Inquire towards AI and consciousness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inquire the truth of everything.

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

The selfless universal consciousness and the selfless mind stuff

The selfless universal consciousness and the selfless mind stuff are both selfless, where there is neither permanent nor impermanent self existence or self identity existing in the one same all pervading selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, or in the selfless mind stuff of the many different individual selfless mortal bodies and minds.

However, under the influence of ignorance, 

Some minds might think and believe that the consciousness (that gives rise to conscious awareness) is an individual consciousness, where the individual consciousness is part of the mind stuff (the different selfless functions/mechanisms/modifications of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body), that they are one non-distinctive subject, that they belong to one another, and that they exist along with one another and they ceased existing simultaneously upon the end of the selfless existence and function of the selfless physical body.

Meanwhile, some minds might think and believe that each and every single mind comes with the respective individual consciousness, that has a permanent independent immortal individual self identity that exists infinitely, but 'somehow/doesn't know why' and 'doesn't know/remember since when it all began', or 'due to an initial ignorant downfall or sin (the original/first seed of karma that gives rise to ceaseless births and deaths or endless reincarnations) in accordance to some cultural/spiritual/religious beliefs', to be undergoing ceaseless and endless reincarnation being reincarnating into countless different momentary mortal life existences under certain names and forms transitioning under many different realms accordingly to the ceaseless and boundless accumulation of 'karma' under different qualities that have been generated individually and collectively in every single different and separate life existence, where the individual consciousness is being born into another life existence upon the death of each mortal life existence under different names and forms that exists impermanently and momentarily in different realms in accordance to the accumulation of 'karma' that have been accumulating since the beginning of the very first mortal life existence until the present mortal life existence, that seemingly can never be exhausted completely, because every single thought and every single action/reaction will give rise to a new cause that lead to effect, while the effect of each cause is also a fresh new cause, inevitably and naturally, forming a wheel of an infinite loop of ceaseless accumulation of boundless karma, because there are ceaseless karma/cause and effect being generated consciously and unconsciously in every single moment, just by being existing and functioning as it is.

Contemplate upon this -

The ONE same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space, not to say, within and without all and everyone and everything, is not the impermanent, limited, and conditional selfless mind stuff, and vice versa.

The selfless mind stuff is impermanent, limited, and conditional, where there is the beginning of existence (formation and maintenance of names and forms/beginning of existing and functioning) and the end of existence (decay and disintegration of names and forms/ceased existing and functioning), and there are ceaseless changes of decay and disintegration in between existence and ceased existence, inevitably depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements to be existing and functioning and changing/decaying/disintegrating as what they are, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, being limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation.

The selfless universal consciousness is permanent, unlimited, and unconditional, beyond existence and non-existence/ceased existence. It is unborn or non-manifested. It is independent, beginningless, endless, attributeless, changeless, and effortless, untouched by the selfless energy and selfless elements or the intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect. It is unlimited, unconditioned, and undetermined by time, space, and causation.

The selfless universal consciousness is not part of the selfless mind stuff, and vice versa.

The selfless universal consciousness doesn't belong to the selfless mind stuff, and vice versa.

The limited and conditional existence and function of the selfless mind stuff is subject to decay and disintegration.

The timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness is untouched by decay and disintegration.

The existence and function of the body and mind is subject to growth, ceased growing, decaying, illness, injury, dysfunction, malfunction, aging, weakness, and ceased functioning and ceased existing.

The ONE same timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness that pervades and exists in all and everyone and everything, regardless of whether in a young baby, or in a child, or in an adult, or in an old person, or in a selfish ignorant and cruel person, or in a noble wise and kind person, or in an insect, or in an animal, or in a plant, or in any thing, is the one same consciousness, that is attributeless and timeless (permanent/independent/unlimited/unconditional/non-changing/non-decay/indestructible) that doesn't increase nor decrease, that is neither young nor old, neither good nor bad, nether wise nor ignorant, neither kind nor unkind, neither a human being nor not a human being, neither a living being nor a non-living object.

Not to say, it is untouched by the selfless impermanent changes/decay/weakness/disease/injury/aging/living/ceased living/conscious/unconscious/sentient/non-sentient/all kinds of qualities/all kinds of names and forms that exist and happen in all and everyone and everything that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

It is the timeless selfless silent witness that is witnessing the knowledge and the knower of the knowledge.

The timeless selfless silent witness is neither the knowledge nor the knower of the knowledge.

The knowledge and the knower of the knowledge exist along one another, and they don't exist without one another.

Regardless of whether the existence or non-existence/ceased existence of the knowledge and the knower of the knowledge, the timeless selfless silent witness (the timeless selfless universal consciousness) exists as it is, before, during, and after the existence and ceased existence of all kinds of names and forms.

Contemplate upon this -

The selfless universal consciousness gives rise to a 'bridge' (conscious awareness) that connects the two sides of the river ('the perception of names and forms/the experiences/the knowledge' and 'the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind/the experiencer/the knower'). Without any of the sides of the river, it is not a river, or there is no river (The mind perception of a world of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence of diverse names and forms).

There is needless of the existence of a 'bridge' that served as the connection between the two sides of a river, if they is no flowing water/liquid/mud (all kinds of selfless manifestations of names and forms that form 'The world'), if there are no two sides of a river (The perceiver and the perceived), or there is no river (The world of names and forms that is perceived by each individual mind that is existing and functioning under the presence of conscious awareness). The flowing water/liquid/mud, the two sides of the river, and the river, are co-existing and co-ceased existing all together, simultaneously.

The world only exists to the mind that are functioning under the presence of conscious awareness. The world doesn't exist to the mind that doesn't exist, or doesn't function as what it is under the presence of conscious awareness, to be consciously aware of 'The world'. For example, 'The world' doesn't exist to the mind that is in deep sleep or in deep coma, or to the mind that had ceased existing.

The selfless existence of a river that exists as what it is, that is being formed/manifested/shaped under the existence of the two sides of the river that are existing due to the intentionless continuous stream of flowing water/liquid/mud (manifested under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements) that flows under the intentionless effect of the gravity (the intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect),

that gives rise to and influencing the directions/different branches/different shapes and sizes of natural lakes or ponds forming (the different conditions and situations of the world, or the different manifestations of the different existences and functions of names and forms under different qualities/conditions/situations, or the selfless impermanent changes in all kinds of names and forms, or the selfless conscious and unconscious evolution of the body and mind),

and the different intentional or unintentional interventions/obstacles (actions/causes and effects being generated under the influence of some conscious by choice actions/activities under certain conscious desires under the influence of certain constructive or destructive intention and correct or incorrect discrimination/understanding, as well as under the influence of unconscious autonomous instinctive activities/urges operating under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct/genetic traits inheritance/autonomous bodily systems that impact the body and mind and the surrounding environment in certain way), that give rise to intentional and unintentional changes and impacts to the river, such as dam building, lakes or ponds formation, or flood, or landslide, and so on,

where all that exist along with the existence of one another simultaneously, and don't exist if without one another.

 

The selfless manifestation of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional world that consists of 'all kinds of names and forms' and 'the countless individual perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds', ceaselessly changing under the influence of all kinds of conscious and unconscious activities and selfless impermanent changes/evolution/decay and disintegration, that are happening/manifesting under the selfless support and influence of the selfless energy and the different selfless elements, where all that are non-self, that don't even belong to the names and forms, or the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds, or the conscious and unconscious activities, or the selfless impermanent changes/evolution, or the selfless energy and the different selfless elements, themselves.

And, 

A container (the mind perception of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional worldly life existence) doesn't exist as what it is if without the formation of the body of a container (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function of the body and mind) to be existing and functioning as what it is, to hold something inside it (the selfless mind perception of a momentary mortal worldly life existence perceiving and experiencing all kinds of names and forms or experiences).

The container doesn't exist or function as what it is, if there is nothing that can be hold by the existence and function of a container. The selfless formation/existence of a container and its selfless function is manifested under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the different selfless elements, and governed under the intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect.

What and how the active user of the container (the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under the presence of conscious awareness) uses and maintains the container (the mind perception of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal worldly life existence and function of a body and mind under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness) and what type of contents (all kinds of physical/mental/emotional activities/experiences/actions/reactions via the organs of the senses (all kinds of inputs) and the organs of actions (all kinds of outputs) under what type of conscious and unconscious intention/desire and correct or incorrect discrimination/understanding, and the respective consequences of all that) that the user puts into the container under what type of intention and discrimination/understanding, either under the influence of conscious by choice desires/activities/actions/reactions generated by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under the presence of conscious awareness and under specific intention and discrimination/understanding, and/or under the influence of unconscious instinctive intentionless activities/urges/stimulus/responses operating under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct/genetic traits inheritance/autonomous bodily systems, is nothing to do with the container, or the contents, or the nature's law of cause and effect, or the selfless energy and the different selfless elements that enabling the formation of the container and the contents to be manifested/formed as what they are under the nature's law of cause and effect.

The timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness a.k.a. the timeless selfless silent witness, is untouched or unaffected by all that, the existence and non-existence/ceased existence of the perceiver and the perceived, the knower and the knowledge, the experiencer and the experience, birth (forming) and death (disintegration), good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, meaningful and meaningless, peaceful and peaceless, selfish and unselfish, wise and ignorant, kindness and cruelty, awake or asleep, conscious/semi-conscious or unconscious, and so on, as well as all kinds of cause and effect being generated ceaselessly and selfless impermanent ceaseless changes/evolution in between existence and ceased existence, regardless of whether under the influence of conscious by choice desire generated by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under the presence of conscious awareness under specific intention and discrimination, or under the influence of unconscious instinctive activities/urges/stimulus/responses operating under the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct/genetic traits inheritance/autonomous bodily systems.

The selfless universal consciousness is attributeless, nameless, formless, identity-less, beginningless, endless, changeless, timeless, thoughtless, actionless, maintenance-less, non-manifested, non-decay, or complete effortless, undetermined and uninfluenced by the presence and absence of the selfless energy and selfless elements, or the selfless manifestations/existence/impermanent changes/ceased existence of countless selfless names and forms under different qualities governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, devoid of impure egoistic restless mind stuff of perceiving/experiencing/thinking/discrimination/understanding/remembering/intention/identification/action/reaction, of all kinds of duality and separateness, of 'known' and 'unknown', of 'I'-ness and 'mine'-ness, of grasping, of desire/don't desire, of inevitable restlessness of ceaseless conscious and unconscious physical and mental activities/ceaseless maintenance/ceaseless effort for ceaseless maintenance until the end of existence.

And hence, the selfless universal consciousness is permanent, independent, unlimited, and unconditional (infinity), that is neither self (oneself and that belong to oneself) nor non-self (not oneself and that doesn't belong to oneself).

Meanwhile, the selfless mind stuff, or the different impermanent conditions/states/modifications/functions/mechanisms/bodily systems of the many different individual mortal bodies and minds, are being limited and conditioned by the impermanent, limited, and conditional attributes/conditions/limitations under different names and forms, the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes or the inevitable natural process of decay and disintegration, that have a limited duration of existence and function, of limited and conditional physical and mental activities (perishable/destructible/limited/conditional/impermanent/finite), that require ceaseless maintenance, that inevitably dependent on the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and different selfless elements for coming into existence and function (formation), for powering the ceaseless conscious and unconscious physical and mental activities, or the ceaseless maintenance for maintaining the limited duration of the momentary existence and function and changes/growth/ceased growing/decay/disintegration of the mortal body and mind.

And hence, the many different individual selfless mortal bodies and minds are non-independent, impermanent, limited, and conditional, that are non-self, where the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function and changes/decay/disintegration of the bodies and minds don't even belong to the bodies and minds themselves.

The direct self realization towards Selflessness and Non-self deriving from performing self-introspection to be investigating towards 'What is going on in the thinking faculty of the physical body', and performing self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything that the mind comes in contact with under an open mind and non-grasping, will enable the mind to know and understand towards the truth of "What is the 'I' that the mind perceives, identifies, acknowledges, and remembers as itself?", or 'the mind stuff', or 'the modification of the mind', or 'the mind perception of a momentary worldly mortal life existence', or 'the perishable impermanent limited conditional momentary mortal existence of all kinds of diverse names and forms', or 'the ignorance', or 'the evitable and inevitable suffering', or 'cause and effect', or 'the veil of ignorance', or 'the ego and egoism', or 'the impurities', or 'the restlessness', or 'the different states of mind', or 'the ceaseless births and deaths/reincarnation', or 'the mind conditional and habitual thinking behavior pattern', or 'the universal consciousness', or 'conscious mind awareness', or 'the different states of conscious awareness', or 'time, space, and causation', or 'existence in NOW', or 'neither past nor future', or 'conscious mind evolution', or 'liberation', or 'freedom', or 'silence', or 'transcend', or 'unconditional peace', or 'fearlessness', or 'timelessness', or 'non-duality', or 'oneness', or 'non-separateness', or 'non-violence', or 'all kinds of myths and story telling', or 'all kinds of selfishness and possessiveness', or 'the intentionless survival instinct', or 'the many different ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, behaviors, and practices' in this world of names and forms that are subject to Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.

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

Inquire the truth of everything.

Purify. Meditate. Inquire. Realize.

Attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything.

The timeless freedom under the presence of correct understanding or wisdom and compassion

This timeless freedom doesn't mean that there is completely no limitation, or no restriction, or no self control in all our thinking, action, and speech or expression, or we have completely no restriction (that is nothing to do with the creation and existence of the many unnecessary man made egoistic non-universal rules and regulations) to be existing, functioning, and living in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in an infinite space of existence that is being shared momentarily among the many diverse objects and living organisms, individually and communally.

All and everyone and everything are limited and conditional, inevitably being limited by certain limitations and conditions, as well as selfless impermanent changes internally and externally, governed under the nature's law of cause and effect.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of the mortal body and mind consisting of all kinds of individual and collective experiences, affairs, happenings, relationships, interactions, and activities are not necessarily the way that the different minds would like it to be, or the way that the different minds perceive as pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of all and everyone and everything are inevitably inter-connected to one another, inter-supporting and inter-impacting one another.

It is inevitable that there are certain limitation and condition while being existing and functioning selflessly and momentarily in and sharing this space of existence that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, especially under the existence of the many different minds that are functioning under the presence of ignorance, that generate many ideas/desires/beliefs/values/practices/behaviors/actions/reactions/aspirations/ambitions that are impacting oneself, others, and the surrounding environment in certain way.

There are certain limitation existing in the body and the mind, where the body and mind cannot do certain things, or the mind cannot understand or doesn't know how to do certain things. And it's okay.

There are certain limitation and condition existing in the surrounding environment, where all and everyone and everything cannot completely be free/unlimited/unrestricted/unconditioned to be what all and everyone desire to be and not to be. And it's okay.

The moment there is attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation arising and coming from the selfless thinking and acting faculty being generated towards the possibilities and impossibilities in the body and mind and the surrounding environment, in NOW, there arise the perception or notion of "I am not free."

Upon the absence of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation in the mind, while there is respect and acceptance coming from the selfless thinking and acting faculty towards the body and mind and the surrounding environment being what it is, inevitably being limited by certain limitation and condition, where the body and mind cannot understand or do certain things, in NOW, where the selfless thinking and acting faculty doesn't force the body and mind beyond its limitation to be doing something that the body and mind cannot understand and cannot do, that is not possible, in NOW, there is no perception or notion of "I am not free."

Under the presence of correct understanding, or wisdom and compassion, where the mind understand that there are many things are limited by certain limitation and condition, as well as there are many minds are being limited by certain limitation, condition, and non-understanding, where certain things are not necessarily available in accordance to one's desire and don't desire, as well as certain minds are not necessarily thinking/understanding/behaving/acting/reacting in the way that is in accordance to one's agreements and disagreements, or that is unselfish, or non-possessive, or reasonable, or logical, or constructive, or beneficial for all and everyone unconditionally and indiscriminately, where the mind doesn't need to be determined or disturbed by the non-availability of certain things under certain inevitable limitation and condition, as well as the existing of certain unreasonable thinking/understanding/behavior/action/reaction of certain minds under the presence of certain inevitable limitation, condition, and non-understanding, but respecting and accepting all and everyone and everything being what they are and what they are not, as they are, there is no perception or notion of "I am not free."

This timeless freedom is always there as it is, where there is absence of the perception or notion of, "I am not free," even if the mind that is functioning under the presence of correct understanding, or wisdom and compassion, decides and chooses to not doing, or not saying, or not expressing something that is non-conducive or non-constructive for maintaining the peace and harmony in oneself and in the surrounding environment, and choosing not to be doing, not to be saying, or not to be expressing something that will be empowering the non-understanding, or the ignorance and the by-products of ignorance in the many minds in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, but choosing to perform certain action, to be doing, or saying, or expressing, or disseminating something that will be conducive, constructive, and beneficial for all and everyone and everything in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, to have more peace and harmony under the absence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, a.k.a. the presence of correct understanding, or wisdom and compassion.

It is insanity, but there were, and there are many minds would think and believe that it is 'easier' or 'more efficient' to control all the other minds to behave or not behaving in certain way, by keeping all minds as ignorant as possible, to be not knowing many things as they are, while to be fed with many untruthful manipulative story telling, to not questioning towards anything, especially towards the 'authorized' authority/authorization/head/leader/mystical superior powerful figure or entity, but to be conditioned to think and believe in certain way and to behave/act/react and desire in certain way, being conditioned under certain belief/values/practice, to be completely submissive and fearful towards the 'easily be offended and violent' prideful possessive ambitious authority/authorization/head/leader/mystical superior powerful figure or entity, within a family/tribe/community/organization/country/world/belief, to be threatened, oppressed, restricted, manipulated, and controlled under the many man made rules and regulations along with the painful disciplinary punishment upon the rules and regulations are being offended.

Many of these minds that are thinking and believing in such way, and there will be more and more minds would be thinking and believing in such way, it is not because they are what they are, or they are being born to think and believe and behave in such way, it is because they are and have been continuously being impacted, hammered, disappointed, threatened, disturbed, confused, frustrated, and exhausted by the existence of all kinds of untruthfulness/hypocrisy/discrimination and evitable man made suffering/painful sorrow/desperation/cruelty in the surrounding environment in the world, deriving from ignorant human's affairs/activities/behaviors arising under the influence of ignorance and its by-products.

The more the minds are thinking and believing and supporting ignorant practices in such way, the more frustration, desperation, suffering, and disturbance will be arising in the world that will impact all and everyone, including they themselves who support such way of thinking, beliefs, ideas, values, desires, aspirations, and practices.

That is why it is so extremely important and precious to be having the conscious mind awareness to be aware of and to be doubting/inquiring/investigating towards what is happening internally in the body and mind, and externally in the surrounding environment in the world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, as well as the opportunity and possibility of conscious mind evolution, even if all and everyone and everything are selfless and impermanent, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of all and everything. It is not easy and it is challenging, but it is possible for the selfless self-aware minds that have intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, to be free from all that madness that are being fed by ignorance, and that are feeding ignorance, of a loop that seems to be infinite and unbreakable, but it is POSSIBLE for each individual selfless mind to be free from that via self initiation and self effort.

There is no infinite existence of an immortal 'I' that exists in the selfless body and mind, that needs to be liberated, or needs to be free, or has the freewill for anything, however, the selfless impermanent limited and conditional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical structure, that is functioning under the influence of ignorance, that perceives all kinds of suffering and disturbance, that is in need of liberation, that needs to be free, that has the 'limited and conditional' conscious freewill to be deciding and choosing what and how it wants or doesn't want to do with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty via the selfless organs of action of the selfless physical structure, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

 

Even though there is the existence of certain limitation and condition, or restriction, or self control, or self filtering towards all one's physical and mental actions, speech, and expression under the presence of correct understanding, or wisdom and compassion in oneself, where oneself understands that there are certain minds don't have the correct understanding, or wisdom and compassion, where the many minds are functioning under the presence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, where the thinking/understanding/reasoning/behavior/action/reaction/desire of the many minds are not necessarily reasonable and constructive and beneficial for all and everyone and everything unconditionally and indiscriminately, where the many minds are thinking/understanding/reasoning/behaving/acting/reacting/desiring in the way that are selfish, possessive, discontent, greedy, impatient, disrespecting, intolerant, non-accommodating, disturbing, discriminating, violent, hurtful, and destructive unto all and everyone and everything, and hence, one decides and chooses to be doing and not doing something respectively in accordance to what is constructive and beneficial for all and everyone and everything, and vice versa, universally, unconditionally, and indiscriminately.

It is one's freedom of choice (not being forced, or threatened, or restricted, or oppressed by some others, under the existence of many unnecessary man made rules and regulations), of choosing what one wants to do or doesn't want to do, while respecting and accepting the possibility and impossibility of what can or cannot be done physically and/or mentally in NOW, going beyond or transcending the existence of certain inevitable limitation and condition in oneself, and in others and the surrounding environment, in NOW, that are also impermanent.

This is the 'limited and conditional' conscious freewill that exist under the presence of conscious mind awareness devoid of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, as there is the existence of inevitable limitation to be choosing (conscious self control) what type of action, speech, and expression, being limited by the existence of certain inevitable existing conditions, that are impermanent, that will change, that appear and disappear, that increase and decrease.

The presence of conscious self control under the presence of correct understanding to be filtering and choosing what type of action/reaction, speech, and expression, to help the world of ignorance and egoism to have more peace and wisdom, is indeed the highly precious 'limited and conditional' freewill, not being determined or disturbed by all kinds of ignorance in this world to also become ignorant, or behaving/acting/reacting ignorantly like all the others that are functioning under the influence of ignorance. 

Even if it is 'limited and conditional' freewill, but it is highly precious and essential that can be promoting more peace and harmony, while less unnecessary evitable disturb and suffering in oneself, and in this world of diversity that is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The presence of the correct understanding towards, "Even when there is none having any intention to be generating any action, speech, or expression that meant to be deliberately disturbing, offending, disrespecting, humiliating, belittling, or hurting anyone or anything, but there are many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that don't have the correct understanding, that are lack of wisdom and compassion, where many of these unrest disturbed impure egoistic minds would perceive and react towards many things that they dislike and disagree with under their own particular thinking, belief, values, desires, and practices as something disturbing, offensive, disrespectful, humiliating, belittling, or hurting towards them, either individually and/or collectively, due to the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in themselves," is freedom.

"I don't want to do, or say, or express anything that will hurt myself, and others, and the surrounding environment, intentionally, even if it is possible for me to do, or say, or express whatever and whenever." That is one's own freedom of thinking/understanding/desire/choice.

"I want to do, or say, or express something that will be conducive and beneficial for myself, and others, and the surrounding environment, if it's possible. I don't have to do, or say, or express anything if it is not possible for me to do, or say, or express anything, in NOW, that is impermanent." That is also one's own freedom of thinking/understanding/desire/choice.

The mind chooses to move away from the non-conducive, hurtful, violent, and destructive family, relationship, community, environment, or area and space, to be looking after the physical and mental well being of this body and mind, is also it's own freedom of thinking/understanding/desire/choice.

Regardless of what the body and mind do or don't/can't do, what the body and mind say or don't/can't say, what the body and mind express or don't/can't express, where the body and mind go or don't/can't go, where the body and mind is and is not, and what the body and mind can be and cannot be, regardless of under the presence of certain limitation and condition in oneself and/or in the surrounding environment, the mind is always at peace as it is. The mind is not being determined or disturbed by all that. Because it understands. Because it understands that there are many other minds don't understand, that gives rise to many kinds of unnecessary limitation and condition that are inconvenient, unpleasant, or hurtful unto oneself and all the others and the surrounding environment.

It is one's freedom of choice, action, thinking, and understanding to be free and peaceful as one is, no matter what, being undetermined or undisturbed by any existing limitation and condition or impossibility, in NOW, that is impermanent.

It is one's freedom of choice, action, desire, thinking, and understanding, whether one wants to do something to be free from ignorance, and to have correct understanding, or not.

The minds that have correct understanding, that is functioning under the presence of wisdom and compassion, they won't be determined or disturbed by anyone or anything, not to say, to react and feel being offended, disrespected, humiliated, belittled, intimidated, threatened, oppressed, discriminated, or hurt by anyone or anything, even if some minds are deliberately generating action, speech, or expression that are meant to be deliberately offending, disrespecting, humiliating, belittling, intimidating, threatening, oppressing, discriminating, or hurting the others under certain intentions or desires, deriving from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

They won't waste any energy or effort a.k.a the non-self precious life existence and function into all kinds of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in this world of human beings that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, that direct their entire momentary life existence/energy/effort to be focusing on empowering deeper ignorance in themselves and in others.

That is freedom, even under the presence of certain inevitable limitation and condition of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function of the finite mortal body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the finite mortal body and mind itself, being momentarily existing and functioning in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, where there are many things that the body and mind don't do or cannot do, or don't know and can't understand, physically and/or mentally, that are impermanent.

The timeless freedom that is always there, as it is, in all and everyone, that never appear or disappear, that never increase or decrease, that is unlimited and unconditional, that is unveiled upon the absence of ignorance, or upon the presence of correct understanding, or wisdom and compassion.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

The world of advanced science and technology and the path of yoga and buddhism, or self inquiry and self realization

The path of yoga and buddhism to be purifying and quieting the mind, to be performing meditation practice and self inquiry for annihilating the veil of ignorance, to be attaining direct self realization towards the dhamma, does not go against the advanced science and technology in the world at all, and vice versa, but contrary, both of them complimenting one another.

Just as the path of yoga and buddhism or the teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism can be contaminated and misused, the world of knowledge and information deriving from advanced science and technology can also be contaminated and misused by the minds that are functioning under the veil of ignorance and its by-products.

The uncontaminated scientific fact, or information, or knowledge deriving from the genuine research and discovery under the help of advanced science and technology will only be supporting the validity of the dhamma as it is, and vice versa. Because they are not different or separated from one another.

The world of knowledge and information deriving from advanced science and technology is neither good nor bad, as it can be used for something constructive or destructive. While the world of yoga and buddhism also can be used by the minds for something constructive or destructive.

Meanwhile, the knowledge and information deriving from advanced science and technology can be used for something constructive and beneficial for all and everyone, unconditionally and indiscriminately, by the minds that are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, upon attaining direct self realization towards the truth about the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of all and everything, or the dhamma, via genuine yoga and/or buddhism practices, or some other kinds of genuine teachings and practices under different names and forms.

Genuine scientists/biologists/physiologists/chemists/physicists/psychologists/mathematicians, and so on, are not different or separated from adept yoga and/or buddhism practitioners. The names and forms, and the identification of 'yogi' and/or 'buddhist' don't really exist in the minds that truly practice yoga and/or buddhism as it is.

Similarly, being a scientist/biologist/physiologist/chemist/physicist/psychologist/mathematician, and so on, that is highly intelligent and knowledgeable, and being a yoga and/or buddhism practitioner, that has been accumulating huge amount of practice and knowledge about yoga and buddhism, doesn't necessarily mean that the mind is also free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, unless the mind attains direct self realization towards the dhamma of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, not being conditioned by all kinds of worldly passionate egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, actions, reactions, desires, aspirations, and visions.

Yoga and buddhism is all about knowing the truth of the (life) existence and function of the body and mind, of the existence and function of all kinds of sentient and non-sentient living organisms and non-living objects, in this infinite space of the vast universe, a.k.a. the science of life existence and function and the surrounding living atmosphere or environment that are inter-connected and inter-supporting and inter-impacting one another to be existing and functioning momentarily in this infinite beginningless and endless space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, via direct self realization through self inquiry under the help of several 'tools' of the different physical and mental practices that are being carried out under certain essential observations to be purifying and sharpening the conscious intellectual reasoning power as well as quieting the restless modification of the mind or the mind stuff, or the knower (the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious mind awareness) and the receiver/reflector/storage of knowledge (the mind stuff or the modification of the mind), operating under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the different selfless elements, that is all about science and the different branches of science.

They appeared to be two separate extremity contradicting towards and going against one another for many minds, is due to the minds, including some minds that are practicing specific type or lineage of yoga and/or buddhism, would think and believe that the path of yoga and buddhism, and their teachings and practices are something spiritual, that it is about spirituality, and even more so, many minds that don't know and don't practice yoga and/or buddhism would think and believe that yoga and buddhism is something religious, or is a form of religion, because of the existence of certain rituals and prayers, or chanting, or worshiping, or glorifying, and the many different stories/myths, or images, or statues of the 'creator of the universe', or the 'gods or deities', or the 'buddhas', or the 'enlightened saints and sages', or the 'yogis' and the 'gurus', that exist under the existence/manifestation of the many different paths/lineages/schools that have their own particular purpose of existence and function for catering the many different personalities and characteristics in the many different individuals or communities.

The truth or the dhamma can be realized by the genuine truth seekers either under the absence or presence of all those names and forms that are neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad. It doesn't matter whether the minds want to think, believe, and refer it as something 'spiritual' or 'non-spiritual'. As whether the minds think and believe it is 'spiritual' or 'non-spiritual', it doesn't determine whether the minds are free from ignorance and its by-products, or not. It is about going beyond all kinds of names and forms, or duality, where all kinds of names and forms, or dualities, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

It is about the presence or absence of non-grasping, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, that is determining whether the minds realize or couldn't realize the truth or the dhamma, as it is.

It is understandable that why there is such confusion.

Upon direct self realization towards the dhamma, the mind will know that yoga and buddhism is not different from one another even though they appeared to be under different names and forms, and the origin/existence/function/purpose/objective of yoga and buddhism is nothing to do with spirituality and/or religion.

Although, there is neither right nor wrong for the minds that are still not free from the influence of ignorance, where they perceive, recognize, think, and refer the teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism as a form of spirituality or religion, if not, there is the intentional or unintentional desire to transform yoga and buddhism into a form of spirituality and/or religion.

Because most minds are being internally (genetically/biologically) and externally conditioned by, or deep rooted in, or coming in contact with the many different worldly egoistic spiritual and/or religious ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, and visions, consciously (wittingly) and/or unconsciously (unwittingly), where they are being conditioned to think and believe that all and everyone in the world of human beings cannot live or function without the existence and function of spirituality and/or religion, or more precisely, a specific system consists of specific beliefs, values, practices, and visions, that creates the power of influence/manipulation/control/authorization over the majority of the human beings, if not all human beings, to be thinking, believing, reasoning, desiring, aspiring, behaving, acting, or reacting in certain way and not in certain way, to be controlled under certain rules and regulations, as well as deserving punishments or rewards, in accordance to the desires and don't desires, or the agreements and disagreements of the specific individuals, leaders, heads of the family and/or communities, and carried out by an authority of one single person and/or a group of people.

The significant difference between the non-universal worldly beliefs, values, practices, aspirations, and visions in the many different communities, and the universal teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism for all minds indiscriminately, is that the non-universal worldly beliefs, values, practices, aspirations, and visions have the common aspiration and vision or practice of converting or recruiting as many members as possible, including the non-by choice autonomous identity of specific spirituality inherited by birth, where renouncing, or abandoning, or non-observing the inherited spirituality by birth is 'sinful and punishable', as well as the enforcement of non-questioning towards the truth of the specific spirituality/belief, the teachings and the practices, and the authority/the leaders/the teachers under certain threatening or fearful judgment, disciplinary, and punishment, while the universal teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism don't have such aspiration and vision or practice at all, except maybe in certain lineage of yoga and/or buddhism that were/are being contaminated by some worldly egoistic impure minds functioning under certain impure ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices.

Such as, the nature's law of cause and effect, or the teachings of selflessness and impermanence, or the practice of selfless service, or the practice of letting go, non-attachment, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, and non-expectation, or the practice of silence, are being misused by certain minds under certain lineage of yoga and/or buddhism to be threatening and/or even abusing/bullying the yoga and/or buddhism practitioners or the public that were/are in some kinds of suffering, confusion, and desperation, who were/are seeking certain knowledge, love, support, understanding, acknowledgement, acceptance, agreement, and comfort, for manipulating and controlling them to behave or not behaving in certain way, by sowing fear into the minds under the belief of good and bad KARMA and the belief of 'ceaseless loop of endless reincarnation', especially endless reincarnating repeatedly back into the superior higher realm of human beings that are full of all kinds of fleeting momentary goodness and enjoyments, as well as painful sorrow and suffering that are inevitable, due to the nature of impermanence, and that are evitable, inflicted by or generated under ignorance, not to say, to be reincarnating into the unpleasant inferior lower realms of animal, Asura, hungry ghost, and hell, or even, the existence of many other sub-realms under specific lineage of buddhism, while even the highest superior realm of the pleasant, enjoyable, and desirable heaven under huge accumulation of virtues and merits of good KARMA, which is also an impermanent transition that will come to an end upon the exhaustion of the accumulated good KARMA, and eventually will be reincarnating into other inferior realms accordingly, because of the inevitable endless generation and accumulation of KARMA. - Which is not at all the truth of what 'restless reincarnation/manifestation of the countless illusive ideas of 'I' that are non-self, manifesting under different names and forms attaching unto and identifying with all the selfless impermanent mind stuff or thought activities in this particular selfless impermanent modification of this selfless thinking faculty/conscious mind awareness, transitioning under different realms/states of mind, in NOW' in the teachings of yoga and buddhism is about.

And hence, many of the existing teachings, practices and observations were/have been/are continuously being contaminated by or being mixed with the many different worldly egoistic cultural and spiritual beliefs, values, practices, observations, desires, aspirations, and visions, because that is one of the most significant common behaviors of the many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. Where the passionate egoistic impure restless minds naturally/instinctively want to take possession/ownership, to take control, to influence, to manipulate, and to transform all and everything to be the way that one desires and not being the way that one doesn't desire.

It also depends on what the minds think and believe what does 'spirituality' mean. It might mean slightly or largely different for different minds under the different degrees of understanding and knowledge, under the different intentions and desires.

Some minds think and believe that 'spirituality' and 'religion' is the same thing, while some minds think and believe that they are two different things, where 'spirituality' doesn't necessarily have to be something 'religious', while 'religion' is not necessarily related to 'spirituality'.

Many minds believe in the existence of the countless different infinite independent individual existences of the countless different immortal and pure spirits or souls existing in all kinds of momentary mortal life existence of the many different impure and imperfect sentient living organisms existing under the many different names and forms, and even, residing in certain non-sentient living organisms and non-living objects, or things, or mountains, or plants, or space, or water, or fire, or ocean and river, or caves, or buildings, or the sky, or all and everything, and so on, as what 'spirituality' is about.

Where certain minds think and believe that 'spirituality' is universal while 'religion' is non-universal, that 'spirituality' is more real and authentic than 'religion', or vice versa. And certain religions consist and embrace 'spirituality', while certain religions are against 'spirituality'.

There are many amazing selfless natural manifestations of the nature, as well as certain internal physical and mental biological condition that the minds couldn't comprehend, where the minds would just refer such manifestations as 'spiritual', or 'mystical', or 'miracle', or 'supernatural', or 'trance', and even, 'possessed'.

There are also many personal, family, and community affairs/happenings/conditions/situations/interactions/relationships, or the physical and mental illness/injury/weakness/complication/limitation/disability, or the death of the beloved ones, that are imperfect, unexpected, unpleasant, disagreeable, undesirable, hurtful, or painful, as well as many things that the minds don't understand and don't desire, where the minds would just justify all that as unexplainable 'Interference, or interception, or influence, or possession, or activity deriving from something non-human beings, or spiritual/mystical/alien/foreign entity'.

In the end, it is neither spiritual nor non-spiritual, upon the mind attains direct self-realization towards attributelessness, namelessness, formlessness, non-duality, and oneness. Where whatever that is happening/coming/going/manifesting in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless modification of the mind that is non-self, of whatever the minds know and don't know, understand or don't understand, desire or don't desire, agree or disagree, of all kinds of qualities of all kinds of names and forms, are all not different from one another.

Just as the sentient or non-sentient living organisms and the non-living objects are all not different from one another, where all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, existing and functioning only for a momentary duration, and are governed by the nature's law of cause and effect to be arising, changing, decaying, disintegrating, and passing away, being what all and everything are, as they are.

There are (too many) worldly cultural and spiritual or religious beliefs, values, and practices have been mixed into the path of yoga and/or buddhism, or into the teachings, practices, and observations of yoga and buddhism.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha already knew what is and will be happening, and he did what he could be doing during his momentary life existence, to be delivering the dhamma, as it is, no more and no less, and laid down a few essential and simple advice or guidance, or the teachings and practices or observations for engaging in the practical mind purification and silencing process, meditation, and self inquiry in everyday life, for the minds to pick up, practice, purify, quiet down, meditate, contemplate, reflect, inquire, and realize the dhamma directly by the minds themselves, at their own cause and own pace.

All kinds of ceaseless accumulation/add on of all kinds of complicated rules and regulations, of countless layer and layer of thick and cross contamination over the original simple teachings and practices and observations of the dhamma, were/have been/are being created/introduced/added onto the teachings and practices and observations of yoga and buddhism, by the passionate egoistic impure restless minds that were/are functioning under the veil of ignorance and its by-products, either intentionally or unintentionally.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad.

That is why the most basic and essential teaching and practice in yoga and buddhism is about non-blind believing/non-blind following/non-blind-agreeing or disagreeing/non-blind practicing/non-blind propagating/non-admiring/non-glorifying/non-worshiping/non-praying/non-ritual, to be activating/initiating the process of self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, including all the teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism coming from anyone and anywhere.

Because the dhamma is in all and everyone and everything and everywhere, within and without. The dhamma is infinite, timeless, causeless, unlimited, and unconditional.

All minds, including the most restless, ignorant, disturbed, evil, and violent minds (unless there is completely absence or no presence of consciousness, where there is no conscious perception/distinction of pleasurable enjoyment or painful suffering, where liberation from ignorance or painful suffering doesn't exist, or is unnecessary), as long as there is self initiation and the intense yearning for knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, all can access to the simple and straightforward dhamma as it is, all by oneself, just by looking within.

All and everyone and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. 

Even though there have been/are so much contamination, but all these all time contamination cannot determine, or damage, or hurt, or change, or increase/decrease, or limit, or destroy the dhamma as it is, or the truth of things as it is, however, the many different contaminated teachings and practices are what the minds coming in contact with, and hence, the minds would think and believe that, that is what yoga and buddhism teachings and practices is about.

"The only book that one should be reading, is within oneself." - Ajahn Chah

Both yoga and buddhism are also 'sort of' originated from a land or an area called 'India', where the people are called 'Indian', and 'Hinduism' is the main spiritual belief and practice, or religion. Where certain minds would think and believe that yoga and buddhism are the branches of Hinduism. Most minds would think and believe that yoga and/or buddhism were born after and under the existence of Hinduism, that they come from and belong to the names and forms of India, Indian, Hinduism, Hindu, or particular 'deity'/'entity'/'yogi'/'buddha', or particular enlightened being.

There is neither right nor wrong about that either. Because there are lots of the teachings and practices, especially the many stories telling created by the many different minds under certain understanding and intention, are sort of 'inter-sharing' among Hinduism, Buddhism, and Yoga Vedanta.

If the mind attains direct self realization towards the dhamma, it also knows that the dhamma doesn't have a beginning or an end. It exists as what it is. It is what things are, as they are. It is not an idea or a creation of the mind. More importantly, the dhamma can never be contaminated, influenced, affected, determined, hurt, damaged, altered, changed, manipulated, increased or decreased, limited, or destroyed by anything. It is only the 'recorded' or 'conserved' dhamma/teachings/practices under certain names and forms that can be 100% contaminated, influenced, affected, determined, hurt, damaged, altered, changed, manipulated, increased or decreased, limited, or destroyed by something and anything.

That's why Siddhartha Gautama Buddha never interested in 'conserving' the dissemination of the teachings or the dhamma into certain names and forms, and he insisted that any 'conserved' dhamma/teachings/practices under certain names and forms, must have the term of 'Thus have I heard', or 'Thus as I heard', in the beginning of all kinds of teachings, because it might not be the dhamma/the teachings/the practices as it is, that it might not be completely true, or even, it might be completely not true, but more importantly, that naturally initiates any minds to be performing self inquiry towards the truth of everything upon coming in contact with the teachings or the dhamma that are being conserved and exist under certain names and forms.

Even Swami Sivananda Guruji, had mentioned repeatedly many times in many of his books, emphasizing on Self inquiry and direct experience and self realization towards the truth of everything - "Purify. Meditate. Realize." and "Do not build ashrams. Do not hoard disciples. Do not mix. Live alone. Eat alone. Walk alone. Meditate alone."

Regardless of whether 'Hinduism', or 'Buddhism', or 'Yoga' was being manifested and have been existing earlier or later, is non-essential, as 'Hinduism', or 'Buddhism', or 'Yoga' are not even Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Yoga.

Yoga or buddhism, or the dhamma as it is, doesn't come from or belong to anyone or anything.

It is the dhamma as it is, that is always here and everywhere, being realized by the minds under a purified and calmed modification of the mind, not being conditioned by any worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, desires, and practices to reason everything, regardless of whether the minds were/are existing, or coming from, or living, or carrying certain names and forms in any specific era, or area, or continent, or family lineage, or community, or culture, or spirituality, or religion, or none of that.

While the original teachings and practices of 'Hinduism', or 'Buddhism', or 'Yoga', were/are being influenced or contaminated by the many worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices, as well as inter-contaminating one another. It doesn't matter which existed first before the other, or which has been contaminating the other or being contaminated by the other first, and it doesn't mean that the earliest manifestation of any particular belief, values, and practice is the most authentic one, or the truth of things, as it is.

Worldly egoistic beliefs/values/desires/practices/ways of living/ways of doing things/behaviors/actions/reactions have always been existing since the beginning of the existence and function of mind stuffs and mind consciousness that exists under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical structure under certain names and forms, that are non-self.

It is upon coming in contact with suffering and doubt, the minds started to inquire the truth of many things under the intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, that gives rise to the realization towards the dhamma, as well as gives rise to the path, or the teachings and practices and observations that is accessible for all the others that are also in certain suffering and doubt, that also want to inquire and know the truth of all and everything, or the timeless dhamma as it is, that doesn't come from or belong to anyone or anything.

For the minds that have attained direct self realization towards the truth of the mind stuff, or knowing Thyself, or the truth of all and everything that is arising and passing away, or coming and going in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, of all and everything that the mind comes in contact with, or perceives, or experiences, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or painful, where all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, they also know that yoga and buddhism are universal, neither spiritual nor non-spiritual, and it doesn't even come from or belong to the names and forms that exist on the planet Earth, not to say, it didn't come from and don't belong to any particular era, or area, or country, or continent, or people, or being, or spirituality, or religion.

It is universal, and it cannot be limited or conditioned by any quality of names and forms.

It exists in all and everyone and everything, regardless of all and everyone under the presence of the selfless universal conscious mind awareness realized or don't realize towards that.

The dhamma, or the teachings, is in all and everything and everywhere.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to itself, is its own one and only genuine teacher or guru.

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

Inquire towards good and bad karma that exists in certain cultural and spiritual beliefs

Many minds might be misunderstood the worldly egoistic belief of good and bad karma that exists in certain culture and spirituality, or religion, is the same as the nature's law of cause and effect.

Under such ignorance, the minds also misunderstood the worldly egoistic belief of reincarnation, is the same as the inevitable selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless changes that are non-self, that exist in all and everyone and everything.

The minds need to know that the belief of good and bad karma that belongs to certain culture and spirituality, or religion, is NOT the nature's law of cause and effect.

The minds need to know that the belief of reincarnation that belongs to certain culture and spirituality, or religion, is NOT the selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless changes that are non-self, that are inevitable, regardless of in the living organisms or in the non-living objects.

Meanwhile, there is the selfless manifestation of a continuous stream of the countless ideas of an illusive self identity of 'I' under different impermanent ever-changing forms, or qualities, or conditions (attaching unto and identifying with the selfless impermanent ever-changing different forms/qualities/conditions of the selfless impermanent life existence/function/experiences of the body and mind as 'I'), that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the selfless impermanent impure restless modification of the mind, transitioning under different realms or states of mind, in NOW, of the ceaseless and restless births and deaths of countless thoughts/ideas/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions/activities that give rise to the different realms or states of mind, where the ceaseless restless births and deaths of countless manifestations of thought after thought in the selfless modification of the mind can come to a stand still in silence, upon the annihilation of the mind stuff, a.k.a. the loop of ceaseless and restless births and deaths under different forms/qualities/conditions transitioning under different realms/states of mind, ceased existing.

The many different realms that exist or manifest within the selfless modification of the mind, are the reflection of the many different states of mind in the many different minds in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in NOW.

Which then allowing the self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of the belief of good and bad karma, as well as the belief of reincarnation that exist in certain culture and spirituality or religion to be happening.

 

The nature's law of cause and effect is not a 'creation', or an 'idea', or a 'belief, values, and practice'. It is what things are and how things are, as they are, and it is universal, devoid of subjective discrimination, or judgment, or the qualities of good and bad or right and wrong based on all the different kinds of beliefs, values, and practices, that exist under the many different types of names and forms.

Mango seed gives rise to mango tree, mango flower, and mango fruit.

Mango seed doesn't give rise to any other kind of trees, flowers, and fruits, that are not the mango trees, that are not the mango flowers, and that are not the mango fruits.

The mango seed, and all the other kinds of different seeds, are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong.

The selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self momentary existence of a mango seed has no intention, or 'initial desire', or 'initial downfall', or 'initial sin', to be arising as or to be manifested into a 'mango seed' that gives rise to 'mango tree, mango flower, and mango fruit.'

The mango seed didn't exist until it is being formed or manifested as what it is, selflessly, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

The manifestation of a mango seed is not due to good, or bad, or neither good nor bad neutral KARMA.

The suns, the planets, the stars, the moons, the atmosphere, the nature, the water, the earth, the air, the heat, or the space that the mind perceived and limited under certain names and forms and qualities, and all and everything that exist, change, decay, and ceased existing, are not because of there is the existence of good, or bad, or neither good nor bad neutral KARMA. All and everything arising and changing and passing away under the influence of the selfless energy and all kinds of selfless elements, is not due to good, or bad, or neither good nor bad neutral KARMA. 

The selfless energy and selfless elements don't generate good karma when all and everything are existing because of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements. Similarly, they don't generate bad karma when all and everything are changing and ceased existing or passing away because being influenced by either the excess or insufficient availability of the selfless energy and elements being what they are, as they are. But, all and everything are being what they are, as they are, under the influence of the nature's law of cause and effect, that is attributeless, that is unconditional and indiscriminate, that is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong.

The selfless mango seed gives rise to one particular selfless mango tree, that gives rise to many selfless individual mango flowers, that give rise to many selfless individual mangoes, where the internal genetic condition as well as the external surrounding condition is influencing the entire evolution process from the seed to become a tree that have flowers and fruits, or not, is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that doesn't even belong to the seed, or the tree, or the flowers, or the fruits. And, that particular seed, that particular tree, all the different particular flowers, and all the different particular fruits, are having their own particular cause and effect to be arising, changing, decaying, and passing away in certain way or not in certain way.

This particular seed, this particular tree, and all the different individual flowers and fruits of this particular tree deriving from this particular seed, only has a certain limited duration of existence and being what they are, as they are, and they all don't even belong to themselves.

All kinds of different types of seeds being what they are, is fixed. It is what it is. But the evolution or the selfless impermanent changes of all and everyone and everything, are not fixed. It is conditional, depending on what is available or non-available, in NOW.

It is the same as all kinds of names and forms. All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

The existence of the many different varieties of mango seeds, are also neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong. 

The cause that gives rise to the specific effect, is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong.

All kinds of different causes that give rise to their respective effects, are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong.

The entire process from the cause evolving or coming into effect, is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

There is no existence of any specific permanent independent individual self identity or self existence of an infinite 'I' that exists in any kind of names and forms, to be undergoing the selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional and non-self process of all kinds different manifestation and evolution under the different causes and effects.

All and everyone and everything are subject to the nature's law of cause and effect to be evolving in certain way and not in certain way.

All are subject to arising or forming, changing, decaying or aging, and disintegrating, decomposing, or passing away, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-self, that doesn't belong to the names and forms themselves, regardless of all the different qualities of names and forms, regardless of sentient or non-sentient living organisms, or non-living objects. That is universal.

Meanwhile,

The belief of good and bad karma, is a 'creation', or an 'idea', or a 'belief, values, and practice' that was being created, and is existing under the condition and influence of the subjective discrimination or judgment towards the quality of what is good or bad and what is right or wrong, based on certain worldly egoistic cultural and spiritual, or religious ideas, beliefs, values, desires, visions, aspirations, and practices.

The belief of good and bad karma gives rise to as well as being empowered by the belief of "Ceaseless beginningless and endless reincarnations of a specific permanent independent individual self identity or self existence of an infinite immortal 'I' being reincarnated into ceaseless and countless finite mortal life existences under different forms, transitioning in the different realms or spheres, being powered and determined by the countless and endless good and/or bad KARMA as well as neither good nor bad neutral KARMA in an infinite loop that seems to be endless, that can never come to an end, where all kinds of painful suffering as well as pleasurable enjoyments, or the restless impermanent changes of any particular immortal self identity/existence of an infinite immortal 'I', will be continuously and ceaselessly carrying forward to the endless next and next reincarnations to be exhausting/burning off the endless and boundless KARMA, that is IMPOSSIBLE to be exhausted as it always keeps accumulating."

The belief of good and bad karma that leads to ceaseless and countless different reincarnations under different life existences or forms in different realms or spheres, is only limited to names and forms that come with the functions and organs of thinking, intention/desire, and actions under certain good or bad or neutral intentions/desires that generate endless countless and boundless good and/or bad karma as well as neither good nor bad neutral karma. Where 'liberation' to be liberated from the endless loop of the wheel of births and deaths, or the ceaseless 'reincarnation', is 'unreachable', or is absolutely not possible no matter what or how.

The direct self realization towards the belief of good and bad karma deriving from self inquiry, will also lead to the direct self realization towards the belief of reincarnation that exists in certain culture and spirituality, or religion, while it doesn't exist or valid in some other kinds of cultures and spiritualities, or religions.

The belief of good and bad KARMA, the belief of the endless and ceaseless loop of reincarnation, and the many other kinds of beliefs in the world of many diversities, are existing to be comforting the many confusing innocent minds that are undergoing certain inevitable biological and psychological suffering of the restless selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration and the ceaseless maintenance for life existence and function between birth and death, and the many different kinds of unnecessary evitable painful suffering inflicted by the selfish greedy prideful possessive ignorant minds functioning under the influence of ignorance, and to be justifying all THAT that are hurtful, destructive, and unreasonable affairs and behaviors, that could be avoided, that don't need to be happening at all, as well as to be justifying many things that the minds don't know and don't understand, in this world of human beings that are full of ignorance and egoism, that doesn't belong to anyone and anything.

"You and your family are good people and don't do anything bad to anyone and have been doing many good things for everyone, but you all are in painful suffering because you are being ill treated, bullied, and hurt by some others, is because of your bad KARMA from past lives. And you all will be stop suffering and start enjoying all kinds of goodness and happiness in your next life existence."

"All these bad, wrongful, and hurtful people who are selfish, evil, possessive, greedy, discriminating, and violent, who are ill treating and hurting and destroying all and everyone and everything, while they are enjoying many pleasurable enjoyments, is because of their good karma from past lives. And they will be judged accordingly upon death, and they will suffer in their next life existence." 

All these names and forms are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong. Because there are many minds in this world are undergoing many different kinds of painful suffering need to be 'comforted' by certain 'justification' to feel better, even if it is not true. 

Similarly, the belief and values and practice of good and bad KARMA also gives the minds the justification to be justifying many man made punishable rules and regulations to create the power of control or authorization, to be 'controlling', 'oppressing', 'disciplining', or 'threatening' all and everyone and everything to be and not to be in certain way, in accordance to the desires and don't desires, agreements and disagreements, likes and dislikes of specific individuals or communities under specific belief, values, and practice.

Just as the ignorant egoistic authoritarian father(s) slap and punch the children, "You are living in my house. You are my children. You must behave in the way that I want you to behave. If you don't obey my rules and my desires, and go against my rules and desires, I will discipline and punish you. That is why I am now punishing you. You deserve to be disciplined and punished accordingly, so that you will behave exactly in the way that I want you to behave." Where that type of mentality and behavior exists in anywhere and everywhere. Complete madness deriving from the human beings that are mentally unwell.

However, it is upmost important for the minds that are seeking liberation from ignorance and suffering, to be performing self inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of everything.

If the mind truly contemplates and inquires towards the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism under the purified and quiet modification of the mind, it will realize the truth of the many contaminated teachings and practices that exist in the world of yoga and/or buddhism, being contaminated by the minds that were/are functioning under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. There is neither right nor wrong about the presence of ignorance and its by products in the many minds. It is a natural manifestation that exist or arise along the activation of the selfless impermanent restless thought process, or mental activities, or mind stuff.

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There is no past or future next life existence.

There is only ceaseless selfless impermanent limited and conditional changes in this particular life existence and function of this particular selfless body and mind, of ceaseless countless thoughts arising, changing, and passing away, of ceaseless births and deaths of countless ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions, or activities, that give rise to or manifest the different states of mind or the different realms within the modification of the mind, under the influence of the nature's law of cause and effect, that are non-self, in NOW.

All kinds of evitable suffering in this world are inflicted by the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products, either wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or unintentionally, in NOW. All the people who are undergoing certain kind of unpleasant, difficult, and painful affair, happening, ill-treatment, bullying, condition, and situation that are inhumane, cruel, hurtful, life threatening, and violent, that are evitable and unnecessary, it is not because they are deserving to be undergoing such painful suffering because of their previous boundless bad karma accumulated from their past lives (that are non-existing, that don't exist). All these inhumanity, cruelty, difficulty, desperation, violence, and hurtful life threatening affairs, happenings, ill-treatments, bullying, conditions, and situations don't need to be existing at all, if the minds, of all the different individuals in the different communities, especially the self-claimed, or elected, or appointed leaders and law makers, are free from the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

That is why the momentary existence and function of all and everyone and everything in the present moment, is highly precious, even when nothing is perfect, where all and everyone and everything are imperfect. Being alive, to have the mind conscious awareness and the functions and organs of thinking and action, that enables conscious mind evolution to be free from ignorance, and be able to make good use of this selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, to be doing something beneficial for oneself and others and the world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, unconditionally and indiscriminately, is the most precious thing, and the highest duty of mankind, in NOW.

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

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