One of the important key words in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is open mind.
There are some misunderstanding in certain minds towards open mind, that give rise to aversion, or rejection, or fear towards open mind, especially in the prideful egoistic impure restless minds that have certain individual and/or community agenda/aspiration to be manipulating and controlling the others or the members of the community to think, believe, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way, in accordance to their particular likes and dislikes, desires and don't desires, agreements and disagreements. Because the mind that is opened, that is mentally and emotionally independent, cannot be influenced or manipulated by anyone or anything.
To know what is open mind, one can inquire towards what is closed-mindedness.
The minds that are closed-minded, they are unwittingly being conditioned and over-powered by the selfless survival instinct that exists in all living organisms for basic life maintenance, as well as being manipulated and conditioned by their elders/parents/guardians/teachers/leaders/members of their particular community to think and believe that their particular personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, and the desires or don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements (based on their particular belief, values, and practices that are being generated under the influence of survival instinct on top of the influence of ignorance) are somehow more authentic, good, right, pure, superior, or true than all the other types of personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, and the desires or don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements that are different from theirs, that are contradicting with theirs, that appear to be intimidating towards their particular belief, values, practices, desires, visions, and aspirations, where they have the ambitious vision or aspiration to conquer the world and build a world that they prefer based on their particular personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices.
They strongly think and believe that the world, or the surrounding living environment, or the land and space with all kinds of natural resources for life maintenance, where they and their ancestors were born, where they live on, or occupy, or claimed ownership and possession, is something that rightfully/automatically/naturally belonged to them, that is theirs, personally and/or communally (only limited to their particular family/community). And if there are some other land and space that they haven't claimed ownership or possession, authorization, control, and occupation yet, they will want to invade, conquer, occupy, and claim ownership or possession, to take authorization and control over those land and space that come with the natural resources that don't belong to anyone or anything.
Meanwhile, these minds will be determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire, that they think and believe, or judge and recognize as opposing, or disrespectful, or offensive, or intimidating towards their particular personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices, that are intimidating and hindering their ambitious vision and aspiration for conquering the world and building a world that they prefer under their particular personal and/or community desires and don't desires.
People, or the minds of human beings, would like to think and believe that, (or even, some of the biologists say,) "This human's selfish and possessive behavior pattern is conditioned by the internal genetic traits (genes) inheritance and survival instinct governed by glands and hormones under the nature's law of cause and effect, that all human beings and some other living organisms are genetically being engineered to behave in certain way and not in certain way, and there is no freewill to be liberated from all that. Even if there is evolution or changes towards better or worst, it is also evolving under the effect of the pre-existing cause/genes from birth. If people think and behave in certain way and not in certain way, whether they are wise or ignorant, selfish or unselfish, peaceful or peaceless, kind or unkind, what they like and don't like, what they desire and don't desire, whether they will be successful or failed in everything, healthy or unhealthy, long-lived or short-lived, determined or non-determined, resilient or non-resilient, good or evil, greedy or not greedy, hurtful or not hurtful, and etc, it is because they were born/destined/conditioned to be in such way."
Because the passionate impure egoistic restless prideful minds would like to be able to justify and prove that, it is not their responsibility towards all their thinking, desires, and actions, as well as the consequences of all their thinking, desires, and actions. That they have no freewill at all, but all their thinking, desires, and actions that are being generated either consciously or unconsciously, are all being conditioned and influenced by the underlying subconscious/unconscious survival instinct, or urge, or cause/genes/glands/hormones/energy/elements. That there is no conscious freewill of conscious choice making to choose, to over-come, to transcend, to think or don't think, to understand or don't understand, to feel or don't feel, to desire or don't desire, to improve or don't improve, to behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way. And even if there is limited conscious choice making, thinking, desire, and action, it can never over-ride the underlying genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct.
That is their freedom of thinking and understanding.
The minds that know Thyself, will also know and understand that, "Even the underlying genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. Human's way of thinking/desiring/behavior/action/reaction, or the modification/state of the mind, is merely the indication/reflection of whether the minds are functioning under the influence of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that can be annihilated/transcended through certain self-initiated, non-violent, genuine, persevered, and determined observations and practices, under intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, initiated by the coming in contact with the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self that exists in all and everyone and everything and everywhere, where the modification/state of mind is occupied by disturbance, dissatisfaction, restlessness, impurities, painful sorrow, and suffering upon coming in contact with the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but the annihilation of ignorance upon the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self will liberate the modification/state of mind from disturbance, dissatisfaction, restlessness, impurities, painful sorrow, and suffering.
Under a disturbed, churning, restless, impure, egoistic, and suffering modification/state of mind, the mind would think, desire, behave, act, and react in the way that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment. While under the undisturbed, calm, quiet, pure, ego-less, and peaceful modification/state of mind, the mind doesn't think, desire, behave, act, or react in the way that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment."
The state of mind is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, where it can be influenced by the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the conscious mind awareness being aware of the states of the mind, to be performing certain action or inaction that can be influencing the state of the mind, to eradicate the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I', and upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, the selfless mind can know Thyself, of the selfless mind stuff, or the impermanent modification/state of mind, or the selfless functions/mechanisms of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty, the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the conscious mind awareness to be aware of its internal selfless existence and function and the external surrounding environment, and all kinds of selfless names and forms that the selfless mind perceives through the selfless senses, as it is.
While yes. If you are being conceived and born under specific parental inheritance of specific characteristics/qualities/names and forms, and physical/mental/emotional health condition/limitation being conditioned and limited by internal genetic traits inheritance by birth that are fixed, that is what you are, that you cannot change or modify, even if there is the conscious freewill.
But nope. Your 'conditional habitual' way of thinking, belief and disbelief, values, practices, reasoning, understanding, learning, doubting, investigating, inquiring, intentions, and aspirations that are influencing your thinking, desires, behaviors, actions, and reactions are mostly being conditioned and influenced by the external influential conditions/situations/experiences/affairs/relationships/interactions/activities/food consumption after birth that are not fixed, that you can choose what type of condition, situation, experience, affair, relationship, friendship, interaction, activity, or food consumption that you want to be engaging with, or not.
You can over-ride or transcend the underlying survival instinct and the genetic traits inheritance that is what it is, that you can't change, and not being determined by all that internally of all kinds of characteristics/traits/qualities and physical/mental/emotional conditions and limitations under certain names and forms that are fixed, not to say, you can transcend and not being determined by all your external experiences/affairs/relationships/interactions/activities under any kind of surrounding environment, condition, or situation, that are pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable/painful, physically/mentally/emotionally.
Because all that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.
All the thoughts, feelings, emotions, that are coming and going in the modification of the mind either being generated consciously or unconsciously, are not you, they are not part of you, and they don't belong to you, and vice versa.
You don't have to live, think, believe, reason, understand, desire, behave, act, or react like your ancestors, your parents, your siblings, your family, your community, your friends, your favourite idols, your highly respected leaders and teachers, your highly admired influencers, or anyone.
You don't have to fit in, or be qualified to fit in, or to please anyone, and you don't need to be receiving attention, acknowledgement, recognition, approval, agreement, acceptance, understanding, friendship, love, liking, mental/emotional support, encouragement, companionship, admiration, praise and compliment, from anyone, not even from yourself, or your own immediate family/parents/siblings, not to say, all the others or the leader and members of the particular community, to be what you are, and you don't even need to have, not to say, to develop and empower the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, pride, confidence, goodness, righteousness, positiveness, joyfulness, deserving, accomplishment, or meaningfulness deriving from the achievement, attachment, identification, or possession towards certain qualities of names and forms, if you know Thyself, if there is mental and emotional independence. Although you can be kind*, friendly*, helpful, and understanding towards all and everyone unconditionally and indiscriminately, without the idea of 'I' and egoism, because you understand (that many other minds might not understand what you understand, and it's okay).
*Friendliness and kindness towards all and everyone without discrimination unconditionally regardless of agreeable or disagreeable, is not about building and accumulating passionate personal interactive friendship or intimate relationship with all and everyone, particularly those who are like-minded and agreeable to meet up and get together from time to time to interact, chit-chat, gossip, exchange information, or enjoy life/spend time doing certain activities together.
Being what you are as you are, that you don't need to become or pretend to be the same like all the others, that you don't need to fit in, or even, distancing/retreating yourself from the worldly minded egoistic society to be looking after your own well-being, it doesn't mean that you are deliberately making yourself to be distinctive and separated from all and everyone, but in contrary, you understand that beyond all the differences in all and everyone for being what all and everyone are, being uniquely different from one another, it is the one same universal essence/nature/truth in all and everyone and everything - Selfless, Impermanent, Limited, Conditional, and Non-self. That allows you to be able to respect all the differences in all and everyone and everything, as they are, unconditionally and indiscriminately, and it is okay that all are imperfect, limited, and impermanent.
It is only the minds that haven't attain direct self realization towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, will think and believe that there is no conscious freewill/awareness/understanding in the selfless mind, that is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, to have conscious choice making that can activate the conscious mind evolution to transcend all that selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self restless impure egoistic mind stuff that is merely existing and functioning being part of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mortal physical body that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, not to say, none and nothing belongs to anyone or anything.
Only the prideful mad minds functioning under the influence of ignorance would think and believe that they own and possess all and everyone and everything, either by education/temptation/manipulation or by force/violence/bully/threat/intimidation, under their boundless and endless greedy ambitious desires and aspirations.
No doubt that all and everyone are having their own particular not by choice underlying genetic traits inheritance and physical/mental/emotional condition and limitation that are fixed, that cannot be changed, even if all and everyone have the conscious freewill towards many other things that are not fixed. There is nothing bad or wrong with that, and it doesn't need to be changed into something else that it is not, at all.
The momentary mortal existence and the different functions/mechanisms of the body and mind (and all and everything) is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that is the truth of everything, that is permanent, that cannot be changed, and it doesn't need to be changed to become something else that is NOT what it is, that is NOT selfless, NOT impermanent, NOT limited, NOT conditional, and NOT non-self.
The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, appears to be something unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, and painful to the minds that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, that haven't attain direct self realization towards all THAT.
The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, is just what it is, neither liberating nor binding, but the direct self realization towards all THAT is absolutely liberating to the minds upon the direct self realization towards all THAT, where the liberation is not about be free from the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, but it is about the liberation from ignorance, and the by-products or consequences of ignorance, of all kinds of suffering, restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I'.
This liberation is available to all minds effortlessly*, and most importantly, without force, or violence, or threat, or judgment, or punishment. And the presence of force, or violence, or threat, or manipulation, or story telling, or hypocrisy, or judgment, or punishment, is the greatest hindrance towards the realization of this liberation.
*Effortlessly - Holding on vs Letting go, Grasping vs Non-grasping
Holding on or grasping requires effort and continuous effort to keep holding on and grasping.
Letting go or non-grasping doesn't require effort, and hence, it is effortless, or natural.
It is only the minds that are still functioning under the influence of ignorance, that are being conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that strongly think and believe that they have an immortal permanent independent infinite individual self existence or identity, that have the ambitious desire, or aspiration, or wishful thinking to defy/deny/modify/change/be liberated from/transform what they are, to become something else that they are not, to be liberated from selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, to become or transform into something else that has an infinite immortal individual existence/identity that is non-selfless, non-impermanent, non-limited, non-conditional, and non-non-self.
Under the influence of such intentional ignorance on top of the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, these minds, individually and/or communally, regardless of whether they are from which particular family/community or parental lineage genetic traits inheritance, they all have the similar desire or aspiration to interfere, to conquer, to convert, to change, to educate, to manipulate, to threaten, or to control all the others to live life, to think, to believe/disbelieve, to desire, to aspire, to evaluate, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way, to build a world or community (that begins in the personal relationship/family ties and connections) that is in accordance to their particular vision or ambition under their particular desire and don't desire.
That is what has been happening in the world of human beings, the existence of all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, greed, hoarding, exploitation, cruelty, hatred, jealousy, discrimination, separation, defensiveness, offensiveness, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, hypocrisy, story telling, manipulation, intimidation, bullying, oppression, occupation, aggression, fighting, killing, hurtful destructive ideas and behaviors, unrest, or violence, that exists within one's mind, among different individual minds, among different communities, that impact all and everyone and everything in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
The world of human beings doesn't have to be like that, at all.
How you (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty) react and feel towards all that (that is fixed, that you can't change), or deal with all that, or live with all that, as well as what you can learn (know and understand) and do (act) about many other things that are not fixed, that are conditional and impermanent, that are possible to be strengthened or weakened within your limited physical/mental/emotional ability, is at your own conscious choice making in NOW upon the presence or absence of certain conscious perception, experience, knowledge, and understanding, and under certain conducive/easy or detrimental/challenging condition and situation in NOW.
Knowledge and understanding are not fixed. One can be constantly learning, inquiring, accumulating, and improving one's knowledge and understanding, if one desires and has the opportunity to do so. None and nothing can stop you from ceaselessly learning, inquiring, knowing, and understanding, unless the selfless body and mind ceased functioning and ceased existing, or there is some damage/injury/dysfunction/malfunction/deformity in the selfless functions/mechanisms of the body and mind.
The thinking, the emotions, the desires, the behaviors, the actions, and the reactions are very much being influenced by the existing knowledge and understanding in the mind, under the presence of conscious mind awareness, under the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping. And hence, there is conscious freewill towards all that, towards choosing what one thinks and desires, and how one feels, behaves, acts, and reacts, either constructively or destructively, unselfishly or selfishly, wisely or ignorantly, to hold on or to let go.
Genetically/physically/mentally/emotionally, we all are uniquely different from one another. Our physical/mental/emotional characteristics, condition, limitation, ability, and disability are different from one another. But, beyond the differences under the many different genetic traits inheritance, we all are the same - Selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. All sentient and non-sentient living organisms and all non-living objects are the same - Selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.
Unless the body and mind is completely functioning unconsciously under the instinctive autonomous function of the bodily systems under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements for life maintenance, but without any conscious awareness or response towards one's own existence/function/modification and the surrounding environment, that one doesn't even have the basic function to perceive, or understand, or recognize what is this or what is that, if it is not like that, then, you have the conscious freewill/awareness/basic understanding during the state of conscious wakefulness and semi-conscious/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dream state, to choose what you desire or don't desire, and how you want to think, feel, behave, act, and react towards all and everything that you perceive and experience, internally upon the selfless impermanent changes that are happening ceaselessly within the body and mind, and externally upon coming in contact with the objects of the senses, even if your existence and function are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, non-self, and only existing and functioning momentary for a short duration.
Not all minds, but there are some minds can be aware of, or know that there is dreaming during the sleep state, they know that whatever they perceive during the sleep state is just dreaming, that it is not real, and they can remember all or some of the contents of the dreams, they can even control the dreams/pause the dreams/continue the dreams/replay the same dreams/change the contents of the dreams, and wake themselves up during sleep state or dreaming, or even, from the deep sleep state. These minds are also having high degrees of creativity/imagination/visualization/image memory, that is not necessarily beneficial to oneself and the world, if the minds are still functioning under the influence of ignorance.
If these minds can have certain degrees of self control or conscious freewill during sleep/dream state, not to say, of course they have high degrees of self-control or conscious freewill during the state of wakefulness, even though all states (conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious) are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and there is no grasping, or attachment, or identification being generated towards all states, including the state of changeless timeless attributeless thoughtless actionless Turiya/Atman, or the selfless silent witness of all states, beyond the impermanent states of conscious wakefulness/semi-conscious sleep or dreaming/unconscious deep sleep or coma, of ceaseless conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious physical and mental activities happening and changing under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements for life maintenance.
This precious conscious mind awareness of self-awareness and self-control can be developed and enhanced via the regular practice of concentration and meditation and silence, that is beneficial for conscious mind evolution to know Thyself.
That is why it is so important for having doubt, open mind, and self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, regardless of all kinds of information/knowledge that are coming from anyone or anywhere, including all the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism that are existing under many different names and forms coming from everyone and everywhere.
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An open mind, is a mind that is devoid of grasping and identification.
There are different stages of open mind. Just like there are different degrees or stages of partial/incomplete understanding that lead towards complete/absolute understanding under the different degrees of calmness and clarity.
The beginning stage of open mind, is about the mind is consciously aware of and understand that there are many different types of living organisms/non-living objects/people/communities in this world sharing the surrounding living environment that comes with the intentionless indiscriminate natural resources for life maintenance, that don't belong to anyone or anything, where there are many different types of personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, as well as different types of desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements existing in the world of many diversities, and it is inevitable and essential to be respecting and non-interfering towards one another among the many diversities individually and/or communally for being different from one another, to be maintaining peace and harmony (the essential inevitable elements for a conducive living environment for maximal survival/wholesomeness and/or minimal unnecessary evitable destruction/difficulty) among the many diversities.
Although the mind might still be conditioned by its own personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, as well as the specific desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, where the mind would be determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire based on its particular way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices.
Then, even though the mind might still be having particular personal and community likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, based on the particular type of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices, to live life, think, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, aspire, behave, act, and react in certain way, however, the mind is less and less, and/or not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire, because it starts to understand that all and everyone have the freedom to be what they are and what they are not, being different from oneself and/or one's particular community. It starts to respect all and everyone as they are, to be different from one another. Not trying to interfere, or convert, or change, or control the others to be or not to be in certain way, in accordance to one's personal and community likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires.
Then, it is about the absence of blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-agree/disagree, and blind-propagate towards anything, as well as the presence of intense yearning towards absolute knowledge, correct understanding, liberation from ignorance, freedom of existence, and unconditional peace, to be performing self-inquiry or self-investigation to be inquiring/investigating towards the truth of all and everything in oneself, towards all the likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires in one's mind, including the particular existing way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices, that are influencing the thinking, feeling, behavior, action, and reaction in one's mind and/or one's particular family/community.
The mind begins to doubt and realize that the particular existing personal and/or community way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices, that give rise to personal and/or community vision or aspiration to conquer the world (interfere, convert, change, and control the others), and to build a desirable world or community based on that particular personal and/or community desire and don't desire, in itself, are not necessarily (completely) true and beneficial to oneself individually, one's community, and all the other different individuals and communities in the world of many diversities, but that 'urge'/'desire'/'aspiration'/'ambition'/'action' to conquer/interfere/covert/control others, is actually hurting and destroying all and everything, impacting its own momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to itself, that inevitably depends on the availability of a conducive living environment under the selfless existence and function of all and everyone and everything that work together selflessly and indiscriminately (the selfless power of compassion) that enables all and everyone and everything being what they are, as they are.
Just like within the selfless physical structure where the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under the presence and/or absence of conscious awareness, is merely part of the functions/mechanisms of the selfless physical structure, that depends on the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements/functions/mechanisms/systems/components/organs/glands/hormones/cells/atoms/neutrons/protons/neurons that all work together selflessly and indiscriminately that enabling the selfless body to be existing and functioning as what it is, momentarily, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body itself, not to say, it doesn't belong to anyone or anything.
The presence of breakdown/malfunction/dysfunction/corruption/to be fighting or interfering against one another in any particular element/function/mechanism/system/component/organ/gland/hormone/cell/atom/neutron/proton/neuron is impacting and detrimental to the selfless existence and function of the selfless physical structure.
One who hurts others and the surrounding environment, is actually hurting oneself.
Then, it is about activating the conscious mind purification and silencing process of freeing the selfless modifications/functions/mechanisms of the mind from ignorance, restlessness, or impurities, by letting go the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that leads the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness towards transcending or not being determined and influenced by the existing particular personal and community's habitual mind thinking and behavior pattern being conditioned by the internal parental family lineage genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct by birth, the selfless impermanent desirable or undesirable changes in the body and mind, the different impermanent modifications/states of mind, the ongoing external surrounding parental/family/community/school/work/social network/political/spiritual/religious/cultural/commercial conditioning and influential influences, the instinctive unconscious random autonomous desires/urges, and the conscious by choice built up/accumulated habitual likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, based on the particular type of personal and/or family/community/political/spiritual/religious/cultural/commercial thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices in oneself and/or in one's particular family/community, a little by a little, step by step, stage by stage, without rushing, forcing, or violence, without grasping, association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.
In this stage, the observation of renunciation and dispassion, solitude and seclusion, and the practice of silence, for a prolonged extended duration, is highly important and effective and helpful.
Then, it is about the presence of mental and emotional independence, or the liberation from the influence of ignorance and its by-products or the restless impure egoistic mind stuff, where the selfless mind effortlessly respecting the nature's law of cause and effect, accepting the body and mind being what it is, inevitably having certain parental lineage genetic traits inheritance and physical/mental/emotional conditions and limitations that cannot be changed or modified, under the momentary existence and function of a mortal body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that requires ceaseless effort for ceaseless maintenance, that is subject to hunger and thirst, that is subject to aging, weakness, stiffness, injury, and illness, that is subject to fragility and mortality, that is subject to decay and disintegration, or ceased function and ceased existence, as well as, respecting and allowing all the others/living organisms/non-living objects/nature/the world of many diversities/selfless impermanent changes to be what they are, as they are, while not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by all and everyone and everything being what they are, that are not necessarily pleasant, or agreeable, or desirable, or beneficial, that might be unpleasant, or disagreeable, or undesirable, or hurtful.
Respecting the perceived reality (internally and externally) in the present moment now as it is, and it is impermanent, while not being determined or disturbed by all that, devoid of grasping, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.
The personal and/or community ambitious vision or aspiration to build a desirable world or community based on that particular personal and/or community desire and don't desire disappears from one's mind.
The mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment.
The mind fully understands that the world of many diversities, or the surrounding living environment, or the land and space with the natural resources for life maintenance, as well as all and everyone and everything, doesn't belong to anyone or anything, not to say, it doesn't belong to itself and/or its particular family/community, even if they have been born and living on that land and space for a prolonged duration, or they have been discovering, occupying, and claiming ownership/possession towards any particular land and space earlier than many others who came later.
The open mind is not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind perceives/recognizes as the absence of pleasant, agreeable, desirable, or enjoyable experiences/names and forms/interactions/activities/relationships/conditions/opportunities, or the presence of painful inevitable and evitable experiences/situations/conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering and all kinds of ignorance, hurtful behaviors, and ill treatments deriving from the many minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance.
The mind understands that there are inevitable painful or unpleasant conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering just by being existing and functioning as what it is, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and momentarily, and there are many unnecessary evitable unpleasant/disagreeable/undesirable/painful experiences/situations/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering, under the presence of all kinds of ignorant egoistic impure selfish thinking/ideas/beliefs/reasoning/understanding/desires/aspirations/values/practices in the many different individuals and communities, that give rise to all kinds of incorrect thinking, hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions, defensiveness, offensiveness, selfishness, possessiveness, discontentment, greed, admiration, jealousy, fear, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, deserving and non-deserving, low and high self-esteem/self-worth, sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness/goodness and badness/righteousness and wrongfulness/positiveness and negativeness, discrimination, separateness, unjust, prejudice, hatred, corruptions, exploitation, desperation, cruelty, violence, conflicts, and ill treatments deriving from the minds functioning under the influence of ignorance, existing in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, impacting and hurting all and everyone and everything in certain way.
Above all that, there are also many constructive wholesome beneficial ideas/actions/activities in the world deriving from the selfless minds that are functioning under the absence of ignorance and its by-products.
The mind understands that all those unpleasant/undesirable/disagreeable/painful/difficult evitable affairs/activities/conditions/situations deriving from the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, are all merely because of the presence of ignorance and the by-products or side-effects of ignorance, that is not what they are, that is not part of them, and that doesn't belong to them, that can be eliminated (only) by themselves, willingly and wittingly (consciously) out of their own self initiation and self effort.
Just like the selfless natural disasters being what they are, that inevitably cause certain types and certain degrees of damages or destructions unto lives and objects and nature or the surrounding environment.
Just like there are minds/people that are suffering from certain form of insanity due to certain malfunctioning, or dysfunction, or deformity, or damage of the brains/glands/hormones/nerves/systems by birth or developed/encountering some time later in life, where they have very little or no conscious mind awareness, or self-control, or conscious freewill over their own modification of the mind and behavior, that might or might not cause random damages or destructions unto themselves, and/or others and the surrounding environment.
Just like all kinds of obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters being there as they are. One can only try to avoid or move around the obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters, as much as possible, to minimize unnecessary evitable direct or indirect coming in contact with the potential effects/damages/destructions that come along with the obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters being what they are, as they are.
The mind that understands all that, it understands that it doesn't need to be 'determined by', or 'disturbed by', or 'suffer' for the 'ignorance' and the 'effects/consequences of ignorance' deriving from the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance.
It allows all the other minds to take their own pace under their own cause, to evolve as they are, to inquire and realize towards the truth of all that, or not.
Unless there is serious deformity/dysfunction/damage/illness/injury in the body and mind that there is absolutely no conscious mind awareness/freewill/self-control to be aware of its own internal modification/function and the external surrounding environment, all selfless minds under the presence of selfless conscious awareness can be free from the influence of ignorance, however, it has to come from the mind itself to be aware of the presence of ignorance/impurities/hurtful thinking, intention, desire, behavior, action, and reaction in itself, to have the self-initiation to help itself to be free from the influence of ignorance, to annihilate restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism all by itself under right effort, right attentiveness, right attitude, perseverance, and determination, to inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, to be resting in unconditional peace, to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, to stop hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function in the world of many diversities, where all and everyone and everything don't belong to anyone or anything.
Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind agree/disagree, or blind propagate anything from anyone, including all that is here.
Inquire the truth of everything.
It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.
You can attain direct self realization towards all these.
There is nothing spiritual, religious, mystical, supernatural, or unreachable in the path of yoga and/or buddhism, or meditation. It is pure solid knowledge and understanding that unveil the unconditional peace in the mind, in NOW, even if all and everyone and everything are existing and functioning momentarily, selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional and non-self.
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