Inquire towards compassion, the selfless power of selflessness that allows all and everything to be what they are

Compassion exists in all and everyone and everything, regardless of non-living objects or sentient and non-sentient living beings, regardless of wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, good or evil, positive or negative, constructive or destructive, and etc.

Compassion, is the selfless active power of selflessness that allows all and everything to be what they are, as they are, selflessly arising, forming, existing, functioning, changing, decaying, disintegrating, decomposing, and passing away, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where all kinds of different selfless elements work together and inter-supporting one another to be existing and functioning as what they are, that enabling all kinds of selfless names and forms of different qualities/functions/duties/responsibilities to be manifesting, existing, and functioning as what they are.

Without compassion, none and nothing manifest or exist in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All and everyone and everything are born under the essence of compassion, where compassion is the essence of existence/function in all kinds of selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional names and forms.

Just as Selflessness is the truth of all and everything, and it is not a quality, or a practice, or a philosophy, or a sentiment, or a mind evolution, Compassion is the unconditional indiscriminate essence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of all and everything, that exists in all and everyone and everything, including in the most disturbed/violent/selfish/unkind/evil minds in this world of human beings, and it is not a quality, or a practice, or a philosophy, or a sentiment, or a mind evolution, not to say, it is nothing to do with the sentiment of conditional discriminative sympathy and empathy or kindness and generosity that can be existing or non-existing in different minds, that can be developed and be empowered or be weakened, that can be increasing or decreasing, that can be appearing or disappearing.

All are selfless. All are existing and functioning under the essence of compassion. It is about whether the minds realize or don't realize towards the truth of selflessness and compassion in all and everyone and everything.

The selfless existence and function of all and everyone and everything doesn't even belong to all and everyone and everything themselves, not to say, all and everything doesn't belong to anyone or anything, but merely existing and functioning as what all and everything are under the presence of compassion, the selfless power of selflessness that enabling the selfless manifestation of all and everything that are selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, where all and everything need to be working together and inter-supporting one another for all and everything to be existing and functioning as what they are. 

One doesn't need to look outside to be looking for the existence or presence of compassion in specific names and forms, or qualities.

One just need to look within oneself, as compassion is what allowing oneself being existing and functioning as one is, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, where the existence and function of oneself doesn't even belong to oneself (non-self).

Compassion pervades or exists throughout the selfless body and mind, enabling the selfless body and mind to be existing and functioning as what it is, however, under the veil of ignorance, the selfless mind is ignorant towards the essence of compassion in itself.

Under the absence of the selfless conscious awareness to be aware of the ceaseless selfless life maintenance of this selfless body and mind, when the selfless organs of perception/thinking/action/expression, of the selfless thinking and acting faculty, the selfless senses and sense organs, and the selfless torso with the limbs/legs/arms/feet/hands are resting, all the selfless organs for life maintenance are still working together and inter-supporting one another selflessly and ceaselessly. The selfless brains are still receiving and delivering incoming/outgoing signals and commands, the selfless heart is still beating and pumping, the selfless blood is still flowing and delivering oxygen, water, nutrients, minerals, and energy throughout the selfless physical structure, the selfless lungs are still breathing, the selfless air is still coming and going, the different selfless glands are still delivering, the selfless kidneys/the liver/the stomach/the pancreas/the spleen/the gallbladder/the bladder/the intestines are still performing their respective duties and responsibilities to be maintaining the selfless life existence and function of this selfless body and mind.

Upon seeing or realizing the selfless compassion in oneself, one will see the existence or presence of selfless compassion in all and everything, even in the most selfish and evil minds that are functioning under the veil of ignorance.

The inevitable selfless power of destruction comes along with the selfless manifestation of all kinds of selfless names and forms manifesting under the selfless power of compassion.

None and nothing (that exist under certain names and forms) can escape or avoid the selfless power of destruction. 

The selfless power of destruction (the selfless nature of decay/disintegration/decomposition/death) is no doubt very powerful to be destroying anything and everything, but it is nothing, if without the power of compassion that enabling all kinds of selfless manifestation of all kinds of selfless names and forms to be existing as what they are.

Without the selfless existence of all kinds of selfless names and forms, what is the selfless power of destruction?

What is there that can be destroyed under the selfless power of destruction?

The selfless power of destruction is nothing, or useless, or powerless, if there is not the selfless existence of any selfless names and forms existing under the selfless power of compassion.

What is egoistic pride and arrogance, self-esteem and self-worth, or superiority and power of control in this world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything under the selfless power of NATURE, of the selfless power of compassion and destruction?

The selfless power of compassion (all kinds of names and forms arising) and destruction (all kinds of names and forms passing away) of nature is devoid of judgment and discrimination towards all kinds of qualities in all kinds of names and forms. All are free to be momentarily existing and being what they are in this infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, and all are subject to impermanent changes, decay, disintegration, decomposition, and ceased existence. All are equal, regardless of all the different qualities of names and forms, living beings or non-living objects.

The egoistic impure restless suffering minds functioning under the veil of ignorance self-claimed egoistic power of authorization of 'the egoistic power of destruction' to be the prideful arrogant violent abusive bully/authority that bullies and hurts and destroys others and the surrounding environment under the ignorant egoistic excuse of self-righteousness based on its own desires and doesn't desires, "I am doing all these under the name of 'xxx', to be judging and punishing all of you."

One of the thing that the bully does is that, it slaps and punches and kicks the ones that it bullies, and then, it 'pets' their head, and gives them some 'pain killers' and 'sweets', and tell them, "See, I am very nice to you. Don't say that I wasn't nice to you. Don't say that I did bad to you. I love you very much. I care for you a lot. I want you to be good. I am sorry that I have no choice but to hurt you. Please forgive me for hurting you, but you need to know that it's not me that is the one being bad. I hurt you is because you are bad. You needed to be disciplined. So, be good. Don't be bad. Just do whatever I want you to do and don't do anything that I don't want you to do." And then, it will keep repeating its bullying behavior, in the same way, again and again. Deliberately hurt others and make others suffer badly, and then give them some 'pain killers' and 'sweets', and then, telling them that it has to do what it needed to do, that it's not its fault, but it's the fault of those that it bullies, repeatedly, over and over again.

That is mentally very unwell.

None can reason with the minds that are unwell. One can only do one's best to stay away from such minds as much as possible, and to avoid any kind of dealings with such minds as much as possible.

The healthy minds don't (need to) take the words from the mentally unwell bully/businessman/leader/individual seriously, not to say, to have any kinds of 'dealings' or 'agreements' that impact all and everyone and everything that doesn't belong to anyone and anything.

Inquire the truth of everything.

This selfless body and mind is in the process of breaking down and shutting down. It is neither negative nor sorrowful.

May all be free, be happy, be peaceful.

If the mind is undergoing an extreme difficult condition and painful suffering, remember this -

Never give up. 

It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.

Be free from selfishness, possessiveness, pride, discrimination, petty-mindedness

Selfishness, possessiveness, pride, discrimination, and petty-mindedness, or greed, is not distinctive from self-destruction. It hurts others, and it will hurt oneself.

When a mind, not to say, the minds of a group of community, is being over-powered by selfishness, possessiveness (of claiming ownership and authority towards certain space and nature that don't belong to anyone), pride (towards their particular identity and possession), discrimination (towards the others that the mind(s) perceived as 'foreigners' or 'not one of us'), and petty-mindedness (of unwilling to be sharing the space and nature that don't belong to anyone with all and everyone, or unwilling to look after the general physical and mental welfare of the others, but depriving and destroying the general physical and mental welfare of the others), and under the influence of all these names and forms, the mind(s) generate desires, thoughts, actions and expressions that project the aspiration of either unwelcoming, pushing away, chasing out, and hating towards 'the others', or charging/taxing all others for their existence and all kinds of basic needs for survival in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, it all will come back unto oneself (themselves).

How people (the minds) desire to 'build' their 'living space' that doesn't belong to them or anyone (either full of peace, openness, kindness and harmony that give rise to prosperity for everyone, or full of unrest, selfishness, unkindness and disharmony that give rise to desperation and suffering for everyone), that's the 'living space' that they will be living in.

All kinds of basic survival needs that are available for all kinds of names and forms to be existing and surviving here in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, are coming from the selfless universe or the selfless nature, absolutely available for all and everyone to be existing and surviving here in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, unconditionally and limitlessly, provided that each and everyone needs to be exerting certain effort or energy to be maintaining and looking after their own existence and survival. All and everyone still needs to find food and water, and eat the food and drink the water, which requires certain effort or energy, where the energy is also coming from the selfless support of the selfless universe or nature, unconditionally and limitlessly, until the end of the existence of any particular name and form.

However, the many ignorant selfish possessive discriminating greedy minds thought that they could just claim ownership and authority towards the space and all kinds of basic survival needs that don't belong to anyone as much as they can, keeping for their own existence and survival, while at the same time, either forbidding others from existing and surviving in this space that doesn't belong to anyone, or restricting others' existence and survival by charging/taxing others for being existing and surviving in this space that doesn't belong to anyone.

It's like the air or oxygen. It doesn't belong to anyone. Similarly, the sun, the earth, the space, the land, the water, the nature or natural resources that exist selflessly and unconditionally for the existence and life maintenance or survival of all kinds of names and forms, don't belong to anyone.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Ignorance in the world is like a selfless natural disaster

Dealing with the ignorance in the world, it's like dealing with natural disaster.

Natural disaster is part of the selfless manifestation or natural phenomena of the nature.

The natural disaster itself is selfless and intentionless. It has no intention to ravage anything, but, it's part of its selfless intentionless power of nature that would cause random damages onto many things and lives under its presence.

We can mourn or be angry for the destruction of things and lives, and try to clean up the mess of the aftermath deriving from natural disaster as much as possible, and move on in life, but we can't really 'blame' or 'hinder' the natural phenomena of the nature being what it is.

Ignorance in the world is just like the selfless intentionless power of destruction deriving from natural disaster being part of the selfless manifestation or natural phenomena of the impure perceptive/cognitive/assertive modification of the mind.

Ignorance and the consequences of ignorance would ravage anything and anyone (oneself and others) either randomly or deliberately, inflicting all kinds of destruction, difficulty, pain, injury and misery onto objects and beings selflessly and intentionlessly under its presence.

We can mourn and be angry for the destruction of things and lives, and try to clean up the mess of the aftermath (the consequences of ignorance) due to ignorant actions deriving from ignorance either in oneself or in others, and move on in life, but we can't really 'blame' or 'hinder' ignorance for being what it is, where its nature of ravaging anything under its presence randomly or deliberately, as even ignorant actions deriving from intentional motive to destroy, damage and hurt something or someone, to cause destruction, difficulty, pain, injury and misery deliberately, that is also part of the nature of ignorance for being ignorant towards ignorance.

One can feel hurt by other people's ignorance and be angry with the consequences of ignorance of other people in the world, in the present moment, where one's life is reluctantly being affected or damaged by the ignorance in the world, but one doesn't need to be determined or continuously be hurt by the ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in the world, by understanding that the nature of ignorance is just like any kinds of natural disaster that would ravage anything under its presence, randomly.

Ignorance in the world is like a solid wall. One feels hurt or might be injured when one accidentally ran into the wall.

One can either move on and let it go even though damages cannot be undone, or one can stand in front of the wall and shouting at the wall, and continuously hurting and injuring oneself by kicking the wall as hard as possible out of anger towards the wall.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.

What humans can learn from the pandemic from the point of yoga

If human beings want, we all can learn something important for humanity from the pandemic.

Those who reluctant to be open and learn, and just want to live inside the comfort zone that they built out of a particular social/cultural/religious/ethnical thinking, belief, values and practice, nobody can force them.

Unless one has developed immunity for the virus, or one is completely isolated from all the existing virus carriers in the world, or one is being void of coming in contact with the virus directly or indirectly, any human beings regardless of possessing the different qualities of names and forms of any particular type of nationality, ethnicity, culture, race, creed, sect, language, community, society, social status, financial status, health status, physical and mental condition/ability/disability, profession, education, knowledge, gender, age, sexual orientation, appearance, thinking, belief/disbelief, religion, lifestyle, food consumption, intelligence, political point of view, behavior, conduct, contribution, personality, talent, skill, achievement, and so on, can be contracting the virus, if they haven't developed the respective immunity, and are coming in contact with the virus or one of the virus carriers, whether directly or indirectly.

The virus doesn't discriminate any quality of names and forms.

The virus doesn't pick who that it infects, or not.

Anything that relates to nature doesn't discriminate anyone or anything, regardless of whether human beings believe or disbelieve in 'God existence', or have any particular cultural, spiritual or religious belief and practice, or not, and whether people are being selfish or unselfish and behaving nicely or badly.

'Non-discrimination' is the essence of nature. It's the nature of the universe. The sun, the space, the earth, the water and the air/wind doesn't discriminate. All and everything exist in the universe being supported by all these selfless non-discriminative elements. It's a simple but upmost important truth of all and everything that exist in the universe.

But, somehow there are so much 'discrimination' of this and that exist in the human's world, under the name of different type of 'country', 'nationality', 'politic', 'constitution law and orders', 'all kinds of rights authorization', 'community', 'society', 'gender', 'age', 'sexual orientation', 'ethnicity', 'culture', 'religion', 'spirituality', 'class', 'creed', 'sect', 'tittle', 'status', 'ability/disability', 'contribution', 'achievement', 'food consumption', 'profession', 'education', 'talent', and so on.

'Discrimination' of any kind is nothing but the by-products of ignorance and egoism.

Any so called 'belief', 'teachings', 'values', 'class', 'creed', 'sect', 'title', 'status' and 'law and orders' that 'discriminate' this and that/who and who, are all creations deriving from human beings under the influence of ignorance and egoism, including those who think and believe that they are somewhat superior, educated, knowledgeable, righteous, good, loving, sympathetic, empathetic, ethical and moral, but are not free from ignorance and egoism. As those who are free from ignorance and egoism are void of such identifications, even if these identifications with such names and forms are being recognized as the 'positive' and 'good' qualities by most human beings.

'Discrimination' shouldn't exist at all, unfortunately, the world is full of human beings under the influence of ignorance and egoism.

Some people would argue about 'financial/title status' makes a difference in the pandemic, as the wealthy and powerful ones will get the 'vaccination' in priority than the others who are not 'wealthy' or 'powerful'. But, one must understand that such discrimination and prejudice is also a product of ignorance and egoism. If there's no 'vaccine' available, then nobody is going to be 'immunized' against the virus, regardless of someone is being wealthy and powerful, or not. Before vaccine is available, anyone can try one's best not to come in contact with the virus, if they want. That is universally non-discriminative.

Some people believe that if everyone is financially secured equally under good economy, then there will be no crime, corruption, racism or discrimination in the world. The history has been teaching us that even if everyone on earth is financially secured equally under good economy, there will still be crime, corruption, racism and discrimination coming from survival instinct and greed as well as prideful egoistic attachment and identification towards any particular social/ethnic/cultural/religious/spiritual/political thinking, belief, values and practice, deriving from ignorance.

One of the important role to curb the pandemic is to maintain strict social and physical distancing. This pandemic can also teach human beings, including mental health professionals, yoga enthusiasts and all those sympathetic/empathetic loving kindhearted people who believe that human beings will be sick and die if without any social and physical contact with other human beings, that actually human beings might be getting sick and die because of social and physical contact more than void of social and physical contact at this time being.

Those who feel offended by this realization learning from the pandemic are free to feel and react the way that they want. There's nothing wrong also if people refuse to maintain social and physical distancing due to their belief about human beings cannot live without social and physical contact with other human beings especially when the pandemic is still going strong in the world before the vaccine is available to everyone, which not only risking their own health but also all the others in the community, directly or indirectly.

It's true that some people are suffering mentally and emotionally due to social and physical distancing for a prolonged period of time, but it's not because of void of social and physical contact with other human beings, but it's due to the ignorant egoistic attachment, craving and clinging towards the social and physical contact with other human beings that is why the minds are in suffering mentally and emotionally if the social and physical contact is not available for some reasons. Some people who are void of attachment, craving and clinging towards social and physical contact with other human beings, who are also maintaining social and physical distancing with other human beings for a prolonged period of time, they don't suffer mentally or emotionally.

Those who practice yoga, especially those who teach yoga should have this very simple understanding, unfortunately, even some yoga teachers might not understand this and refuse to practice social and physical distancing, and they actively protest against 'the practice of social distancing' during this time being for the sake of curbing the pandemic.

None can remove the ignorance of others.

Another thing that yoga practitioners can learn from the prolonged pandemic, is the practical teaching and practice of - "Accepting the reality as it is, not necessarily is the way that we would like it to be; understanding that all and everything is impermanent and selfless, where life is not in the control of 'I' of how 'I' would like it to be; be equipped with the quality of patience, forbearance, tolerance, adjustment, adaptation and accommodation to be able to confront with any unforeseen challenges, regardless of success or failure; living in the present as it is, allowing life to be what it is, and it is constantly changing under the law of nature, cause and effect; appreciating everything without attachment, craving or aversion, and just do our best in what is possible at the present moment in life without attachment or expectation towards the fruit of our actions, and it's okay if certain things are not possible in the present moment; and it's okay if we choose to do nothing and let it be, just be in the moment," is much needed in situation like this. Where one doesn't really need to maintain 'positive thinking' and 'optimistic' anticipating that everything will be 'good' the way that we would like it to be. It's okay sometimes things are not okay. One doesn't need to get disappointed or frustrated when things are not being the way that one would like it to be. And there's nothing wrong if one feels disappointed and frustrated, but with understanding that even this disappointment and frustration is impermanent.

While different people have their own different ways of coping with this situation, that's their freedom.

Inquire the truth of everything.

May all be free, be peaceful, be happy...

May all be free, be peaceful, be happy...

Beautiful nature around our new home and yoga studio...

We have been busy with moving our home and yoga studio to a new location, as well as running on going yoga retreats in the past three months, and haven't got the chance to look around the neighbourhood. Last week, we have the whole week off. And so, we have the opportunity and free time to wander around the neighbourhood, and we discovered some of the beautiful nature that we haven't seen before.

May all be free, be peaceful, be happy.

Photo Album - Langkawi (4)

The Giant Hornbill