Freedom of existence and function, of physical, mental, and emotional freedom

Although there is no permanent independent self existence of 'I' existing in all and everything, that are depending on many different individual selfless elements to work together for all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are, and the selfless existence and function of all and everything as well as the different individual selfless elements that work together for all and everything to be existing and functioning, are non-self, that are depending on the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning to be what all and everything are, as well as being governed by the nature's law of cause and effect to be evolving/decaying consciously and/or unconsciously, it doesn't mean that freedom is non-existence in all and everything, or freedom is non-essential, or there shouldn't be any issue if all kinds of freedom are being restricted in all the different kinds of conscious living organisms that are endowed with the selfless conscious awareness to be living, and be conscious/aware of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence of themselves and their surrounding environment.

There are some inevitable limitation of existence and function due to some biological genetic traits inheritance that give rise to certain condition/limitation of the physical structure of the living organisms (that come with or without the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty), as well as give rise to certain condition/limitation of the mental and/or emotional state (that come with the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty).

But there are also many unnecessary limitation/restriction that don't need to be there, that are deliberately and/or randomly restricting the freedom of existence and function imposed unto oneself and others, by oneself and/or others, out of ignorance, under the influence of certain worldly passionate egoistic impure thinking, ideas, beliefs, values, desires, visions, and practices, that contributes to many unnecessary physical, mental, and emotional health problems that eventually lead to destructive hurtful behavior problems inflicted unto oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment, which is not coming from the inevitable biological genetic traits inheritance, but due to the existence of many types of man made restrictions of not being able to just be what all and everyone wants to be, to be free to exist and function as one is, to think, to believe or disbelieve, to feel, to express, to behave, to act and react, to evolve consciously, or simply to live life in certain way or not in certain way, under the selfless intentionless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning in the momentary selfless impermanent existence of all and everything that are endowed with the selfless conscious awareness to be aware of one's own limited and conditional existence as well as being aware of all and everything else in the surrounding environment.

The general well-being and evolution of certain living organisms that are without the function of a perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is functioning under the presence of conscious awareness to be conscious/aware towards its own selfless existence and function, where there is no conscious sentimental/emotional perception/experience of pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering, are also being impacted greatly by the presence of certain restricted condition and limitation in the surrounding environment, not to say, all kinds of living organisms that come with the function of a perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind functioning under the presence of conscious awareness to be conscious/aware towards its own selfless existence and function, where there is the conscious sentimental/emotional perception/experience of pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering.

The freedom of existence and function, or the physical/mental/emotional freedom, is highly important for the general well-being and evolution of all kinds of conscious living organisms, just by being existing and functioning selflessly and impermanently, as what they are, in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

However, under the influence of ignorance, many human beings are growing up being told/taught/influenced/conditioned/tempted/disciplined/oppressed/threatened/bullied/controlled, "Do this. Don't do that. Think like this and believe in this. Don't think like that and don't believe in that. Say this. Don't say that. Behave like this. Don't behave like that. Stand, walk, and sit like this. Don't stand, walk, and sit like that. Act and react like this. Don't act and react like that. You should feel like this. You shouldn't feel like that. This is good and positive. That is bad and negative. This is meaningful. That is meaningless. This is happiness. That is unhappiness. This is a boy thing. That is a girl thing. Women should behave like this. Men should behave like that. Women should do this and shouldn't do that. Men should do this and shouldn't do that. This is pride deserving. That is shame deserving. Do this and be like this, you will be praised, rewarded, and loved. Do that and be like that, you will be condemned, punished, and unloved. Do not question the truth of what you have been told to obey and follow, and to believe and practice."

Almost all and everyone have been growing up in a condition of, "Don't ask why. Just obey and follow," because most parents/teachers/minds also don't really understand why, as that was how they have been brought up and living in the community that is all about control and authority, rules and regulations, judgment and reward/punishment. That was how they have been treated by their parents/teachers and all the others, and that is how they treat their own children/students and all the others. People either live under oppression and fear (keep the head down, just obey, don't question anything, and don't upset/offend anyone, to avoid painful punishment), or become an aggressive violent authoritarian bully themselves.

That kind of ignorant egoistic mentality, thinking, understanding, reasoning, ideas, beliefs, values, and practice, is not merely being conditioned and influenced by a particular type of thinking and behavior pattern under the influence of the internal biological genetic traits inheritance that was passed down from many generations, hormonal activity, food consumption, energy and elements, and the selfless intentionless survival instinct influence, but more so, being conditioned and influenced (restricted and oppressed and manipulated) by external environmental influence and empowerment, of unwittingly and ceaselessly being influenced by the particular type of mentality, thinking, reasoning, understanding, ideas, beliefs, values, desires, visions, and practices, that are not only inherited from birth, but even more so, that are adopted/picked up after birth coming from someone and/or everyone, from the family/community/social circle/medias/spirituality/politics.

There is extremely limited freedom of existence and function, of limited physical/mental/emotional freedom of being what all and everything are, and a highly restricted conscious evolution. It's like a watermelon is being constraint in a box of a particular shape, to be growing into that particular shape. Human minds are also being constraint in a 'box' of a particular shape that is full of fear, lies, hypocrisy, untruthfulness, politics, possessiveness, selfishness, discrimination, separateness, greed, oppression, intimidation, threat, painful punishment, violence, pride and shame, and etc, to be evolving into that particular shape. Limiting the unlimited conscious evolution of the mind, to attain the absolute knowledge of ALL THESE, to be free from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, that would be beneficial to humanity, and all and everything in this world of many diversities.

Conscious evolution is neither good nor bad. Some minds evolve consciously and intentionally towards constructive thinking and behavior, while some minds evolve consciously and intentionally towards destructive thinking and behavior.

But it is highly essential for the mind to be opened, not being limited and constraint in a 'box' of a particular shape, to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, to learn and experience without constraint, to evolve consciously and freely towards attaining correct understanding and peace, that lead to constructive thinking and behavior in oneself.

All minds need to be allowed to be free to inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct experience and self realization and correct understanding, even if all minds need to learn from their own ignorance and mistakes/misunderstanding/non-understanding, and learn from the consequences of ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior, all by themselves, and not by being controlled, oppressed, intimidated, threatened, disciplined, bullied, or punished with painful punishment inflicted by some others.

It's about coming from oneself, having the conscious awareness towards the presence of limited knowledge in itself (that there are many things that it doesn't know), and be initiative to acquire not only unlimited but absolute knowledge, as well as doubting the truth of many things, and be free to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, to attain direct experience and self realization, without blind-believing, blind-following, blind-practicing, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, or blind-propagating anything from anyone.

The physical, mental, and emotional freedom, that reflects and impacts the physical, mental, and emotional well-being, is being highly restricted, oppressed, and conditioned by the many man made egoistic restrictions, control, rules and regulations in the family, at school, at work place, in the particular community, in the country, and in the world of many diversities.

One of the basic essential function/natural instinct of the mind, of 'doubting'/'questioning'/'inquiring' towards the truth of something and anything is being perceived and recognized as something 'sinful' and punishable in certain community under certain beliefs, values, visions, and practices. How absurd is that? This ignorance exists even in the minds that are so called highly 'educated', 'knowledgeable', 'successful', or 'powerful' in this world, while they think and behave in the way that hurt all and everyone and the surrounding environment, out of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

Many physical/mental/emotional health problems are not (merely) genetically inherited from parental ancestry genes inheritance, but, even more so, being impacted greatly by the highly limited and restricted freedom of existence and function, or, simply being what all and everyone are, as they are, where there is absence of peace in the mind that would give rise to correct understanding that lead to wholesome behavior/action/reaction, as all these human minds are constantly being constraint, disturbed, over-whelmed, and hammered by the ongoing fear, worry, exhaustion, exploitation, discrimination, intimidation, threat, bully, restriction, limitation, uncertainty, confusion of "You (of father, mother, brother, sister, friend, lover, partner, children, community, teacher, leader, authority, or even, 'The One' that is forbidden and punishable in many countries to say its name) said that you love me and that I shouldn't hurt you, but you keep hurting me repeatedly and constantly", violence, cruelty, selfishness, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, despair, anger, betrayal, lies, story telling, untruthfulness, hypocrisy, authoritarianism, politics, empty promises, and etc, since the moment of birth and growing up into adulthood and until the end of the momentary life existence.

The minds have been being restricted/hammered in such way, and they also restrict/hammer all the others in such way. Ignorance feeds and empowers deeper ignorance.

All that can be reversed, be weakened and thinned-out, or even, be annihilated completely. The disturbed peaceless unhappy dissatisfied hurtful fearful suffering state of mind, the corrupted thinking and behavior pattern, the ignorance, the idea of 'I', the egoism, the impurities, the restlessness, and the by-product of all that, all kinds of evitable suffering, can be empowered by ignorance, but even more importantly, all that can be weakened, and annihilated, under intense yearning towards liberation, freedom, and peace.

There is nothing wrong with all kinds of agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, pure or impure, good or evil, and positive or negative thinking, thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, and don't desires in the minds.

The most important thing is that, there is the basic correct understanding, or even the essential presence of doubt/ignorance of "I don't know, and hence, I want to know about everything that I don't even know what they are (the unknown)", towards the selfless manifestation of all these selfless impermanent names and forms in the selfless modification of the mind, that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the modification of the mind, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, where the thinking and acting faculty is consciously aware of all these selfless impermanent thinking, thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, and don't desires in the modification of the mind, and it realizes, knows, and understands that all these are merely some selfless impermanent names and forms that come and go in the modification of the mind, without grasping, association, attachment, identification, clinging, craving, aversion, judgment, or expectation towards all that, to be in certain way or not to be in certain way, allowing all that to arise, to stay for a while, to change, and to pass away, as they are.

Allow all kinds of thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, desires, and don't desires to be there in the mind, as they are, but without being over-powered by all these selfless impermanent names and forms. They are impermanent. They are not the selfless think and acting faculty. The selfless thinking and acting faculty doesn't need to be the slave of all that. They are not 'I'. There is no 'I' existing to be identifying with all that.

Not coming from some others restricting and commanding the mind to live life, think, feel, desire, behave, act and react like this, or don't live life, think, feel, desire, behave, act and react like that, but coming from the mind itself, having the basic correct understanding, out of its own conscious awareness/freewill/desire/choice/action, not generating grasping, association, attachment, identification, clinging, craving, aversion, judgment, or expectation towards all that in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind. Transcending both the internal genetic traits inheritance influence that is inevitable (not by conscious choice) as well as the external surrounding environment influence that is evitable, that can be filtered by conscious choice and action, to move away from certain detrimental influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities, or to be engaging in certain beneficial influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities, as much as possible, if it is possible.

Unlike unconscious evolution that is unwittingly being limited and conditioned by the internal genetic traits inheritance and the external surrounding environment, conscious evolution can be activated even under the presence of detrimental influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities and/or under the absence of beneficial influence/condition/situation/environment/connections/inputs/activities, under the presence of doubt and suffering that gives rise to the intense yearning towards attaining absolute knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, via certain observations and methods under the presence of non-violence/non-forcing, on top of the presence of certain degrees of willpower, forbearance, patience, adaptation, adjustment, accommodation, perseverance, and determination.

That is freedom, liberation, or peace.

Not being over-powered or determined by the internal selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless modification of the mind, as well as all kinds of external influences/conditions/situations/experiences in the surrounding environment, regardless of agreeable or disagreeable, is the highest freedom, even though the existence and function of the body and mind, is non-self, momentary, selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional.

Which means, even this freedom, liberation, or peace, that is highly important for the selfless mind that is existing and functioning selflessly in this present moment now, to be free as it is, is also momentary, because there is no permanent independent self existence of 'I' that 'exists', or 'keeps existing', that 'needs to have' the infinite or unlimited freedom and peace.

There is no existence of an infinite independent permanent self existence of 'I' that needs to be liberated, or to be free, or to be peaceful, but while under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning as what it is, and under the presence of the selfless intentionless actionless changeless timeless attributeless universal consciousness, the selfless impermanent thinking and acting mind that is consciously aware of the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind, while perceiving the sense of 'not free', 'emptiness', 'loneliness', 'meaninglessness', 'limitation', 'imperfection', 'dissatisfaction', 'disappointment', 'confusion', 'doubt', 'unhappiness', 'fear', 'uncertainty', 'sorrow', 'restlessness', 'fatigue', 'exhaustion', 'hurts', 'despair', and all kinds of physical, mental, and emotional 'suffering', can attain self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and can be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless universal consciousness, during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function.

Meanwhile, the selfless thinking and acting mind can make use of the precious selfless momentary life existence, of the selfless physical body, the selfless organs of the selfless senses, the selfless organs of actions, and the selfless impermanent mechanisms of the conscious perceptive thinking mind, the cognition, the intellect, the reasoning, the emotion, the memory, the understanding, the knowledge, the experience, the talent, the skill, and the opportunity and possibility that are non-self, to be performing selfless actions that would bring constructive changes/evolution to the selfless momentary life existence of oneself and others, as well as to be looking after the surrounding environment in the world of countless diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The presence/availability of the freedom of existence and function, is highly essential during the entire duration of the momentary life existence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, in order for the mind to have peace or clarity, that gives rise to correct understanding (the wisdom and compassion that is always there within all minds but is veiled by restlessness that feed and powered by ignorance and its by-products), so that it doesn't hurt itself and/or others out of the restricted disturbed dissatisfied restless unhappy suffering state of mind.

'Freedom' and/or 'peace' is no longer valid or needed, upon the selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind ceased functioning and existing.

Develop correct understanding. Develop non-grasping, non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, and non-expectation. That is the most constructive beneficial education for all and everyone in this world of human beings of many diversities.

Without the essential education or correct understanding to be looking after the physical, mental, and emotional health of the minds, all kinds of knowledge and skills, advanced technology, creativity, and invention deriving from worldly education that lead to certain achievements and success in life, as well as the existence of all kinds of control, rules and regulations, and painful punishments, don't necessarily guarantee that the minds will be peaceful and happy, or won't be hurting themselves and others and the surrounding environment, out of the highly restricted dissatisfied disturbed unhappy suffering state of mind, deriving from ignorance and its by-products.

Out of correct understanding, and out of one's own conscious awareness/freewill/choice/desire/action/inaction, one won't be generating behavior, action, and speech that would be hurtful and damaging unto oneself and others or the surrounding environment, intentionally or unintentionally, deliberately or randomly, which is not because of 'the restriction of all kinds of freedom being restricted/oppressed/disciplined/threatened/controlled by some others under the many rules and regulations and punishments' in this world of ignorance.

Allow this mind to be free, to be what and how it is. This mind is impermanent. And it is selfless.

Allow all the other minds to be free, to be what and how they are. All minds are impermanent. And they all are selfless.

All and everyone have the freedom to think, to feel, to express, to desire and don't desire, to like and dislike, to agree and disagree, to be kind or unkind, to be selfish or unselfish, to be whatever they are.

Allow all and everyone to dislike and disagree with oneself. Allow others to express their dissatisfaction and unhappiness towards oneself. Allow others to behave the way that they behave, either intentionally or unintentionally. One can move away from the hurtful damaging behavior of others, as much as possible. One doesn't need to stand there not moving away from the hurtful damaging behavior of others, if possible. One doesn't need to accept the hurtful damaging behavior of others. But one is not being determined or disturbed by the thinking, feelings, desires, points of views, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, praise or condemn, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness or unhappiness, behavior, action, and reaction of all and everyone.

The absence/lack of physical, mental, and emotional freedom, or the freedom of existence/function of the body and mind is being restricted/oppressed/disciplined/threatened by others or even by oneself, to be and not to be in certain way, by force or control, will only be damaging the physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Under the presence of more and more rules and regulations and control, the world didn't and doesn't become more peaceful, but contributes to more and more disturbing minds and disturbing human's behavior, or violence and unrest.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice, is not about restricting the modification of the mind to be or not to be in certain way, but more so, to be aware of and observing the selfless impermanent restless impure modification of the mind, allowing the imperfect thinking and acting mind and the restless impure modification of the mind (the limited and conditional mind stuff) to be what it is, while devoid of grasping, association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, judgment, or expectation towards the imperfect selfless existence and function of the thinking and acting mind, and the mind perception towards all kinds of names and forms, of desirable or undesirable, pleasant or unpleasant, positive or negative, and pure or impure thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, sensations, memories, dreams, desires, or imaginations ceaselessly arising and passing away in the selfless modification of the mind, without forcing or controlling the mind to be quiet or silent, but eventually, the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind will calm down by itself, naturally and effortlessly, under a prolonged persistent observation devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism, and free from violence/force/control. That is the real meaning of non-violence.

Actions/practices are being performed that will lead towards the thinning-out, annihilation, or silence of the restless modification of the mind, but not by violence, force, or control.

Such as observing certain type of food consumption and physical/mental practices that suits the particular condition of the body and mind most, that can help to calm down the over stimulated restless thought current, that can help to remove laziness or idleness, balancing the two extremities of activeness and idleness, as well as the observation of dispassion, renunciation, silence, solitude, and seclusion, to move the mind away from the external influence of worldly passionate egoistic impure affairs, connections, communications, interactions, and activities as much as possible for a prolonged duration, while allowing the result or the fruit of actions/practices/observations to be what it is, allowing the annihilation or silence of the restless modification of the mind to be happening as it is, at its own pace.

Just as the action of preparing oneself to go to sleep, while allowing the mind to fall asleep as it is. The more the mind expects and forces itself to fall asleep, the more difficult it is for sleep to be happening. Similarly, one can only perform many actions/practices of purifying, calming, and quieting the restless impure modification of the mind, to be preparing the mind for self-inquiry and meditation, while allowing self-inquiry and meditation to be happening as it is, at its own pace, upon the cause is ripened.

Embrace and respect the freedom of existence and function, or the freedom of being what all and everything are, as they are, and all are selfless and impermanent, all are limited and conditional, all and everything are non-self, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

Allow the selfless mechanism or function of the mind perception, the senses, the organs of the senses, the cognition, the intellect, the reasoning, the memory, the emotion, the thinking faculty, the thought process, the different bodily systems and organs, the organs of actions, the ability and disability, and the opportunity and possibility, to be what they are, as they are, that they are imperfect and non-self, and there are certain inevitable defects, condition, or limitation, but without being over-powered or determined by all those ability and disability, condition and limitation, imperfection and defects, and the absence of opportunity and possibility, without hurting oneself and/or others under the presence of correct understanding that can be developed and empowered, and out of one's conscious awareness/freewill/choice/desire/don't desire/action/inaction.

Perform action/practice/duty/responsibility, and renounce the fruit of action/practice/duty/responsibility, allowing the fruit to be what it is, and evolves as it is - The essence of the yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practice.

Renounce the fruit of action/practice/duty/responsibility doesn't mean that being irresponsible towards one's action and the consequences of one's action, but it is about fearlessly taking full responsibility towards one's thinking and action and the consequences of one's thinking and action, by consciously looking after the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of oneself, by oneself, which is about attaining correct understanding and peace, by freeing the mind from the influence of ignorance and its by-products.

Meanwhile, one also has the freedom of performing or not performing certain actions that might bring constructive beneficial changes/improvements, or more peace and harmony into one's selfless impermanent momentary life existence and into the surrounding environment or the world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything. There is neither right nor wrong.

It's the freedom of all minds towards what they want or don't want to practice, and what they want or don't want to do with their selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

It's the freedom of the mind to be what it is and what it is not

Freedom and responsibility (actions and consequences of actions) are the two sides of a coin.

Most minds want to have freedom of everything, but they don't want to have the responsibility that comes along with the freedom of something or everything.

Most minds think and believe that responsibility is what makes them not free.

For them, responsibility is the opposite of freedom.

But in reality, freedom and responsibility (actions will give rise to the consequences of actions) cannot exist without one another.

If the mind appreciates and desires the freedom of everything, it cannot avoid the responsibility to be responsible towards the consequences of action that are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable, even if the mind thinks and believes that its freedom of everything is something good, right, positive, and meaningful, based on the existing thinking and belief and values in the mind about what is good, right, positive, and meaningful.

By understanding that, one will know that responsibility is not the cause of "the absence or lack of freedom".

It is the presence of aversion, or rejection, or doesn't desire, or fear, towards the responsibility towards the unknown, especially towards the undesirable/unpleasant/disagreeable/non-enjoyable consequences that is what making them 'not free', while they have all the freedom to be what they want to be, to do what they want to do, to go where they want to go, to be at where they want to be at, to think what they want to think, to feel what they want to feel, to act and react in the way that they want to act and react, and to express or say what they want to express or say, even if out of ignorance and egoism, there are more and more man made egoistic rules and regulations that restrict the many types of freedom in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, which that itself, has certain consequences that are not conducive for promoting more peace and harmony in the world, but are responsible for the rise of more and more disturbed and suffering minds in the world, that give rise to all kinds of destructive harmful action/reaction/behavior inflicted unto oneself and/or others within the family, in the relationship, in the community, in school, in work place, in business, in all kinds of organization, in all kinds of affair, dealing, communication, and interaction, and in the world.

What the mind wants to think or doesn't think, feel or doesn't feel, understand or doesn't understand, desire or doesn't desire, act and react or doesn't act and react, in certain way, or not in certain way, it is its own choice and freedom, as well as it is its own responsibility to be responsible for all its choices, desires and doesn't desires, action and inaction, and the consequences of all that.

What the mind wants to do with itself, the body, and the life existence, is its own choice and freedom, as well as it is its own responsibility.

Even though the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind doesn't even belong to itself (the truth of non-self and selflessness), not to say, the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body that is made up of many different components and life maintenance supporting systems, or the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of the body and mind, that is full of unpredictable uncertainties (the truth of non-self, selflessness, impermanence, limitation, and conditional), that doesn't belong to the selfless thinking and acting mind, that are momentary, that only exist for a limited duration, under the selfless support of the selfless intentionless energy and elements to be existing and functioning, and there are ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration that are inevitable, but what and how the selfless thinking and acting mind chooses to do with the selfless existence and function of itself, the body, and the life existence, it is its own choice and freedom.

None can tell the mind how it should think or doesn't think, feel or doesn't feel, understand or doesn't understand, desire or doesn't desire, act and react or doesn't act and react, in certain way, or not in certain way.

None and nothing can tell the mind what or how it should do with itself, the body, and the life existence. Not even the selfless intentionless energy and elements that give and support and maintain the life existence and function of the body and mind, not to say, the parents, the guardian, the best friend, the partner, the children, the teacher, the leader, the scientist, the philosopher, the bully, or the authority of any kind.

Even though the thinking and acting mind itself is non-self and selfless, depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning, and even though the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body and life existence is non-self (doesn't belong to the selfless thinking and acting mind), that is not in the control of the thinking and acting faculty to control them to be exactly the way that the thinking and acting mind would like and desire it to be, but the choices of the thinking and acting mind of what it wants to do with itself, the body, and the life existence, is affecting and influencing its own selfless existence and function, the over-all condition and well-being of the body, and the life existence to be and to evolve in certain way, or not in certain way.

Even though there is no independent self existence of an infinite 'I' existing in the selfless thinking and acting mind, the body, or the life existence of the body and mind, to be undergoing selfless impermanent changes of forming, existing, decaying, disintegrating, and ceased existing, or to be responsible for the selfless action and consequences of action being generated and performed by the selfless thinking and acting mind via the organs of action of the physical body in the momentary life existence, but the selfless thinking and acting mind is indeed responsible for its choices of action that give rise to the consequences of action, that are being generated in accordance to its own conscious choice, of desires and doesn't desires, that are affecting and influencing the impermanent evolution/changes and the impermanent condition of the selfless existence and function of itself, the over-all condition and well-being of the physical body, and the momentary life existence in certain way or not in certain way.

The thinking and acting faculty that is being over-powered by the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind as well as under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, might be hurting the different functions of the physical body and the different functions of the mind, abusing and straining the different bodily structures, functions, organs, and systems, forcing/pushing the body and mind beyond its limitation in order to gratify the endless and boundless greedy desires/ambitions of the thinking and acting faculty, either wittingly or unwittingly, thinking and believing that all kinds of achievements might maximize its chances of survival to prolonged its life existence and to enjoy pleasurable enjoyments to the maximum.

All kinds of action and the respective consequences of action being generated by each selfless mind, also affecting and influencing all and everyone and everything in the surrounding environment in certain way or not in certain way.

If the minds are free from ignorance, if the minds are wise, kind, and peaceful, there is no aversion/rejection/doesn't desire/fear towards any kind of responsibility.

The existence of man made egoistic rules and regulations of all kinds of 'threatening punishment' cannot restrict or control the freedom of each mind being what they are, and to evolve as they are. Man made egoistic rules and regulations is completely powerless under the selfless power of nature, under the nature's law of cause and effect.

Under the influence of ignorance and its by-products, devoid of correct understanding, kindness, and peace, the thinking and acting mind might be generating ideas, desires, actions, reactions, or behavior that is hurtful unto itself and/or others and the surrounding environment, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Devoid of ignorance and its by-products, under the presence of correct understanding (wisdom), kindness (compassion), and peace (the absence of disturbance, restlessness, or suffering), the thinking and acting mind doesn't generate ideas, desires, actions, reactions, or behaviors that is hurtful unto itself or others and the surrounding environment.

That is why the highest duty of all minds, is to be free from ignorance, to attain self realization.

There is no need of rules and regulations to control or restrict the freedom of anything and everything, as that doesn't really stop the minds to behave the way that they behave, but it will only causing more and more minds loosing their sanity or mental health due to being restricted to be what they are, as they are.

It is about tackling the root cause of destructive hurtful ideas, desires, actions, reactions, and behaviors, which is about coming from the thinking and acting faculty itself, out of its own freewill, and not being forced, or disciplined, or restricted by some others or by some punishable rules and regulations, but willingly to free itself from being over-powered and influenced by the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, and then, work diligently by itself to annihilate the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the modification of the mind (purifying and quieting the modification of the mind), and thus, removing the veil of ignorance, that enables the thinking and acting faculty to see the truth itself, of knowing Thyself, and this liberated thinking and acting faculty that is devoid of ignorance, will stop hurting itself and others or the surrounding environment, under the presence of correct understanding, kindness, and peace.

In the yoga class, while learning and practicing the yoga asana practice, pranayama practice, and concentration practice, the yoga students are indeed learning to take full responsibility for themselves, to be responsible towards looking after their own body and mind and life existence, their own physical and mental well-being, their own desires and don't desires/actions/reactions/behaviors/decision making and the consequences of their desires and don't desires/actions/reactions/behaviors/decision making.

The mind that can take responsibility as it is, they can fully enjoy their freedom of everything, and be responsible for the consequences of their freedom of everything, as it is.

The mind is not free, it's because of fear. Fear of losing what they like and want, fear of not getting what they like and want, and fear of getting what they don't like and don't want (being the slave of the desire of craving and aversion).

Inquire the truth of everything.

Wisdom and compassion

It's normal that all kinds of discrimination, selfishness, and cruelty are existing and increasing in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone.

Because there are, and there will be, more and more minds functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, where they all have one same tendency, which is to impose control, interference, rules and regulations, restriction, oppression, violence, cruelty, and punishment towards some others, including their own family members/partner/children, not to say, those that they recognized as 'not one of them'/'non-compliant towards their particular belief, values, desires, vision, behavior, and practice'/'potential competitor'/'enemy'/'threat'/'obstacle', and towards something that they dislike and disagree with, based on their own particular thinking, belief, values, desires/don't desires, practice, vision, or ambition.

Selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging, sense of pride, identity pride, social status pride, community pride, family pride, association pride, origin pride, lineage pride, national pride, regional pride, cultural pride, spiritual pride, knowledge pride, achievement pride, self-righteousness, obsessiveness, oversensitiveness, defensiveness, offensiveness, envy, anger, hatred, greed, fear, and so on, are serious form of mental illness. They are the by-products of ignorance and egoism, and are all leading towards the rise of discrimination, selfishness, and cruelty in the world.

Except in absolute solitude and seclusion, or complete silence, in one's own selfless impermanent function and existence of the mind supported by selfless energy and elements, especially upon the absence of ignorance, where the mind is merely being what it is, devoid of restlessness/impurities/disturbance/qualities/dualities, without engaging in certain physical/mental passionate egoistic activities/inputs and outputs/actions/interactions/duties/commitments, either wittingly or unwittingly, there is very little and even complete absence of any kind of freedom, or there is only partial/restricted/limited/conditional freedom, just by being momentarily functioning and existing in a selfless impermanent world that is full of minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, where there is absence of wisdom (correct understanding) and compassion, that embrace openness, non-discrimination, non-separateness, non-interference, non-violence, non-attachment, non-identification, non-clinging, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-expectation, desirelessness, non-possessiveness, independence, the absence of worldly passionate egoistic ideas/thinking/belief/values/desires/visions/practice, the absence of all kinds of pride/shame, the absence of identification and self-righteousness, the absence of superiority and inferiority, the absence of fear and greed, the absence of jealousy, anger, and hatred, the absence of the urge to control and interfere, and that promote letting go, patience, tolerance, forbearance, acceptance, accommodation, adjustment, adaptation, respect, generosity, kindness, and, freedom of existence/living/movement/being what all and everyone are.

The minds that are free from ignorance and egoism, that are devoid of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, possessiveness, fear, discontentment, greed, or painful sorrow, they don't impose control/interference/rules and regulations/restriction/oppression/violence/punishment towards anyone or anything, not even their own family members/partner/children, respecting all and everyone to be what they are, as they are, not to say, all the others that have their own particular ties and connection, background, history, experience/non-experience, understanding/non-understanding, thinking, belief/disbelief, values, desires, behavior, way of living, and practice, where all and everyone are responsible towards themselves/the state of mind/the modification of the mind/their understanding and non-understanding/their desires and don't desires/their actions and the fruits/outcomes/consequences of their actions.

Meanwhile, under the presence of wisdom and compassion, the selfless minds can merely provide the correct understanding, knowledge, direct experience/realization, guidance, and support that might help to uplift the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance, that are egoistic, restless, impure, discontented, disturbed, confused, violent, distressed, or in painful suffering, unconditionally without attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, showing them the path towards self-inquiry and self-realization, while allow all and everyone to receive or reject, to evolve as they are, and to be what they are.

Just as the sun, or the nature, merely being what it is - selfless, desireless, intentionless, and impermanent.

 

The truth of selflessness and impermanence in all and everyone and everything, is the only existing 'freedom' that all and everyone have while being existing momentarily, selflessly, and impermanently in this space that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, where none, not even oneself, can control/interfere/change/modify/destroy.

Knowing and accumulating all kinds of knowledge/information/technology/skill in this world doesn't guarantee peace in oneself, that can help to contribute more kindness, peace and harmony into the world of many diversities.

Knowing and respecting the truth of selflessness and impermanence will.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Responsibility, commitment engaging, risk taking, and decision making

Responsibility, commitment engaging, risk taking, and decision or choice making, can be difficult or troublesome for some minds. There's nothing wrong or bad with that, as life is still what it is, selfless and impermanent, regardless of whether the mind has or doesn't have difficulty in having certain responsibility, engaging in certain commitment, taking certain risk, or making certain decision and what are the decisions made.

It's okay, sometimes the mind doesn't like and doesn't want certain responsibility or commitment, or doesn't want to take certain risk, or doesn't want to be responsible towards making certain decision. More importantly, is that the mind has no attachment, identification, comparison, or judgment towards all that, and is still peaceful as one is.

But there are quite some minds are being disturbed by all that, and have no peace, as they are being over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or regret most of the time. No matter what or how, taking or not taking certain responsibility and commitment, making or not making certain decision, and choosing this or that, the minds will always feel regret, thinking that maybe the other option is better than this option that it has taken or chosen.

All and everything has inevitable risk that is not necessarily pleasant, desirable and agreeable. Just by being existing here in this world, has certain risk. Not making any movements or not going anywhere, also has certain risk. Being here has certain risk. Being somewhere else also has certain risk. Every single choice/decision/desire/movement/step/action/reaction/non-action/non-reaction also has certain risk, either common or uncommon, expected or unexpected, directly or indirectly.

Most of the time, one gains something while loosing something in any decision or choice.

The mind that is not spending most of the time and energy into working or making a living in the present, might not be generating any income, but then it can have the free time and energy to be doing and enjoying certain things that it didn't manage to do or enjoy while it was being busy generating income, and vice versa.

When the mind knows how to live in the present moment, and appreciates what is here in the present moment, devoid of craving towards something that is not here, devoid of aversion towards something that is here, it will have no problem being here or there, doing this or not doing that.

Making decision, or having desire, or performing action, is not that difficult, as well as 'claiming' the responsibility towards 'the desirable and agreeable consequences or outcome of one's desire, choice and action that is the way that how one thinks and desires it to be' is not troublesome at all.

It's 'the reluctance' or 'the fear' towards taking 'the responsibility' or 'the risk' towards 'the possible consequences or outcome of one's desire, choice and action that are not necessarily desirable or agreeable the way that how one thinks and desires it to be', or 'the reluctance' towards being responsible for 'the consequences that come along with engaging in certain commitments out of one's own desire and choice', that is why the minds think and feel that they have difficulty or trouble with commitment engaging and decision or choice making.

It's something in common that many minds have difficulty towards making certain decision or choice, or taking certain responsibilities, or engaging in certain commitments, particularly when there are more and more confusions, lies, hypocrisy and disappointments arising and existing in this world of ignorance, egoism, separateness, discrimination, fear, greed, possessiveness, and selfishness, where people don't know, or can't really tell the difference between true and false anymore, or what they should believe or disbelieve anymore.

The mind needs to realize what is selflessness, in order to understand about responsibility, as well as not to be afraid towards taking responsibility, even though all and everything are selfless, and impermanent (uncertainty).

Selflessness, where there's no 'I', or an infinite existence of a permanent independent individual identity to be responsible towards all kinds of selfless impermanent changes, or cause and effect, as well as, all and everything depending on the supportive selfless elements and selfless energy to be existing and functioning, it doesn't mean that there's no responsibility in anyone (the selfless body and mind) towards their own life existence, their own thinking, belief/disbelief, reasoning, understanding, choices, desires, behavior, actions and reactions, and the consequences of all that.

Coming into this selfless impermanent worldly life existence of the selfless function of a selfless impermanent body and perceptive thinking mind, it's not out of anyone's own desire or choice, because there were/are many minds didn't/don't intent or desire to be existing here (in a selfless impermanent world of inevitable suffering of restlessness or selfless impermanent changes, that is also full of unnecessary suffering deriving from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance), but they were/are here, selflessly and reluctantly, under the cause generated out of the desire and action of the parents, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Merely by being existing and functioning selflessly and impermanently here in this world, there come along with certain inevitable duties and responsibilities towards upholding the survival or life maintenance of this body and mind, towards looking after the over-all well-being of oneself and/or some others, and towards looking after the surrounding living environment that support the life maintenance of this body and mind.

No doubt that, if without the parents generated the cause that gives rise to the forming of this selfless body and mind, this body and mind doesn't exist, and hence, the parents are indeed responsible for the initial cause for the existence and function of this body and mind.

The parents' genetic inheritance, mentality, behavior, and parenting method can be influencing the genetic condition, the physical and mental ability and limitation, way of thinking, belief/disbelief, reasoning, understanding, desire and doesn't desire, behavior, actions, and reactions of this body and mind, up to a certain extend, particularly before this body and mind developed physical and mental maturity or independence.

While upon reaching certain degrees of physical and mental maturity or independence, the mind has the basic awareness, understanding and cognition towards this body and mind can have choices towards choosing and building its own particular way of living, different types of commitment or responsibility, way of thinking, belief/disbelief, reasoning, understanding, desires or doesn't desires, behavior, action and inaction, and to be making its own decision on many things in life, that will give rise to certain consequences that are not necessarily exactly the way that how the mind thinks, desires and expects how it should be, but that's okay. The selfless mind can choose whether it wants or doesn't want to be looking after the over-all well-being of this body and mind in certain way or not in certain way, or how it wants and doesn't want to think and behave, under its own way of thinking, reasoning, understanding, desire, choice, and action. All that are not the responsibility of the parents, but this body and mind itself.

The selfless elements and energy are only being what they are, selflessly forming and supporting the selfless existence and selfless function of the physical body and mind out of an existing cause that doesn't come from the selfless elements and energy at all, but it's deriving from the desire and action of the parents of this body and mind, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Without the supportive selfless elements and energy, all bodies and minds don't exist or function. The selfless elements and energy are responsible for forming and supporting the existence and function of all bodies and minds, but they are not responsible for the particular way of thinking, belief/disbelief, reasoning, understanding, decision and choice making, desires and don't desires, behavior, actions and reactions, as well as the consequences of all that, of any particular body and mind. It's the responsibility of each and every selfless mind itself. 

There are many minds would justify upon behaving/acting/reacting hurtfully and destructively unto oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment and objects out of disturbance, dissatisfaction, disappointment, unhappiness, anger, and vengeance, "It's not me. Don't blame me. It's the energy. It's the elements. It's the hormones. It's all those bad people. It's my bad and irresponsible parents. It's all those bad and wrong things that have been happening to me in my life. It's because of you, that's why I am doing this. It's because of them, that's why I am behaving/acting/reacting like that."

Even if there are certain decisions and choices, desires and don't desires, or action and inaction in life might be made in accordance to the wish/desire/influence of the parents or some others, with the intention to be pleasing the parents or some others in life, or not to be offending the parents or some others, or to be gaining certain things or reactions in return, or merely to be surviving, or to have less complications in life, but all those decisions, choices, desires, don't desires, action and inaction out of any kind of intention or reason, is still the responsibility of the mind itself.

This body and mind feels happy or unhappy about something or someone, and reacts and behaves in certain way out of happiness or unhappiness, it's its own responsibility. It's not the responsibility of its parents or the selfless elements and energy that are selflessly supporting the existence and function of this body and mind. It is also not the responsibility of that something or someone that the mind feels happy or unhappy about.

The mind is the one that decides whether to be determined or undetermined by certain names and forms. The mind is the one that decides whether to be disturbed or undisturbed, to feel hurt or unhurt, to be attached or unattached, to let go or not letting go, to be happy or unhappy, to make certain decision, or not, to have certain commitment, or not, and to behave/act/react ignorantly and hurtfully or wisely and compassionately.

There are certain physical discomfort or inevitable muscular soreness/tightness during and after certain physical activities or training, or there are certain mental discomfort or inevitable mental/emotional disturbance/pain during and after certain mental activities or training.

The mind has the desire and choice to be learning and performing certain fitness training, or not, and to be participating or not participating in a fitness training session or exercise class under the instructions or guidance of certain instructor. It's the full responsibility of this mind for its engagement in the fitness training session or exercise class, to be looking after its own well-being, without forcing or hurting itself, during the process of learning and performing the fitness training or exercises, regardless of whether it is self-learning and self-practice, or there is an instructor being there giving certain instructions or guidance to be performing certain movements, exercises, or training. It's the full responsibility of the mind itself whether to be performing all, or partial, or none of the movements or training (taking rest), at what timing, speed and intensity, depending on the condition of the body and mind in the present moment.

Similarly, in the process of learning and performing certain yoga practice or implementing certain teachings of yoga in everyday life. The yoga student or practitioner takes full responsibility towards itself for all its action/inaction and consequences of action/inaction. The teachers and the teachings are just being what they are, delivering the teachings and practice to the students, but it's the student's full responsibility towards what it wants or doesn't want to practice, depending on the condition of the body and mind in the present moment.

The minds that know non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment and non-expectation, that are not being determined by duality of success and failure, or good and bad, or accomplishment and non-accomplishment, or agreeable and disagreeable, or desirable and undesirable, they can take the responsibility towards the consequences or outcome of all their decisions, choices and actions as it is. They will have no difficulty or problem in decision or choice making, risk taking, commitment engaging, as well as performing all the existing 'not by one's own desire or choice' inevitable worldly duties and responsibilities that come along with this selfless impermanent life existence in this world.

That is also why the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism about self-inquiry, self-realization, meditation, mental and emotional independence, renunciation, dispassion, seclusion and solitude, that is mainly about self-compassion, self-effort, self-reliance, or self-help, is more and more relevant in this time being, before the mind loses its precious sanity, or the precious ability and clarity to be reasoning everything, to have peace during the momentary limited life existence of being existing and functioning here, that directly and indirectly affecting the over-all well-being of the body and mind, that is influencing the behavior, action and reaction of the perceptive thinking and acting mind in certain way, that affects the surrounding living environment of a world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone.

To have peace in oneself, is indeed the biggest duty and responsibility of all minds that are momentarily co-existing and sharing this space of the universe that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Peace isn't being built on, or be obtained through 'controlling' or 'making' the world and life existence in this space that doesn't belong to anyone to be the way that 'I' and/or 'we' think and believe and desire how it should be.

Peace is always there, as it is, upon the minds are free from the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, where no mind tries to claim ownership/possession/authority/control towards the world of many diversities in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, to be the way that 'I' and/or 'we' think and believe and desire how it should be, while respecting all kinds of diversities being what they are, to have their own way of everything, allowing all minds whether to take their own initiative to be free from the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, or not, at their own cause and pace, or to have the most important FREEDOM of existence to be existing in this space, and to have the FREEDOM of being, to be what they are, and not being discriminated, threatened, oppressed, prosecuted, punished, intimidated, bullied, or hurt, for being existing in this space, and being what they are.

The existence of OPENNESS, or the FREEDOM of existence and being, to be what all and everyone are, is the only way that enabling the ignorant egoistic impure confused suffering minds to have the opportunity or the initiation to reflect upon itself, to be initiative to free itself from the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and the consequences of all that - all kinds of destructive hurtful damaging behavior, actions and reactions that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment during their momentary existence and function in this world, out of its own freewill via its own awareness, understanding, self-discipline, and self-effort.

It doesn't matter if the mind cannot 'trust' or 'rely on' anyone or anything anymore, but one cannot loose 'the trust' or 'the self-reliance' that is always there accommodating itself unconditionally during its selfless impermanent limited existence.

Need not to be afraid of 'Aloneness', 'Solitude', 'Seclusion', 'Renunciation', 'Dispassion', 'Silence', 'Mental and emotional independence'. It's the way that leads towards the non-discriminating and all accommodating source, or peace, or dhamma, or knowledge, or teacher, or guru, that the selfless impermanent mind can 'trust' and 'rely on', when all and everything are falling apart (it will, sooner or later, because of the nature of impermanence in all and everything). That selfless, timeless and changeless, nameless and formless source/peace/dhamma/knowledge/teacher/guru is always there, being what it is, even when this particular selfless impermanent body and mind is constantly changing, decaying, and disintegrating, not to say, all kinds of names and forms being perceived through this selfless mind are constantly changing, decaying, and disintegrating.

"You are left alone now." - Swami Sivananda

It's the freedom of everyone whether they want to be free, or not

Freedom is the fundamental over-all physical, mental and emotional well-being or health, peace and happiness in all sentient living beings.

Not being free, is the greatest suffering of all sentient living beings.

Without freedom of existence, living, surviving, thinking, reasoning, understanding, learning, inquiring, movement, action (including inaction), expression, agreeing/disagreeing, working/resting, or merely the freedom of being oneself as it is, being existing momentarily in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, there's no peace, but only constant unrest of dissatisfaction and disharmony within and without.

Even though most minds want and appreciate freedom, however, there are certain minds don't want freedom, as well as, there are certain minds might want to have all kinds of freedom for themselves, but they don't want some others to have any freedom or certain kind of freedom. That's everyone's freedom of thinking and what they desire and don't desire, even if it's insanity, where the mind is suffering under the absence of awareness or conscience.

Apart from the inevitable 'non-freedom' or 'limitation' due to the limitation of selfless impermanent changes of the selfless impermanent existence and function of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body with the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking faculty, of being inter-dependent on many elements and energy to be existing and functioning and changing selflessly, all sentient living beings are not free, mostly it's because of the existence of certain man made 'restriction' on restricting many kinds of freedoms in the world that doesn't belong to anyone.

There's nothing wrong with the existence of certain non-harming but beneficial and reasonable man made rules and regulations for all and everyone to follow, that are essential for maintaining certain order in the common space being shared by many different sentient living beings, to avoid unnecessary accidents or selfish ignorant damaging effects, to be looking after the over-all well-being of all and everyone and the surrounding environment. Such as certain basic traffic rules or basic safety regulations on all kinds of food consumption and production, drinking water, air quality, sanitation, healthcare, medical treatment, work, building construction, factory production, electricity usage, transportation, and etc. However, there are many other unnecessary man made rules and regulations that made into 'laws' deriving from passionate egoistic ideas and desires under the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities, that are not necessarily promoting the over-all well being of all and everyone, but are indeed greatly impacting and harming the over-all well-being of freedom, peace and harmony in all and everyone, just for being existing and living in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone, where most minds are imperfect, and will never be perfect as it's the nature of all and everything for being imperfect.

Prosecuting and punishing anyone who is imperfect by nature, it's like prosecuting and punishing someone with some physical or mental defects or disabilities, for their defects or disabilities. It doesn't make sense, and it doesn't change the imperfection to become perfect.

It's the freedom of everyone whether they want to be free, or not.

And it's everyone's freedom for what they think, believe, understand, feel, desire and practice, or not.

However, for those who are interested in learning and practicing yoga and/or buddhism, it's about inquiring towards the truth of everything, including 'what is freedom', 'what is limitation', 'Why there is the perception or experience of not being free', 'what and why is the lack of freedom or the absence of freedom', 'what and why is the unnecessary restriction on many kinds of freedoms', 'what and why is the abuse of freedom', 'what and why is the abuse of the restriction on freedom', as well as all kinds of 'what', 'why' or 'how' towards all kinds of names and forms, ideas, activities or affairs that the mind comes in contact with, as the main purpose or the existence of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism in this world of selflessness and impermanence, is all about attaining liberation, or freedom, or independence, from what is causing the perception or experience of 'not being free', or 'suffering', or 'unhappiness', regardless of whether it's the inevitable 'limitation' of selfless impermanent existence, function and changes, or it's the many unnecessary man made 'restrictions' deriving from ignorance, egoism and impurities.

The greatest freedom, or liberation, or independence in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is the minds are being free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, void of selfishness and greed, possessiveness and dissatisfaction, anger and hatred, pride and arrogance, superiority and inferiority, separateness and discrimination, corruption and violence, oppression and invasion, bully and exploitation, petty-mindedness and fear, offensiveness and defensiveness, or unrest and disharmony, where there's no need of any man made rules or laws to be 'controlling', or 'regulating', or 'restricting' others to be and not to be thinking, believing, feeling, desiring, behaving, expressing, acting or reacting in certain way, but it's coming from everyone's own freewill or conscience out of correct understanding void of ignorance, that lead to freedom, peace and harmony in oneself, that contribute to less unrest and disharmony while more peace and harmony into the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone.

Such as, how can there be a man made 'law' to be enforcing everyone must 'vote' under the system of democracy that is all about 'respecting' the freedom or the rights in everyone, where those who don't want to get involve in the 'democratic voting system' due to great disappointment towards the imperfections that exist in the system of 'democracy voting system', would be 'prosecuted', 'criminalized', 'penalized' and 'punished' under such man made 'law'? How can there be restriction or prohibition towards the freedom of expression or the rights to protest against something that the mind disagreeing with or doesn't desire? How can there be man made 'punishment' towards what the minds want or don't want to think and believe? How can there be man made 'law' to be restricting or prohibiting someone being what or who they are, or living life in their own way in the world that doesn't belong to anyone, or to be 'enforcing' all and everyone must be performing certain 'action', or else, one would be 'prosecuted' and 'punished' if one doesn't desire to be performing certain 'action'?

The peaceful way to be free from all those unnecessary 'madness' that keep 'growing' in the world that doesn't belong to anyone, is out of one's freewill and self-effort, to free one's mind from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that have been contributing to and empowering all kinds of 'madness' in the world that doesn't belong to anyone.

It's not about 'controlling' or 'restricting' all others to be or not to be in certain way, without working on self-inquiry and self-realization to free one's mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, out of one's freewill and effort. None need to be controlling or restricting anyone else, if the minds are free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, deriving from one's freewill and effort to be free from all that.

That is the 'non-violence' way to promote peace and harmony in oneself and in the world, that the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about.

Most minds don't want and don't like 'violence'. Many minds still have certain degrees of awareness, sanity and conscience. It's never too late, to free one's mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, unless the mind has come to the stage of completely lost without any reasoning power to inquire the truth of anything.

In this present moment, the mind is free, if without passionate egoistic attachment, or identification, or desire of craving and aversion, towards any qualities of names and forms, if the mind is void of desire, possessiveness, selfishness, separateness, discrimination, disturbance, discontentment, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, offensiveness, defensiveness, pride, arrogance, superiority, inferiority, fear, anger, hatred, violence, and so on.

There will be greater chances of freedom, peace and harmony, if the world is free from possessiveness and greed, if none try to 'possess', 'control' and 'regulate' the world to be and not to be in certain the way that each and everyone desire and doesn't desire differently. How can there be freedom, peace and harmony when everyone tries to possess, conquer and restrict one another to be in power to 'possess', 'control' and 'regulate' the world to be the exact way that 'I' or 'we' desire?

It's not easy, but it's possible, if there's awareness, and if there's a will.

If this is not possible, let it be. It's everyone's freedom to be what and how they are.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The world just need to be free from ignorance and egoism

Enforcing further and more restriction or oppression on freedom of existence, freedom of being, freedom of living, freedom of moving, freedom of surviving, freedom of expression, freedom of thinking, freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of action, and etc, trying to control the world to be and not to be in certain way, doesn't stop the world of diversity being what it is.

It's the freedom of being free from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness in all the minds under many different names and forms that are occupying the world, that will lead to all kinds of freedom of existence, freedom of being, freedom of living, freedom of moving, freedom of surviving, freedom of expression, freedom of thinking, freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of action, and etc, that are highly important in all living beings to have a healthy living, healthy being, healthy thinking and healthy behavior, where all kinds of freedoms are free from the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, or being free from corrupted thinking and understanding, the idea of 'I', attachment, identification, desires of craving and aversion, possessiveness, separateness, discrimination, selfishness, fear, discontentment, greed, pride, arrogance, self-righteousness, offensiveness, defensiveness, anger, hatred, oppression, suppression, interference, invasion, violence, and etc, that will lead to more and more peace and harmony in the world of diversity, sharing a space that doesn't belong to anyone.

Neither by focusing on the restriction or the non-restriction of all kinds of freedom will lead to more peace and harmony in the world of diversity. It's about coming from the selfless mind itself, to be freeing the selfless modification of the mind from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, to have correct thinking and understanding, that leads to peace and harmony in oneself, that contributes less unrest and disharmony into the world of diversity.

No doubt that coming from certain minds respecting the freedom of all the other minds being what they are, there will be less amount of minds contributing unrest and disharmony into the world, however, it doesn't lead to more peace and harmony in the world as all the many other minds under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness don't know how to respect the freedom of all other minds being what they are, by restricting all kinds of freedoms in the world, that gives rise to more and more unrest and disharmony in many different individuals, that contributes to more and more unrest and disharmony into the world.

By introducing further and more restrictions on many things in the world, doesn't lead to more peace and harmony in the world.

Parents try to control their children. Leaders try to control the community. Teachers try to control the students. Organizations try to control their members.

Imagine if one's freedom of something is being taken away or being restricted, how unhappy and unhealthy that is, not to say, the freedom of many things in many individuals are being taken away or being restricted by some others.

It's about focusing and working on helping as many minds as possible to be free from the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that leads to respecting the freedom of all and everyone being what they are, as they are.

There will be less minds suffering from unnecessary mental health issues. There will be more peace and happiness in individuals that lead to less selfish destructive hurtful behaviors, actions and reactions in the world, that contributes to more peace and harmony in the world.

It's understandable that there are many minds that strongly think and believe that they need to be able to control all and everyone else to be and not to be in certain way according to their own desire and don't desire, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, while they themselves don't like and would be offended if their own freedom of something is unavailable due to certain physical or mental limitations, or it's being restricted by some others, that they would be offended by this teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism about respecting the freedom of all and everyone being what they are, as they are, where all and everyone wouldn't be behaving, acting and reacting in selfish damaging hurtful way, upon the presence of peace and harmony in oneself, upon being free to be what they are, as they are, upon the absence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

That's everyone's freedom for their thinking, belief, behavior, action and reaction.

Unless people are suffering from certain serious mental illness that they cannot control their own behavior, action and reaction at all, where they would cause random damaging effects into the surrounding unwittingly, while most people who still have certain degrees of sanity, however, they might be behaving, acting and reacting in certain damaging hurtful way, intentionally and wittingly, is due to they are under extreme disturbance, unhappiness, fear, desperation, frustration and irritation, as they are not being free to be who and what they are, in their personal life and in the community, constantly being restricted, intimidated, bullied and punished for being who and what they are, by some others who don't respect the freedom of others to be who and what they are, out of self-righteousness, pride, superiority, possessiveness and selfish desires.

If a mind truly loves some others, this mind will love and respect others being who and what they are, without possessiveness and expectation or control towards others to be or not to be in certain way according to one's desire. The world will be a much better place, if all minds understand this and have unconditional love towards all and everything in the world, without possessiveness and selfishness.

Inquire the truth of everything.