no choice but to turn inward for seeing/knowing the absolute knowledge that is always there, that will clear all doubts, or obstacles, or difficulties.

All these teachings and observation or practice appeared to be 'opposing', 'detrimental', and/or 'destructive' towards all kinds of worldly passionate restless egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/family/national/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, affairs, activities, ways of living, ways of conduct, connections, and relationships, and hence, it is common and normal that the worldly restless egoistic minds, including some yoga and buddhism enthusiasts/practitioners/teachers, don't like and don't agree with and have intense rejection and aversion against all these basic essential teachings and observation or practice of yoga and/or buddhism, that the passionate egoistic minds perceive/recognize/categorize as a form of destructive intimidation and threat towards the existence and empowerment of their particular passionate egoistic inherited/adopted/created traditional or non-traditional ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, ambitions, and visions of building a relationship, or a family, or a community, or a world that they desire it to be.

Yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practices is not at all about building a world to be in certain way and not in certain way, even if it is about promoting peace and harmony in oneself that would also naturally contributing peace and harmony into the world. There is no control or expectation towards the others or the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, has to be in certain way or not in certain way, or it has to be all perfect, agreeable, desirable, peaceful, and harmony without any imperfection, disagreeable, undesirable, unrest, and disharmony. That is not the same as the many different minds/individuals/communities having different visions, or aspirations, or ambitions, to control/possess/influence/change/build a world that is in accordance to the different desires of the many different minds/individuals/communities under many different ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, ambitions, and visions.

What is wholesome and unwholesome, or what is constructive and destructive, is different for the minds (most minds) that are being ignorant towards the veil of ignorance in oneself, that are functioning under the influence of the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness, while wittingly and unwittingly empowering the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness in oneself and others, and the minds that are aware of the existence of the veil of ignorance in oneself, that are aware of the destructive and harmful side-effects of the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness, and have intense yearning towards thinning-out and annihilating the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness in oneself, while initiate and promote such awareness to all the other minds in the surrounding environment, to also be free from the influence of the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness out of their own conscious freewill and effort, to promote more peace and harmony among the many diversities in the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, to have less minds that ceaselessly and ignorantly generating destructive hurtful and impactful behavior/action/reaction/activity that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment repetitively, out of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, either intentionally or unintentionally, wittingly or unwittingly, deliberately or randomly, consciously or unconsciously.

The empowerment of all kinds of egoistic attachment and identification towards all kinds of worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/family/national/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, practices, rituals, ways of living, aspirations, visions, affairs, ties and connections, communications, activities, and interactions, is being seen as a form of good and righteous or positive and meaningful thing/action/activity to be promoting patriotism, loyalty, prosperity, and higher quality of living (economic growth and wealth accumulation to attain easier and enjoyable living condition) by empowering all kinds of personal and communal/social/national/political/commercial/philosophical/cultural/spiritual/religious/traditional/non-traditional/new age attachments and identities, that gives rise to and empowers boundless desires/ambitions/aspirations/visions towards building a world that each and every different community/group desires differently, either to be achieving and possessing endless power of control and manipulation, achievements, possessions, and pleasurable enjoyments, or the complete opposite of that (extremism/dualism/the opposite of one another), for the many minds that are being conditioned to think and believe, evaluate and aspire in certain way and not in certain way, which only gives rise to momentary fleeting sense of satisfaction, goodness, righteousness, and meaningfulness for oneself and/or one's particular family and community under a particular way of thinking, belief, values, practices, desires, aspirations, and visions, selfishly and possessively, but then that would also gives rise to many unnecessary evitable destructive harmful side-effects that impact oneself and one's particular family and community, as well as all the others and everything in the surrounding environment for an extensive duration.

Under the influence of ignorance, some minds might argue that "Respect nature while not going against nature," is about allowing as well as empowering all kinds of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance to be there as they are, as ignorance is also part of nature, or a natural manifestation in all minds, and hence, none should be doing anything to be eliminating ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in oneself or in anything, even if they are the root cause of many destructive hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions/ideas/desires/affairs/ties and connections/activities that give rise to many unnecessary evitable painful suffering in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything. It is like saying, one shouldn't do anything constructive and beneficial even if it is possible, in order to promote and improve over-all physical and mental well-being and better living condition while generate less evitable problematic affair, activity, interaction, relationship, condition, and situation in anyone or anything or anywhere, under the presence of correct understanding and absolute knowledge.

Many minds also argue that "To practice non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-expectation, silence, and respecting the nature's law of cause and effect, being undetermined and undisturbed by all kinds of unpleasantness, undesirableness, disagreeableness, and non-enjoyable painful suffering/conditions/situations/hardships/difficulties/ties and connections/relationships," is about needless to do anything (to learn, to know, to understand, to find solution, to improve, to be happy, to have peace, to have less evitable illness and injury, to avoid any kind of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, to avoid preventable accidents or direct impact from natural disasters, to seek available medical help if needed, and so on), just wake up, eat, drink, shit, pee, generate rubbish, procreate, sleep, and repeat, until the body rots and dies, where all and everyone should silently accept all kinds of ignorant violent hurtful bullying ill-treatments/behaviors from anyone, where none should be learning and improving about anything consciously.

Many minds would also think and believe that if all kinds ancient traditional ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices are not necessarily all true and beneficial, then naturally, any kind of non-traditional or new age ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices that are different from all those previous old ones must be well-improvised and more true and beneficial. Or, any non-traditional/new age/newer ideas, beliefs, values, and practices are inauthentic, and must be less good, or less efficient, or inferior than the ancient traditional or older ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that are authentic, and are better, more efficient, and superior than any newer ones. Or, if one is older and has been accumulating more experiences than the others that are younger and has less experience than oneself, then the older one must be more wise and efficient than the younger one. Many minds would also relate and categorize the existence of yoga and buddhism as non-traditional/new age/newer ideas, beliefs, values, and practices to rebel towards or go against the ancient traditional older cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, beliefs, values, and practices. Many people also think and believe that the newest or latest inventions must be better or more efficient than the older inventions. But all these understanding are not necessarily correct.

Such is the thinking, reasoning, and understanding in the mind that is functioning under the influence of ignorance.

The yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practices is not about being different from, or going against, or being improvised from the ancient traditional ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

It is about going beyond, or transcending, or not being conditioned by all kinds of ancient traditional egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices as well as all kinds of non-traditional/new age/newer egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices that were/are being created to go against or rebel towards the ancient traditional older ones, where both traditional and new age ideas, values, and practices are all the creations of the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that are ingrained in dualism and that feeds or empowers duality, that is what hinders the mind from knowing Thyself, to realize the existence and function of itself and all and everything that it perceives in this world of diverse names and forms, is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Yoga and/or buddhism is not part of any worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/national/regional/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas and practices that were/are being created by the egoistic minds for their respective propaganda/agenda/purposes, but it is the direct realization by the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds and any minds from any era of any background and condition (that had/have been being conditioned by any ancient traditional or new non-traditional ideas/beliefs/values/practices to think and live life in certain ways or not in certain ways) towards the all time universal dhamma, a.k.a. the truth or the science of what things are, as they are, where all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, regardless of who, what, how, where, and when, regardless of what type of thinking and behavior pattern or state of mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Monday, November 24, 2025

Inquire towards the cultural and spiritual belief of countless reincarnations of a permanent infinite immortal individual self existence

Inquire towards the truth of everything, including all kinds of teachings/interpretations/transcriptions/translations of yoga and buddhism coming from everyone and everywhere as well as all kinds of worldly cultural and spiritual beliefs/values/practices, upon coming in contact with all kinds of inputs, information, and knowledge, including all that is here, regardless of agreeable or disagreeable to the mind based on the intellectual reasoning power functioning under the influence of the existing particular type of inherited and adopted cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestral/political/philosophical beliefs/values/practices in the mind,

to be purifying and quieting the restless impure modification of the mind,

to free the mind from being conditioned and influenced by the existing intellectual reasoning power or judgment based on the existing knowledge/understanding being conditioned and influenced by any particular type of inherited and adopted cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestry/political/philosophical beliefs/values/practices,

to be performing self inquiry to inquire towards what the selfless mind perceives/acknowledges/thinks/believes/identifies as its unique individual permanent independent infinite immortal self existence/acknowledgement/identification of 'I', that the selfless mind acknowledges/thinks/believes/identifies as what it is, or, what and who 'I' am,

to attain direct self realization towards the truth of Impermanence (ceaseless selfless impermanent changes in all and everything) and Selflessness (there is no permanent independent immortal individual self existence (permanent independent infinite self identity/spirit/soul/individual consciousness) that exists in and belongs to any names and forms to be undergoing ceaseless selfless impermanent changes (ceaseless births and deaths within the selfless impermanent physical structure of forming/growth/decay/disintegration - ceaseless cells regenerating, new cells arising and changing/decaying, and old cells passing away/disintegrating, and in the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind - ceaseless thoughts/ideas/desires/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions arising and passing away) that are happening ceaselessly in all kinds of names and forms (all kinds of sentient and non-sentient/conscious and non-conscious living organisms and non-living objects) that are arising, momentarily existing and functioning, ceaselessly changing, and passing away, under different qualities/conditions/causes and effects, in NOW,

is the one same upmost essential teaching and practice of yoga and buddhism.

 

Inquire towards the two basic and yet highest teachings/dhamma/dharma/realization of both yoga and buddhism - 

Impermanence (諸法無常)

Selflessness (諸法無我)

and the direct self realization of Impermanence and Selflessness that leads to -

Silence (极静, 涅槃)

Transcend 'ignorance' and 'births and deaths' (超越'無明'與'生滅')

 

All kinds of physical and mental practices are merely serving the purpose of preparing the egoistic impure restless mind to be performing self inquiry under a non-grasping, desire-less, identity-less (I-less), intentionless (devoid of expectation), purified, and quiet state of mind.

Inquire towards -

"Ceaseless births and deaths (諸法生滅) governed by the nature's law of cause and effect transitioning/changing in between different conditions/qualities/states within the selfless impermanent existence and function of the selfless mortal physical body and restless selfless modification of the mind in NOW" vs "The worldly egoistic cultural and spiritual or religious belief/values/practices of the countless reincarnations/rebirths (生死輪迴) of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness transitioning into countless different life existences under different names and forms/conditions/qualities/experiences in different realms/states/worlds/spheres determined by the past and present continuous accumulated boundless and endless good/bad/neutral karma"

The cultural/spiritual/religious/worldly egoistic beliefs/values/practices is about the belief of there is an infinite permanent independent individual immortal self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness that has been undergoing countless different reincarnations of different life existences under many different names and forms/conditions/qualities/experiences transitioning in different realms/states/spheres/worlds determined by 'the belief/values/practices of past and present continuous accumulated boundless and endless good/bad/neutral karma' being generated from the countless past life existences and the present life existence.

The dhamma/dharma is not a belief. It is what things are, as they are.

The teachings of yoga and buddhism is about all kinds of existence under different names and forms being manifested under different time (timing/era/duration, and selfless impermanent changes between arising and passing away or formation and disintegration during the momentary limited and conditional existence), space (restricted location/presence/volume/shape/size/physical structure), and causation (cause and effect), are all selfless and impermanent. That there are ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of ceaseless births and deaths that are happening ceaselessly within the selfless impermanent existence and function of the mortal selfless physical structure and restless selfless modification of the mind, where this selfless impermanent body and mind is ceaselessly changing/transitioning in between different impermanent conditions/states/qualities, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, as well as inevitably and ceaselessly decaying/aging and disintegrating, in NOW.

There aren't countless reincarnations/rebirths/ceaseless births and deaths of an infinite permanent independent immortal individual self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness that exists in and/or belongs to any particular selfless impermanent mortal physical structure and restless modification of the mind, that are being reincarnated into countless different life existences under different mortal physical structures/names and forms/conditions/qualities transitioning in between different realms/states/worlds/spheres governed by the worldly egoistic cultural and spiritual or religious belief/values/practices of boundless and endless accumulated good/bad/neutral karma or merits and virtues/sins.

There is only the one same selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, within and without, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that hosts and witnesses all kinds of selfless impermanent manifestations of different names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away under different conditions/qualities/causes and effects, that gives rise to the selfless impermanent limited and conditional different states of consciousness or conscious awareness to the selfless existence and function of the mortal physical body that comes with the selfless impermanent restless egoistic impure modification of the mind.

There is not any countless different infinite immortal permanent independent individual self existence/identity/consciousness/spirit/soul that exist in or belong to each of the countless different names and forms that are all selfless and impermanent, that are limited and conditional, that either had been manifested or are manifesting (forming/coming into existence) in NOW, that either had ceased existing or are existing in NOW, that are changing (growing and decaying) in NOW, and that either had passed away (disintegrated/decomposed) or are passing away (disintegrating/decomposing) in NOW.

And thus, both the teachings of yoga and buddhism stated - Upon the direct self realization towards the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness, there is only NOW that is ceaselessly changing, where there is neither past nor future, 'All karma - regardless of good/bad/neutral' vanished, 'The beginningless and endless wheel of ceaseless births and deaths/reincarnation' ceased existing, 'The individual consciousness' is one with/non-distinctive from/non-separated from the selfless universal consciousness, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, form is non-distinctive from emptiness and emptiness is non-distinctive from form, neither good nor bad, neither 'I' nor 'not I', there is no 'I', all are impermanent, all are selfless, all are subject to selfless impermanent changes, decay, and disintegration governed by cause and effect, regardless of wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, good or evil, healthy or unhealthy, strong or weak, flexible or non-flexible, understand or don't understand, happy or unhappy, rich or poor, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, intelligent or non-intelligent, peaceful or peaceless, accomplished or non-accomplished, long-lived or short-lived, easy life or difficult life, all are impermanent and selfless.

Time - past, present, and future, are merely the reflection of the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of formation/coming into existence, growth, decay, aging, disintegration, and all kinds of activities (movements or motions, and speed of movements or motions), in NOW.

If past and future exists, anyone and everyone can just go back to the past or travel into the future, to change or edit or undo the past, and to control or dictate the future to be in certain way, but that is not possible, because the past and future doesn't exist, that there is only NOW, and it is ceaselessly changing. 'The past' is merely some flashback of memories and 'the future' is merely some wild imaginations/anticipations/projections.

The thinking, or the thought process, that consists of the names and forms that the mind comes in contact with/is aware of/perceives/experiences internally and externally in the present moment, the memories flashback, and the future imaginations/anticipations/projections, are all happening in the NOW. The thinking, or the thought process or activities, is always in NOW.

Time doesn't exist, or timelessness, or there is only NOW where the past and the future doesn't exist, it doesn't mean that there is no history (memory) of all the selfless impermanent manifestation of names and forms or the mind perception/experience/knowing/learning/understanding of everything in NOW, that is impermanent, where all and everything (the perceiver and the perceived/the experiencer and the experience/subject and object) is changing inevitably and ceaselessly.

The direct self realization towards timelessness, will also lead to the realization of - 

There is no past live(s) or future live(s) of any particular permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness (that is non-existing, that doesn't exist).

There is only this selfless impermanent momentary life existence of this selfless impermanent limited and conditional ceaselessly changing and decaying mortal selfless physical structure that is existing and functioning in NOW under the selfless support of the selfless supportive energy and elements, while ceaselessly changing and decaying governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, in NOW, being perceived/experienced/witnessed via this selfless impermanent momentary perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness 'deriving' from the one and only timeless causeless attributeless all pervading unchanging unlimited unconditional selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

 

And hence, live in the present moment, as it is.

That is the freedom (自在) that exists in all and everyone, that is also selfless and impermanent.

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

Attain direct self realization, and be free.

To be selflessly existing, functioning, and living freely in the present moment NOW as it is.

 

Be free from being conditioned and limited by any kind of worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestral/political/philosophical beliefs/values/practices that are neither good nor bad, that were being created and introduced by the worldly egoistic impure minds under specific intentions/desires/aspirations/ambitions/visions/purposes functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, the idea of 'I', impurities, restlessness, and the suffering deriving from all that a.k.a. the consequences of ignorance,

of not knowing the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness,

ignorantly or unwittingly being the slave of the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, restlessness, the selfless function of the mind perception of names and forms, the selfless presence of conscious awareness (if without conscious awareness to be conscious/aware of this and that, what is suffering and the end of suffering? What is 'I' and 'not I'?), the selfless function of the senses and the objects of the senses, the sights, the sounds, the smells, the tastes, the sensations, the random thoughts and ideas, the feelings and emotions, the actions and reactions (all kinds of physical and mental activities, consciously and unconsciously) and the consequences of that (cause and effect), the memories flashback and the wild imaginations, the corrupted thinking, understanding, intellect, reasoning, judgment, and expectation, all kinds of dualities, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of superiority and inferiority, the sense of deserving and non-deserving, the sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness, the sense of joyfulness and joylessness, the sense of appropriateness and disappropriateness, the sense of being unappreciated and taken advantage by others, all kinds of beliefs/values/practices, superstitions, myths, spiritual healing, spiritual cleansing, manipulations, justifications, lies, story telling, politics, all kinds of personal, family, and group attachment, identity, ties and connection, relationship, friendship, duty, and responsibility, pride and arrogance, shame and humility, offensiveness and defensiveness, selfishness, self-righteousness, possessiveness, separateness, discrimination, dissatisfaction, irritation, frustration, boredom, loneliness, disturbance, anger, hatred, jealousy, hostility, self-protectiveness, resentment, vengeance, violence, greed, the urge to control everything in accordance to one's desire, plotting, scheming, building castles in the air, day-dreaming, wishful thinking, ambitious aspirations, boundless desires of craving and aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, love and support seeking, attention and acknowledgement seeking, agreement and recognition seeking, guilt and regret, fear and worry, gain and loss, the feelings of being hurt or victimized, and so on.

 

All are selfless (諸法無我). Who, or what is there that is infinite/unchanging/immortal/permanent/independent, that is undergoing ceaseless selfless impermanent changes/births and deaths (無常生滅), or even the cultural and spiritual belief of ceaseless reincarnations (生死輪迴)?

Go beyond positiveness and negativeness. Go beyond goodness and badness. Go beyond meaningfulness and meaninglessness. Go beyond positive energy and negative energy.

Energy is just what it is. It is neither positive nor negative.

The mind is just what it is. It is neither positive nor negative. 

It is merely whether the mind is functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products of the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness (the veil of ignorance), unwittingly being determined and disturbed by the conscious mind perception towards the selfless manifestation of all kinds of names and forms or experiences that are pleasant and unpleasant/desirable and undesirable/agreeable and disagreeable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable, that ceaselessly manifesting internally and externally, not knowing the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness, and being over-powered by the restless impure modification of the mind that the mind itself has no correct understanding and is ignorant towards what all that is about, or, the mind is free from all that. 

It is absolutely possible to be free from all that.

It is not about how much the mind can gain/achieve/learn/know/accomplish.

It is about how much the mind can let go all THAT that it has been gaining/achieving/learning/knowing/accomplishing, that is consciously and unconsciously conditioning its selfless modification, perception, cognition, thinking, intellectual reasoning, understanding, feeling, desire and don't desire, behavior, action, and reaction in certain way.

Empty Thyself. Empty the mind. Let go the egoistic attachment/grasping/identification/pride towards all kinds of ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/national/political/philosophical/commercial egoistic ideas/beliefs/values/practices, including all kinds of yoga and buddhism teachings and practices deriving from and attaching towards many different types of lineages and teachers, regardless of authentic or contaminated.

Quiet the restless impure modification of the mind (the thinking/thought process).

Root out passion, the idea of 'I', and egoism, and all kinds of impurities and restlessness will subside as it is.

Non-blind believing. Non-blind following. Non-blind practicing. Non-blind propagating. Non-blind glorifying. No worshiping, not to say, non-blind worshiping.

That is why the highly importance of the observation of renunciation and dispassion, solitude and seclusion, and the practice of silence, for all minds that genuinely and determinedly want to know Thyself, to inquire towards what is 'I', 'my', and 'mine', or the selfless impermanent existence and function of the body and mind, or the worldly momentary mortal life existence that is selfless and impermanent, that is limited and conditional, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

And it is absolutely okay, if by the end of this selfless impermanent life existence, the mind still doesn't know itself, and doesn't understand all this (completely). It really doesn't matter.

Meanwhile, being aware of all that and be able to let go all that (known and unknown, understanding and non-understanding), and be able to be at peace in NOW, is already what all the yoga and buddhism practice is about.

Sunday, September 21, 2025

The teachings and the practice of yoga and buddhism (The dhamma)

Just like the many different selfless autonomous bodily systems and components that enable the selfless living organisms to be existing and functioning as what they are, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is one of the many different selfless mechanisms of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body/structure of the sentient living organisms.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body and all its different selfless components/functions/mechanisms/systems, including the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty (the mind stuff/the modification of the mind), are merely some momentary mortal limited adjuncts that has a beginning and an end of existence.

All those different bodily systems/components/mechanisms/functions in any living organisms can only be existing and functioning as what they are (as well as the ceaseless maintenance of existence and function) under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements.

Regardless of mobile/immobile, sentient/non-sentient, conscious/non-conscious, thinking/non-thinking, cognitive/non-cognitive, intellectual/non-intellectual, and emotional/non-emotional living organisms or non-living objects, all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All living organisms can be functioning and existing instinctively operated under the influence of the selfless intentionless indiscriminate survival instinct under the complete absence of conscious awareness/mobility/freewill by choice activity*, although, many living organisms also come with the extremely precious conscious awareness to be consciously aware of itself and the surrounding environment, as well as being endowed with the precious mechanisms of conscious perception/cognition/intellect/emotion/remembrance/thinking/desire and don't desire/expression/action/mobility/organs of actions as well as the conscious freewill by choice physical and mental activities, where all those conscious, semi-conscious, or unconscious activities are neither good nor bad, that may or may not maximize the chances of survival, that may be constructive or destructive/beneficial or detrimental to the selfless impermanent limited and conditional survival/existence/function of oneself and the others and the surrounding environment.

*The state of semi-conscious and unconscious is absolutely highly important for the living organisms to be existing and functioning properly, as well as for the ceaseless maintenance for continuous existence/function or survival up to certain limitation, where there is the essential rest/idleness between conscious wakefulness/activities for the essential recuperation/energy conservation/rehabilitation/regeneration and to be avoiding continuous energy depletion/continuous restlessness/continuous ceaseless activities that leads to complete energy depletion or irreversible exhaustion (dysfunction/system failure/ceased operation/ceased functioning/ceased existing). 

Even though all living organisms, regardless of sentient or non-sentient, self aware or non-self aware, conscious or unconscious, functional or dysfunctional, responsive or non-responsive, interactive or non-interactive, instinctive or non-instinctive, intentional or unintentional, autonomous (non-conscious freewill by choice) or non-autonomous (conscious freewill by choice) physical and mental activities wittingly or unwittingly, with or without understanding, correct or incorrect understanding, wisely or ignorantly, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, however,

There is the difference BETWEEN the different selfless autonomous bodily systems and components that are functioning autonomously and ceaselessly as what they are, to be maintaining the selfless life existence and function of the selfless physical body even without the need of the thinking and acting mind being consciously aware of and/or controlling all those ceaseless selfless physical and/or mental activities for life maintenance, AND the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty that is functioning as what it is, either under the presence or absence of the conscious awareness (the different states of conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious), is that the autonomous bodily systems and components are purely autonomous and intentionless instinctive bodily functions without conscious freewill, while the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is functioning BOTH autonomously/intentionlessly/instinctively operated under the influence of the selfless survival instinct without conscious freewill under the absence of conscious awareness, as well as functioning consciously/intentionally under conscious freewill that exists along with the presence of conscious perceiving/knowing/learning/experiencing/inquiring/understanding/knowledge accumulating/remembering/decision making/choice making/problem solving/action taking/desire and don't desire/self-control/different types of conscious intentions or motivations under the presence of conscious awareness, that can be influencing or impacting the selfless impermanent changes in oneself and the surrounding environment in certain way, or influencing and impacting the way of thinking/ideas/desires/behavior/action/reaction that give rise to respective consequences of thinking/ideas/desires/behavior/action/reaction (the manifestation of intentional and/or unintentional cause and effect, or the generation of conscious and/or unconscious action and consequences of action, either wittingly and/or unwittingly) that impacting the selfless existence and function of oneself and the surrounding environment in certain way.

The truth of Selflessness, Limitation, and Conditional doesn't mean that there is no selfless limited conditional conscious freewill in the selfless limited and conditional perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness to choose what to believe or don't believe, to desire or don't desire, to inquire or don't inquire, to appreciate or don't appreciate, to practice or don't practice, to reason or don't reason, to understand or don't understand, to learn or don't learn, to improve or deteriorate, to hold on or let go, that is influencing/conditioning/impacting the conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious thought/emotional process, the desire/intention, the behavior, the action and reaction in certain way and not in certain way under the presence and absence of correct understanding or incorrect understanding.

Something that is limited, that is permanent during the momentary existence, that cannot be changed/modified, that is what it is, such as the mango is mango, or the banana is banana. The mango cannot be changed to become banana, and vice versa.

Something that is conditional, that is impermanent, that is changing accordingly being conditioned by the existing conditions, that can be conditioned in certain way, which means that it can also be conditioned or re-conditioned in some other different ways, such as the sweetness of the mango or banana can be different under the different conditions, and the mango or the banana can be eaten as it is, or can be made into many different forms of food under different appearances, textures, smells, tastes, or temperatures.

Even if the availability of all kinds of options and opportunities are limited and conditional, it doesn't mean that there is no conscious freewill choice making to be choosing among the different options and making use of the different opportunities that are available in NOW, to be performing certain action that impact the condition in oneself and the surrounding environment, either constructively or destructively, depending on the understanding in the mind that is conditional, being conditioned by the reasoning under the influence of certain belief, values, aspirations, and practices (which means that it can be re-conditioned), and depending on the knowledge in the mind that is both limited and unlimited.

The accumulation and remembrance of knowledge/information can be true or false, can be partial/incomplete or complete/absolute, can be corrupted or non-corrupted, and the mind can only know what it knows, and what it doesn't know, it doesn't know, and hence, the accumulation/remembrance of knowledge/information is limited.

Meanwhile, what the mind doesn't know (the unknown) until the end of its selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function, regardless of whether it knows Thyself (absolute knowledge), or not, is unlimited. Just like there is no limitation of the infinite space. One (all kinds of limited adjuncts/names and forms) can only go as far as one can go (limited by momentary existence and function) in the infinite space, but beyond that limitation (how much the mind can know within its limited duration of existence and function), is unlimited.

Whatever that had happened in NOW, is fixed, that cannot be undone or changed. But, whatever is happening and not (yet) happening in the present moment NOW, is uncertain (not fixed), that can be determined, or conditioned, or influenced by the conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious actions and reactions in NOW. Where the conscious actions and reactions are determined by the understanding and knowledge in the minds. The minds that know this, they won't predict/assume, not to say, to affirm/conclude that, "The future is like this or like that."

It is always NOW, and the NOW is never the same, it is ceaselessly changing, moving, impermanent, uncertain, and conditional.

All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. That is fixed, that cannot be changed, that is what it is.

Life existence will come to an end. That is fixed, and cannot be changed. The limited duration of life existence and the impermanent condition of the different systems/functions/mechanisms of the body and mind (even if they are being limited by certain inherited genetic traits inheritance/illness/injury/damage/decay), is not fixed, is conditional, that can be enhanced/improved or damaged/deteriorated, consciously or unconsciously, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or unintentionally, under the presence or absence of correct or incorrect understanding and knowledge, that is not fixed, that is conditional.

The cause is fixed, is limited. The effect is not fixed, is conditional.

The seed is fixed. The outcome of the seed is not fixed, is conditional.

All will die, is fixed.

Whether one is kind or unkind, peaceful or not peaceful, happy or not happy, holding onto (grasping) or letting go (non-grasping), experience or doesn't experience, learn or doesn't learn, understand or doesn't understand, correct understanding or incorrect understanding, and etc, during one's selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function before one dies, is not fixed.

Human beings are what they are, is fixed, is limited. They are human beings, they are not birds, not insects, not fish, not trees, not tables and chairs, not mango or banana. And no matter what and how all and everything are, what are the different names and qualities, all are subject to decay and disintegration/ceased function/ceased existence. That is fixed.

The thinking and behavior pattern of human beings (regardless of what types of genetic traits inheritance) that is impacting all and everyone and everything in this world of diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is not fixed, is conditional.

Whatever happens in between birth (existence) and death (ceased existence), is not fixed, is uncertain, is impermanent, is conditional, that can be determined/influenced/impacted by the conscious choices of actions and reactions under the presence or absence of correct/incorrect understanding and knowledge that can be acquired, inquired, and accumulated as much as possible until the end of life existence.

Beyond the momentary mortal life existence, all kinds of understanding and knowledge are useless.

But the presence and absence of correct or incorrect understanding and knowledge are highly impactful during the momentary mortal life existence that influence one's state of mind, way of thinking, desire/don't desire, behavior, action, and reaction, that not only impacting the life existence and function of oneself, but also impacting all the others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All and everything will come to an end, eventually. That is fixed. But the states of mind/the affairs/the activities/the experiences/the conditions/the situations during the momentary existence and function of all the countless individual minds that are still existing and changing in NOW, are not fixed.

 

There are always inevitable ceaseless unconscious evolution/impermanent changes in all and everyone and everything.

There are also ceaseless mind perception of names and forms, or mind inputs consciously and/or unconsciously during all states of conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious, regardless of whether the body and mind is responsive towards all kinds of stimuli, or not.

But more importantly, there is also the highly precious conscious mind evolution in the sentient (conscious) living organisms that are functioning under the presence of conscious awareness, where the sentient (conscious) living organisms have the conscious awareness to be aware of itself and the surrounding environment, to consciously perceive/experience/know/reason/discriminate/understand/recognize/remember/accumulate knowledge and skill/choose/decide/desire and don't desire/problem solving/action taking, either selfishly or unselfishly, constructively or destructively.

Regardless of whether conscious/semi-conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional, selfish or unselfish, constructive or destructive physical and mental actions and activities, they all are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All that are neither good nor bad, and all that are limited and conditional, where the conscious mind evolution can lead towards any outcome depending on the choices of action/inaction, under the different internal and external influences, of the conscious and unconscious understanding and desire or intention, depending on which is more predominant in NOW, that is also impermanent, limited, and conditional, that can be influenced and modified by conscious freewill/choice/desire/intention/action/inaction (such as all kinds of yoga and meditation practice and observation), until the mind attain direct self realization towards the truth of all that, where the mind is undetermined or uninfluenced by both internal and external influences, devoid of grasping/attachment/association/identification/craving and aversion, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful. All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

There is only the timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness that pervades the infinite space, within and without all kinds of names and forms, that gives rise to the limited and conditional conscious awareness in the limited and conditional sentient conscious living organisms, is permanent, unlimited, unconditional, that is neither self nor non-self. The notion of self, or the self-acknowledgement of 'I', is merely a shadow that exists along with the limited and conditional mind perception of duality or separateness between the perceiver and the perceived.

Self doesn't exist in non-duality or oneness in the one and only timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, or the infinite space, or in all kinds of names and forms that are all selfless, but it only exists in the form of thought, or idea, or thinking, in the selfless modification of the selfless thinking faculty of the selfless physical body/structure, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements.

The teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism as it is (NOT the many contaminated second-hand and 'countless-hand' teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism being contaminated by many worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, visions, ambitions, and aspirations), are not merely a set of philosophical philosophy or mystical myths/beliefs/values/practices/spirituality, but it is concrete science of existence/manifestation/biology/chemistry/physiology/psychology.

Swami Sivananda Guruji was a medical doctor who was born under the family lineage of the highest caste of Brahmin in the community of Hinduism, and he could have enjoyed a rather easy and comfortable life if he wanted, but he realized that the total accumulated worldly knowledge and skill for the survival and maintenance of life existence, to be looking after and enhancing the physical general health condition, and the respective medical consultations/treatments/drugs/medicines/operations upon dealing with the acute and chronic physical injury and illness may help to improve the general physical health condition of the people and/or maybe prolonged the life span of the living organisms, but all that didn't and couldn't eliminate both the inevitable and evitable painful sorrow and suffering in the minds of the sentient/conscious living organisms, where the physical good health condition and prolonged life span and all kinds of accumulated learning, education, knowledge, and skill under higher intelligence as well as under the presence of higher advanced science and technology, is nothing to do with the essential peace and harmony in the mind under the absence of ignorance or under the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding. And hence, he renounced his profession as a medical doctor as well as his family and community life of the highest caste or social classification in Hinduism, and immersed into persevered and determined practice of yoga and meditation (Sadhana) for a prolonged duration until he attained direct self realization towards knowing Thyself, towards the truth of existence, the mind stuff, the ignorance and suffering, and towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, that is not different from the teachings of buddhism.

Where the teachings or the dhamma is being expounded in many different ways for the many different minds, to initiate or activate the conscious mind evolution towards the realization of unconditional peace and kindness, but all are based on the middle path, non-violence, open mind, non-grasping, non-identification, non-blind believing/following/worshiping/glorifying/practicing/propagating, self-investigation, self-introspection, renunciation, dispassion, desirelessness, non-craving/non-aversion, non-judgment, non-expectation, intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, the elimination of the veil of ignorance, the mind purification and silencing process, patience, perseverance, determination, forbearance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, acceptance, right attentiveness, right effort, right attitude, correct understanding, meditation, silence, the annihilation of the restless impure egoistic thought activities or modification of the mind, or the elimination of restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I' or the ego, Samadhi, self-effort, self-initiation, self-independence, self-inquiry, self-realization, selfless service, unconditional peace and kindness, wisdom, compassion, truthfulness, simplicity, contentment, non-possessiveness, non-greed, right discrimination that leads towards non-discrimination, the nature's law of cause and effect, and the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self.

The selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind functioning under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness is inevitably perceiving/experiencing/recognizing inevitable suffering, upon being conscious towards the restless random thinking process, the impermanent states of the mind, the impermanent ideas/thoughts/feelings/emotions/impurities arising and passing away, the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function, the impermanent changes, the limitation, the conditional conscious and unconscious internal and external influences, and non-self, where nothing is 'I' or 'mine', where the selfless existence and function of the names and forms doesn't even belong to the names and forms themselves, not to say, nothing belongs to anyone or anything.

The selfless mind that is functioning under the influence of ignorance also inevitably perceiving/experiencing/recognizing all kinds of evitable suffering due to being ignorant towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in the momentary mortal existence and function of itself and all kinds of names and forms, while ceaselessly generating action and reaction consciously and unconsciously/wittingly or unwittingly/intentionally or unintentionally under the influence of the veil of ignorance a.k.a. restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the illusive idea of 'I', that hurt oneself, and/or others and the surrounding environment, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The veil of ignorance (that consists of the conscious self-awareness or self-acknowledgement* of the illusive idea of 'I' (the ego/Ahamkara), that gives rise to conscious egoism of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation/anticipation/projection, that give rise to all kinds of impurities that give rise to restlessness a.k.a. the veil of ignorance, that hinder the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty to perceive/know/understand/see things or the perception of names and forms as they are) exists along upon the beginning of the selfless formation and activation of the selfless existence and function of the selfless physical body that comes with the selfless mechanisms of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty, or the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind stuff.

*Self-awareness/acknowledgement (the illusive idea/thought/thinking/notion of the non-existing individual independent self existence of 'I') is completely different from the selfless conscious mind functioning under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness that is consciously being aware of what is happening in the body and mind (know Thyself) and in the surrounding environment - All and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

There is no permanent independent unchanging infinite self, or the idea of 'I', or the self acknowledgement of 'I', or egoism of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation/anticipation/projection in every single cell, component, system, function, and mechanism among the many different cells, components, systems, functions, and mechanisms in the selfless body and mind that enable the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal existence and function of the body and mind being what they are, as they are.

If all that (an infinite Self, the idea of 'I', egoism) exist in all the cells, components, systems, functions, and mechanisms of the selfless physical structure, the physical structure cannot exist or function as what it is, not to say, to survive, as all egoistic cells, all egoistic components, all egoistic systems, all egoistic functions, and all egoistic mechanisms will be fighting against one another and hurting one another, to be over-powering, interfering, intimidating, bullying, exploiting, and in control of all the others, that is not any different from self destruction or self harm, just like in this world of human beings that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

However, there is this natural selfless manifestation of the veil of ignorance in the selfless modification of the mind, of the restless continuous stream of ceaseless conscious and unconscious thought activities, that gives rise to the illusive idea of 'I' and egoism under the presence of conscious awareness, that give rise to all kinds of impurities, that both powering and powered by restlessness, and that cause so much unnecessary hurtful destructive damages unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, consciously and/or unconsciously, wittingly and/or unwittingly, intentionally and/or unintentionally, deliberately and/or randomly, either due to certain inevitable deformity, or malfunction, or dysfunction, or damage (by birth or after birth) in the bodily systems that relate to or impact the function of the brains directly or indirectly (the hardware of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the physical body), and if it is not due to any direct or indirect deformity, or malfunction, or dysfunction, or damage in the bodily systems that relate to or impact the function of the brains, then it is merely because of the thinking and acting faculty or the mind is unwittingly being over-powered by the selfless natural manifestation of the veil of ignorance, being over-powered by the selfless impermanent states of restlessness - restless thought activities, the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, the remembrance of the past and the wild imagination or projection of the future, the mental and emotional restlessness/exhaustion/fatigue/disturbance/dissatisfaction/disappointment/fear/insecurity/pride and shame/anger/hatred/greed/jealousy/selfishness/possessiveness/aggression/offensiveness/defensiveness/hostility/painful sorrow/violence/politics/hypocrisy/manipulation/intimidation/interference/exploitation/bullying, and etc, of all kinds of evitable suffering, being empowered and conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, visions, ambitions, and aspirations, on top of unwittingly being over-powered or conditioned by the selfless intentionless survival instinct to desire, behave, act, and react in certain way.

Ignorance, or the veil of ignorance, is NOT something bad, or wrong, or negative, or evil, or short-coming, or weakness, or shameful, or punishment/painful suffering deserving. Not at all.

It is a natural intentionless selfless manifestation that comes along with the selfless formation/activation/function/operation of the restless thinking and acting faculty, or the selfless mind stuff, or the selfless modification/function/mechanism of the mind, consciously, semi-consciously, and/or unconsciously.

Similarly, the conscious and unconscious intentional selfless manifestation/creation/existence of all kinds of intentionless/attributeless worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, visions, ambitions, and aspirations that are being created and used by the egoistic impure restless minds intentionally to be influencing and conditioning the way of thinking, reasoning, understanding, desire, behavior, action, and reaction of the many minds, in order to achieve the selfish personal and community agenda/ambition, are also the by-products or creations of the minds functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance. All those worldly egoistic impure creations are intentionless and attributeless*, even though they are the intentional creations of the egoistic impure restless minds being created under certain conscious and unconscious intention/urge/desire, under the influence of the veil of ignorance on top of the selfless survival instinct.

*Intentionless and attributeless - all kinds of worldly impure egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices have no intention, or quality, or power to manipulate the minds, or not. It depends on whether the minds are functioning under the influence of ignorance, or not, or whether the minds are mentally and emotionally matured and independent, or not, that determines whether the minds will be manipulated, influenced, and conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, or not.

All these names and forms are neither good nor bad, even though the minds might be influenced, manipulated, and conditioned by them to think, feel, reason, understand, desire, behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way. But all these names and forms cannot influence, or manipulate, or affect the minds that are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, or are mentally and emotionally matured and independent.

That is why the egoistic impure restless minds that have certain personal and community agenda/ambition to 'manipulate/condition/influence/control' all the others to be and not to be in certain way, they don't like/don't agree with/oppose/against/hinder/suppress all the other minds to achieve mental and emotional maturity and independence, because they can no longer manipulate, or influence, or bully, or exploit the minds that are mentally and emotionally matured and independent, regardless of within a personal relationship, within a family, among parents and children, among siblings, among relatives, among friends, among teachers and students, among colleagues, among competitors, among leaders and followers, among influencers and admirers, among the members of a particular community, among the different communities, or among the different diversities.

The natural intentionless selfless manifestation of the veil of ignorance in the selfless modification of the mind is neither good nor bad, although under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the minds might generate ideas/desires/intentions/actions/reactions/activities/behaviors that might cause intentional or unintentional hurt or damage unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment, physically and/or mentally and emotionally, wittingly and unwittingly.

It is only the minds that haven't attain direct self realization towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind stuff, or the veil of ignorance, or the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in all kinds of names and forms (of living organisms and non-living objects, in this infinite space of the universe that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that governed by the nature's law of cause and effect), will perceive/recognize/understand/think/believe that 'ignorance' or 'the veil of ignorance' is something bad, wrong, negative, evil, short-coming, weakness, shameful, or punishment/painful suffering deserving. And these minds would feel offended, or belittled, or humiliated, if being relate or associate to the term of 'ignorance' or 'the veil of ignorance'.

The uplifting news is that, just like all kinds of names and forms under many different qualities, 'ignorance' or 'the veil of ignorance', is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

It is not the body or the mind, it is not part of the body or the mind, and it doesn't belong to the body or the mind, and vice versa.

That is why there are many minds are unwittingly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance while being ignorant towards that, and more importantly, it is also absolutely possible to free the modification/function of the mind from the veil of ignorance.

The veil of ignorance can be weakened and thinned-out, and even, be annihilated under certain self-initiated persevered and determined non-violent practice and observation.

Most minds are ignorant towards the veil of ignorance, or being ignorant towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty, or the selfless restless mind stuff under the presence or absence of conscious awareness, under the three states of conscious/wakeful, semi-conscious/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dreaming, and unconscious/deep sleep/coma.

There is absence of conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious mind stuff or thought activities in the state of Turiya/Silence/The annihilation or subjugation of the restless selfless mind stuff/Samadhi, beyond the three states of conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious.


Even all the past and present saints and sages, all enlightened beings/minds or buddhas, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Swami Sivananda Guruji, Ajahn Chah, and many other teachers of dhamma, all had/have been functioning under the influence of ignorance or the veil of ignorance, that gives rise to doubts and the mind perception of all kinds of suffering, that ignited the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, that led to the path of renunciation, meditation, and self inquiry, that led to the direct self realization towards the truth of all these.

All kinds of genuine yoga and buddhism practices and observations (NOT the contaminated yoga and buddhism practices and observations being contaminated by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, visions, ambitions, and aspirations) under different paths and methods to suit the many different minds under different conditions, situations, temperaments, and personalities under different degrees of ignorance, are there to help the selfless mind under the presence of conscious awareness and the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, to develop and empower the essential elements, to prepare the mind for meditation that leads towards Turiya/Silence/Samadhi, and for purifying the intellectual reasoning power to be performing self inquiry under a calm, quiet, clear, or pure modification of the mind devoid of the influence of the worldly passionate egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and desires, to be inquiring towards the truth of existence or the world of selfless manifestation of diverse names and forms, or the mind stuff, or the perceiver and the perceived, or the ignorance and suffering, or the illusive idea of 'I' and egoism, or all and everything that the mind comes in contact with, or the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, of seeing/knowing the truth of things as it is.

That is why the highly importance of the prolonged persevered and determined observation of renunciation, dispassion, seclusion, solitude, silence, as well as the development of mental and emotional independence (open-mind, not being determined or influenced by the worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, visions, ambitions, and aspirations, to think/feel/reason/understand/behave/desire/act/react in certain way or not in certain way, consciously and/or unconsciously).

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-agree/disagree, blind-glorify, or blind-propagate anything from anyone, including all kinds of yoga and buddhism teachings and practices from anyone and anywhere, including all that is here.

The timeless dhamma is in all and everyone and everything and everywhere. All are existing along the dhamma that is veiled by the veil of ignorance. All are dhamma. The dhamma is what all and everything are.

Attain direct self realization towards the dhamma, or the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism that leads to the direct self realization of the dhamma (the truth of things as it is).

Purify. Meditate. Inquire. Realize.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

Friday, July 11, 2025

Inquire towards the reasons behind all kinds of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation

Firstly, the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance are unaware of the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves. And they perceive/refer/understand towards 'ignorance' as something evil, or bad, or wrongful, or inferior, or shameful, or shortcoming, or weakness, or sinful, or bad karma, or punishable, or humiliation deserving, and hence, they would feel humiliated, belittled, or offended, if they are being acknowledged by others about the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves.

The minds that are aware of and acknowledging towards the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves, that understood that ignorance is merely a normal and common manifestation of all selfless and restless modification of all minds, that ignorance (the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restless thought activities/thought current) is not something evil, or bad, or wrongful, or inferior, or shameful, or shortcoming, or weakness, or sinful, or bad karma, or punishable, or humiliation deserving, they won't feel humiliated, or belittled, or offended, if they are being acknowledged by others and themselves about the presence or existence of ignorance in themselves.

It is the same reason that is why the minds that are not intelligent enough to be knowing and understanding the different degrees of intelligence in all and every minds, while they strongly think and believe and desire that themselves are highly intelligent, and that they are more intelligent than many other minds, and they would feel humiliated, or belittled, or offended if they are being pointed out or acknowledged that they are not as intelligent as what they would like to think and believe and desire themselves to be.

The minds that are intelligent enough to be aware of the different degrees of intelligence in all minds, including in themselves, they won't feel humiliated, or belittled, or offended, if they are being acknowledged by others and themselves as not highly intelligent, that they might not be intelligent enough to know and understand certain things or many things, that there are many things are beyond their knowledge and understanding, while at the same time, they can purify the function of the intellect, and develop a higher degrees of intellectual reasoning power to be attaining unlimited knowledge under better, or correct, or absolute understanding, to be knowing and understanding more and more things that they don't know and don't understand in the present moment NOW.

Secondly, most minds are being conditioned to be fearful towards doubting and questioning, not to say, to be investigating and inquiring the truth about many things, especially towards their own particular inherited and/or adopted belief, traditions, values, and practices, and towards their elders or teachers and/or leader or authority.

Doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, or inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, have been being oppressed and suppressed or prohibited under the many worldly egoistic beliefs, values, and practices, that are full of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, justification, and manipulation, being generated under the instinctive urge and conscious desire of the many minds to be in control of everything that are related to one's own existence, as well as to be controlling/manipulating others and everything to be in certain way or not in certain way, in accordance to one's desire and don't desire, and to justify their own ignorance of being ignorant towards many things that they don't know and don't understand, as well as to justify their own behavior, actions, and reactions that are unreasonable and hurtful or destructive unto themselves and others and the surrounding environment.

Doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, or inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, is being perceived by certain minds as a threat towards many existing egoistic beliefs, values, and practices, because the minds know that all these egoistic beliefs, values, and practices are made of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, justification, and manipulation, but it can give them certain power of control/manipulation.

Most minds are not aware of themselves are being conditioned by the existing beliefs, values, and practices in their mind that has been accumulated not only from the inherited genetic traits of their particular parental ancestry lineage, but even more so, coming from the surrounding all and everyone and everything that they come in contact with, consciously and/or unconsciously, to think in certain way, to reason in certain way, to evaluate all and everything in certain way, to behave, act, and react in certain way, to feel or don't feel in certain way, to desire or don't desire in certain way, or to live life in certain way.  

Thirdly, due to the many previous generations have been undergoing the oppression and suppression towards the growth or the development of intellectual reasoning power, even if they still have the function of cognition and intellect to be learning and knowing and accumulating all kinds of information, knowledge and skills, the many minds have either lost the self-initiative or basic instinct to be doubting/questioning/reasoning/investigating/inquiring towards all and everything, or the intellectual power of reasoning is insignificant even if they have tried to reason and understand something, or the intellectual reasoning faculty is being contaminated and conditioned by the existing beliefs, values, and practices that are full of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation, as well as many minds in the present moment NOW, are continuously being oppressed/suppressed/prohibited by the family/community/authority not to be doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, or inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, under intense fear towards possible painful punishment.

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All kinds of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, justification, and manipulation are generated by the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance. They exist in all and everywhere, at all levels, in the thinking, in the modification of the mind, in all interactions, dealings, and affairs, in oneself, in the family, in the relationships with all and everyone, in each community, and among the diverse community of the world.

In fact, there are many minds welcome, agree with, and desire the existence of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation in their life existence and in their relationship and interaction with all and everyone, to feel that they are in control of their own existence, as well as to feel that they can be controlling (manipulating) all and everyone and everything to be or not to be in certain way, in accordance to their desire and don't desire.

Almost all and everyone are living and functioning in lies or untruthfulness, or hypocrisy, story telling, and manipulation all the time, and they think and believe that they (the personal and group relationship/interaction with all and everyone, or the mass community of many diversities) cannot live or function anymore if under the presence of truthfulness, or under the absence of lies, hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, or manipulation, because most mind are egoistic, impure, and restless, where they can't even deal with themselves, that they don't like the truth of themselves, that there are many things that they disagree with, dissatisfied, disappointed, dislike or hate, and don't desire about themselves, that they can't accept and love themselves as they are, and that they don't even want to know the truth of themselves, or present themselves to the world as they are, while create many idealistic images for themselves that they prefer, agree with, like, and desire.

If human beings really desire or wish for a better and healthier, a more peaceful and harmonious living environment for the next and next generations to come, the world needs to be free from all these impure egoistic ideas and practices.

Even if the existence of all kinds of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation might be giving some sorts of justification and comforting element to the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, for them to feel that they have certain power of control (manipulation) over themselves and others, to justify what is unknown to them, and to justify certain unreasonable and hurtful happening, event, affair, behavior, action, and reaction, but all that are indeed contributing towards deeper or stronger ignorance, than to help to weaken, thin-out, or annihilate ignorance in all minds.

The minds that are free from ignorance, they don't need any kind of justification for anything, or to be comforted by anything, not to say, something that is in the form of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, or manipulation.

For the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, the truth or truthfulness appears to be something painful/disagreeable/unpleasant/undesirable/bad/wrong, and is hurting them and their relationship with all and everyone, that is jeopardizing their business affairs and dealings in the world of commercialism that mainly built on hypocrisy/untruthfulness/manipulation, as well as hurting their existing belief, values, and practices, where they feel 'powerless' or 'not in control', if they cannot control/manipulate their own selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence as well as all and everyone and everything that don't belong to anyone or anything, to be the way that they desire and like it to be, in this momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence that doesn't even belong to themselves (Non-self).

For the minds that are free from ignorance, the truth is absolutely liberating, and it is just what it is, neither good nor bad, where it is absolutely liberating for the minds that are free from ignorance, and they stop hurting themselves and/or others and the surrounding environment, while the truth appears to be something bad and hurtful for the minds that are not free from ignorance, that love and embrace hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation that give them a momentary limited power of control/manipulation, and they keep hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment in the process of trying to 'control'/'manipulate' all and everything to be the way that they desire, or not to be the way that they don't desire.

The parents/the fathers/the mothers/the grand parents want to 'control' the children/grandchildren to be or not to be in certain way.

The spouse/the lover wants to 'control' the partner and the relationship to be or not to be in certain way.

The teacher wants to 'control' the students to be or not to be in certain way.

The leader of a community wants to 'control' the community to be or not to be in certain way.

The authority wants to 'control' all and everything to be or not to be in certain way.

The leader of one country wants to 'control' some other countries to be or not to be in certain way.

The leaders of all countries wants to 'control' the world to be or not to be in certain way that will give them the maximum power of control.

The business men/women want to 'control' all and everything to be or not to be in certain way that will bring them maximum profits in return.

And it has to come from the minds themselves, to be aware of and to be liberated from ignorance, or not.

If the mind truly loves itself and all and everyone and everything, is by letting go, allowing all and everyone and everything to be what they are. Not trying to control anything or anyone to be or not to be in certain way in accordance to the boundless desires of craving and aversion.

The presence of 'control' in the mind to be 'controlling' this or that to be or not to be in certain way, it only indicates that this mind doesn't love anyone or anything, not even itself, but only loves all it's desires and don't desires, where this mind would do anything, including hurting itself and all and everything in order to gratify all the desires and don't desires. Such mind is merely the slave of desires.

The minds that desire to be 'controlling' all and everything to be and not to be in certain way either have forgotten or ignored about the selfless intentionless natural power of nature, that is constantly balancing all and everything to be in a state of equilibrium.

Not having any intention to be 'controlling' all and everything to be or not to be in certain way, it doesn't mean that the minds shouldn't or don't perform any conscious actions that might or might not bring certain constructive consequences to the surrounding living environment, that would benefit all and everyone and everything in the world, while not performing conscious actions that might or might not bring certain destructive consequences that would harm all and everyone and everything, without egoism. 

The presence or existence of ignorance is merely part of the selfless manifestations of all selfless minds, that are existing and functioning under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mechanism of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements that enable the minds to be existing and functioning as what they are. It is not something evil, bad, wrong, inferior, shameful, shortcoming, weakness, sinful, bad karma, punishable, or humiliation deserving, even if it has a destructive and hurtful nature, or influence, or consequences.

Even if some minds had/have been engaging in prolonged and persevered practice of yoga and/or buddhism, and had/have attained certain degrees of understanding towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, however, they were/are not completely be free from ignorance yet, where there were/are still some subtle instinctive urges/desires/fear in the minds, influencing them to think and believe that they need to be upholding certain traditional cultural/spiritual belief, values, and practices that they knew/know it involved some sorts of hypocrisy, story telling, untruthfulness, and manipulation, but it will continue to give them certain limited power of control/manipulation over the mass community that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, for influencing them to desire, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way, that they think is the good, right, positive, and meaningful way.

That is the power of ignorance.

And that is also the freedom of all minds towards what they think, believe, feel, desire, behave, act, and react, or not. There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, even if all that didn't/doesn't help the minds to be free from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, but it is feeding and empowering all that.

Even the world of yoga and/or buddhism is also under the influence of certain worldly passionate egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

The minds that are free from ignorance, they have no fear that the majority of the minds are functioning under the influence of ignorance, and that all minds need to be self initiative to activate the mind purification process, to be engaging in persevered and diligent practice of purifying the different selfless mechanisms/functions of the mind and quieting/silencing/annihilating the selfless restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, that enabling the minds to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything without the influence of worldly passionate egoistic impure beliefs, values, and practices, to be weakening, thinning-out, and annihilating the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, until self realization or TRANSCEND takes place, where the mind transcends its own selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that is non-self, that doesn't belong to the self conscious/aware/acknowledge, perceptive, cognitive, intellectual, emotional, thinking and acting mind itself.

They don't have the desire/aspiration/vision of 'controlling'/'influencing'/'manipulating' the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance to be or not to be in certain way, although they can be performing actions as much as they can, to randomly plant as many seeds of wisdom (correct understanding) as possible, that can help the minds to be self-initiative to activate the mind purification process, to be aware of the presence of ignorance in themselves, to be developing certain degrees of correct understanding, right attitude, right attentiveness, and right effort, to be engaging in the practice that can lead towards self-inquiry and self-realization towards Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, all by themselves, through their own initiation and effort, via self inquiry and direct self realization.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind agree/disagree, blind-glorify, blind-admire, or blind-propagate anyone or anything coming from everyone and everywhere.

"All karma (regardless of good or bad) burnt in toto (don't exist) in the state of Turiya (beyond the mechanism/function/modification of the mind stuff of the states of awake/asleep/dream/deep sleep), upon the attainment of self realization."

"The world ceased existing upon the annihilation of the mind stuff."

"All are MAYA. Brahman is real. The world is unreal."

"Reincarnation, or the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths transitioning under/among different realms ceased existing upon Silence (Stillness/Clarity/The absence of restless thought activities/thought current)."

"Inquire the truth of everything. Attain direct experience and self realization."

All past existed and present existing gurus and buddhas (except pseudo 'gurus' or 'buddhas'), or all wise and compassionate saints and sages, regardless of which era, continent, ancestry, tribe, or cultural/spiritual background that they came/come from, they didn't and don't want/request any kind of worshiping, or glorifying, or offering, or rituals, or celebration events. They didn't/don't get offended, or insulted, or humiliated, or belittled, or angry, if the minds are doubting, questioning, reasoning, investigating, and inquiring towards the truth of the dhamma or the teachings that exists under certain names and forms that they come in contact with. In fact, that is the main essential teachings and practice and advice to all minds. The dhamma, or the truth of everything, cannot be contaminated or damaged. But the dhamma that exists under certain names and forms can be contaminated or damaged. And hence, there will come to a point that there will be the end of pure or uncontaminated dhamma as it is that exists under certain names and forms in this world. There is neither good nor bad.

That's why the highly importance of self initiation, self reliance, self effort, self inquiry, and self realization.

That's why the highly essential of the observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, mental and emotional independence, and silence.

If it is something true, there is no fear or resistance, not to say, painful punishment for being doubted, questioned, reasoned, investigated, or inquired.

Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, are always here and everywhere as they are, and all and everyone are free to doubt, to question, to reason, to investigate, or to inquire towards the truth of all these.

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

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