The indiscriminate and unconditional selfless compassion

Compassion is not a sentiment.

Compassion is not about pleasing all and everyone to make all and everyone feel happy, good, positive, and meaningful, or to take away the sense of unhappiness, badness, negativity, and meaninglessness from all and everyone.

Compassion is the selfless indiscriminate and unconditional power of manifestation, existence and function, and inter-supporting actions or activities, that enables all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are.

It is a selfless power of manifestation or existence and function that exist and function selflessly in all and everything and the surrounding environment that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, where all kinds of selfless names and forms are existing and functioning as what they are, selflessly, to be indiscriminately and unconditionally inter-supporting the selfless existence and function of all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are, momentarily in this space of the universe that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

In the yoga class, the yoga teacher might or might not emphasize on bringing the awareness, or attention, or focus onto the centre of the heart (the position of the selfless organs of the heart and the lungs).

It is not so much about stimulating, or stabilizing, or energizing, or purifying, or opening the so called 'Heart Chakra', but it is for the minds to have a direct reflection or contemplation upon the selfless compassion that exists in all and everything, that enables all and everything to be existing and functioning as they are.

We all are existing, functioning, and living in this present moment NOW, is because of the power of selfless compassion that exists throughout the entire selfless physical body and in the surrounding living environment that provides the supportive selfless energy and many other selfless elements for all kinds of names and forms to be existing and functioning as it is.

If the heart and lungs are not selfless and are functioning under the absence of the selfless power of compassion, or if they are functioning under the idea of 'I' (the ego) and egoism, where they have the sense of 'I' and 'mine', self-esteem and self-worth, superiority/inferiority, deserving/undeserving, pride/shame, success/failure, selfishness, possessiveness, discrimination, desires, discontentment, anger, hatred, fear, insecurity, and greed, just as the corrupted minds of many human beings, where they have the egoistic impure tendency to interfere, invade, attack, intimidate, threaten, bully, conquer, and control, and to manipulate, oppress, influence, discipline, and punish all the other organs or systems in certain way or not in certain way, where they will want to hurt and damage and destroy all the other organs and systems that they dislike and disagree with, it will be exactly like what is happening in the world of human beings, where the many minds of the human beings are functioning/operating under the influence of the idea of 'I' (the ego) and egoism, under the influence of the veil of ignorance/impurities and restlessness, where there are so much unnecessary hurtful and damaging physical and mental activities happening everywhere in the world, starting from within the minds themselves, that extend to the surrounding environment, into the personal and community ties and connections, relationships, affairs, and interactions with all and everyone and everything, into the family and one's particular community as well as the other communities in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If the 'prideful', 'self-righteous', 'possessive', 'selfish', 'discriminating', 'easily be annoyed and offended', 'highly sensitive', 'attention and agreement seeking', 'full of desires of craving and aversion', or 'angry and aggressive' heart and lungs decided to stop functioning, not performing their respective duty and responsibility, or being discriminate towards certain organs or systems in the physical body, as they get upset and angry and hating towards the other organs or systems due to their desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified, or when things are not happening in the way that they desire, like, and agree with, or they want to covet and occupy the space of the other organs, it will be the end of life existence for the entire physical body.

Self destruction.

Such as the egoistic human beings that are hurting and destroying one another and the surrounding living environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, under the name of self-righteousness based on one's particular belief and under the excuse of survival, either consciously or unconsciously, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly. - Self destruction.

Blaming the survival instinct? What survival instinct? Because of want to survive, oneself and/or one's particular community want and need to hurt and destroy the others? That is nothing to do with survival instinct, but merely ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, or mentally corrupted, or mentally unwell.

All and everyone MUST look after one another, and not like what is happening in NOW, in the world of human beings, where there are all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, discrimination, violence, and cruelty, where the minds are being conditioned to profit oneself and one's particular family/community selfishly, as well as being discontented, ambitious, and greedy to be coveting, possessing, and hoarding unlimited natural resources/lands/space that don't belong to anyone or anything, for the survival and enjoyment of oneself and/or one's particular family and/or community.

If human beings don't look after one another but being discriminating and cruel towards one another, there is none, not any individual, not any community, can survive, in peace, not to say, to enjoy this or that, as there won't be a conducive surrounding living environment for survival or making a living, not to say, a pleasant enjoyable environment for additional pleasurable leisure enjoyments, but only full of fear, hatred, unrest, and violence everywhere.

It is never too late.

To (start) promote peace and harmony among all diversities, to look after one another and the surrounding living environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

To refrain from any ideas or activities that are promoting untruthfulness, lies, story telling, superstitions, myths, manipulation, mental and emotional dependency, ignorance, restlessness, the ego and egoism, pride, possessiveness, greed, selfishness, separateness, discrimination, exploitation, bullying, politicking, anger, hatred, or violence. 

To start looking after one another, to extend a helping hand, to the ones in painful suffering, to the ones that are weak, young, old, sick, injured, disabled, less opportunity, or unfortunate, to the ones being exploited and bullied, to the ones being ill-treated, to the ones that in need of helps, to the ones that don't even know that they need help, and to the ones that don't know how to reach out for help, selflessly, indiscriminately, and, unconditionally.

And all that, has to starts from within oneself.

Help oneself, accept and love oneself as one is, be kind to oneself, and liberate oneself from ignorance, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally. Then, everything will be happening accordingly, even without any intention to help others or be kind to others, but all one's thinking and activities will be promoting peace and harmony in the world of diversities, that will be benefiting all and everyone and everything, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, in one's life, in one's family, in one's relationships, in one's work place, in one's neighbourhood, and in the surrounding living environment.

Inquire 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. 

It is absolutely possible to be free and have peace

It is absolutely possible to be free and have peace.

The direct self realization towards, 

"All these are impermanent. All these will pass away."

On top of the non-grasping/non-clinging/non-judgment/non-expectation/non-violence towards whatever that are happening inside the body and mind and in the surrounding environment, in NOW.

That is the beginning as well as the end of liberation.

Liberation exists along the existence of any kind of suffering.

Liberation doesn't exist, or doesn't need to be existing, upon the presence of correct understanding or the absence of ignorance, where the mind is being undetermined by the selfless manifestation of all kinds of qualities of names and forms that are manifesting inside the body and mind, and in the surrounding environment.

Liberation exists, and is absolutely possible, upon the mind is not free, being in a state of disturbance, violence, and suffering, being determined and disturbed by the selfless manifestation of all kinds of qualities of names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, regardless of due to internal biological/psychological influences or due to external conditions and situations.

If the mind perceives suffering, then there is absolutely possible for the attainment of liberation from suffering.

Because the manifestation or the perception of suffering is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Because the manifestation of suffering is the effect of a cause. And all kinds of different effects of the different causes, regardless of physical or mental, oneself or others, pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, are also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All kinds of cause and effect will pass away.

All kinds of names and forms will pass away.

All forms of inevitable and evitable suffering will pass away, even if one doesn't make any effort to do anything about it.

All the individuals/communities/leaders/minds/human beings that are directly or indirectly responsible for inflicting and empowering all kinds of unnecessary evitable painful suffering in the world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, either wittingly or unwittingly, all will pass away.

The inevitable suffering that exists along under the momentary existence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function of the mortal body and mind, that is non-self, will ceased existing upon the ceased existence of the mortal body and mind.

The evitable suffering that exists under the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence of the veil of ignorance in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, that is non-self, will also ceased existing upon the annihilation or the absence of the veil of ignorance in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, when the body and mind is still existing and functioning, in NOW.

It is solid fact, or science and mathematics. It is not a philosophy or unrealistic wishful thinking or fairy tales.

Even so, it is highly essential to free the mind from the veil of ignorance when the body and mind is still existing and functioning in NOW, so that the mind doesn't hurt (stops hurting) itself and others and the surrounding environment out of the disturbed, dissatisfied, discontented, violent, and suffering state of mind deriving from ignorance and its by-products during its momentary existence and function, that is impacting all and everyone and everything in certain way, regardless of significantly or insignificantly, directly or indirectly, that is absolutely unnecessary and evitable.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That is freedom, liberation, or peace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inquire the truth of everything. 

The practice of observing the natural breath coming and going as it is

It is a basic and yet essential practice of yoga and/or buddhism, to observe the natural breath coming and going as it is.

It enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty to develop certain degrees of basic understanding towards the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness, even if it still needs to keep practicing until it can get a direct glimpse towards the truth of Selflessness and Impermanence under a pure, calm, and quiet modification of the mind, upon the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the modification of the mind.

It enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty to develop the basic essentials for preparing the mind for meditation and self-inquiry, to know Thyself, to know "what is the 'I' that the selfless thinking and acting faculty thinks and believes is its permanent independent infinite identity of self existence" -

Self awareness - Under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness, the selfless thinking and acting faculty is being aware of the breath, or the objects of awareness, or the mind stuff of what is happening in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment. The selfless conscious awareness is not the selfless thinking and acting faculty, and vice versa. Under the absence of conscious awareness, the selfless thinking and acting faculty can still be functioning instinctively/unconsciously up to a certain extend.

Under the complete absence of the selfless conscious awareness, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is merely a selfless bodily mechanism functioning instinctively/unconsciously under the influence of the autonomous bodily systems operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct powered by the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, without any conscious awareness towards the selfless impermanent existence of itself and its selfless impermanent function or modification, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment - The absence of freewill, and as long as the selfless bodily system is still existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements that keeps the entire autonomous bodily system to be functioning and maintaining the selfless life existence, there are still some bodily activities for life maintenance, and some random instinctive/unconscious mental activities arising, changing, and passing away in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements.

Just as a physical body that is in a state of coma (complete unconsciousness), but it is being kept alive and continuous living (up to a certain extend) under the presence of certain life supporting machines that provide energy, water, air, and nutrients as well as eliminate waste products for the selfless bodily system to be keep operating. - The absence of freewill

Just as during the sleep state, semi-sleep state, and dream state, where the selfless conscious awareness can be temporary coming and going (inter-changing in between presence and absence), there are random inter-changing in between instinctive/unconscious and semi-conscious mental activities, where the mind might be aware, semi-aware, or unaware of itself, the partial or the entire modification of the mind or the partial/the entire contents of the dreams, the physical body, certain sensations within the physical body, as well as certain sounds or smells deriving from certain activities and objects in the surrounding environment. Such as, there is the need to pee during the sleep state or dream state, the selfless thinking and acting faculty might wake up to use the bathroom, or there might be the dream of peeing in the dream (dreaming of peeing), where the mind might wake up to use the bathroom, or the mind doesn't wake up to use the bathroom, and there might be actual physical peeing while sleeping/dreaming. - The absence and presence of freewill

Meanwhile, during the deep sleep state (the momentary absence of conscious awareness), which is highly essential for the selfless thinking and acting faculty to be completely shut-off all conscious/semi-conscious gross mental activities during the deep sleep state, to have maximum sufficient rest, where the mind is not aware of itself, or the modification of the mind, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment, even if there might be some instinctive/unconscious subtle mental activities for processing the constant perception of names and forms/inputs/outputs during the wakeful state (perceiving all kinds of inputs through the senses, either wittingly and/or unwittingly), and even during the sleep state/dream state. - The absence of freewill

Another example, when there is painful physical injury in the body. There is conscious awareness where the mind is being aware of and be disturbed by the painful sensations, and it might cause difficulty for it to fall asleep. The mind might fall asleep eventually, and during the semi sleep state (between awake and asleep), sleep state, and dream state, the mind might be aware of the painful sensations from time to time due to the conscious awareness that comes and goes, where the mind might be awaken a few times being aware of the painful sensations. The painful sensations are always there as they are, during the entire time of sleeping, but the mind might be aware or not aware of it. If the mind gets into the deep sleep state eventually, the mind can have a complete rest even if the painful sensations are still there, but the mind is unaware of it, because there is a momentary complete absence of the conscious awareness during that short duration of deep sleep state.

Upon the presence of semi-conscious awareness and conscious awareness, the mind is waking up (between asleep and awake), of being aware of itself, or the modification of the mind, or the physical body, or the surrounding environment. The mental state of semi alert, not completely alert. - The presence of freewill

Upon the presence of complete conscious awareness, the mind is in a wakeful state, and is conscious/aware towards itself and the modification of the mind, the physical body, as well as the surrounding environment being perceived through the senses. The mental state of fully alert. - The presence of freewill

Non-attachment and non-identification - By being aware of the breath, it allows the thinking and acting faculty to understand that the breath is not itself (non-identification), and the breath doesn't belong to itself (non-self), and the breath is impermanent (impermanence). It allows the mind to stand as a witness or third party to be non-attaching and non-identifying or non-associating with the breath, as well as all the other kind of objects of awareness.

The selfless conscious mind is aware of the sensations. The pleasant or unpleasant sensations are not the mind.

The mind is aware of the thoughts. The positive or negative thoughts are not the mind.

The mind is aware of the feelings and emotions. The happy or unhappy/desirable or undesirable feelings and emotions are not the mind.

The mind is aware of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the thought process. The desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the efficient or inefficient/non-corrupted or corrupted thought process, or the calmed or disturbed/focused or unfocused/pure or impure state of mind, or the understanding/non-understanding, or the remembrance of the past memories, or the future anticipation/imagination, or all kinds of impurities, or the conditional thinking and behavior pattern/personality/characteristic, is not the mind.

The mind is aware of the physical body with different components and bodily systems under different conditions. The physical body with different components and bodily systems under different conditions is not the mind.

The mind is aware of the different energy levels. The different energy levels is not the mind.

The mind is aware of the idea of 'I' existing in the form of thinking/thought. The idea of 'I' existing in the form of thinking/thought is not the mind.

And so on.

Even the mind that is aware of all that, is also selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional, and non-self, that is momentarily existing and functioning not only under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, but also having the conscious awareness of being aware of the objects of awareness under the presence of the selfless intentionless timeless changeless attributeless consciousness in this present moment now.

Upon the absence/annihilation of the selfless existence and function of "the thinking and acting mind" that is being aware of all that, or upon "the thinking and acting mind" ceased thinking and acting (functioning), what is there, that is always there, as it is?

Non-craving and non-aversion - There is no craving or aversion towards the breath being in certain way or not in certain way. Similarly, there is no craving or aversion towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, conditions, and situations.

Non-comparison and non-judgment - There is no comparison between this breath and that breath. There is no judgment towards this breath or that breath is good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, meaningful or meaningless, deserving or non-deserving, and etc. Similarly, there is no comparison and judgment towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, objects, conditions, and situations.

Non-expectation - There is no expectation towards the breath to be or not to be in certain way, allowing the breath to be what it is. There is no expectation towards the practice of observing the breath, to be or not to be in certain way (comfortable or uncomfortable, easy or difficult, agreeable or disagreeable, fruitful or non-fruitful). There is no expectation towards the fruit of the practice of observing the breath, to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing the fruit of the practice to be what it is. The fruit of the practice is impermanent, and it is not 'the one that is performing the practice/the one that is aware of the breath/the one that is observing the breath', or the selfless thinking and acting faculty.

Similarly, there is no expectation towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, objects, conditions, and situations, to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing all and everyone and everything to be what they are, as they are.

Without the selfless conscious awareness, all these practice of non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, or non-expectation that enable the mind to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process, out of conscious freewill/yearning towards knowledge/liberation/freedom/peace, that enable the mind to see/realize/know the truth of itself, of the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all and everything, cannot or doesn't happen.

As long as there is the presence of conscious awareness, such as "I am aware of/I am experiencing something (pleasant or unpleasant/happy or unhappy/desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable/enjoyable or painful suffering)", then this mind can be engaging in the conscious evolution of its selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function (the mind purification and silencing process), that allows itself to know Thyself and transcend the unconscious/instinctive/non-self condition and evolution of the limited and conditional body and mind. - The presence of freewill

What generates separateness and hindrance (ignorance) between "the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind" and "the knowledge of itself or the knowledge of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence of the body and mind", is the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, or the corrupted impure egoistic restless modification of the mind/thought activities/thought current.

Freewill, doesn't mean that the mind can do anything without limitation, or can control everything to be exactly the way that the mind desires it to be.

Not being able to do everything due to the presence of limitation, as well as not being able to control everything to be exactly the way that is in accordance to one's desire and doesn't desire, as well as the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditioning, and non-self in all and everything, doesn't mean that there is no freewill in the selfless thinking and acting faculty to attain certain knowledge, to develop certain understanding, to have certain desires and doesn't desires, to be making conscious choices, to be seizing the presence of opportunity and possibility, to be undetermined by the presence of limitation, hindrance, obstacle, hardship, or impossibility, and to move around or go beyond all that, to have self control to be performing or not performing certain actions that will give rise to the respective consequences of action/inaction, that can influence the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself and the condition and function of the entire physical body, that can be beneficial or harmful unto itself and/or others and the surrounding environment, that can direct the life existence to be or not to be in certain way, and to transcend all that.

The seed is fixed, or the past is fixed, and that cannot be changed or modified into something else, but the rest, until the moment of ceased existence, is not fixed. It is called unconscious evolution and conscious evolution. While conscious evolution can influence the unconscious evolution in certain way, to be improving or deteriorating.

The limited and conditional momentary life existence or selfless impermanent life experiences are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, agreeable, or enjoyable, but the mind that is aware of all that, that perceives or experiences all kinds of limitation or suffering, which indicates the presence of conscious awareness in the mind, and hence, the mind is having the opportunity and possibility to be activating conscious evolution to transcend all that, and not being determined or disturbed by all that.

All these knowledge (insight/wisdom) are always here within the knower, as they are, in all and everything, regardless of whether the knower knows, or doesn't knows (being hindered by the veil of ignorance). It is merely (the truth of) what all and everything are, as they are, and these timeless/changeless/infinite knowledge cannot be/are not being contaminated, or affected, or damaged, or changed by the presence or absence of 'good' and 'bad' qualities/personalities/characteristics/thinking and behavior patterns, corruption, impurities, egoism, the idea of 'I', or restlessness in the modification of the mind/thought activities/thought current.

All minds (regardless of kind or unkind/good or evil/pure or impure/intelligent or non-intelligent/knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable/lazy or non-lazy, of all kinds of qualities) are entitled to know Thyself, as all these knowledge are within all minds, and they are merely being veiled/hidden by the corrupted impure egoistic restless modification of the mind/thought activities/thought current.

There is none and nothing in this world that can claimed authority towards, or manipulate, or contaminate, or restrict, or take away, or destroy that absolute knowledge.

 

Sometimes the breath is slow.

Sometimes the breath is fast.

Sometimes the breath stops coming or going, or pauses for a few moments.

The selfless breath (a.k.a the selfless life existence) is impermanent.

The breath doesn't belong to the mind.

The breath is not in the control of the mind.

If the mind tries to control the breath, struggle and suffering will arise.

Try to breathe in only and not breathing out. Suffering will arise.

Try to breathe out only and not breathing in. Suffering will arise.

Try not to breathing in and not to breathing out. Suffering will arise.

Try to control each breath coming and going for a prolonged duration. Suffering will arise, upon exhaustion deriving from prolonged continuous effort to control the breath.

The mind just have to let it go. Let the breath to be what it is.

Meanwhile, the mind can perform certain non-forceful breathing exercise regularly, consume sufficient energy and nutrients, maximizing breathing in clean air and minimizing breathing in polluted air as much as possible, that can strengthen and maintain the function of the lungs, the lungs capacity, and the air passage, to maintain a good health condition for the respiratory system, without trying to control the respiratory system has to be or not to be in certain way, but just do one's best to maintain and strengthen the good health condition of the respiratory system, and allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, allowing the respiratory system to be what it is, and evolve as it is. There is no suffering arise.

Similarly, the breath is life force. Without the breath coming and going, there is no life force. There is no life existence.

The selfless life existence doesn't belong to the mind.

The selfless life existence is not in the control of the mind.

If the mind tries to control the selfless life existence to be or not to be in certain way, struggle and suffering will arise.

However, under the presence of correct understanding and possibility, the selfless thinking and acting faculty can do its best to strengthen, benefit, and maintain the good condition of the selfless life existence without violence or forcing, and allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, allowing the selfless life existence to be what it is, and evolve as it is.

This allows the selfless thinking and acting faculty to understand and know how to let go, not trying to control its own selfless existence and function to be or not to be in certain way, but at the same time, it can perform action to look after the over-all well-being of the body and mind, to strengthen, benefit, and maintain the good condition of the selfless life existence and function of the selfless body and mind, without violence, without forcing, without hurting the body and mind, without attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, allowing the fruit of action to be what it is, allowing the selfless existence and function of the body and mind to be what it is, and evolve as it is.

Similarly, there is no control towards the sensations, or the thoughts, or the feelings and emotions, or whatever the mind perceives/experiences through the senses, of all kinds of relationships, connections, affairs, interactions, activities, conditions, and situations, to be or not to be in certain way. Allowing all and everyone and everything to be what they are, as they are. Allowing everyone and everything to come and go, to change and pass way. And more importantly, without grasping/attachment/identification/association towards the selfless impermanent sensations, thoughts, feelings and emotions, and all kinds of experiences towards all kinds of names and forms.

There's a pause between "being aware of the objects of awareness" and "the mind reactions towards the objects of the awareness", as well as there is a pause between "the mind reactions" and "mental/physical actions being generated in accordance to the mind reactions". The thinking and acting faculty that has self awareness, non-attachment, and self control, it doesn't have to perform mental and/or physical actions that are hurtful and destructive via the organs of action influenced by the mind reactions towards the perceived names and forms that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, and enjoyable or non-enjoyable.

Upon coming in contact with the names and forms that are unpleasant/undesirable/disagreeable/non-enjoyable, or upon not coming in contact with the names and forms that are pleasant/desirable/agreeable/enjoyable, there might be the internal mental reaction of aversion, dissatisfaction, disappointment, frustration, irritation, or anger, and then, this internal mental reaction is being externalized into mental and/or physical actions that might be hurtful and disturbing unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

The presence of self awareness, non-attachment, and self control can allow the thinking and acting faculty to stop performing mental and/or physical actions that would be hurtful and damaging unto oneself, others, and the surrounding environment, even if there are some random mental reactions that are unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, or non-enjoyable arise in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind reacting towards the perceived names and forms.

"I (the selfless thinking and acting faculty) am aware of there are some unpleasant agitated vibrations/sensations/feelings/emotions arising in the modification of the mind. All these are impermanent, they don't belong to I, and they are not I. I don't need to perform any actions that would be hurting myself and/or others and the surrounding environment."

There is no judgment or expectation towards all these selfless impermanent mind stuff of the modification of the mind, and eventually, there will be less and less violent or hurtful mental reactions due to the presence of correct understanding, kindness, and peace in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, under the presence of self awareness, non-attachment, and self control.

Non-attachment and non-expectation, or non-control and non-interference, doesn't mean that there shouldn't be any actions that can be performed, that can help to improve the over-all well-being of the selfless impermanent life existence and function of the body and mind, or that can help to improve the general condition and situation in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that can promote peace and harmony, wisdom and kindness, among the many diversities. That is a huge misunderstanding towards non-attachment, non-expectation, non-control, and non-interference.

Similarly, there is a huge difference between "self control" and "control others", between "self discipline" and "discipline others", between "self discipline" and "self punishment", between "improving the condition and situation in the world that will benefit all and everyone, without temptation or bribery, not to say, violence and force, and without attachment or expectation" and "interfering with and controlling some others in order to control the world to be in certain way that will benefit one's ambitious selfish desires, via temptation or bribery and/or bullying and threatening, intimidating and oppressing, cheating and manipulating, violence and force".

Upon seeing someone's life is at risk, the practice of non-interference doesn't mean that one shouldn't give help to that someone, if it's possible, and within one's ability. And after trying to give help, whether the life of that someone will be free from the risky situation, or not, it's not in the control of anyone, it is not the responsibility of the one that tries to help.

One may think, "It is its own cause to die in that situation. I should not interfere with that." But, one can also think, "Maybe this is my cause to be here, and to give help, or if I don't know what to do, I can call someone else to help, if someone else is there. Unless it is not possible for me to do anything and there is nobody else there that can come to help. Whether this action of giving help will save the life of that someone, or not, it's not in anyone's control, and it's not anyone's responsibility."

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha didn't interfere with anyone being what they were/are, and evolve as they were/are. He only disseminated the Dhamma or the teachings of how to transcend ignorance and suffering, and allowing all and everyone whether to take it or leave it, allowing all and everyone who have the yearning towards knowledge (wisdom) and peace, to be willingly to inquire towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence, and be free from ignorance and suffering, out of their own freewill and effort, allowing all and everyone to evolve as they were/are.

There is no violence, or threatening hurtful punishment or self punishment in both the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism, that are based on self-initiative, self-reliance, self-effort, self-discipline, self-control, self-purification, self-inquiry, and self-realization, through non-violence, via The Middle Path.

Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind propagating.

Be open, be kind, be wise, be accommodate, be adapt, be persevere, be determine, be patient, be focus, be aware, be content, be calm, be truthful, be understanding, be generous, be cheerful, be happy, be free, be peaceful.

Focus on what is possible in the present moment now.

Let go what is not possible in the present moment now.

Possibility and impossibility are impermanent.

Turning what is supposed to be hard and difficult and madness into the path of wisdom, kindness, and peace.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.

How to practice non-attachment?

All kinds of yoga practice are non-violent or non-forcing, including non-attachment, letting go, concentration, meditation, asana practice, pranayama practice, self-inquiry, self-discipline, self-control, self-reliance, dispassion, renunciation, silence, and so on.

Violence, or forcing the practice to happen, will only hinder the practice to be what it is.

Practice non-attachment, but not attaching towards the practice of non-attachment. Allow the practice to evolve as it is. Similarly, apply this non-attachment onto all kinds of practices.

Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's difficult. Sometimes it's more difficult, sometimes it's less difficult. Sometimes it's struggling, sometimes it's effortless. All are impermanent.

Not attaching towards the practice is not the same as completely not practicing or stop practicing.

But it is okay to stop practicing for some time, if it is too much for the body or mind to be engaged in certain practice under certain difficult moments or conditions, but pick it up again when the body and mind is ready again.

If the body and mind cannot perform certain practice due to some injury or sickness, then just rest. That is already the practice.

Just keep practicing, but without forcing.

Just like engaging in any kind of fitness training.

Be patient. Be adjustable. Be adaptable. Be persevere. Be understanding. Be kind.

Allow the strength of the practice to be developed little by little, without expectation.

How to practice non-attachment?

Non-attachment and non-violence are the two sides of the same coin.

Non-attachment is reflected in letting go, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, non-expectation, being in the present moment, attentiveness, concentration, meditation, self-inquiry, understanding, and so on.

All kinds of practice are not separated from one another, and all are being practiced simultaneously under the presence of non-attachment or non-violence/not forcing/not hurting.

There might be some physical or mental discomfort, or muscle tightness/ache, or mental tightness/dizziness/heaviness, during the first few practices of learning and practicing something that the body and mind are not familiar with, and also after performing certain practice for a prolonged extended duration, but it is merely some momentary effects that will pass away after taking rest. This is different from being forceful forcing the body and mind to go beyond its limitation in the present moment to perform certain practice until the body and mind suffer from certain unnecessary injury.

Just do one's best in whatever one is doing, and allow the result of one's action to be what it is, not trying to control or expect the result has to be in certain way and not to be in certain way.

Just do one's best to love and be kind to oneself and others, and allow oneself and others to be what it is, allow others to appreciate one's love and kindness, or not.

Whatever one experiences in this present moment now, regardless of whether it is desirable or undesirable, without clinging towards the desirable experiences, without aversion towards the undesirable experiences. Allow the desirable or undesirable experiences to be there, to change, and to pass away.

Whatever one experienced in the past, even just a moment ago, not to say a few moments ago, a few minutes ago, a few hours ago, a few days ago, or a few weeks/months/years ago, regardless of whether it was desirable or undesirable, without craving towards the desirable experiences, without aversion towards the undesirable experiences. They only exist in the form of memory. Let them go. Not to be determined or disturbed by the past desirable or undesirable experiences that are not here in this present moment.

Whatever one imagines or anticipates towards what is going to happen or what is going to be experienced beyond this present moment, regardless of whether pleasant or unpleasant imagination, hopeful or fearful anticipation, all that are only some imaginations or anticipations that don't exist in this present moment now. Not to be determined or disturbed by all these imaginations or anticipations. Bring the mind back into the present moment, focus on what is here in the present moment, and allow what is here in this present moment to be what it is, and it is impermanent, allow it to change, and pass away, without clinging and craving towards the agreeable names and forms, without aversion or resentment towards the disagreeable names and forms.

Focus on what is possible in this present moment. Let go what is not possible in this present moment, but try again when it is possible. Not to be determined or disturbed by what is not possible in this present moment. Not to be determined or disturbed by the presence of undesirable conditions, limitations, difficulties, or obstacles. Need not fight against undesirable conditions, limitations, difficulties, or obstacles, but move around it, and all are impermanent. Both possibility and impossibility in this present moment now are impermanent.

Perform all one's actions, practice, duties, and responsibilities, and renounce the fruit of actions, practice, duties, and responsibilities. Allow the fruit of actions, practice, duties, and responsibilities to be what it is, and it is impermanent.

Even without any intention or expectation to be receiving anything in return, the fruit of actions will still be there as it is, not necessarily the way that the mind thinks and believes about what and how it should be. Allow the fruit of actions to be what it is, allow it to change, and allow it to pass away. It is not 'I', or 'mine'. And there is no 'I', or 'mine'.

Do one's best to look after one's physical and mental health condition, attend what is needed to be attended in this present moment, to eat, to drink, to rest, to move, to stay still, to shower, to use the toilet, to clean up, to sit down, to stand up, to walk, to lie down, to sleep, to wake up, to study, to meditate, to inquire, to stretch, to work, to relax, to be active, to be quiet, to observe, to be alert, to be focused, to be attentive, to let go, to care, to give, to love, to be kind, to appreciate, to perform one's duty and responsibility, to be free, to be happy, to be peaceful, to be in the present moment, to make changes, to smile, to cry, to laugh, and so on, without violence, without attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

Do one's best to look after the surrounding environment or the world, without attachment. Allow the surrounding environment or the world to evolve as it is, after one performed actions to look after the surrounding environment or the world. Regardless of whether good or bad condition, agreeable or disagreeable affair, pleasant or unpleasant situation, kind or unkind beings, all are impermanent, all will pass away.

If there is no attachment, there is needless to let go.

If there is attachment, then let it go.

In the beginning and during the process, effort is needed. There is some struggling or discomfort. It's normal. Allow the struggle or discomfort to be there as it is, and it is impermanent. It will change, and pass away.

Keep practicing, until everything become effortless.

The yoga asana practice, the breathing exercise, the concentration practice, the meditation practice, the self-inquiry, the realization, the understanding, the letting go, the non-attachment, the undisturbed state of mind, the selfless impermanent life existence, the limitation, the hardship, everything will become effortless.

It is okay if the body cannot do certain thing, or certain asana, or certain position, or certain practice, or certain movement, or even, cannot do anything. It is okay if the mind cannot understand something, or let go something, or even, cannot let go everything, in this present moment now, or after some time, or after many years, or even, at the end of life existence.

No judgment. No expectation. No craving. No aversion.

Let it be.

Even this is impermanent.

Self discipline vs self punishment

Self discipline is not self punishment.

Disciplining the ignorant impure egoistic modification of the mind, by the mind itself, out of freewill, to render it clear, pure, calm, and quiet, is not about inflicting violent hurtful or forceful practice/action/punishment unto the modification of the mind, which doesn't help to render the modification of the mind to be clear, pure, calm, and quiet at all, but would intensify the restless violent impure thought current.

Self discipline in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is all about the ability of self management, time management, effort/energy usage or distribution, energy conservation, balancing physical and mental activity, filtering physical and mental inputs and outputs, self restriction and self control to be developing and empowering non-violence or non-hurtful in thoughts, actions, and speech, out of one's own freewill, devoid of violence or harm unto oneself and/or others.

It is nothing to do with what the many minds understand as 'self punishment' or 'disciplining oneself with forceful practice or hurtful action', or 'self inflicts violent and hurtful punishment unto oneself in order to repent' that exists in the many worldly egoistic beliefs in the world.

Many minds have intense aversion or rejection towards the teachings and practice of self discipline in yoga and/or buddhism because they confuse 'self discipline' with 'self punishment' that exists in the many worldly egoistic beliefs, values, and practices, which most minds would have intense disagreement, anger, and disgust towards.

Yoga and/or buddhism is non-religious. It is not a belief or values. It is science. It is biology. It is about the truth of this selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence of the limited adjuncts of the selfless mortal physical body that comes with a selfless perceptive thinking and acting faculty, that dependent on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning. There is no pride and arrogance, or fear and painful sorrow, can exist in the mind that knows about the truth of Selflessness and Impermanence.

It is about coming from one's own freewill and desire, to be disciplining the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind, without violence, or judgment, or attachment, or identification, or craving, or aversion, or comparison, or expectation, to be rendering the state of mind clear, pure, calm, and quiet, that unveils the existing knowledge and correct understanding towards the selfless impermanent existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind and the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, that are limited and conditional, that is here in this present moment now, perceiving a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary worldly life existence, that is subject to the inevitable selfless impermanent changes, of forming, birth, growth, ceased growing, decay, weakening, illness, stiffness, injury, discomfort, old age, malfunction and dysfunction of the selfless bodily systems, and eventually, ceased functioning (death), and disintegrate (decompose).

All these are painful sorrow and suffering, to the minds that don't know Thyself.

All these are merely an inevitable natural process in all and everyone that are selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, to the minds that know Thyself.

There is no 'authoritarianism', or 'authority', or 'authorization', in the path of yoga and/or buddhism.

There is no 'judgment' or 'punishment', not to say, 'self punishment' or 'punishment unto others', in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

More importantly, the basic foundation of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism from the beginning of the practice until 'self-realization towards the truth of Selflessness and Impermanence' happens, is all about non-violence, or the annihilation and absence of violent hurtful thoughts/ideas/desires/actions/reactions/behaviors, via self-initiation, self-control, self-effort, self-reliance, and self-discipline, where all kinds of practices served as the non-violent tools for rendering the modification of the mind to be clear, pure, calm, and quiet, to be free from the veil of ignorance/restless violent impure egoistic thought current, a.k.a. the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, or restlessness from the modification of the mind, which then allowing the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty to be able to see/know/realize/have a glimpse towards the truth of itself and the modification of the mind (knowing Thyself) under the presence of clarity a.k.a. the absence of hindrance/the veil of ignorance.

Self discipline is about managing one's physical and mental activities, or the usage of time or energy a.k.a. what to do with one's momentary precious life existence, balancing between activity and inactivity/work and rest/wake and sleep, filtering and choosing the type of physical and mental inputs and outputs, without violence or forcing, but with kindness and understanding towards what is the physical and mental needs/condition/ability/disability/limitation/possibility/impossibility in this present moment now, and attending what is needed to be attended immediately in this present moment now accordingly, accepting and respecting the perceived reality in the present moment now as it is, while knowing that all these are impermanent, and that it will change, and hence, just do one's best on what is possible in the present moment now, without attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, and allowing or respecting the result/fruit/outcome of one's action to be what it is, and changing.

Attending the physical and mental essential needs to be existing and functioning, to maintain life existence, are completely different from gratifying the wants, or the desires of craving and aversion, or the physical/mental/emotional clinging or addiction, or the ambitious ambition.

Without energy, food, water, air, minerals, and nutrients, the body and mind cannot exist or function.

Without a proper shelter and protective layer of clothing, to be sheltering from harsh weather, extreme condition and situation, injury, illness, and predators, without the selfless autonomous bodily systems and components that are there working together non-stop selflessly forming and supporting the life maintenance/existence/function of the body, or without certain survival knowledge and skills, such as balancing activity and inactivity/physical activity and mental activity/work and rest/wake and sleep, neither over-use or under-use, neither over eating or under eating, and etc, as well as the knowledge and understanding of non-violence, non-interference, non-possession, non-hoarding, non-greed, non-discrimination, independence, respect and kindness among one another, that gives rise to a supportive peaceful harmonious environment among the many diversities of different duties, responsibilities, knowledge, talents and skills, that are inter-supporting the survival of one another, just like the different selfless bodily systems and the many different selfless components that make up the entire selfless physical body, that gives life to the body and mind and support the life existence/function/maintenance/survival of the entire body, similar to the entire selfless solar system that is supporting the selfless existence of all and everything in it, then it might be challenging for maintaining the survival of the body and mind.

These are the needs, that is inevitable for maintaining life existence and the proper function of the body and mind, under a supportive, peaceful, and harmonious living environment in the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Out of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, there are fighting, hating, bullying, interfering, invading, oppressing, controlling, hurting, attacking, or killing one another in the world that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, is not different from committing suicide, just like the corrupted/malfunctioned auto immune system that attacks the different bodily systems and components.

 

The non-gratification or non-availability of the few/many/boundless different types of wants, or cravings, or physical/mental/emotional clinging or addiction, or the absence of certain desirable/pleasurable/enjoyable physical and mental inputs and outputs, or activities, or experiences, or effects, or enjoyments of the body and mind,

of certain pleasurable, desirable, agreeable, and enjoyable sights, smells, sounds, tastes, sensations, objects, intoxicants, drugs, alcohols, fashions, lifestyles, decorations, symbolical objects, arts, music, fine dining, luxurious indulgence, commercialized leisure holidays and activities, outings, gatherings, events, celebrations, festivals, material possessions, sexual activities, social activities and interactions, ties and connections, friendships, relationships,

of any kind of worldly egoistic belief, values, rituals, and practice, worldly education and learning, academic achievement, proficiency in particular or different languages for communication, praise and compliment, acknowledgement and recognition, love and affection, hugging and touching, agreement and understanding, admiration and glorification, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of meaningfulness and purposefulness,

as well as without the idea of 'I', egoism, and impurities of pride, arrogance, greed, anger, hatred, fear, worry, jealousy, bitterness, resentment, selfishness, possessiveness, separateness, discrimination, cruelty, violence, hurtful behavior, and etc, the body and mind can still be existing and functioning as it is under the sufficient supply of energy, food, water, air, minerals, and nutrients, under the support of some basic survival knowledge, tools, and skills, and the availability of a proper shelter and sufficient clothing/wearing to be protected from extreme condition and situation, extreme heat and cold, harsh weather, natural disaster, accident, or predators, to be minimizing unnecessary injury and illness, if possible, without attachment, and devoid of violence or hurtful action/reaction/behavior unto oneself and others or the surrounding environment.

 

The absence and presence of worldly education, worldly knowledge, academic achievement, intelligence, talents, ties and connections, physical and mental good health and fitness condition, or social and financial status and achievement, doesn't determine whether a person or a mind is wise and kind, or not, is free from violence, cruelty, and hurtful thoughts/ideas/desires/actions/reactions/behaviors, or not, and is peaceful, or not.

Similarly, not all yoga and/or buddhism practitioners/teachers, or scientists, or biologists, are free from the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, if they haven't attained self realization yet, but only gathering all kinds of information/knowledge coming from everywhere and everyone. All these names and forms are neither good nor bad, depending on the presence or absence of correct understanding, that determining whether the availability of all these names and forms are being utilized for something constructive or destructive.

Inquire the truth of everything.