Mental ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires VS physical efforts, actions, reactions, activities, behaviors

There is neither right nor wrong that there are many people strongly believing in and promoting "The power of thoughts" or "The super mind power".

The thoughts are only 'powerful' upon turning into physical efforts/actions/activities that could be either constructive predominant or destructive predominant, depending on the state of mind, whether there is presence or absence of wisdom or correct understanding, or the absence or presence of ignorance or incorrect understanding, or the absence or presence of grasping, or the presence or absence of self-control.

Power, of any kind, is neither good nor bad.

Power (to create, maintain, and destroy) itself is intentionless.

Power can be used for something constructive or destructive, and/or both. It depends on how the power is being used, wisely or ignorantly.

Regardless of something constructive or destructive, it is also neither good nor bad, as all actions will lead to respective consequences of actions that are neither good nor bad, but only being what they are, as they are.

Such as birth and death is neither good nor bad, however, under the influence of the veil of ignorance, most people would perceive birth (creation and existence) as something auspicious and joyful, and death (destruction and ceased existence) as something inauspicious and painful sorrow, except for the birth and death of something or someone that they strongly dislike and disagree with, then the birth and the existence of that something or someone is being considered as inauspicious and sorrow deserving, while the death and the ceased existence of that something or someone is being considered as auspicious and celebration deserving.

Most of the time, what is being recognized as 'good and right and meaningful and prideful' or 'bad and wrong and meaningless and shameful' for the minds, are not necessarily the truth of what things are.

Such as there are many minds are being manipulated and conditioned to believe in and aspire to be ceaselessly achieving and accumulating and hoarding (to create and possess) endless wealth and possessions and pleasurable enjoyments that are deriving from exploiting all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment to the maximum (destruction), directly and indirectly, as the ultimate 'good and right and meaningful and prideful' thing to do in life.

One can develop and empower correct understanding and kindness while destroy and eliminate ignorance and consequences of ignorance in oneself, and vice versa, under the availability and utilization of power/energy/effort/action/activity, that also impact all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, directly or indirectly, constructively or destructively.

If the mind that is functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, that has the ability and opportunity to be performing physical actions via the organs of actions and speech/expression, but it is unwittingly and ignorantly being over-powered, determined, influenced, or prompted by the ceaseless voluntary and involuntary ideas/thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires of craving and aversion/urges prompted by the intentionless survival instinct, under the absence of correct understanding or self-control, then the ceaseless random ideas/thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/urges will be spontaneously turning into voluntary and involuntary physical actions/reactions/activities via the organs of action and speech/expression that will give rise to the consequences of action and speech/expression (regardless of constructive or destructive) that would impact all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment in certain way, directly and indirectly.

And hence, many people think and believe that the thoughts that prompt/influence/determine the actions are most powerful, as it can determine the type of physical actions, or activities, or behaviors in certain way, regardless of constructive predominant or destructive predominant.

That thinking and belief is valid as long as the mind is still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, however, that is invalid upon the mind is free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, that knows Thyself, that is absent of grasping, or the idea of 'I' and egoism, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance or under the absence of correct understanding, the mind is ignorantly, spontaneously, unwittingly, and reluctantly being over-powered and determined by both conscious and unconscious / intentional and intentionless / voluntary and involuntary / egoistic and ego-less / gross and subtle thought current/process/activity, a.k.a. the selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless modification of the mind, then the mind might be wittingly and unwittingly / intentionally and intentionlessly / randomly and deliberately generating ceaseless and boundless physical and verbal action/reaction/behavior via the organs of action and speech/expression being prompted/influenced/determined spontaneously by all those mental activities that might be constructive predominant or destructive predominant, and/or a mixture of both, towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment, directly and/or indirectly.

The thoughts are powerless, or the thought current/process/activity, or the restless modification of the mind under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, regardless of the tendency of good or bad, positive or negative, beneficial or harmful, constructive or destructive, and so on, that don't turn into physical efforts, actions, or speech/expression via the organs of action and speech/expression, are merely some selfless impermanent manifestation of names and forms in the form of thought waves/current/process/activities, that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away.

Actions are way more powerful than thoughts.

Thoughts initiate, prompt, give rise to, or turn into actions, or not, but the presence of the limited conscious physical and mental actions/efforts (especially engaging in regular physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practice to quiet and annihilate the restless modification of the mind) can influence and render the thought activities, or influencing and modifying and rendering the mind thinking behavior pattern, or the modification and the state of the mind in certain way or not in certain way, either constructively (develop correct understanding) or destructively (eliminate the veil of ignorance), even if there is certain degrees of inevitable limitation.

No doubt that actions are being prompted by conscious/voluntary/egoistic and unconscious/involuntary/ego-less ideas, or thoughts, or feelings, or emotions, or memories flashback, or wild imaginations, or inspirations, or aspirations, or desires, or urges, or survival instinct, and so on. But all those mental activities don't necessarily turn into physical efforts, or actions, or activities that give rise to the consequences/fruits of actions, especially under the presence of correct understanding and self-control, where the mind has the limited and conditional conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, conscious reasoning, conscious understanding, conscious filtering, conscious choice making, and conscious action taking, to act in certain way or not in certain way - Not being over-powered, or determined, or prompted spontaneously or unwittingly by the restless voluntary and involuntary mental thought activities, which can also become the predominant power that can be influencing and modifying and rendering the limited and conditional mind thinking and behavior pattern to be in certain way, that would be beneficial to all and everyone and everything directly and indirectly, selflessly and ego-lessly, unconditionally and indiscriminately.

That is exactly what the yoga and buddhism teachings and practice is about - To conquer/quiet/thin-out/slowdown/annihilate the restless modification of the mind, by the mind itself, not being over-powered or determined by the ceaseless manifestation of thought current/activities/process that is selflessly and non-selfly existing and functioning as what it is. - Yoga Citta Vritti Nirodhah

Just by thinking and desiring very hard repeatedly and continuously about having, or owning, or living in a house, but if without exerting any physical effort or action as well as under the non-availability of all kinds of supportive elements and conditions for either building or buying a house that the mind is thinking and desiring about, the thoughts or mental activities will not be materialized. Such thoughts or mental activities are powerless. Which is neither good nor bad. Which can be either beneficial or harmful to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, depending on the state of the mind.

Such as if there are some constructive and beneficial ideas or thoughts or desire arising in the mind, but somehow, the mind under the presence of conscious awareness chooses to ignore those ideas/thoughts/desires, or the mind is reluctant or doesn't have the motivation, or courage, or willpower, or determination to turn those ideas/thoughts/desires into physical actions/activities/efforts for materializing all those mental ideas/thoughts/desires. Such as there is the idea/thought/desire of, "I should, and I want to start exercising regularly," that doesn't turn into physical action/effort of performing some physical exercises at all.

Such as if there is ill-will towards someone or something arising in the mind, but it doesn't necessarily turn into physical effort, or action, or activity that actually causing certain harm unto anyone or anything, under the presence of correct understanding and self-control, then the ill-will or any kinds of impure thoughts/ideas/feelings/emotions/desires will just be coming and going in the mind, and don't give rise to any physical consequences.

What is even more powerful than actions and consequences of actions, is the presence of wisdom or correct understanding in the mind that is under the state of clarity upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, where there is absolute knowledge and correct understanding in the mind towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary finite existence and function of the mortal body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, where the mind that is conscious and semi-conscious, is consciously or semi-consciously aware of or witnessing all kinds of voluntary and involuntary thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires and don't desires/urges arising, changing, and passing away in the mind without grasping, without egoistic attachment, identification, desires of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, without being determined or over-powered or prompted spontaneously by the thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires and don't desires/urges to act, or react, or behave.

At the same time, such minds that are functioning under the presence of correct understanding have the limited and conditional conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious choice making, and conscious effort or action taking, to be standing as a third party to be reasoning and filtering the existing ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions, or desires and don't desires, and make conscious choices of choosing and turning which mental thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires and don't desires/urges into physical action/activity/expression, to be performing actions that would be benefiting not only the body and mind itself, but also benefiting all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment directly or indirectly, while not performing actions that would be harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment, under the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding.

If the ceaseless thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires and don't desires don't turn into physical action/speech/expression via the organs of action/speech/expression, then there are no physical consequences of the ceaseless thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires and don't desires being what they are, however, if there is the presence of grasping, the mind might still be over-powered and disturbed greatly by the conscious and semi-conscious awareness/acknowledgement/perception/cognition towards all kinds of restless ideas/thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires and don't desires that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, even if all those mental activities don't turn into physical actions/activities/efforts.

Ceaseless and boundless random thoughts/ideas/feelings/emotions/desires/urges (selfless restless busy modification of the mind) that don't turn into physical efforts/actions/reactions/activities/behaviors might not generate any kind of beneficial or harmful effects/consequences unto others and the surrounding environment, but it might still be affecting/influencing/determining/disturbing the conscious/semi-conscious perceptive cognitive mind itself, under the absence of correct understanding and under the presence of grasping. - "I am suffering from sleep deprivation and constant exhaustion, where I can't function or live life properly, that I can't stay focus and don't have any determination or perseverance on doing anything, where I am highly impatient and easily be agitated and disturbed as I am highly sensitive towards anything and everything, and I cannot even look after myself or manage my daily life affairs properly, not to say, to have a healthy relationship with anyone, because there are so much ongoing random thinking/worrying/feelings/emotions/desires/memories/anticipations/fear/insecurity/longing/loneliness/emptiness/meaninglessness/disappointment/hurts/lust/anger/hatred/guilt/self-blame/shame/sadness/sorrow/hostility and so on in me, in my thinking, in my head, that I can't stop from happening, that I can't control. I don't want to hurt myself or others. I don't like, and I don't want to be like this, but I just can't stop it."

Such minds that have the precious conscious awareness/cognition of being aware towards all that (the state of constant restlessness/inattentiveness/helplessness/exhaustion/disturbance that is going on in themselves), can be free from such state of mind, by learning and practicing genuine yoga and meditation practice from genuine teachers, such as participating in the Vipassana silent meditation courses that are available in many places.

There might be some genuine yoga classes/courses that is about the mind conquest and self inquiry and self realization being conducted by some genuine yoga teachers as well, even if many of the yoga classes/courses/retreats in the world nowadays, are not really about the mind conquest or the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, but are unwittingly empowering ignorance and egoism and restlessness. And even that is nothing bad or wrong, because just by performing some regular yoga practice either by oneself, or by attending yoga classes/courses/retreats regularly under many different types of motivation/interest/intention/expectation/desire, but without any interest or intention to be free from the veil of ignorance will also give rise to certain impermanent limited and conditional physical health and fitness benefits, that will also be influencing/modifying/rendering the state of mind towards heading the path of mind conquest eventually, under particular cause and pace.

The entire world of many diversities will be in absolute peace, under the complete absence of any kind of activities generated by the minds of human beings functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, when all existing human beings are resting in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, under the complete absence of conscious or semi-conscious awareness, a.k.a. the complete absence of all kinds of ignorant egoistic impure human's activities/actions/reactions/behaviors that are ceaselessly being generated under the influence of the veil of ignorance under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, where all and everything are merely being what they, as they are, neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, neither constructive nor destructive, and that ceaselessly changing at their own respective cause and pace, governed by the intentionless attributeless nature's law of cause and effect.

Just by keep thinking repeatedly and forcefully about something doesn't 'make' that something to be happening or be materialized. One needs to perform physical action or exert physical effort to 'make' that something to be happening or be materialized.

Such as by thinking and desiring (wishful thinking) that all and everything in the house will become all clean and tidy but without exerting any physical efforts/actions/activities to be physically cleaning and tidying the entire house as well as engaging in ceaseless maintenance to be maintaining the cleanliness and tidiness of everything, won't make the house become clean and tidy.

Just by thinking repeatedly about "I want to know the answer of this doubt/calculation/puzzle/problem/non-understanding/happening" doesn't make the answer appears, but it is the continuous mental and/or physical effort of reasoning, or calculating, or solution finding, or problem solving, or inquiring, or investigating, that will lead the mind to see or know the answer.

That is why the world is continuously being in a state of madness, reflecting that there are many egoistic impure minds functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where the egoistic impure restless modification of the many minds, of all kinds of random impure thought activities, are spontaneously/ignorantly turning into physical efforts/actions/activities that give rise to the consequences of all that - A world of human beings that is full of ignorance and consequences of ignorance, or all kinds of unnecessary and evitable selfishness and possessiveness, endless and boundless greed/desires/ambitions/inspirations and aspirations/activities/creativity/productivity/rubbish/excessive energy consumption/destruction to the surrounding living environment, dissatisfaction, disappointment, hatred, discrimination, prejudice, bullying, intimidation, intrusion, invasion, manipulation, politics, untruthfulness, hypocrisy, lies, story telling, justification, myths, oppression, suppression, offensiveness, defensiveness, unrest, chaos, violence, cruelty, exploitation, desperation, difficulty, physical and mental exhaustion, corruption, abusive hurtful action/reaction/behavior, of all kinds of painful suffering that don't need to be there at all.

Positive thinking, or a large group of people meditating and generating collective positive and kind thought towards the manifestation of goodness, joyfulness, peace, and harmony in the world, doesn't stop all kinds of ignorance/selfishness/badness/madness or painful suffering/desperation/difficulty from happening ceaselessly everywhere in the world, and it doesn't make the world become more peaceful and harmony, and less unrest and violence. If that is possible, then the world is already a perfect peaceful and harmony place, and there won't be so much unnecessary endless suffering and desperation and difficulty in the world of human beings deriving from the boundless ignorance and consequences of ignorance of the minds of human beings. What 'super mind power'? What 'power of thoughts'? What 'collective positive mind power'?

The entire yoga and buddhism practice is about conquering/thinning-out/silencing/annihilating the restless modification or thought activities of the mind, by the mind itself. - The selfless impermanent limited and conditional non-self function or restless egoistic impure modification of the mind absorbed into silence/absolute clarity, resting upon the selfless universal consciousness.

It is nothing to do with the common wishful thinking/wild imagination/day dreaming/ambitious desire of the ignorant egoistic impure restless minds desire to be developing and attaining 'the super mystical extraordinary mind power' to make all endless and boundless desires come true, or to control all and everything to be and not to be in certain way, or to become immortal, or to attain immortality or infinite unlimited unconditional existence, or to enjoy unlimited endless pleasurable enjoyments, or not experiencing/undergoing any kind of unpleasantness and painful suffering.

It has to come from all and everyone themselves to be free from the influence of the veil of ignorance by themselves, to have the quiet peaceful state of mind that gives rise to the clarity of thinking and correct understanding, to stop performing actions/reactions/activities/behaviors that hurt all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment directly and indirectly, under the presence of the limited conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiative, conscious understanding, conscious effort, and conscious action taking to promote and maintain peace and harmony among all and everyone in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Inquire towards ignorance and justification and the belief of karma

There is no doubt that there are many evitable painful suffering and desperation or difficulty that are truly unnecessary, but are happening everywhere in the world deriving from the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in the minds of the human beings that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, on top of there are certain inevitable painful suffering in all and everyone (regardless of good or bad behavior, wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, happy or unhappy, healthy or unhealthy, and etc) that come along with the momentary existence and function of the mortal physical body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Unless the physical body is being formed and born under the absence of the conscious thinking and acting faculty functioning under the presence of conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness to be perceiving/recognizing/discriminating/experiencing pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering consciously, if not, the minds that come with the conscious thinking and acting faculty functioning under the presence of conscious awareness and intellectual cognition of perceiving/recognizing/discriminating/acknowledging or being aware of pleasurable enjoyment as well as the evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty, they can develop correct understanding towards what is going on in the mind, to know Thyself, to transcend or overcome all those evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty in oneself and/or in the others, if they want, and out of their own conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, and conscious effort or action taking under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/knowledge/freedom/peace, to be free from suffering, under the presence of immovable determination and perseverance and some basic correct understanding or intellectual reasoning power.

There is nothing wrong and it is true that, regardless of whether the minds that are having a rather easy and comfortable life without much difficulty or suffering to deal with, or the minds that are dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty in life, will think and believe and feel that they are limited and powerless (vulnerability), where they are aware of the many painful suffering and difficulty in all the others or in themselves, but they can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, even if they have the goodwill and kindness of want to help the world or themselves to have less painful suffering and difficulty, as much as possible.

The minds that are having a rather easy and comfortable life without much difficulty or suffering to deal with, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'good karma', or 'merits and virtues', or 'blessing from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe'.

The minds that are dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty in life, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins', or 'punishment from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe'.

The reality of the minds can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, as well as the presence of limitation, or powerlessness, or vulnerability, is nothing to do with 'karma', or 'bad karma', or 'sins', or 'punishment from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe'.

Some minds understood and acknowledged that they are limited and powerless, even if they themselves are having a rather easy and comfortable life, but they are aware of there are many others are undergoing and dealing with certain painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in life, while they would do whatever they can to help to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and desperation in all the others as much as possible, even when they can just ignore all that, not doing anything, and be comfortable in their own easy and comfortable life, even if they can't change or interfere with many things that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, without the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and without the need of justification towards anything.

Some minds understood and acknowledged that they are limited and powerless, as they themselves are undergoing and dealing with certain painful suffering and difficulty, while they might or might not be doing whatever they can to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and difficulty in themselves, as well as simultaneously, they might or might not be also doing whatever they can to help to relieve and reduce the painful suffering and difficulty in all the others, even if they can't change or interfere with many things in themselves or in the others that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, without the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and without the need of justification towards anything.

That is the essential basic correct understanding or mentality.

There is nothing wrong or bad or negative with the perception/acknowledgement/understanding/realization of there is presence of limitation, powerlessness, or vulnerability in the minds, that there are many things that are not in the control of anyone and that are beyond their capability to change or interfere with.

Meanwhile, under the absence of correct understanding or mentality, some minds are troubled or over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or pride and shame, upon the presence of limitation, powerlessness, or vulnerability in themselves towards many things that are not in the control of themselves and that are beyond their capability to change or interfere with, where they need to have some reasonable justifications to justify the many painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in themselves that are not in their control, that they can't change, that they can't do much to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in themselves, or in the others, while they themselves need to deal with their own painful suffering and difficulty, so that they can feel better about themselves for being limited, powerless, or vulnerable.

Some minds that are having the privilege to be enjoying a rather easy and comfortable life, devoid of the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty that many others are dealing with, however, they are being troubled or over-whelmed by the sense of guilt or pride and shame, and they don't like the sense of vulnerability, powerlessness, and limitation in themself, where they need to have some reasonable justifications to justify the many painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in the others that are not in their control, that they can't change, that they can't do much to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in the others, and hence, they choose to just ignore all that and be comfortable in their own life, but then there is the sense of guilt or pride and shame as well as powerlessness and limitation in them, where they want to think and believe and acknowledge that they are good and righteous people, that they are not selfish, where they would donate some money here and there, or to do some charity work from time to time, or regularly, in order to empower the sense of kindness, generosity, powerfulness, and unselfishness, to over-come the sense of powerlessness, limitation, selfishness, and guilt.

While some highly empathetic minds will feel disturbed and depressed by the sense of vulnerability, powerlessness, and limitation towards all the painful suffering and desperation in the others that they can't change, that they can't help to relieve or reduce, even after they continuously give everything that they can give, that they have, to help others as much as they can, to the point of depriving and damaging their own over-all well-being, but there are still inevitable painful suffering as well as ceaseless and boundless evitable painful suffering and desperation or difficulty in many others that are deriving from the ignorance and consequences of ignorance either inflicted by themselves and/or by some others. They might also need to have some reasonable justifications to justify towards all kinds of painful suffering and desperation or difficulty, in order to feel better and less disturbed.

There is nothing wrong with all that, as all the minds have their own freedom of thinking, understanding, action/reaction, and expression.

It is all good, regardless of whether the minds are troubled or not troubled by the sense of powerlessness and limitation, or the sense of guilt or pride and shame, or the sense of selfishness and unselfishness, but at least the minds are trying to do something if they can, to help to relieve or reduce the painful suffering and desperation in the world or in themselves, even if there are many things that they can't change or interfere, that are beyond their capability.

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Meanwhile, there are many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance would be deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, inflicting and promoting painful suffering and difficulty unto themselves and/or the others, directly or indirectly.

Some of these minds might be troubled by the sense of guilt and regret, while some are guiltless while taking pride in such 'accomplishment' of being 'successfully' inflicting and promoting painful suffering and difficulty unto the others and/or themselves, because it gives rise to and empowers the sense of powerfulness in them, that they can destroy something or anything that they want, as they wish, easily, instead of feeling vulnerable, powerless, and limited dealing with the undesirable reality of they can't change or interfere with many things in themselves or in the others that are not in their control and are beyond their capability, but the activity of hurting and destroying someone or everyone and something or anything that are destructible, is not difficult.

These minds might or might not need some justifications to justify their hurtful destructive behaviors that inflict and promote painful suffering and difficulty in the others and/or in themselves.

And hence, there come the idea, belief, values, and practice of 'karma', or more precisely, 'bad karma' or 'sins', or 'punishment from the so called almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe', stands as the reasonable justification to justify what the minds think and believe that needed to be justified, that is nothing but complicates everything even more, while empowers the ignorance in oneself and in others that are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

"It is all because of my/your/our/their/his/her own 'bad karma' or 'sins'."

Regardless of the presence of painful suffering and difficulty in oneself, or in the others, regardless of evitable or inevitable, regardless of the evitable painful suffering and difficulty are being inflicted and promoted deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, unto themselves and/or the others, directly or indirectly.

"I am suffering, or you are suffering, regardless of whether it is inflicted by oneself or by others, are all because of 'bad karma' or 'sins'."

"It is good to burn-off the 'bad karma' or to repent the 'sins' by undergoing all kinds of painful suffering and difficulty in oneself or in others, regardless of being inflicted and promoted by oneself and/or others."

"I need to inflict painful suffering and difficulty unto myself to burn-off the 'bad karma', or to reduce the 'sins'."

"I am doing you a favor to help you to burn-off your 'bad karma', or to reduce your 'sins', by inflicting painful suffering and difficulty unto you."

Ignorance deriving from ignorance and empowers ignorance.

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Inquire the truth of everything.

Regardless of evitable or inevitable painful suffering and difficulty, or all kinds of abusive family ties and connection, broken relationship, unhappiness, hardship, difficult condition, difficult situation, undesirable happening, limitation, disability, illness, injury, painful sensation, weakness, stiffness, ill treatment and prejudice or disagreement and dislike from others, and failure, it is not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'.

Inevitable painful suffering and difficulty are merely the inevitable permanent unchanging all time truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of the mortal physical body and the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind being what they are, as they are, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, being conscious/aware of the physical body is undergoing inevitable selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration as well as the restless thought process or modification of the mind (restlessness), of ceaseless life maintenance, endless hunger and thirst, exhaustion, weakness, stiffness, illness, injury, discomfort, painful sensations, limitation, disability, aging, and death.

All THAT are not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'.

Not to say, 

All kinds of additional evitable unnecessary painful suffering and difficulty that don't need to be there at all, that are being inflicted, generated, and promoted unto oneself and/or the others, out of ignorance, by the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, either deliberately or randomly, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or intentionlessly, and directly or indirectly.

That is not due to 'bad karma' or 'sins'. 

The minds that inquire and realize this, will know towards the truth of 'the idea, belief, values, and practice of karma' that is being created and used as a reasonable justification for many things or behaviors that are hurtful and destructive, that inflict and promote evitable painful suffering and difficulty in oneself and unto the others, as well as justifying the inevitable painful suffering in the mortal physical body existing and functioning under different bodily systems, operating under the mechanism/function/modification of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, on top of the survival instinct that ceaselessly maintaining life existence in the background autonomously/non-consciously throughout the different states of consciousness, just for being existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-selfly, for a momentary fleeting short duration in this world of diverse names and forms that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Some minds also use 'the idea, belief, values, and practice of karma and ceaseless reincarnation of endless births and deaths of endless momentary life existences transitioning in different realms/worlds/spheres' as a tool to manipulate, or threaten, or intimidate, or bully, or oppress, or exploit, or abuse others to be or not to be in certain way, in order to gratify all one's desires, as well as using that as the excuse/justification to hurt and punish the others, upon one's desires are not being gratified.

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Under the presence of grasping under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the minds are being over-powered by the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty.

Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, the minds transcend or over-come and not being disturbed by the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of evitable and inevitable painful suffering and difficulty.

It doesn't mean that all kinds of evitable and inevitable suffering disappear or stop existing in the world, or in life, or in oneself and/or others upon the direct realization towards the truth of all these, but suffering doesn't and cannot arise or manifest in the mind that is devoid of grasping and the veil of ignorance, while resting in unconditional peace amidst all kinds of unpleasant and even painful evitable and inevitable impermanent changes in the physical body and modification of the mind, and upon coming in contact with evitable and inevitable undesirable and unpleasant events, happenings, affairs, conditions, situations, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, and activities in the surrounding environment.

And more importantly, such mind doesn't hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment under the presence of clarity, or wisdom and unconditional peace. 

There is nothing super extraordinary, mystical, spiritual, or magical, about the mind, or the modification of the mind, or the mind thinking behavior pattern, or the conquest of the mind, or the ONE all pervading infinite selfless universal consciousness, or yoga and the self-realized yogi, or buddhism and the enlightened buddha, or the presence and absence of pleasurable enjoyment and painful suffering, as well as the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance in the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, of all kinds of duality, selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging, self-righteousness, offensiveness, defensiveness, cruelty, violence, unrest, hurtful and destructive behaviors, actions, and reactions, all kinds of comforting story telling and justifications, and the direct self realization towards the truth of all these names and forms, of knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all and everything, that enables the mind to transcend the selfless impermanent limited conditional restless modification of itself that doesn't even belong to the conscious mind/perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/action performer itself, and transcending the mind perception/awareness/acknowledgement towards all kinds of dualities, or towards all kinds of names and forms manifesting, coming, and going under different qualities, and that ceaselessly changing in between arising and passing away, where the mind doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment, and is resting upon unconditional peace, being undetermined and undisturbed by the ignorance and consequences of ignorance of all the others, or all kinds of madness in the world of ignorance and egoism.

Limitation, powerlessness, and vulnerability is the universal truth of all and everything. It is neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, neither meaningful nor meaningless.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

Inquire towards mental and emotional healing or spiritual healing

'Mental and emotional healing', and/or 'spiritual healing', is a very common and popular term in the world of yoga, however, that is nothing to do with the teachings and practice of yoga.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, as all and everyone have the freedom of their own way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practice, desire, inspiration (what and where the mind learn something or everything from, that influence and motivate them for practicing and promoting something or everything), and aspiration (being inspired, influenced, and motivated by someone or somewhere to do and achieve and promote something or everything).

If there is the existence of an individual pure and perfect 'spirit/soul/consciousness' that is permanent, independent, unlimited, unconditional, and immortal residing in the impermanent limited conditional mortal body and mind, then that permanent independent unlimited unconditional infinite 'spirit/soul/consciousness' cannot be hurt, or injured, or damaged, or modified, or destroyed, by anything, not to say, there is no such existence existing.

And hence, the idea and practice of 'spiritual healing' is absolutely invalid.

The selfless impermanent limited conditional mortal finite existence and function/modification of the mind (the physical structure and operation of the brains/the central and peripheral nervous system/the cognition/the thinking process or input processing and output response) can be determined, affected, disrupted, hurt, injured, damaged, modified, and destroyed by something of certain internal or external detrimental hurtful impact, activity, condition, and situation, that might or might not be improving or deteriorating, or be treated by certain treatments or action taking.

Such as the development and maintenance of the function or mechanism of the senses and organs of the senses or the organs of perception and the cognition of knowing, recognizing, reasoning, and understanding, the degrees of intelligence or the accuracy, efficiency, and speed of the intellectual reasoning, problem solving, solution finding, and possible outcomes/consequences visualizing or speculating, the power of memory to memorize and to recall or remember, or the speed of learning, memorizing, and remembering, and etc, can be determined, affected, modified, conditioned, and influenced directly and indirectly by the limited and conditional availability and conscious choices of food consumption/energy inputs/clean air and oxygen sufficiency/sufficient clean and safe water intake and replenishment/sufficient essential nutrients and minerals intake/physical and mental activities and habits/internal and external detrimental or conducive surrounding environment, condition, and situation for life maintenance and over-all well-being/balance between energy input and output/energy conservation, depletion, and restoration, and etc, under the presence or absence of certain knowledge and understanding and appropriate/immediate action taking.

Meanwhile, the manifestation of certain feelings/emotions/thoughts/desires/ideas/manifestation of dreams, or the conscious/semi-conscious/non-conscious state of mind might be determined, affected, influenced, conditioned, or prompted by the mind perception of names and forms of all kinds of experiences regardless of under the presence or absence of grasping, or under the presence or absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, even when most of the time upon the state of consciousness, the mind has no awareness or recollection towards many things internally and externally as it is being busy with something or focusing attentively onto something, but the manifestation of certain reactions, ideas, thoughts, desires, feelings, and emotions arising from the conscious/semi-conscious mind reaction reacting towards something or everything, internally and/or externally, or not, is solely determined by the presence or absence of grasping under the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance.

Under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, there is the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement in the mind, that thinks and believes, and that is identifying with and acknowledging that, "I am experiencing something that is disturbing/hurtful/painful mentally and emotionally. This is hurting me mentally and emotionally. I am mentally and emotionally disturbed/damaged/injured/hurt. I need to be healed from mental and emotional disturb/damage/injury/hurt. I am practicing yoga/buddhism hoping that it can relieve/heal/remove my mental and emotional disturb/hurt/damage/injury/pain instantly, gradually, eventually, partially, or completely."

Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, there is no idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement arising in the selfless mind to be associating, attaching, and identifying, not to say, grasping and reacting ignorantly towards all kinds of perceived names and forms/experiences that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful, except to be performing necessary action for life maintenance under conducive supportive environment/condition/situation in accordance to availability, mobility, and possibility, to create and maintain a conducive supportive beneficial environment/condition/situation for all and everyone ego-lessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, and to avoid or move away from detrimental harmful environment/condition/situation, if possible.

There is only the selfless impermanent limited and conditional conscious and semi-conscious ego-less mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, being aware of the conscious and semi-conscious perception/cognition/knowing/reasoning/understanding/remembering/recognizing/possible consequences projecting, or the conscious and semi-conscious voluntary activities under conscious effort/freewill/choice and clarity or the non-conscious and autonomous involuntary activities without conscious effort/freewill/choice, upon coming in contact with certain names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations being perceived via the senses and the organs of the senses, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness in the present moment now, devoid of grasping/association/attachment/identification, knowing that all and everything are all impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, being reflected in the mind manifesting/arising/changing/passing away upon the all pervading timeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that enabling the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind being what it is, as it is, that is either functioning efficiently or inefficiently, that is being aware, or semi-aware, or unaware.

All minds are selfless, regardless of the presence or absence of grasping or the veil of ignorance, functioning ego-lessly or egoistically.

All selfless minds can be functioning or performing action ego-lessly or egoistically.

The selfless and ego-less conscious/semi-conscious perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer being what it is, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the all pervading timeless actionless universal silent witness/consciousness, is being undetermined/unaffected/undisturbed/unhurt by the mind perception/cognition/acknowledgement towards all kinds of selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self names and forms of different qualities/conditions/situations/activities/changes that arising, ceaselessly changing, and passing away at their respective cause and pace, being perceived and reflected in the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

Regardless of whether the reflection of the perceived names and forms is being reflected in the mind as it is (under the absence of the veil of ignorance), or not as it is (under the presence of the veil of ignorance), and regardless of how long the reflection of the perceived names and forms stays or lingers in the mind, or regardless of the presence and absence of grasping, or regardless of the presence or absence of egoistic reaction/judgment/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating/the presence or absence of disturbance manifesting in the mind, reacting towards the reflection of all those perceived names and forms, it doesn't determine/affect/change the names and forms being what they are, as they are.

In the modification of the mind/the thinking process/the thought activities, the selfless egoistic perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind can reacts towards the apples or oranges with different judgments/opinions/reactions/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating towards the reflection of the perceived apples or oranges in the modification of the mind, but all those thinking/reactions in the mind doesn't determine/affect/change the apples or oranges being what they are, as they are.

The apples or oranges (non-sentient selfless living organisms existing, functioning, and changing unconsciously), as well as the selfless non-egoistic minds (sentient selfless living organisms existing, functioning, and changing consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously) that are free from grasping or the influence of the veil of ignorance, are not being determined, or disturbed, or changed, or offended, or promoted/demoted, or motivated/demotivated, by any kinds of thinking and reaction or expression/behavior towards them coming from the different minds.

It is only when the mind is functioning under the presence of grasping, under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that there is the thinking/reaction/manifestation of the delusive/incorrect/false thought/idea/acknowledgement/feeling/emotion of, "I am being disturbed and hurt by all these names and forms/experiences/expressions/behaviors that are bad, wrong, negative, offensive, and hurtful, that are disturbing and hurtful to me physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually."

One can be hurt or injured physically by something or some others, including the organ of the brains (the hardware of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind), regardless of the presence or absence of grasping, but none can be hurt or injured mentally or emotionally under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, that need to be 'healed' mentally and emotionally, not to say, none can be hurt or injured 'spiritually', that doesn't exist, where 'spiritual damage and spiritual healing' is invalid.

Such as the selfless and ego-less (the absence of conscious/semi-conscious self awareness/acknowledgement/sense of separateness) plants (the non-sentient living organisms), they can be determined, conditioned, influenced, and affected by certain kind of internal and/or external limitation and condition, impact, disease, illness, injury, or damage to their physical structure, growth, development, regeneration, reproduction, and ceaseless impermanent changes (non-conscious evolution), while there are ceaseless ego-less autonomous non-conscious intentionless survival activities and response to deal with (ceaselessly adjusting and adapting to) the current internal and external condition, to maintain life existence to the maximum under the best available and possible conducive condition or surrounding environment as much as possible, where they can expand and extend their roots and branches/leaves to reach the essential water and sunlight, that going around or even breaking through any obstacles, to avoid or move away from detected harmful condition, and even disguising themselves, or even be equipped with thorns or certain poisonous sap, to keep away from any kind of potential predators, until the natural process of decay and disintegration takes place, or until they ceased living and existing, while devoid of any egoistic intentional constructive or destructive activities/intentions/desires/behaviors/actions/reactions, unlike the egoistic minds of the sentient living organisms that come with the conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The highly egoistic perceptive cognitive intellectual and emotional minds of the selfless human beings that are operating under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, and that also operating unconsciously under the absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness upon the essential state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, but then, the egoistic conscious/semi-conscious minds of the human beings keep generating unnecessary evitable conscious and semi-conscious *hurtful damaging activities/ideas/behaviors/actions/reactions/intentions/desires/inspirations/aspirations/ambitions, under the presence of grasping, under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

*Hurtful damaging activities are being generated even out of what the mind thinks and believes as 'good intention' based on their particular thinking, belief, values, and practice about what is good and bad, what is right and wrong, or what is deserving and undeserving. And hence, out of the sense of self-righteousness, pride, possessiveness, greed, jealousy, anger, hatred, or fear, the mind wants to control, influence, change, manipulate, discipline, punish, hurt, or destroy what the mind thinks, believes, reasons, understands, evaluates, judges, recognizes, or categorizes as 'bad', 'wrong', 'negative', 'offensive', 'disrespectful', 'belittling', 'humiliating', 'intimidation', 'threat', 'evil', 'condemn, humiliation, shame, and punishment deserving', 'foreigner', 'outsider', 'not one of us', and etc.

*Hurtful damaging activities exist in oneself towards the body and mind of itself, in couple relationship hurting the other or one another, among the minds that think they love one another very much (not really, but only selfish possessiveness and the gratification of lustful desires), among family ties and connections, among siblings, among parents and children, among friends, among relatives, among the same ancestral heritage/culture/belief/spirituality/religion/ethnicity/tribe/community/organization/nationality/area/district/country/political party, and etc, not to say, among the different ancestral heritages/cultures/beliefs/spiritualities/religions/ethnicities/tribes/communities/organizations/nationalities/areas/districts/countries/political parties, and so on.

All those hurtful damaging activities towards others or one another, are due to the minds are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance. It is the most serious form of unnecessary and evitable hurtful destructive mental illness in the world of human beings. The egoistic minds of the human beings justify and argue that, "Human beings are also animals. Human beings are imperfect. All beings have the freedom to behave as they are, and so, we are free to make as many mistakes as we want, and we can cause as much hurtful damages as we want."

The selfless but egoistic conscious/semi-conscious mind/perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, is ignorantly being determined/affected/disturbed or 'hurt' by all THAT that the mind reasons/understands/judges/recognizes as undesirable, unpleasant, dislikable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, hurtful, or painful to itself.

It is common and natural that, either wittingly and unwittingly as well as directly and indirectly, there are many minds are more or less being determined, disturbed, affected, or hammered by the presence of ceaseless and boundless hurtful and impactful behaviors and activities and their consequences being generated by human beings that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that give rise to many different unhealthy conditions and situations that are detrimental to the over-all physical and/or mental well-being of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If the mind really wants to practice and realize yoga, it needs to let go the idea of 'mental and emotional healing', or 'spiritual healing', because the presence of association, attachment, identification, and expectation towards that idea itself is a hindrance towards the realization towards Selflessness and Non-self.

Yoga and buddhism is about the eradication of the veil of ignorance, to attain direct self realization towards the universal truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, via quieting the restless egoistic impure thought activities or thinking process, or modification/state of the mind, by turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward to focus within for self-introspection and self-inquiry or self contemplation to be inquiring and contemplating towards what is going on in the modification of the mind, of what the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I' and everything that 'I' come in contact with/experience/learn/know/understand, that 'I' like and don't like, agree and don't agree, desire and don't desire, enjoy and don't enjoy, believe and don't believe, do and don't do, achieve and don't achieve, have and don't have, possess and don't possess, and etc, under the help of certain physical and mental observations and practices.

The genuine yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts/teachers/practitioners don't need/don't promote/don't empower 'mental and emotional healing', not to say, 'spiritual healing', if the mind has the basic correct understanding towards the essential basic teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism that is based on the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.

The objective of the existence and function of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is for the selfless egoistic impure restless ignorant suffering mind to attain direct self realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of itself, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, via non-grasping.

The direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of living and non-living names and forms under the presence of non-grasping, will enable the mind to know and understand that there is no existence of a permanent independent individual self existence of 'I', of an infinite immortal individual consciousness/soul/spirit existing, that resides in and belongs to the mortal selfless impermanent limited conditional body and mind, and/or vice versa.

Such mind won't be determined, or disturbed, or manipulated, or intimidated, or bullied, or hurt by anyone or anything, even if the physical body or the physical component of the brains (the hardware of the thinking process/thought activities/inputs processing and output responding) is suffering from certain evitable or inevitable, acute or chronic, and reversible or irreversible illness, or damages, or injuries, or wounds, or pain, or natural process of decaying or aging.

Either there is presence or absence of conscious/semi-conscious thinking process/thought activities/inputs processing and output responding, either under the complete or semi functional/non-corrupted, or malfunction/corrupted, or non-functional/inactivation of the conscious and semi-conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.

There is nothing soothing or painful/good or bad/positive or negative/enjoyment or suffering, if there is the absence of conscious or semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness.

There is nothing, if there is the absence of thinking process/thought activities/modification of the mind, or upon silence, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness (Samadhi/Nirvana/Nirbhana), and under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness, while the mortal body and mind is still existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-selfly, not to say, upon the ceased functioning and existence of the mortal body and mind.

If there is the presence of thinking process/thought activities under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, there can be the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance, or there can be the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping, or there can be the presence or absence of disturbance/unrest/painful suffering/violence or all kinds of impurities/ideas, as well as the impermanent limited and conditional momentary sense of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness and unhappiness, goodness and badness, righteousness and wrongfulness, positiveness and negativeness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, or joyfulness and joylessness, or the mind may or may not be resting in unconditional peace, or silence.

All kinds of thinking/thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations/experiences/names and forms/qualities/relationships/conditions/situations/affairs, and all and everything, are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, soothing or painful, constructive or destructive, beneficial or detrimental, positive or negative, possibility or impossibility, goodness or badness, happiness or unhappiness, and so on.

If the mind knows what is "Being aware of all kinds of names and forms arising, changing, and passing away without grasping," there is no reaction or manifestation of the idea/thought of mental and emotional or psychological 'hurt' or 'injury', even if the physical body or the component of the brains is suffering from certain illness, or injury, or damage, or is undergoing the natural decaying/aging/function declining process.

If there is already the foundation of non-grasping, where the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is consciously/semi-consciously being aware/conscious of all THAT without grasping, the mind will be undetermined, or undisturbed, or unhurt by all THAT (the reflection of the perceived names and forms being reflected in the mind and/or the names and forms themselves being what they are, as they are, and constantly changing), that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

That is freedom, or liberation, or unconditional peace.

This freedom, liberation, or unconditional peace doesn't mean that there is only the manifestation/perception/experience of pleasant, desirable, agreeable, enjoyable, or soothing names and forms, qualities, affairs, activities, relationships, interactions, communications, conditions, situations, or surrounding environment, or there is no manifestation/perception/experience of anything that is unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful.

It is about the absence of grasping towards all kinds of manifestation/perception/experiences/names and forms/qualities/dualities/conditions/situations/relationships/affairs/interactions/communications/ties and connections, under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The mind is resting at peace unconditionally, amid all kinds of conscious/semi-conscious/voluntary and unconscious/involuntary/autonomous physical and/or mental activities for life maintenance that are happening ceaselessly throughout the entire physical body, as well as all kinds of impermanent names and forms/activities/changes in the surrounding environment in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is full of all kinds of ignorance and consequences of ignorance deriving from the minds of the human beings that are functioning under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

There is absence of hurtful ideas/thoughts/desires/feelings/emotions in such mind, where the mind naturally and effortlessly doesn't generate any action or reaction that hurt oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment, under any condition or situation, because it understands towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, as well as there is respect/acceptance towards the nature's law of cause and effect.

There is needless of self-control or self-effort to not hurt anyone or anything in the mind that is rendered quiet and clear under the absence of grasping, as self-control or effort to restrain one's behavior/action/reaction, is needed only when there are still the selfless manifestation of some hurtful ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions arising in the selfless modification of the mind under the presence of grasping, reacting towards certain unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful experiences/affairs/interactions/relationships/ties and connections/conditions/situations, and hence, the mind is still being determined and disturbed by all THAT.

But more importantly, if the disturbed mind has the basic correct understanding and has the self-control or effort to hinder all those hurtful mental reactions/ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions from externalizing and turning into physical actions/activities that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, if the mind is still being determined and disturbed by the mind perception of names and forms under the presence of grasping.

Just by having the basic correct understanding and self-control, and under the presence of certain degrees of non-grasping, is already what the practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about.

There is the presence of kindness, or non-violence, or non-hurtful towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment. None needs to be perfect in order to be kind, to have certain degrees of understanding and self-control of not hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The selfless timeless attributeless actionless intentionless beginningless and endless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything under different qualities of names and forms within and without, that gives rise to the conscious/semi-conscious awareness/consciousness to the sentient living organisms upon the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, cannot be determined, affected, modified, changed, increased, decreased, contaminated, hurt, damaged, or destroyed by anything.

There is no existence of a permanent independent individual self identity of an individual immortal pure 'soul/spirit/consciousness' existing or residing in all kinds of living organisms, not to say, an individual 'soul/spirit/consciousness' that can be hurt or injured by something or anything, that needs to be healed from 'hurt', or 'illness', or 'damage', or 'injury'.

The mind that understands, it doesn't get upset towards anything, or it is not being disturbed by anything, or it doesn't suffer for 'the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in and from anyone'.

"Everyone has the freedom of being what they are, as they are. Your actions/reactions and the outcome of your actions/reactions is your freedom of choice and responsibility. My actions/reactions and the outcome of my actions/reactions is my own freedom of choice and responsibility. None is responsible for the actions/reactions and the outcome of actions/reactions of the others. If I react and feel disturbed and hurt by the actions/reactions and the outcome of actions/reactions of the others, it is my own freedom of choice and responsibility, and if out of my reaction and feeling of being disturbed and hurt by something or someone, I would perform action to hurt myself and others and the surrounding environment, it is my own freedom of choice and responsibility."

"It is because of you and your bad and wrongful and hurtful behavior/action/reaction, that is why I react and feel like this, and that is why I behave and act like this. It is all your fault and responsibility for all my hurtful destructive violent reactions/feelings/behaviors/actions," is incorrect and invalid.

The minds that would generate hurtful destructive violent behaviors/actions hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, as well as the minds that react and feel disturbed and hurt mentally and emotionally by the hurtful destructive violent behaviors/actions of the others, and would become hurtful, destructive, and violent like the others, are all functioning under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

If all minds of the human beings in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything have this absolute knowledge and understanding, or if all minds are mentally and emotionally matured or independent to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, there is no existence/manifestation of violent destructive hurtful activities/affairs/relationships/interactions/communications/conditions/situations of hurting one another and the surrounding environment.

Inquiry the truth of everything.

Be kind to all and everyone indiscriminately and unconditionally

Many minds under the many different organizations/nationalities/communities/families have the similar idea/values/desire/vision to be promoting and exercising the idea of 'unity', or 'we all are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' to achieve unity or community strength building among the diverse individual minds, to form one big strong united community sharing some similar ideas/values/belief and disbelief/culture/way of living/way of conduct/visions/interests, in order to achieve peace and harmony, inter-support, cooperation, and protection among each other within the family, or the brotherhood/sisterhood, or the neighbourhood, or the community, or the country, or the entire world of many different diverse countries, nationalities, communities, families, and individuals in different areas, but this is nothing to do with the teachings or practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

Because, when there are more than two individual minds come together, naturally there will be more or less some disagreement/conflict/tension arise here and there from time to time.

It is normal and nothing wrong with the manifestation of certain disagreement/conflict/tension arising from time to time among the different individual minds, even among a loving couple sharing similar interests, or within a family of one ancestry lineage, or among the siblings coming from the same parents, or among the different individuals of the same nationality/community/tribe/culture/spirituality/religion/belief, values, and vision, or among the different communities of the same nationality, not to say, among the many different individuals of the many different families/communities/tribes/cultures/spiritualities/religions/beliefs, values, and visions of the many different nationalities, and not to say, among the many different sentient and non-sentient living organisms of the many different species in a world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Especially if the minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of correct understanding and under the absence of grasping, where the minds are being kind to one another indiscriminately and unconditionally, regardless of the many differences among all kinds of diversities, where all kinds of disagreements/conflicts/tensions appear and disappear without turning into violent hurtful action/reaction/behavior/treatment among one another.

However, most minds under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness are naturally functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where there is incorrect understanding and grasping, where ceaseless disagreements/conflicts/tensions keep arising and building up and turn into violent hurtful action/reaction/behavior/treatment among one another.

Couples are hurting one another.

Parents and children are hurting one another.

Siblings are hurting one another.

Relatives are hurting one another.

Friends, neighbours, colleagues, business people, politicians, or organizations are hurting one another. 

Different individuals, different communities, different nationalities, different species of sentient living organisms, are intentionally and/or unintentionally hurting one another unnecessarily under the influence of the veil of ignorance, being determined, conditioned, influenced, and over-powered by the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

Just by promoting and exercising 'unity', or 'we are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' among the many different individual minds within the same background/family/community/nationality or from the many different backgrounds/families/communities/nationalities is ineffective and doesn't mean anything, unless the minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance.

And if the minds are free from the influence of ignorance, there is no need of the idea, values, vision, and practice of 'unity', or 'we are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' with the intention/anticipation of 'not hurting one another' but 'inter-supporting, cooperating, and protecting one another', because the minds that are free from the veil of ignorance will naturally be kind to all and everyone indiscriminately and unconditionally under the presence of correct understanding and under the absence of grasping.

There is needless of promoting and exercising 'unity', or 'we are one big family', or 'brotherhood/sisterhood', but each and every individual mind just needs to free the selfless impermanent limited and conditional function/modification of itself from the influence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, out of one's own conscious awareness, initiation, freewill, and effort, powered by intense yearning towards liberation from ignorance/violence/suffering.

All and everyone are being kind to one another, indiscriminately and unconditionally, not because of 'we all are one big family' or 'brotherhood/sisterhood', but even if it's not a family or brotherhood/sisterhood, not having or sharing a similar background/culture/idea/belief/values/vision/interest/community/nationality/species, and there are many disagreements/conflicts/tensions arising from time to time among all and everyone.

There is needless to be violent and hurtful towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment being determined, disturbed, and influenced by the manifestation of some disagreements/conflicts/tensions here and there from time to time that are all impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, if there is the presence of correct understanding and the absence of grasping in the minds.

Just as there are different types of discomfort/tension/weakness/disturbance/dysfunction/disagreement arising and passing away in the physical body here and there from time to time, but the many different individual cells, components, organs, or systems don't need to hurt one another until the entire physical body ceased functioning and existing, where there won't be any cells, components, organs, or systems can exist independently by oneself, not to say, function as what they are.

The world of human beings has been constantly being in a state of unrest and violence before and after civilization, causing so much unnecessary damage to everything, physically, mentally, economically, and environmentally, leaving prolonged damaging impact to all and everyone and everything, even under the current era of advance science and technology, not only hurting among human beings, but also impacting all and everything in the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, because most minds, especially the leaders that were/are holding certain power of leadership and authority under different types of families/communities/organizations as well as the members of all these different families/communities/organizations, are all functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free. 

The point of focus

Some minds focus a lot onto thinking about, or remembering the past memories of some pleasant and unpleasant, desirable and undesirable, agreeable and disagreeable, or enjoyable and non-enjoyable experiences.

Some minds focus a lot onto remembering the pleasant memories of some desirable and agreeable and enjoyable experiences, that were soothing to the mind.

Some minds focus a lot onto remembering the unpleasant memories of some undesirable and disagreeable and non-enjoyable experiences, that were hurting and painful to the mind.

Some minds focus a lot onto thinking about, or anticipating and projecting into the future of what could be happening, maybe something wishful/hopeful or fearful, maybe something pleasant or unpleasant, maybe something desirable or undesirable, maybe something agreeable or disagreeable, and maybe something enjoyable or non-enjoyable.

The adept yogic minds only focusing onto what is happening here in the present moment NOW, while being aware of all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, without grasping onto what is here in NOW, internally and externally, of all kinds of experiences/conditions/situations/relationships/activities/affairs/causes and effects, that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, regardless of constructive or destructive, pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful.

In the beginning on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, it's common and natural that it is quite challenging for the mind to keep the entire focus onto the present moment NOW without grasping.

The egoistic and restless selfless mind has been being conditioned by the habitual mind behavior pattern that is restless, egoistic, impure, impatient, and inattentive, and that keeps running out everywhere to be chasing after the objects of the senses, to be busy gratifying the boundless desires of craving and aversion of what it likes and doesn't likes, as well as keeps going back and forth between past memories and future anticipations/imaginations/projections, while there is the presence of grasping, where there is clinging/association/attachment/identification towards all these selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self perceived names and forms (objects of the senses) as well as phenomena/manifestation in the restless modification of the mind, of random ceaseless thoughts/ideas/sensations/feelings/emotions/desires/urges/inspirations/aspirations/reactions/wild imaginations/flashing of past memories/the current internal and external impermanent conditions and situations, that keep arising, changing, and passing away.

And hence, the mind is autonomously being occupied by the selfless manifestation of endless and boundless ideas, desires (waiting to be fulfilled), inspirations, aspirations, visions, anticipations, projections, imaginations, fear, worry, clinging/attachment, longing/craving, aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, pleased and displeased, offensiveness and defensiveness, fleeting satisfaction, dissatisfaction, disappointment, discontentment, greed, missingness, envy, jealousy, hurt, frustration, irritation, bitterness, resentment, anger, hatred, guilt, regret, pride, shame, boredom, emptiness, loneliness, attention and affection seeking, scheming, planning, plotting, manipulating, politicking, interfering, justifying, story making and telling, commenting, creating, destroying, criticizing, condemning, slandering, back-biting, shaming, glorifying, blaming, achieving, possessing, hoarding, identifying, associating, connecting, interacting, communicating, doubting, enjoying, suffering, or unrest, that are truly unnecessary.

In this beginning stage of activating the conscious mind evolution by engaging in certain genuine yoga and/or buddhism observations and practices, the mind can begin with diverting its focus or attention onto what is constructive, elevating, easy, achievable within one's capability, pleasant, desirable, agreeable, and enjoyable or soothing to the mind (Rajastic), instead of focusing onto what is destructive, depressing, difficult, non-achievable beyond one's capability, unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, and non-enjoyable or painful to the mind (Tamasic), while developing and empowering non-grasping towards the internal natural phenomena/manifestation of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind, as well as towards the external surrounding environment of all kinds of experiences/affairs/activities/ties and connections/relationships/interactions/communications/conditions/situations being perceived through the senses via the organs of the senses. This process might take as much effort and practice as it needs.

After that, the mind needs to move forward by developing focus or attentiveness onto what is here in the present moment NOW, internally and externally, that are all impermanent, by focusing onto where one is and what one is doing, without grasping onto what is happening or the actions and fruit of actions, whether it's some form of yoga and/or buddhism practice or it's some form of daily affair/activity/duty/responsibility that are wholesome and beneficial to all and everyone and everything (Sattvic), that are all impermanent, that are constantly changing, regardless of easy or difficult, possible or impossible, pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful, while not wasting life existence and function or energy onto wandering into the past memories or getting lost in the future projections/imaginations/anticipations/building castle in the air/day dreaming, that don't exist, but only exist in the form of thinking.

This process would take as much continuous effort and practice/perseverance/determination/patience/forbearance/adjustment/adaptation/accommodation that it needs to take, without expecting/anticipating the result to be or not to be in certain way, allowing and respecting the fruit/outcome/effect/side-effects/changes to be there as it is.

Naturally and eventually, under the presence of such understanding and non-grasping, the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self restless impure egoistic thought process/modification/state of the mind will be rendered quiet and resting at peace unconditionally (going beyond Rajasic, Tamasic, and Sattvic, or transcending the Gunas/attributes/qualities/dualities/energy fields/states of mind), effortlessly.

Countering Tamasic state of mind (negative thinking/idleness/depression/low energy) by rendering the mind Rajasic (positive thinking/activeness/elevation/high energy).

Countering Rajasic state of mind by rendering the mind Sattvic (calmness).

Under the Sattvic state of mind that is also impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and under the absence of grasping/clinging/association/attachment/identification towards the momentary pleasant/desirable/agreeable/soothing Sattvic state of mind, then eventually and naturally, devoid of expectation/anticipation, the selfless perceptive/cognitive mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness transcends all three impermanent states of mind effortlessly, as it is, resting upon the timeless changeless unconditional peace that doesn't appear or disappear, that doesn't increase or decrease, that is undetermined/uncontaminated/unaffected by all kinds of impermanent qualities of names and forms that are pleasant/unpleasant, desirable/undesirable, agreeable/disagreeable, enjoyable/non-enjoyable, or soothing/painful to the mind, but was/is unknown by the selfless perceptive/cognitive mind when it was/is functioning under the veil of ignorance.

Unconditional peace is always there in all and everyone and everything, never increase nor decrease, even in the most evil/ignorant/violent/restless/destructive/disturbed mind.

It's not something manifested under certain cause, or can be developed, attained, and possessed, or tradable and exchangeable, or can be empowered and weakened. It is timeless and attributeless (changeless) beyond time, space, and causation.

It doesn't belong to anyone or anything that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, but it is always there in all and everything, within and without, before/during/after the manifestation of all kinds of names and forms that come and go, that exist and ceaselessly changing and ceased existing under respective cause and pace, but it is unknown to the mind that is functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Just as the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self exists timelessly and changelessly in all kinds of names and forms (living organisms and non-living objects). It is what all and everything are. It is not an idea, or a belief, or a philosophy, or a theory, or a wishful thinking, or a set of values.

The truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self doesn't change, and is always there in all and everything, as it is, regardless of what and how all and everything are (good or bad/right or wrong/kind or unkind/happy or unhappy/peaceful or peaceless/useful or useless/constructive or destructive/meaningful or meaningless/long-lived or short-lived/functional or dysfunctional), regardless of whether the mind knows or doesn't know, agrees or disagrees, likes and doesn't like, desires or doesn't desire, praises or condemns, or understands/doesn't understand/misunderstands towards the truth of itself and all and everything that it perceives internally (self awareness/the perceiver/the experiencer/the thinker/the enjoyer and sufferer) and externally (being aware of the surrounding environment within and without/the perceived/the experience/the thinking/the object of enjoyment and suffering).

To know the truth of everything means to know Thyself, and vice versa.

To be free from ignorance, is by studying and inquiring towards the existence and function of oneself (the existence and function of the physical body operating under different bodily systems with the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under different states of consciousness), and vice versa.

This is nothing super extraordinary, spiritual, religious, mystical, miracle, magical, or unreachable.

All genuine highly enthusiastic, attentive, intelligent, and knowledgeable scientists or biologists 'should' know this, unless the mind is still being conditioned by certain worldly egoistic ancestral/family/cultural/social/spiritual/religious/educational/philosophical/political/commercial/personal/communal/tribal/regional/national/traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, visions, and practices.

It is merely the science of the selfless mind and the selfless modification of the mind, and the conquest of the restless impure egoistic ignorant turbulent disturbed/elevated/depressed suffering impermanent states of mind, by the mind itself.

The highly enthusiastic, attentive, intelligent, and knowledgeable minds that are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance can truly benefit the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, effectively, in many ways, especially the highly inspired ambitious minds that are holding or will be holding certain duty/responsibility/position/power of parenting/educating/teaching/coaching/influencing/empowering/acting/working/researching/investigating/inventing/engineering/managing/organizing/town planning/country developing/law making/law enforcing/governing/leadership of any kind.

One stops hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Such mind is not being determined, influenced, manipulated, pleased, displeased, promoted, demoted, motivated, demotivated, intimidated, offended, belittled, humiliated, or hurt by anyone or anything.  

It's okay, if the mind is not free/happy/peaceful in this present moment NOW. This is also impermanent. 

Keep practicing.

No judgment. No comparison. No expectation.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The different stages of understanding and realization

The many different individual minds are functioning under the influence of the different degrees of ignorance and its by-products, that gives rise to different degrees of correct understanding, incorrect understanding, misunderstanding, non-understanding, partial understanding, and complete understanding, that gives rise to the different types of way of thinking and reasoning, way of practice and doing things, values, desires, behavior, or action and reaction.

In the beginning on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, when the mind is still very much functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where there is the natural presence of the idea of 'I' in the thinking/thought process/modification of the mind that gives rise to the sense of separateness and duality, that gives rise to grasping, or egoism of attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that gives rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness that forms and empowers the veil of ignorance, on top of the mind has been being conditioned and influenced by certain inherited and/or adopted worldly passionate egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial/philosophical/social/educational/regional/national inputs, ideas, beliefs, values, and practice, to reason, understand, think, feel, desire, behave, or act and react in certain way and not in certain way, that hinders the mind from seeing and knowing and understanding all and everything as it is, then there is the need of the presence of certain teachings/observations/practices under certain names and forms that the mind can grasp, comprehend, be attracted to, and agree with.

Under the condition of being ignorant, egoistic, impure, and restless, the mind reasons, understands, thinks, and believes that Selflessness is a quality or state of being that can be developed, modified, and achieved, that can be gained or lost, that can increase or decrease, that can be absent or present. - "I used to be selfless, and now I am not selfless, and vice versa", or "I am not selfless, and hence, I am practicing yoga/buddhism practice to become selfless."

Under such understanding, the mind thinks and believes that Selflessness is about the absence of the ego and egoism in itself, that Selflessness is the highest and purest fruit/outcome/result of the practice, where one will attain the state of Selflessness or purity upon the annihilation of the ego and egoism, where the mind understands, thinks, and believes that the ego is about pride and arrogance, where having big and strong ego means having intense pride and arrogance under the absence of humility and humbleness, while having small and weak ego means very little pride or arrogance under the presence of certain degrees of humility or humbleness, while ego-less means the complete absence of pride and arrogance under the full presence of humility and humbleness, or down to earth, or forgiving, or generosity, or simplicity, or gratitude, or unselfishness, or self sacrifice, and so on. - "I was originally selfless and pure, but due to ignorance, I became non-selfless and impure. I need to go back to the state of selflessness and purity, and I will be free."

Under such understanding, the mind thinks and believes that itself has a permanent independent infinite unlimited continuous beginningless and endless (birthless and deathless) immortal selfless pure existence, that is undergoing countless impermanent limited and conditional mortal births and deaths under countless different separate life existence, one after another, that had started due to an initial downfall, or sin, or seed of ignorance, falling down from the realm of immortality to the many different transitional realms of mortality (countless and endless reincarnations/rebirths/births and deaths transitioning in between different realms), that has been being powered by ceaseless and endless generation and accumulation of boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', that gives rise to boundless old and new causes and effects, that gives rise to the seemingly endless loop or wheel of endless births and deaths in order to 'burn-off or reap', or to 'enjoy or suffer' the boundless and endless generation and accumulation of 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', that keep carrying forward to the next and next reincarnations/births and deaths, that will never come to an end.

The mind understands, thinks, and believes that in order to stop or to exit the loop of endless births and deaths, or to be liberated from all kinds of painful suffering, limitations, undesirable conditions, or restless mortal life existence that needs constant maintenance, is

either by doing everything good/virtuous and don't do anything bad/sinful in accordance to the particular inherited and/or adopted cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, belief, values, and practice in the mind about what is good and bad, or what is virtuous and sinful, hopefully either one will be reincarnating to the higher realms of enjoyment upon/after death, or hoping that eventually the boundless accumulation of 'good karma' or 'virtues' undergoing many countless different separate life existences or reincarnations will be enough for it to return to the realm of immortality,

or by inaction and non-reaction, to stop generating any type of fresh 'karma' as well as to endure all kinds of difficulties, struggles, hardships, ill-treatments, exploitation, hurts, or painful suffering in silence without reaction or retaliation, in order to 'burn-off' the past accumulated 'karma', and hoping that the loop/wheel of births and deaths will come to a standstill, or disappear,

or by repent and praying day in and day out, sincerely and diligently, hoping that eventually 'the almighty one' or 'the highest spiritual authority of the universe' will come to rescue and bring oneself back to the realm of immortality,

or by purifying the impure body and mind via certain techniques/methods/observations/practices, to render it absolutely pure and perfect physically and mentally without any impurities, or weakness, or short-coming, or illness, or decay, or aging, to merge the body, mind, and spirit/soul to become one, where most minds interpret yoga as 'the union of the body, mind, and spirit/soul',

or by purifying the lower impure consciousness, or the lower impure finite self, that is not who/what I really/originally am. What/who I really am, or my original true identity, was something perfect/pure/infinite/unlimited/unconditional/permanent/independent/birthless/changeless/decayless/deathless/timeless/attributeless, and that was devoid of the painful suffering of undergoing ceaseless impermanent, limited, and conditional impure/decay-able/momentary mortal restless births and deaths, but somehow it is reluctantly undergoing endless 'punishment' to be undergoing countless rounds of impermanent mortal life existences due to an initial downfall, or the initial seed of ignorance/sin. And hence, by purifying the lower impure consciousness/self will allow 'who I am' to regain the true identification with the original higher pure consciousness or the higher pure infinite Self (that is perfect and pure, that is infinite and permanent, or timeless and changeless, that is devoid of impermanent, limited, and conditional mortal transitional life existence under the impermanent, limited, and conditional existence and function of a body and mind that is full of all kinds of impurities, imperfections, limitations, ceaseless maintenance, painful sorrow, physical/mental/emotional suffering, or meaninglessness, transitioning in between different realms governed by the past total generation and accumulation of boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma' or 'virtues and sins').

Under this understanding, the mind thinks and believes that it is or has an individual consciousness that was originally pure, but somehow it is being contaminated and clouded by the impurities in the impure restless modification of the mind. That is why it doesn't know or couldn't recognize itself. At this stage, the mind thinks and believes that itself is the mind consciousness or the mind conscious awareness that is separated with the modification/mechanism/function of the mind that is impermanent and limited, where the mind thinks that the consciousness that gives rise to the conscious awareness to the mind, that is permanent and unlimited and unconditional, that is uncontaminated and undetermined by the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind that gives rise to the different impermanent states of mind, is itself, or who I am, that belong to itself. Due to the restless egoistic thoughts activities and impurities are ceaselessly occupying the modification of the mind, and hence, it couldn't see or know itself (the conscious awareness doesn't know itself, but it has been ignorantly identifying with the egoistic impure restless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the physical body as 'I').

The mind thinks and understands that 'to know Thyself' means to see or know and regain its real identification with its own pure consciousness/Self. By purifying the contaminated impure lower consciousness that is being contaminated/veiled by the restless egoistic thought activities and impurities in the modification of the mind, will remove the contamination of impurities/the veil of ignorance, to regain and return to the state of purity in the consciousness, to return to its original state of purity, which is also identical with or non-distinctive from the all pervading timeless attributeless changeless birthless deathless universal consciousness, or what certain spirituality or religion refer as 'The creator and the judge of everything' or 'God existence'. - "I am THAT", "I am purity", "I am immortal", "I am infinite, all powerful, all knowledge, all existing/pervading, and all bliss."

or by dis-identifying with the finite impure mortal body and mind, while identifying with the infinite pure immortal Self identity of a permanent independent immortal unique individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness, where the mind thinks and believes that there is the existence of a permanent independent infinite perfect flawless Self identity of an immortal unique individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness existing, or residing, or being trapped in the limited and conditional mortal finite imperfect impure body and mind, where the immortal pure individual soul/spirit/consciousness is distinct from or separated from the mortal impure body and mind that is full of all kinds of impurity and imperfection, where the mortal impure body and mind is undergoing/experiencing ceaseless impermanent changes and all kinds of suffering deriving from impermanent changes, a.k.a. birth, or coming into existence, growth, ceased growing, decay, weakness, illness, fragility, discomfort, aging, disintegrating, and decomposing, or death, while the immortal individual soul/spirit/consciousness is unaffected or uncontaminated by all that. - "The mortal impure body and mind is subject to death, that will die and cease existing, but the immortal individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness of 'who I really/originally am' will continue to exist 'somewhere' upon/after each of the countless deaths of the different life existences of a mortal body and mind."

Meanwhile, under this understanding, the mortal impure body and mind has a beginning of existence and an end of existence, and the impure ignorant mind has been generating boundless actions and reactions through the physical body that turn into endless accumulation of 'good/bad/neutral karma', but 'somehow', the innocent immortal individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness that is silently residing in the background has to be reincarnating into ceaseless rounds of births and deaths of countless separate different life existences, transitioning in between different realms, based on the boundless and ceaseless past generated and total accumulated 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', which then forms and powers an endless loop or wheel of births and deaths that seemed to be impossible to come to a standstill or to be exit/free from. Or, under certain spirituality/religious ideas/belief/values/practice, upon the death of the impure body and mind, the innocent pure soul/spirit/consciousness will be judged and be sentenced to 'heaven to enjoy' or 'hell to suffer' accordingly by 'the creator/judge/highest spiritual authority of the universe' for all the good and bad deeds that were being performed by the impure mind via the impure body. - "I am not the body. I am not the mind. The mortal impure impermanent imperfect limited and conditional finite body and mind is not I. I am the immortal pure permanent perfect unlimited and unconditional infinite Self."

or by annihilating the veil of ignorance, where the mind understands, thinks, and believes that the veil of ignorance is a form of short-coming, weakness, stupidity, low intelligence, lack of education, lack of knowledge, laziness, reluctant to learn/to know/to understand, negativity, inferiority, failure, selfishness, or evilness, that it is shame/humiliation/criticism/punishment/suffering deserving, and that the annihilation of the veil of ignorance is absolutely challenging, that it is unrealistic, and even impossible or unreachable no matter how, due to the existing stubborn veil of ignorance,

or by adopting Sattvic food consumption - devoid of stimulants (Rajasic) or depressants (Tamasic), and engaging in Sattvic activities for the body and mind (physical and mental inputs and outputs) that can influence the energy field (the state of mind) up to certain extend, that is highly recommended for the highly passionate egoistic impure restless minds that are seriously lack of conscious willpower, non-attachment, detachment, self-restraint, self-discipline, or self-control, that are easily and/or completely be influenced and determined by the perception of different experiences/dualities/qualities/ideas/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/situations, but, it doesn't matter for the minds that are endowed with basic correct understanding, mental and emotional independence, non-attachment, detachment, willpower, and self-control, that are effortlessly being unaffected or undetermined by the different experiences/dualities/qualities/ideas/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/situations,

or by developing and empowering positive thinking to counter negative thinking, which only serves as a soothing or relieving element, but it is not the end or goal of the journey,

or by engaging in one or combination path of yoga - Karma Yoga (selfless action/service), Bhakti Yoga (devotion - chanting/prayer/japa/mantra/rituals), Raja Yoga (Ashtanga - Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi), or Jnana Yoga (wisdom/right discrimination/contemplation/Self-inquiry/Vichara/Vedanta). They exist to suit the many different minds under different types of condition, situation, temperament, characteristic, and personality, and they appear to be separated and different from one another, but they all have the one same essence which is about the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, or the annihilation/subjugation of the passionate egoistic impure restless modification of the mind, or the stillness/silence of the restless thought current.

All the mentioned different types of observation and practice doesn't guarantee the direct realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, if without the elimination of the idea of 'I' and egoism. 

Just by engaging in any or all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism observation and practice regularly or irregularly while observing a clean and pure vegetarian food consumption, that gives rise to many impermanent momentary desirable side-effects or physical and mental health and fitness benefits, as well as 'do everything good and don't do anything bad' and 'positive thinking', that gives rise to the momentary sense of goodness, righteousness, positiveness, happiness, hope, and meaningfulness, but if without working on eliminating the ego and egoism, consciously and practically, during the practice and outside the practice in daily life existence/affair/interaction/relationship, it doesn't lead the mind towards the liberation from ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance. And that's okay too.

Although under the presence of the sense of self-righteousness in the passionate egoistic impure restless mind might give rise to certain harmful action and reaction towards what the mind perceives/understands/thinks/believes/recognizes as 'bad', 'wrong', 'negative', 'hurtful', 'betrayal', 'immoral', 'disrespectful', 'humiliation', 'intimidation', 'destructive', 'offensive', 'cruel', or 'evil', which is completely nothing to do with yoga and/or buddhism, or wisdom and compassion.

Regular and persistent engagement in certain observation and practice is highly important for the minds that are still functioning under the veil of ignorance and perceiving all kinds of disturbance and painful suffering, but whether the mind will attain direct realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence of all kinds of names and forms, or about the many different individual selfless body and mind and the one and only timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, or about selflessness, non-duality, oneness, non-separateness, timelessness, attributelessness, birthlessness, and deathlessness, or about the veil of ignorance, the ego, egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the selfless impermanent limited and conditional manifestation of all kinds of names and forms manifesting/changing/coming and going governed under the nature's law of cause and effect in the infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, or not, it doesn't matter at all.

And, there might be some other forms of understanding/beliefs/values/ideas that exist as the medium that initiates or motivates the mind to be engaging in some kinds of observation and practice, but all are having the similar goal or objective about attaining, or regaining, or returning to the state of immortality, or purity, or unlimited, or unconditional, or suffering free, or pure and eternal bliss, or going back to 'God', or 'the highest realm of optimum enjoyment and bliss', or 'heaven', or 'super extraordinary mystical power of making all wishes come true and controlling everything to be the way that I desire', or longevity, or forever youthfulness, or illness and injury free.

There is an instinctive natural common yearning towards unconditional and unlimited freedom, liberation, knowledge, and peace, or what most minds misinterpreted as the fleeting momentary sense of satisfaction, dominant power of control/influence/manipulation/bully, wealth/possession hoarding, relationship/ties and connection accumulation, power of creation and expansion, and the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, goodness, righteousness, accomplishment, happiness, joyfulness, and meaningfulness deriving from the gratification of boundless desire of craving and aversion, in all the conscious egoistic impure restless minds that perceive restlessness and all kinds of undesirable evitable and inevitable painful suffering under the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness during the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

All conscious self aware and self acknowledging minds naturally want to be free, be happy, be unlimited, be forever, except the minds that have attained direct realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, where these minds are effortlessly resting in unconditional peace.

And hence, the minds that are 'not free', 'not happy', 'being limited', and 'being momentary' are motivated to be engaging in certain observation and practice under different names and forms enthusiastically and regularly, in order to be able to be free from all kinds of limitation, condition, decay, aging, illness, fragility, discomfort, unhappiness, painful sorrow, physical/mental/emotional suffering, disintegration, and mortality (death), or to exit the restless loop or wheel of countless and endless births and deaths, or to be attaining ultimate freedom of existence/being/living/movement/action/expression/thinking and belief, or to be attaining the highest liberation of to be liberated from ignorance and suffering devoid of cruelty and violence, or to be attaining the wishful mystical superpower of controlling/manipulating/influencing/manifesting everything under one's desire.

Regardless of the different characteristics, personalities, beliefs, values, motivations, desires, initiations, teachings, practices, or understanding that bring the different minds onto the path/engagement/action of 'attaining what the mind wants to attain', the most important and essential teachings in this beginning stage is about - Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind propagating, non-blind glorifying, and non-worshiping, while inquiring the truth of all and everything, to attain the direct realization towards the truth of everything that the mind comes in contact with, of all kinds of existing inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, practices, inspirations, and aspirations, including all kinds of teachings, observations, and practices of yoga and/or buddhism that the mind comes in contact with, that was heard, read, or learnt from anyone and anywhere, even if it is directly coming from an enlightened mind that has awakened or liberated from the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. any Buddha/Guru/yogi/dhamma teacher, where the essential teachings or dhamma of both yoga and buddhism is the same - 

'All are selfless' - Selflessness

'All are impermanent' - Impermanence

'All these are suffering' - Suffering and the root cause of suffering and the end of suffering

Limitation and Conditional

Non-self 

The nature's law of cause and effect

Non-grasping

Non-craving and non-aversion

Non-duality

Dispassion

Desirelessness

Contentment

Non-greed

Non-hatred

Non-hoarding

Non-possessiveness

Non-stealing

Kindness

Non-violence

Truthfulness

Straightforwardness

Simplicity

The middle path

Mind purification

Open mind

Conquest of mind by the mind itself

Self-reliance

Forbearance 

Non-blind believing/following/practicing/propagating/glorifying/worshiping

Inquire the truth of everything

Direct self realization towards the truth

The annihilation of the veil of ignorance

The eradication of the ego and egoism

Attentiveness

Clarity

Wisdom

Silence/Samadhi

It is about developing and empowering open mind and non-grasping, self investigation and self introspection, self inquiry and self realization, while engaging in certain observations and practices regularly under the different partial imperfect knowledge and different stages and degrees of understanding, and keep practicing until the mind attains direct realization towards the truth as it is, under a rendered calm, quiet, and focused state of mind.

And hence, the highly importance of the observation of dispassion (Vairagya), right discrimination (Viveka), self inquiry and self introspection (Vichara), study of the scriptures/teachings/dhamma (Swadhyaya), desirelessness, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence (Mauna), mental and emotional independence, withdrawal of the senses (Pratyahara), concentration (Dharana), self discipline (Dama), the middle path, steadiness/equanimity/tranquility (Sama), one-pointedness/attentiveness (Samadhana), forbearance (Titiksha), surrendering/letting go the ego and egoism (Pranidhana), or cessation of worldly affairs/activities (Uparati), for an extended duration, under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation, knowledge, freedom, and peace (Mumukshutva), to free the mind from being conditioned by worldly passionate egoistic impure restless ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, ties and connections, activities, affairs, habitual behavior, action, and reaction, to prepare the mind for meditation (Dhyana), self-inquiry, and self-realization. More importantly, all those observation and practice are being performed under the absence of grasping, devoid of attachment or identification towards the practice and the fruit/outcome/result/side-effects of the practice.

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After having engaging in certain regular observation and practice of yoga and/or buddhism for certain duration enthusiastically and diligently, especially under the observation of renunciation, dispassion, and silence in solitude and seclusion to be minimizing or cutting-off worldly passionate egoistic affairs/activities/interactions/communications/ties and connections, to be rendering the mind more and more quiet and focus, or less and less restless and distracted than before, the mind will eventually realize that all those existing understanding, thinking, belief, teachings, observation, practice, desire, and motivation, even though they are directing/showing the mind towards the direction of attaining 'what they want to attain', or mainly the liberation from ignorance and suffering, that initiates and motivates the mind to be embarking onto the journey of self inquiry and self realization, but it is not the truth as it is, nor the ultimate goal of the practice, as the mind won't be able to grasp or comprehend the absolute truth of Selflessness if without the initial active continuous engagement in all kinds of observation and practice regularly being initiated or motivated by the partial incomplete understanding, where they are only some useful and practical partial knowledge and understanding that can be comprehended or grasped by the mind that was highly egoistic, impure, restless, disturbed, or confused. - "I am working/practicing diligently towards purifying and disciplining myself, to be free from ignorance, to attain liberation from suffering, and to attain infinite unlimited and unconditional peace."

There is the existence of the idea of 'I'/the ego/self acknowledgement in the selfless perceptive thinking mind trying very hard to 'find out' and to 'prove' about 'There is no I existing in all and everything.' - "How is it possible that I am existing here and now inquiring towards I am non-existing?" What the mind couldn't understand yet at this stage is that, it is not about the selfless mind itself doesn't exist, or it is not about all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms don't exist at all, but there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual existence of I existing in the selfless body and/or mind that only exists momentarily, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, and that the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the body and mind doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself. - Non-self

There is nothing wrong with all those partial knowledge/understanding and initial observations and practices being initiated under certain desires or motivations, that serve as the medium for the minds that are functioning more or less under the influence of the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness, a.k.a. the natural veil of ignorance that is there upon the conscious activation of the modification of the mind under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, to be embarking onto the journey of conscious mind evolution.

The mind that is now being rendered less and less egoistic, impure, and restless, is starting to be aware of the presence of the unknown that is limitless, or there are many things that it doesn't know or couldn't understand, or there are still many doubts about many things, and it realizes that all those understanding, observations, and practices themselves don't lead towards the exit/the end from the loop of births and deaths, or the standstill of the wheel of endless births and deaths, as there are 'irrelevance', or 'incoherence', or 'flaw', or 'unrealistic' about all that, because all those understanding/belief/values/observations/practices about 'exiting the loop of births and deaths to be free from suffering and all kinds of limitations and undesirableness', are merely 'something for the mind to hold onto while functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance perceiving and experiencing all kinds of disturbance, hurts, dissatisfaction, disappointment, untruthfulness, stories telling, bullying ill treatment, violence, cruelty, and undesirable painful physical/mental/emotional suffering' to begin with upon embarking onto the journey of self inquiry and direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, or unconditional peace under the absence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. -

"The more the mind knows and understands under a rendered calm and quiet and focused state of mind, the more it knows and understands that there are many things that it doesn't know and doesn't understand, where what the mind knows is limited, but what the mind doesn't know (the unknown) has no limitation." 

And more importantly, is that there is nothing wrong, or bad, or negative, or short-coming, or humiliating, or shameful, or offensive, or criticism/condemn/punishment deserving towards the presence of ignorance and limitation in the mind, or about the mind doesn't know and doesn't understand towards many things that is beyond the reach, awareness, and knowledge of the mind that is limited and conditional. - "Knowing the presence of ignorance and limitation, is indeed the highly precious presence of wisdom"

The realization towards 'the unknown is unlimited' and the realization towards 'the veil of ignorance is merely a common natural manifestation in all minds, upon the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness', is indeed the greatest realization, understanding, knowledge, or wisdom, that will lead the mind towards the annihilation of the passionate egoistic impure restless modification of the mind, to be able to see the truth of everything as it is.

Dissatisfaction, discontentment, or greed has no limitation or boundary, but the presence of some basic correct understanding deriving from the conscious active engagement in some persistent regular yoga and/or buddhism observation and practice will naturally remove the sense of dissatisfaction, discontentment, or greed, as well as all kinds of egoism and impurities from the modification of the mind, little by little. Just like the development of physical stamina, strength, and flexibility, it is possible to be developing, improving, and gaining stamina, strength, and flexibility little by little up to certain extend, under persistent regular stamina, strength, and flexibility training. Although, again, that is not the goal of the practice, or liberation.

The presence of the ego, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', or the conscious self awareness or self acknowledgement, (the mind perceives the existence and function of itself) is neither something bad nor negative. It is a natural phenomena that manifests as it is under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless modification of the mind. And due to that conscious self acknowledgement, or the idea of 'I', or the ego, on top of under the influence of worldly passionate egoistic ideas, belief, values, and practice about the existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal unique individual self identity/soul/spirit/consciousness, the mind is being ignorant towards the truth of selflessness in all and everything, especially in all kinds of conscious sentient living organisms, particularly in its own selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind itself.

In the beginning, it is the presence of the ego in the selfless mind that was interested in performing certain yoga and/or buddhism practice, or some other name and form of practice, with the intention or desire to gratify its yearning towards liberation from ignorance and suffering, or to know and understand what it doesn't know and doesn't understand. And hence, thanks to the ego, or the conscious self awareness, or the restlessness, or the impurities, or the doubts, or the ignorance, or the perception of all kinds of undesirable limitations/experiences/conditions/situations/relationships and painful physical/mental/emotional suffering, that served as the medium that initiates or motivates the mind to embark onto the journey to be free from all that.

Even though all are selfless, but under the presence of the ego, there arise many different identification and non-identification with many different qualities of names and forms in the mind. - "I am this", "I am that", "I am not this or that."

It is the ego or the idea of 'I' that is the one existing in the mind that is either identifying or non-identifying with this or that.

Under the absence of the ego, there is no idea of 'I' existing in the selfless mind to be identifying or non-identifying with any qualities of names and forms. There is absence of grasping. There is neither "I am this or that" nor "I am neither this nor that".

Upon the silence of the selfless modification of the mind, or upon the absence of the restless egoistic impure selfless thought activities, or upon the absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness being aware/semi-aware of the existence and function of the body and mind itself as well as the surrounding environment under the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, who or what is there to be identifying with anything as 'I'?

The all pervading timeless attributeless changeless actionless infinite selfless universal consciousness (that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that pervades all and everything timelessly, that gives rise to the different states of consciousness as well as conscious/semi-conscious awareness to the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the physical body to be aware of the momentary mortal existence and function of itself and the surrounding environment, that is uncontaminated by all kinds of names and forms being what they are, as they are (constructive or destructive), ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away at respective cause and pace, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, where all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of names and forms and their respective selfless activities are inter-supporting/impacting all and everything) doesn't has an idea of 'I', or thought activity, or action taking, to be acknowledging itself as 'I', or to be identifying with anything as 'I'.

Self-inquiry to be inquiring towards "who/what am I?" - to know Thyself, is about the mind realizes and knows the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in the body and mind, as well as in all kinds of names and forms, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects. It is not about realizing/regaining/reconnecting/re-identifying with an original infinite identity of 'who I really am' that doesn't exist at all.

That is why during the process of Self-inquiry inquiring towards "Who am I?", whatever the mind answers, whatever the mind thinks and believes and understands and identifies as who it is, or who it really is, it's incorrect, it's not the truth.

"All are selfless. All are impermanent," but there is no I existing to be identifying as, "I am selfless. I am impermanent."

Even when the mind deliberately doesn't identify with any qualities of names and forms, while identifying with something identity-less, attributeless, nameless, and formless, such as "I am not this or that", or "I am nobody", or "I am nothing", or "I am selfless", or "I don't have any permanent or impermanent, independent or dependent, infinite or finite individual self identity", or "I am attributeless, nameless, and formless", or "I am THAT", or "I am the selfless identity-less infinite universal consciousness", or "I am one with all and everything", or "I am that I am", or "I doesn't exist", and etc, it is still not free yet, as the idea of 'I', or the conscious self awareness/acknowledgment is still there, trying to inquire or figure out, and identifying as 'who/what I am' and 'who/what I am not'.

Regardless of whether the mind 'thinks' it knows or doesn't know, it is still not free yet. Such as, the mind doesn't know or have any answer to the question of "Who I am?", and hence, it doesn't say anything, but there is still the thinking in the mind that thinks and acknowledges and identifies, "I don't know who I am".

The mind that truly knows and understands, there is only silence. There is neither identification nor non-identification. There is neither "I realize" nor "I know" nor "I understand".  Under the presence of this absolute understanding, there is nothing wrong with carrying all kinds of worldly identifications to be living and moving around and doing something in this world of ignorance and egoism, however the mind knows that all kinds of identifications are only for convenience while being existing and living selflessly and momentarily in this world of ignorance and egoism, but all kinds of different identifications are not the truth of what the selfless body and mind is.

However, the initial practice of non-identification with any qualities of names and forms (Neti Neti) is highly essential and practical for the mind to eradicate the ego and egoism, that eventually will lead the mind towards the direct realization and understanding towards the truth of Selflessness.

Upon the annihilation of the ego and egoism, the mind will realize that Selflessness is nothing to do with the annihilation of the ego and egoism, and the ego is nothing to do with pride and arrogance, or Selflessness is nothing to do with unselfishness and self sacrifice, where Selflessness is merely the truth of all and everything, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, regardless of the presence or absence of the ego, a.k.a. the conscious self awareness/acknowledgement or the idea/notion of 'I', egoistic or non-egoistic, pure or impure, wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, positive or negative thinking, and so on, where it is the truth of there is no existence of a permanent independent immortal infinite unique individual self identity of an immortal individual soul/spirit/consciousness that exists and resides in the mortal body and mind to be undergoing ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of forming (birth - coming into existence and functioning), ceaseless life maintenance, growth (generation and regeneration/rehabilitation), ceased growing, decay (degeneration), illness, weakness, aging, disintegration, and decompose (death - ceased functioning and existence), or undergoing restless 'births and deaths' transitioning in between 'different realms' (that is referring to the restless impermanent modification of the mind transitioning in between different states of mind), and Selflessness is not a quality or state of being, and is neither a practice nor the fruit/outcome/result of the practice.

The mind will also realize that there were/are many individual unique selfless minds existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, being part of the different selfless mechanisms of the respective many different selfless physical structures of the selfless living organisms that existed/exist under different time (era), space (location), causation (cause and effect), condition, situation, genetic inheritance, characteristic, personality, temperament, behavior pattern, action/reaction and the consequences of action/reaction, where the many different individual selfless bodies and minds existed and functioned/exist and function impermanently and momentarily under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements to be functioning as what it is and maintaining life existence up to certain extend, where all kinds of names and forms have a beginning of existence and an end of existence and there are ceaseless impermanent changes in between beginning of existence and ceased existence, but there is only the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, that gives rise to the different states of consciousness in the living organisms, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is untouched, uncontaminated, undisturbed, unhurt, undamaged, unaffected, or undetermined by all kinds of selfless names and forms being what they are, as they are, or the different selfless impermanent limited and conditional states of mind of each and every countless conscious sentient selfless living organisms being what they are, as they are, where different countless thoughts/ideas/feelings/emotions/desires come and go, where different states of the different minds manifesting as they are, ceaselessly changing and passing away, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

The ceaseless and restless wheel of births and deaths is about the selfless impermanent limited and conditional ceaseless manifestation of countless different names and forms (of countless thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, sensations, desires, conditions, conscious and unconscious physical and mental activities for life maintenance, generation/regeneration/degeneration of all the countless cells that form the different components/systems of the physical structure, actions, and reactions/responses towards the mind perception of the internal and external impermanent conditions/situations/names and forms/activities/sights/sounds/smells/tastes/sensations) that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away within the selfless body and mind and in the external surrounding environment, but there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual self identity of a unique individual immortal pure soul/spirit/consciousness, of 'who/what I really am' beyond the impure mortal impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, that exists and resides in the respective body and mind to be undergoing all that, or to be accountable for all that, or to be affected by all that.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal body and mind is the one that performs/generates countless actions/activities consciously, semi-consciously, and unconsciously, that gives rise to the consequences of actions/activities, that are impacting the internal and external impermanent condition and situation in certain way or not in certain way.

The selfless body and mind is the one that is accountable for all its conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious activities/actions (intentional or unintentional) and the respective consequences of activities/actions, that enjoys or suffers, that is pure or impure, that is kind or unkind, that is peaceful or peaceless, that is selfish or unselfish, that is in doubt and that needs to be free from doubt, that is egoistic under the presence and influence of the ego and that needs to eradicate the ego and egoism, or that perceives restlessness and painful suffering and that needs to be free from all that.

The all pervading timeless attributeless nameless formless actionless selfless universal consciousness is merely the silent witness towards all that, where it is untouched, unchanged, unaffected, undetermined, uncontaminated, undamaged, or unhurt by all that. The countless different bodies and minds/living organisms/non-living objects ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, but the selfless universal consciousness is always there as it is, it doesn't come or go.

It is like all kinds of names and forms manifesting under different qualities keep coming and going/arising and passing away in the infinite space, but the infinite space is untouched, unchanged, uncontaminated, unaffected, undamaged, or unhurt by all that. The infinite space doesn't increase or decrease, doesn't become bigger or smaller, doesn't become pure or impure. It is timeless, attributeless, nameless, formless, changeless, non-manifested, unborn, unlimited, unconditional, indestructible, and immeasurable. The infinite space is limitless, it doesn't has a beginning or an end, and it cannot be seen, or heard, or smelled, or touched, or felt, or held, or detected, but it is there, where all and everything manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away upon, under each of their own respective cause and pace. When the entire world, or universe, or galaxy, or all kinds of names and forms disappear, the space is still there as it is, and the timeless attributeless nameless formless actionless changeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space, is always there as it is.

The mind will also realize towards Timelessness, where there is only NOW, that there is neither past nor future, where all and everything in NOW are ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, either are still existing, or had ceased existing, or are in the process of forming/coming into existence/growing/ceased growing/decaying/disintegrating/decomposing/ceased existing, in NOW, and the perception of time, or the idea/notion of past/present/future, or the calculation/recognition/representation of second/minute/hour/day/night/week/month/year, is merely the reflection of ceaseless impermanent changes and all kinds of activities that are happening in NOW.

The ideas/beliefs/values/practices about there is the existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self identity of an unique immortal pure soul/spirit/consciousness undergoing countless reincarnations of countless different separate life existences undertaking different names and forms transitioning between different realms from the past to the present and into the future, a.k.a. the beginningless and endless loop of births and deaths or the restless wheel of reincarnation transitioning between different realms governed by inexhaustible boundless generation and accumulation of 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', and all the other types of ideas/beliefs/values/practices under different names and forms, as well as the doubt, fear, craving, aversion, clinging, longing, discontentment, greed, and anticipation that come along with all that, and all kinds of partial incomplete understanding, will naturally become invalid and vanish from the mind upon the direct realization towards Timelessness and Selflessness.

All and everything of all kinds of perceptions/experiences, are being reflected and manifesting in the form of thought process/thought current/modification in the mind that is existing and functioning in NOW, not in the past nor in the future. 

In NOW, the mind perceives sights/sounds/smells/tastes/sensations/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations, the mind perceives/sees/hears/smells/tastes/senses/feels through the senses via the organs of the senses, the mind remembers or doesn't remember, the mind imagines/visualizes/anticipates, the mind recognizes or doesn't recognize, the mind knows or doesn't know, the mind experiences, the mind reasons/analyzes, the mind understands or doesn't understand or misunderstand, the mind desires or doesn't desires, the mind likes or doesn't like, the mind agrees or disagrees, the mind believes or disbelieves, the mind acts and reacts or doesn't act and doesn't react, the mind creates, the mind destroys, the mind is aware/conscious/awake/activated, the mind is semi-aware/semi-conscious/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dreaming/resting, the mind is unaware/unconscious/deep sleep/inactivated, the mind is at ease and at peace, the mind is unease/agitated/disturbed/stimulated/unrest, the mind is depressed/confused/lost/bored, the mind grasps or doesn't grasp, the mind tolerates or doesn't tolerate, the mind enjoys or doesn't enjoy, the mind suffers or doesn't suffer, the mind energized or exhausted, there are ceaseless thought process/thought activities/thought current of countless different ideas/thoughts/thinking/understanding/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations/anticipations/desires/aspirations/urges/dreams arising and passing away, either consciously, semi-consciously, or unconsciously, and so on.

What is past or future? Everything is in NOW, and they are ceaselessly changing and passing away.

And all that, the subject and the object, the perceiver and the perceived, the experiencer and the experience, the thinker and the thinking, the action performer and the action, or all the names and forms and the different qualities, are all selfless and impermanent, are all limited and conditional, and are all non-self.

If without the body, what is the mind? If without the mind, what is all that? If without the support of the energy and different elements, what is the existence and function of the body and mind? If without the conscious and semi-conscious awareness, what is all that? What is 'I'? What is this or that? What is good or bad? What is pleasant enjoyment or painful suffering?

If without the space hosting the galaxy, the universe, the planets, the stars, the moons, the earth, the livable condition or atmosphere, the sun, the heat, the air, the water, the minerals, the nature, the plants, the diverse living organisms, the gravitation, the movements of the earth, or the energy and all kinds of inter-supporting elements existing and being what they are, what is life existence and life maintenance? What is the body and mind? What is survival instinct? What is consciousness/awareness? What is possessiveness and ownership? What are all kinds of identifications and the sense of belonging/self-esteem/self-worth/pride and shame/superiority and inferiority/status? What is livelihood, or survival, or self-sufficient, or making a living, or job, or business, or money making, or capitalism, or exploitation, or investment, or economy, or prosperity, or the different ways of living/lifestyles/cultures/beliefs/values/practices? What is anger and hatred? What is love and kindness? What is ties and connection or relationship? What is interaction and communication? What is suffering and the end of suffering?

There is nothing belong to anyone or anything, where all and everything are existing and functioning under the generosity of inter-supporting among all and everything, consciously or unconsciously, what is there that cannot let go? 

It is absolutely possible to be free from all that ignorance and consequences of ignorance, although it doesn't matter, if the mind is still not free after engaging in all kinds of observation and practice until the end of life existence. But, more important, is there is the understanding of, "It's okay", "All is impermanent", and "There is nothing that can't let go," upon death, and even better, if while still living and functioning, where the mind is aware of all and everything is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, where under this correct understanding/knowledge/wisdom, the mind doesn't intentionally or unintentionally hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment under any conditions or situations, but making good use or full use of the life existence and function of the body and mind to be doing something beneficial to oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

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