The selfless intentionless survival instinct

Selfless survival instinct is neither good nor bad, it is just what it is, a selfless intentionless biological autonomous mechanism that is needed to be existing/functioning selflessly in all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional living organism (with or without the selfless thinking and acting faculty/mobile or immobile) for the selfless existence and function as well as the survival or sustainability of the selfless life existence of all kinds of living organism up to a certain extend, because all the different life supporting systems and components that are forming the existence and function of the living organism, are selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional, that have a limited existence, and that will decay and disintegrate.

Unlike non-living organisms or objects that are also selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional, if without the selfless autonomous mechanism of survival instinct, the living organisms cannot be formed 'properly', or come into existence to be what they are, not to say, to survive/function as what they are upon coming into existence. Similarly, a thing that is meant to be a car, but if it is missing one of the essential components that makes a car to be existing and functioning as what it is, then it doesn't become a car, or it is a non-functional car that is missing one of the essential components.

Survival instinct alone, either under the absence of consciousness/awareness/freewill of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, or, under the presence of consciousness/awareness/freewill of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is devoid of ignorance and its by-products of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, is merely about instinctive non-conscious/choice-less/intentionless autonomous physical and mental activities that are activated under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, to maintain life existence, such as -

- Activate the signal/sensation of hunger and thirst or weakness/pain or discomfort and malfunction demanding for conscious action from the thinking and acting faculty to be attending/gratifying the need to replenish energy/air/water/nutrients/minerals, as well as the need of energy conservation and rest to allow recovery from overuse/exhaustion/tension/weakness/injury/illness, where the living organism needs to be keep refueling energy repeatedly before complete energy depletion happens, as well as to be looking after any existing excessive energy depletion/tiredness/tension/weakness/injury/illness before they become worst and jeopardizing the life maintenance, or else, life maintenance becomes difficult and impossible, or the biological autonomous mechanism of the different life supporting systems will be malfunction and dysfunction, and eventually, ceased operating/functioning, or ceased living.

- Activate the auto immune and survival reflex, to be avoiding and minimizing internal and external damage/injury/illness/threat/danger/risk/extreme detrimental environment, condition, and situation, that is detrimental or threatening to the survival or maintenance of the life existence and function of the living organism.

- Activate repair and regeneration (growth) up to a certain extend, where decay/aging/weakness/illness/malfunction/dysfunction/ceased function/disintegration take place.

- Activate the signal/sensation demanding for conscious action to be balancing between activeness and idleness (rest/sleep/awake/energy consumption and replenishment/waste products elimination/interchanging between physical activity and mental activity/interchanging between different positions and movements) - neither continuous prolonged activeness or overuse (that leads to excessive or complete exhaustion/energy depletion/damage) nor continuous prolonged idleness or under-use (non-attending the needs for maintaining sustainable existence and proper function), where both extremity will be detrimental to life maintenance, that will lead to malfunction and dysfunction (the presence of difficulty for maximal survival/existence), and eventually, ceased living, or ceased existence.

- Activate the digestion and absorption and distribution of energy and elements, and the elimination of waste products, of the complete biological autonomous life mechanism or bodily system, that is happening ceaselessly from the beginning of life existence until the end of life existence, either under the absence or presence of consciousness/awareness/freewill of the thinking and acting faculty/conscious by choice activities.

- Similarly, activate the selfless thought processing process of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, to be processing/digesting/absorbing/distributing/storing/dissolving/releasing the ceaseless mind inputs/thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/imaginations/memories/experiences/perceptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations/dreams, of all kinds of mind stuffs, or mental and emotional activities, or states of mind.

- Activate evolution/changes/adjustment of both the hardware and software of the living organism, to adapt/accommodate the current internal and external condition and situation for continuous survival, or to sustain maximal existence until the end of existence.

- Activate reproduction, to sustain, pass on, and expand existence, to create conducive condition for maximum survival, to gather internal and external assistance/support/knowledge/skill, to strengthen defense.

The selfless unlimited and unconditional attributeless changeless birthless and deathless universal consciousness beyond existence and non-existence is undetermined or uncontaminated by the selfless manifestation of all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms that arising, changing, and passing away upon it (Both the selfless projector and the selfless projector screen that projects and hosts all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, is not being determined, affected, or contaminated by all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms that come and go).

The selfless mechanism of the selfless thinking and acting faculty is the selfless projector of names and forms that projects thoughts/feelings/emotions/desires/actions/reactions upon the selfless projector screen (the selfless impermanent modification of the mind/thought activities), as well as the selfless perceiver that perceives names and forms (all kinds of experiences) through the senses and sense organs, as well as the selfless action performer that performs action and reaction via the organs of action and speech or expression (activated by instinctive urge for survival and/or conscious intention for gratification of desires).

The selfless mechanism of survival instinct is the intentionless mechanism that activate all kinds of life supporting systems, to maintain equilibrium of the physical and mental inputs and outputs, energy consumption, energy absorption, energy distribution, energy storage, energy conservation, and energy expenditure, to sustain or maintain life existence (up to a certain extend) until the end of life existence, even under the absence of consciousness, or awareness, or the freewill of the selfless thinking and acting faculty. Such as, if the physical body is out of the supply of energy/water/air/nutrients/minerals to maintain the life supporting system, the bodily system will start to consume the body itself to extract energy/water/air/nutrients/minerals from the entire physical body that is made up of all these, until the supply of all these life supporting essential energy and elements is available again, or else, the life supporting system will eventually malfunction/dysfunction (energy depletion), until it stops operating/functioning (complete energy depletion/ceased living/existing), and disintegrate.

The selfless conscious thinking and acting faculty is not the selfless intentionless survival instinct, just as all kinds different individual selfless systems in the selfless physical body of all kinds of selfless living organism that come with their own respective selfless duty. Although the survival instinct is there to be activating certain signal/sensation to the selfless conscious thinking and acting faculty demanding certain attention and action for attending certain needs for life maintenance. Meanwhile, what and how the selfless thinking and acting faculty acts and reacts, or not, towards the instinctive urge/signal, is being influenced by the presence or absence of correct understanding and self-control or the absence or presence of ignorance and its by-products in the modification of the mind.

The thinking and acting faculty could be influenced and over-powered by the instinctive sexual urge and/or conscious lustful desire under the absence of correct understanding and willpower of self-control, where it is being determined or over-powered by the instinctive autonomous activities in the physical body and the selfless modification of the mind operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct, or, the thinking and acting faculty can developed correct understanding and willpower of self-control, and not being determined or over-powered by all kinds of selfless instinctive autonomous activities in the physical body and the selfless modification of the mind, transcending survival instinct and all kinds of selfless impermanent changes in the body and mind, of ceaseless life maintenance, hunger and thirst, sexual desire, the selfless impermanent thought process/modification/state of the mind, selfless instinctive evolution, non-instinctive by choice transformation, decay, illness, weakness, injury, aging, and disintegration.

The selfless/ego-less/'I'-less biological autonomous mechanism of several bodily systems (both hardware and software) that work together with one another, that support and inter-dependent on one another, are solely performing their respective duty selflessly under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, however, the selfless thinking and acting faculty of the living organism could be generating conscious non-autonomous (by choice/freewill) desire or don't desire, action or inaction, that are influencing and impacting the selfless biological autonomous life mechanism in certain way, either intentionally or unintentionally, where the impact could be supporting and enhancing the overall well-being under the presence of correct understanding devoid of ignorance and its by-products, or the impact could be hurtful and damaging to the overall well-being under the presence of ignorance or the disturbed discontented dissatisfied impure restless state of mind, devoid of correct understanding.

There is no 'I' in the entire mechanism of the hardware and software of the physical body and the thinking and acting faculty, however, under the absence of correct understanding, or under the presence of ignorance and its by-products, there is the idea of 'I' (the ego/Ahamkara) existing in the modification of the mind deriving from ignorance, that influence the thinking and acting faculty (the mind) to be generating actions and reactions via the organs of action and speech or expression, to be gratifying boundless desires (craving) and don't desires (aversion), and upon desires are not being gratified, there is mental reaction of all kinds of impurities arising and occupying the modification of the mind (the thought process), that lead to physical reaction of hurtful or damaging behavior under the influence of impurities.

That process between the rise of certain mental actions/reactions (mental and emotional activities), regardless of whether instinctive survival urge or non-instinctive conscious by choice desire, and might or might not turn into physical actions/reactions or expression, can be intervened or cutoff by the thinking and acting faculty that has developed certain degrees of correct understanding, willpower, and self-control.

The mind perceives the sensation of hunger (instinctive survival urge). The mind can either eat now or later, or doesn't want to eat at all (non-instinctive conscious by choice desire and action/inaction), or there is no availability of food (the current condition and situation of the availability of food as well as food choices). Under the presence of hunger, but somehow, it is not being attended or gratified immediately or as soon as possible, the mind acts and reacts differently, either remains calmed/equanimous under the presence of correct understanding and self-control, or becomes agitated/dissatisfied/irritated/irrational under the influence of ignorance and its by-products.

The selfless thinking and acting faculty (the selfless perceiver/the selfless thinker/the selfless experiencer/the selfless action performer) can transcend its own modification of the mind that is supported and influenced by the selfless biological autonomous mechanism operated under the selfless intentionless survival instinct under the selfless support and influence of the selfless energy and elements.

The selfless thinking and acting faculty that is functioning under the presence of correct understanding, or under the absence of ignorance and its by-products, devoid of the restless egoistic impure disturbed state of mind, can choose whether it wants to act or react, or not, and how it wants to act or react towards all kinds of experiences, of what kind of behavior, desire/don't desire, or decision making, under the presence of correct understanding, willpower, and self-control, not being determined or over-powered by the instinctive biological autonomous mechanism or bodily system and the thought processing process operated under the selfless survival instinct supported and influenced by the selfless energy and elements, being aware of the selfless impermanent physical changes and thought activities, without attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, while may, or may not, utilize the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence to serve the world that is full of unnecessary and evitable suffering deriving from ignorance and its by-products.

The existence of all kinds of ignorance inflicted suffering is not the responsibility of the selfless intentionless survival instinct or the selfless thinking and acting faculty of the selfless living organism, but it is merely the consequences of the presence of ignorance and its by-product influencing the selfless thinking and acting faculty to be generating conscious by choice desires/behaviors/actions/reactions out of ignorance, that give rise to the consequences of all that.

Regardless of whether there is ignorance or correct understanding, or not, the selfless survival instinct is still performing its selfless intentionless duty of being what it is. However, the selfless thinking and acting faculty could be performing action/inaction that is benefiting or deteriorating to the over-all well-being of the selfless physical body or the selfless bodily systems, under the influence of correct understanding or ignorance.

Greed and ambitiousness, pride and shame, anger and hatred, jealousy and envy, attachment and identification, craving and aversion, discrimination and selfishness, manipulation and exploitation, possessiveness and separateness, violence and cruelty, bitterness and vengeance, chasing after endless indulgence in luxurious pleasurable enjoyment of the senses, the sense of loneliness, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, clinging and longing, politicking, plotting, scheming, of all kinds of impurities, are arising in the modification of the mind under the presence of ignorance and its by-products, on top of the selfless intentionless survival instinct.

If tired, then take rest. If hungry and thirsty (energy depletion), then eat and drink to replenish energy. If energy replenished (absence of hunger and thirst), then stopped eating and drinking. If there is waste products accumulated, then pee/shit/sweat. If there's indigestion, then vomit/diarrhea. If there's germ/virus, then increase body temperature (fever). If injured or sicked, then rest, treat, and recover. If this position is uncomfortable, then change position. If holding something burning hot, then let it go. If it's too cold, then warm up. If it's too hot, then cool down. If there is presence of risk, then pay higher attentiveness and cautiousness. Survival instinct alone, devoid of ignorance/the idea of 'I'/egoism, doesn't give rise to all kinds of impurities that hurt oneself and/or others.

Survival instinct under the absence of correct understanding and self-control, the thinking and acting faculty would generate hurtful desire/behavior/action/reaction unto oneself and others, being over-powered by ignorance and its by-products (the restless egoistic impure modification/state of the mind).

Survival instinct under the presence of correct understanding and self-control, the thinking and acting mind has the ability of not generating hurtful desire/behavior/action/reaction unto oneself and others, devoid of ignorance and its by-products.

While respect and allow the selfless intentionless survival instinct to perform its selfless duty of being what it is, the selfless thinking and acting mind can perform its selfless duty of annihilating ignorance and its by-products from the selfless modification of the mind, by quieting, disciplining, and purifying the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, to develop correct understanding and self-control, to know Thyself, to know the truth of selflessness and impermanence, that enables TRANSCEND to be happening effortlessly, transcending its own selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function, including the selfless survival instinct and the selfless impermanent condition of the entire bodily system.

That's why the importance of freeing the selfless impermanent modification of the mind from ignorance and its by-products, to have peace and clarity in one's mind, is the highest duty of all minds, that is contributing to world peace ultimately.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The mind can have free will towards how it reacts towards everything

No doubt that the genetic inheritance factor, the nutritional factor, and the surrounding environment of all kinds of influences from everyone and everything that the mind comes in contact with, during the conception of the forming of a selfless physical body, before birth, and after birth, the childhood growing up environment under certain parenting method, and family, social, cultural, spiritual, religious, national, political or commercial belief, ideas, values, practice and behavior influences, of all kinds of inputs, educations, trainings, activities and experiences since early childhood, are conditioning and influencing the selfless physical condition (including the selfless function of the brains, or the hardware of the intellectual emotional thinking faculty that is conditioning and influencing certain mentality, personality and behavior even before birth) and the selfless states of the mind to be in certain way, that is conditioning how the selfless mind thinks, feels, reasons, judges, understands, desires, behaves, acts and reacts in certain way.

But then, since it is all about limited conditions and influences that are subject to selfless impermanent changes, where the mind and its modification is being conditioned and influenced by certain genetic inheritance and environmental conditions and influences to be in certain way, that means, certain environmental conditions and influences can be changed, which can be helpful for the mind to develop correct understanding, while some other genetic inheritance conditions that is difficult or impossible to be changed, the selfless mind can transcend or go beyond such 'permanent' yet impermanent conditions, if there's a strong enough will, under the presence of correct understanding. All kinds of seemingly permanent damages are also impermanent, as the names and forms that suffer from any kind of permanent damages, are all selfless and impermanent.

The degrees of will power in a mind is very much being reflected in the degrees of self-awareness, self-discipline, self-control, self-independence, or self-management of the mind.

The weaker is the will power in the mind, the weaker is the self-awareness, self-discipline, self-control, self-independence, or self-management in the mind, and vice versa.

Certain minds that have very weak will power, their thinking, behavior, actions and reactions are very much being influenced by certain existing conditions and influences, a.k.a. the selfless impermanent different energy fields that are existing and changing according to the many existing conditions and influences, unwittingly. As if without any self-awareness, these minds are unaware of the states of their mind or themselves, are thinking, behaving, acting and reacting in certain way, under the influence of certain existing conditions and influences, regardless of whether high or low intelligence, highly knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, sane or insane.

The minds that have no awareness, or not enough awareness, to be aware of all that, none can do anything about it, not to say, to be discussing, debate or argue about anything, as that is what they are being conditioned to think and strongly believe in, except coming from themselves, starting to be developing the awareness as well as the initiation to inquire and understand towards what is going on in itself.

Even if certain minds have certain degrees of awareness and understanding towards their states of mind, or their thinking, behavior, actions and reactions are being conditioned and influenced by the existing conditions and influences to be in certain way, they insist that it can't be changed. That is the indication of the veil of ignorance and egoism.

That's why the selfless will power that is being reflected in self-awareness, self-control, self-discipline, or self-management is neither good nor bad. Depending on the presence and absence of ignorance, egoism and impurities, or the presence of different degrees of ignorance, egoism and impurities in the mind, on top of under certain degrees of selfless will power, self-awareness, self-control, self-discipline and self-management, some minds are thinking and behaving in the way that is destructive to themselves and others, while some other minds are thinking and behaving in the way that is constructive to themselves and others.

The presence of different degrees of ignorance in the mind is conditioning and influencing the different degrees of selfishness and unselfishness or different priority towards the different things in the selfless impermanent life existence of the selfless impermanent body and mind. There is certain selfishness towards certain things while there is certain unselfishness towards some other things in most minds.

The selfless mind cannot control or avoid the selfless impermanent changes governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, such as decay, old age, weakness, and death or disintegration, and it cannot control all kinds of names and forms that it perceives through the senses being what they are, selfless and impermanent, even though selfless impermanent changes can be modified, influenced and manipulated in certain way up to certain extend. No matter how much effort is being put into the maintenance of the good condition of the physical body and the function of the thinking faculty under certain will power, it doesn't stop the body and mind from passing away, or decaying, ceased functioning, and disintegrating.

Such as the selfless mind comes with the selfless basic instinct of selfless will power that exists regardless of under the presence or absence of the idea of 'I', that can be strengthened, to direct the impermanent changes of the selfless modification of the selfless mind that is under the veil of ignorance towards certain direction that initiates the annihilation of ignorance.

Under certain effort to be strengthening the awareness, correct understanding and will power in the mind during the process of annihilating the veil of ignorance from the mind, the mind can have the free will to choose how it wants to react towards everything that it perceives through the senses, of whatever is being reflected in the mind, or whatever is going on in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind, under the presence of correct understanding and enhanced selfless will power.

That's why certain minds are being determined, conditioned and influenced by the selfless impermanent modification of the mind that is being conditioned and influenced by certain conditions and influences, while certain minds are not being determined, conditioned or influenced by all that, transcending or going beyond the selfless existence and function of the selfless modification of the mind.

No matter what kind of conditions and influences that have been conditioning and influencing the body and mind in certain way, the mind can transcend or go beyond all that, if there's a will. Transcending or going beyond the existing conditions and influences, doesn't mean making or controlling all kinds of existing conditions and influences to change into something else, or to disappear.

Certain minds have been being conditioned and influenced by certain family, cultural, spiritual, religious, national, political or commercial belief, values and practice, to think, behave, act and react in certain way according to those belief, values and practice, but still, they can renounce and transcend all that, if there's a will, even if such conditions and influences are still existing in the mind, but the thinking, behavior, actions and reactions are no longer being determined by such conditions and influences.

That is what the teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism is about, to free the mind from being conditioned and influenced by certain conditions and influences that are not necessarily beneficial to all and everyone.

That is why the importance of the observation of renunciation and dispassion, seclusion, solitude and silence, openness, non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, self-independence, self-discipline, self-control, self-effort, self-inquiry and self-realization.

Such as, the mind used to be being conditioned and influenced in certain way to be believing in certain belief, values and practice, but after performing self-inquiry towards those belief, values and practice, one would stop believing in such belief, values and practice that is not necessarily true or beneficial to all and everyone. That's why the importance of inquiring towards the truth of everything via self-effort and self-inquiry to attain self-realization towards the truth of everything.

That's also why many passionate egoistic minds that want to control all and everyone to be in certain way under certain belief, values and practice, they have intense dislike, disagreement, fear and offensiveness towards self-inquiry or the investigation towards the truth of everything, as their belief, values and practice are not necessarily all true or beneficial towards all and everyone. If they know for sure, that their particular belief, values and practice are all true and beneficial to all and everyone, there wouldn't be dislike, disagreement, fear or offensiveness towards the mind inquiring towards the truth of all those belief, values and practice. How can something that is 'real' be contaminated, hurt or damaged by anything? Something that can be contaminated, hurt or damaged by something, it is not real.

If someone truly believes in the existence of an almighty 'God' that represents unconditional love and wisdom, wouldn't have dislike, disagreement, fear and offensiveness towards any doubt, question, inquiry or investigation towards the truth of the existence of that almighty 'God' or its teachings and belief that represents the truth of everything and unconditional love and wisdom. The almighty 'God' that represents the truth of everything and unconditional love and wisdom won't be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended or disrespected by such doubt, question, inquiry or investigation.

How can the teachings or belief, of an almighty all loving and all wise 'God', as well as the almighty 'God' itself, be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended or disrespected by anything? The "God" and the teachings or beliefs that would be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended and disrespected by certain doubt, question, inquiry or investigation, is something else. If the all loving and all wise almighty 'God' exits, 'God' doesn't want anyone to be fearful towards 'God'. It's the ignorant minds themselves are being fearful towards 'God', as well as want other minds to be fearful towards 'God' under certain intention.

The mind can have the will power to be non-attaching and non-associating towards the selfless impermanent modifications or states of the mind, not being determined or disturbed by the selfless names and forms arising, changing and passing away in the mind, or in itself, allowing the names and forms being what they are, as they are, selfless and impermanent, without the need of controlling or changing all kinds of names and forms to be changing into something else or to be in certain way, or to make them disappear, but allowing them to change and disappear at their own cause and pace.

Similarly, in the process of the annihilation of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness. The mind is performing all kinds of practices that will initiate and support the weakening and eradication process of the veil of ignorance and its by-products, but the veil of ignorance and its by-products takes its own cause and pace to be eradicated from the mind.

That is what non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment and non-expectation, or intentionless actions powered by selfless compassion during the entire process or journey towards the annihilation of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness is about.

Performing all kinds of necessary actions while renouncing the actions and the fruit of actions, allowing the fruit of actions being what it is.

There's no frustration, or disappointment, or despair.

Inquire the truth of everything. The truth won't be contaminated, hurt, damaged, offended or disrespected.

In the end, it's the freedom of the mind itself for what it wants to think, believe, understand, feel, desire, behave, act and react, as well as it's its own responsibility towards the consequences of all that.

What is going on in the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind

Whether other minds are being understanding towards what is going on in one's mind, or not, it's not important. Most important, is that this mind understands towards what is going on in itself.

Once the mind understands what is happening in itself, it doesn't need any other minds to understand or being sympathetic/empathetic towards what is happening in itself, and it won't be disappointed or frustrated if other minds don't or couldn't understand what is happening in itself, because most minds don't really know what is going on in themselves, not to say, to understand what is going on in other minds.

The minds that know Thyself, or knowing what is going on in itself, a.k.a. void of ignorance, knowing that all these are selfless and impermanent, they are mentally and emotionally independent, resting in unconditional peace and contentment, void of the idea of 'I' and egoism, void of the sense of self-esteem, self-worth, pride, selfishness, possessiveness, greed, offensiveness, defensiveness, hostility, animosity, dissatisfaction, disappointment, hurt, fear, worry, guilt, regret, loneliness, negativeness, meaninglessness, craving, aversion, and all kinds of duality, void of the longing towards receiving love, attention, mental and emotional support, agreement, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, approval, praise, compliment, encouragement, understanding, sympathy, empathy, console, interactions, companionship, pleasurable enjoyment, blessing, 'access to heaven', and etc, from anyone or anywhere, not even from the personalized 'God', or 'gods', or 'spiritual entities', that many minds want and need to believe in, hang onto, and rely on.

No matter how suffering or ignorant is the mind, due to all and everything is limited and conditional, selfless and impermanent, but then, it's also because of all and everything is limited, conditional, selfless and impermanent, where all and everything is subject to changes governed by cause and effect, that there's possibility of evolution or transformation that leads towards the liberation from all that, if there's a strong enough will to be navigating the impermanent changes towards certain direction.

The very simple key word to liberation is - Non-grasping, or Non-attachment. In this present moment NOW, there is suffering arise under the presence of grasping or attachment. In this present moment NOW, there is absence of suffering under the absence of grasping or attachment.

Under the presence of certain degrees of non-grasping or non-attachment, even if the mind haven't attained the complete annihilation of the restless selfless modification of the selfless mind, that is already a great liberation. However, the mind needs to be vigilant towards the power of ignorance, where the mind might be unwittingly getting lost again, and repeatedly.

The presence of grasping or attachment initiated all other kinds of defilement to be arising and occupying the selfless modification of the selfless mind, forming the thick layer of the veil of ignorance, egoism, impurities and seemingly endless restlessness. But fear not, as all these can be reversed. They all are limited, conditional, selfless and impermanent, although they are similar to the selfless natural disasters that carry the selfless random power of destruction towards anyone and anything. That's why the annihilation of all that is highly important to minimize unnecessary damaging effects in the world while being existing here momentarily.

Under the veil of ignorance and egoism, many minds that have the will to be free from all that, are struggling with non-grasping or non-attachment. Either they don't know what it is, or they think they know what it is but not really, or they know what it is intellectually, but it's extremely difficult for them to be practically non-grasping or non-attaching. That's why there are many different practices and approaches existing to enable the minds to eventually be able to be non-grasping or non-attaching towards the selfless mind perception of selfless names and forms, of all these that the selfless mind is experiencing, or what is going on in the selfless modification of the selfless mind.

When the mind is struggling with the practice of non-grasping or non-attachment, then the practice of non-identification, non-association, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment and non-expectation come into practice, to help the struggling mind to get through those struggles.

Even this 'struggle' in this present moment, is selfless and impermanent. This will also pass away. By having such understanding, all practice will become more and more effortless, until the practice is no longer needed, upon the annihilation of ignorance and egoism.

There is this basic instinct of the selfless will power in all minds, but not to be mistaken as the idea of 'I'. Regardless of how weak or strong is the intensity of that selfless will power, it gives rise to certain degrees of free will towards the thinking, action and speech, a.k.a. self-control, self-discipline, self-independence, determination, perseverance, forbearance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation and patience. This selfless will power is always there, even under the absence of the idea of 'I'.

That certain degrees of free will or self-control over the thinking, action and speech, is what enabling all kinds of practices for self-evolution or self-transformation, mind purification, self-discipline, self-inquiry and self-realization to be happening.

Similarly, the selfless survival instinct in all and everyone, is always there, regardless of the presence or absence of the idea of 'I'. The difference is that, survival instinct under the presence of the idea of 'I', that gives rise to selfishness, fear, selfish desire, dissatisfaction, discontentment, greed, possessiveness, defensiveness, protectiveness, hostility, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, self-esteem, self-worth and pride, and etc, can give rise to many unnecessary damages to all and everything, either wittingly or unwittingly. While survival instinct under the absence of the idea of 'I', is just what it is, merely to maintain the selfless impermanent existence and function of the limited and conditional names and forms, regardless of sentient or non-sentient, just like in all kinds of selfless plants, there is the basic selfless survival instinct, or selfless will power, or selfless resilience, to keep existing selflessly, until ceased existing.

The selfless will power is neither good nor bad, however, depending on the states of the mind, or the presence and absence of ignorance, egoism and impurities, where the selfless will power can be powering the selfless mind to be constructive, or to be destructive.

The selfless mind under certain degrees of will power, can develop the practice of non-identification, detachment, non-attachment, non-judgment, non-comparison, non-craving, non-aversion, and non-expectation towards what is happening in itself, or towards the selfless existence and function of the selfless modification of the mind.

Even when the existence and function of the mind is selfless and impermanent, where there's no 'I' existing independently and permanently, depending on the supportive selfless elements and selfless energy to be existing and functioning, but that limited and conditional will power that is different intensity in different minds, can be developed to become stronger or more intense, unless there's some inevitable dysfunction, damage or injury in the brains, or the hardware of the selfless existence and function of the selfless thinking faculty.

Because of that selfless will power, the selfless mind has certain degrees of self-awareness and free will or self-control to be influencing the states of the mind to be in certain way, transcending the influence of the different energy fields (The three Gunas), or positiveness and negativeness, to develop certain qualities that influencing the personality, character, understanding and behavior, to think in certain way, to perform certain action and inaction under that free-will or selfless will power.

This will power is limited and conditional because it is selfless and impermanent, and hence, it can be developed, increased or decreased, where the mind can choose what kind of action and inaction that will give rise to respective consequences of action and inaction, and it can choose how to react towards everything, under certain degrees of will power.

No matter how strong is the will power, it doesn't, and cannot change the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all and everything governed by the nature's law of cause and effect. It cannot make the nature's law of cause and effect change into something else, or disappear, however, it can help and initiate the selfless mind that is under the influence of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, that perceives certain suffering deriving from ignorance and egoism, to be performing certain practice, to be eradicating ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, to attain self-realization, and transcending all kinds of selfless impermanent existence and changes governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, transcending all kinds of actions and consequences of actions.

Similarly, the existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual thinking mind, is selfless and impermanent, depending on the supportive elements and energy to be existing and functioning. There is no 'I' existing individually, independently, or permanently, to be in control of its existence and function. If there's no supportive elements and energy, this mind cannot exist or function by itself, alone.

Regardless of what is happening in the mind, or what is the state of the mind, regardless of something good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, disturbing or soothing, happy or unhappy, positive or negative, enjoyable or painful suffering, pleasing or annoying, meaningful or meaningless, all are selfless and impermanent. They all are selfless and impermanent, because they come, stay for a while, change and go as they are. They don't ask for permission from the mind to be arising in the mind, to stay for a while, to be changing and passing away, governed by cause and effect. Similarly, all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant physical sensations, or thoughts, feelings and emotions, they are arising, changing, and passing away, as the effect of certain cause, as they are.

There is no 'I' existing to be in control of all kinds of names and forms being what they are, being selfless and impermanent, arising, changing, and passing away influenced by cause and effect, that the mind perceives either towards what is constantly arising, changing and passing away within the physical body and the modification of the mind, or towards what is constantly arising, changing and passing away outside the physical body, or in the surrounding environment, of what the mind coming in contact with, of what it sees, hears, smells, tastes, touches, senses, feels, and thinks, where all these are being reflected in the selfless modification of the mind.

One can be having the selfless will power to be initiated to create something out of certain selfless elements, but the selfless impermanent nature of that thing as well as everything, is not in the control of the selfless performer of actions and the selfless elements that give rise to that thing, or the manifestation of everything that depend on many selfless elements to be what they are. While the performer of actions that creates that thing itself, is also selfless and impermanent. Without all the selfless elements, the selfless performer of actions cannot create anything that depends on the selfless elements for it to become what it is.

That is why the existence of all kinds of names and forms that comes under certain qualities, that has a beginning and an end, that has an existence which followed by ceased existence, that comes under birth which followed by decay and death, that is limited and conditional, that is subject to impermanent changes, that is existing under the selfless generosity of the selfless supportive elements, are all selfless and impermanent.

All the names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses, of what the mind thinks and believes is the cause of all the different states of mind, are just being what they are, they are neither something good nor bad, neither disturbing nor soothing, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither happy nor unhappy, neither positive nor negative, neither enjoyable nor painful suffering, neither pleasing nor annoying, neither meaningful nor meaningless. They don't have the quality or intention to be this or that, unless the mind gives them the power and recognition to be this or that.

How or what the mind think and feel towards everything, whether the mind feels happy or unhappy towards this or that, and is being undisturbed or disturbed by this or that, is being determined by how the mind reacts towards everything that it comes in contact with. Under certain degrees of will power and correct understanding, the mind can choose how it wants to react towards everything.

Even if the speech coming from some minds with the intention to be hurtful and disturbing, but the speech itself has no quality or intention to be something hurtful or disturbing. It's the minds that give such power and recognition to that speech to be something disturbing and hurtful to themselves. Certain speech might be disturbing and hurting the minds that don't understand this, but the same speech doesn't, and cannot, disturb or hurt the minds that understand this.

Even if the damaging behavior or action coming from some minds with the intention to be damaging, and certain things are being physically damaged by that behavior or action, still, that behavior or that action itself has no quality or intention to be something disturbing and hurtful to the mind, unless the mind gives such power and recognition to such behavior or action as something disturbing and hurtful. The damaging effect cannot be undone, and it might or might not be able to be repaired physically, but the mind can have the will power and understanding not to give power or recognition to such destructive happening or experience as something disturbing and hurtful to the mind.

Being aware of, and acknowledging towards something unpleasant, disagreeable and undesirable is happening, or had happened, and it couldn't be avoided, while one can do one's best to do something to see if the damage can be repaired, or not. And it's okay, if that cannot be repaired. But, more importantly, the mind can be free from disturb or suffering, not being determined by all that, which are arising from ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, and all are limited, conditional, selfless and impermanent, both the perceiver and the perceived or the objects of perception.

Similarly, being indifference or dispassionate, non-clinging and non-craving towards all kinds of pleasant, agreeable and desirable names and forms, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, conditions, situations, experiences or happenings. Merely selfless appreciation towards all kinds of pleasant, agreeable and desirable names and forms, being there as they are, and they all are selfless and impermanent. They all will change and pass away. Allowing them to change and pass away, as they are.

There's no suffering upon the impermanent changes and passing away of all those pleasant, agreeable and desirable names and forms. There's no greed or ambition to create more and more or endless names and forms that are pleasant, agreeable, desirable, enjoyable or soothing to the mind, or to stop all these names and forms from changing into something else, and passing away.

That is non-grasping or non-attachment.

That is freedom. Real freedom.

Suffering arise upon the presence of grasping or attachment towards all that, where there's craving and clinging towards names and forms that are pleasant, agreeable, desirable or enjoyable to the mind, where there is possessiveness, discontentment, greed and control towards all that, which are pleasant, agreeable, desirable, enjoyable or soothing to the mind, and there is aversion towards names and forms that are unpleasant, disagreeable, undesirable, non-enjoyable or painful to the mind, where there is anger, hatred, violence, interference and control towards all that, which are unpleasant, disagreeable, undesirable, non-enjoyable or painful to the mind.

That is grasping or attachment.

For the minds that are suffering from clinical depression, which is a form of dysfunction or malfunction in the brains, that is nothing to do with whether everything that the selfless mind perceives in the selfless life existence are good or not good, easy or difficult, pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable and desirable or undesirable, which is also limited, conditional, selfless and impermanent, as it can be less intense or more intense in different timing, and regardless of whether it can be treated under certain medical treatment in some cases, or not, in certain cases, the mind can be aware of and acknowledging the state of depression, without grasping or attachment, without judgment or expectation, without identification or association with the selfless depressed state of mind. Under the presence of depression in the selfless modification of the mind, the mind can also be free from struggling or drowning in suffering, under the presence of correct understanding and certain degrees of free will or self-control, if there's a will.

And it's okay, if the mind couldn't go beyond all that.

That understanding of "It's okay that this mind cannot go beyond all that, and it's very suffering physically, mentally or emotionally, and all these are impermanent," is indeed a great liberation, transcending all kinds of selfless impermanent names and forms.

Even the most intense suffering or the deepest ignorance, is also limited, conditional, selfless and impermanent.

Under the veil of ignorance, the prideful ignorant egoistic minds 'create' lots of ideas, stories, beliefs or justifications to be justifying their ignorance towards themselves and everything, or what they don't know and don't understand, or what is unknown to them, or all the confusion and doubt in themselves, as well as to 'shut up' and 'hinder' others from questioning towards the truth of everything that they themselves are ignorant about, to implant fear in others, to be in control of others to be and not to be in certain way, that support their selfish desire and aspiration, and to cover up their ignorance.

When the prideful ignorant egoistic mind cannot explain certain thing because it doesn't know and doesn't understand, it will justify, "Ah! It's my (your) bad karma from my (your) past lives. I (You) have to accept it." Or, "It's because of bad karma, that's why I am (you are) suffering." Or, "Everything is the will of the Almighty. It's nothing to do with me." Or, "Don't question. It's sinful and punishable. Just obey and follow."

That's why the acknowledgement towards the presence of ignorance in the mind without attachment or judgment, is highly important for initiating the desire to be free from ignorance, to inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct understanding, instead of trying to cover up one's ignorance with many kinds of justification, fooling oneself and others.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.