None and nothing belong to anyone or anything

"What is ignorance?"

"Why the minds that are highly educated, knowledgeable, intelligent, creative, successful, or accomplished are not necessarily being free from ignorance?"

"How to be free from ignorance?"

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Ignorance, is not knowing the truth of Selflessness and Non-self in all and everyone and everything, a.k.a. "None and nothing belong to anyone or anything."

Ignorance is nothing to do with the presence and absence or the different degrees of education, knowledge, intelligence, creativity, success, and accomplishment.

It has nothing to do with lack of education, or lack of knowledge, or poor/absence of cognitive intelligence, or stupidity, or laziness, or bad karma, or sin, and etc.

Ignorance is not something bad, or evil, or weak, or punishable, or shame deserving, even if under the influence of ignorance, the minds ignorantly keep generating hurtful damaging action/reaction/activity/behavior/desire/aspiration that hurt all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, directly and indirectly, intentionally and unintentionally.

The educated and knowledgeable minds might have been accumulating lots of knowledge and might know many things, such as the minds might know and understand that the earth is not flat, and that the earth is turning at a particular speed while orbits around the sun at a particular speed under the influence of the selfless power of gravitation, that generates the false impression of time/day and night/year/sunrise and sunset, or there are essential elements that provide essential needs for supporting the generation and maintenance of life existence, and the mind might know a lot about engineering, architecture, finance and business management and investment, biology, chemistry, physiology, neurology, geography, creativity, invention, innovation, agriculture, or different types of skills and productivity, but the minds might not know or understand towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self, as the minds are being conditioned and limited by the egoistic mind thinking and behavior pattern that is deriving from and empowered by the natural veil of ignorance.

The minds might be over-powered by and identifying with the presence of all kinds of thoughts, feelings, emotions, imaginations, memories flashback, and desires, or the presence of the idea of 'I' and egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, or the presence of all kinds of duality and impurities such as the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of ownership and belonging, the sense of separateness and loneliness, the sense of pride and shame, the sense of goodness and badness, positiveness and negativeness, happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and joylessness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, deserving and undeserving, superiority and inferiority, righteousness and wrongfulness, appropriateness and inappropriateness, selfishness, possessiveness, obsession, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, grief, painful sorrow, uncomfortable or painful sensations, hurts, victimized, intimidation, humiliation, fear, worry, anticipation, wild imagination, longing, insecurity, insufficiency, protectiveness, offensiveness, defensiveness, aggressiveness, violence, and so on (restlessness), being conditioned and limited (influenced/threatened/tempted/moulded/restricted) by the existing inherited and/or adopted worldly egoistic impure ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/national/commercial/family/community/social/educational ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, inspirations, aspirations, and visions, for the mind to think, to reason, to evaluate, to understand, to desire, to act and react, or to behave in certain way and not in certain way (the conditional mind thinking and behavior pattern).

The existence of ignorance, is due to the natural intentionless manifestation of the veil of ignorance in the modification of the mind being what it is, as it is. It is a natural selfless intentionless manifestation in all minds that have the normal functionality of a selfless and non-self, limited and conditional, impermanent and restless modification of a perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, that manifests along with the formation and activation of the selfless restless gross and subtle or conscious and unconscious thought current/activity/process or modification of the mind throughout the three states of consciousness, semi-consciousness, and unconsciousness, that are essential for the selfless formation of life existence and function as well as the inevitable ceaseless life maintenance until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing.

Not only that there is the restless gross and subtle brain activity (conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious internal and external inputs processing and outputs responding) happening throughout the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, but there is also continuous subtle thought current/process or brain activity (unconscious autonomous inputs processing and outputs responding) during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma that is essential for life maintenance, unless there is complete cut-off from energy supply or complete energy depletion, or there is complete brain dead and/or complete failure of the life supporting organs or the life supporting systems.

The mind that is functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness (wakeful state) and semi-consciousness (sleep and dream state) might be aware of the conscious and semi-conscious restless random thought activity/current/process, but it might not be aware of the underlying ongoing ceaseless autonomous involuntary subtle thought current/activity/process for life maintenance, not to say, upon the state of unconsciousness (deep sleep/coma), there is complete absence of conscious awareness and egoistic self assertive voluntary activity.

There is the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the mind to be aware of the conscious and semi-conscious restless random thought activity/current/process upon the states of consciousness (wakefulness) and semi-consciousness (sleep and dream state).

Such as under the state of consciousness, the mind that is fully conscious is consciously aware of certain physical/mental/emotional conscious activity of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, reasoning, problem solving, choice making, memories, imaginations, desires, actions, reactions, interactions, communications, and etc, while under the state of semi-consciousness, the mind that is semi-conscious is semi-aware of the state of not fully awake or the state of sleeping as well as the selfless manifestation of dream during the state of semi-consciousness or the sleep and dream state, where the mind wakes up and remembers all or certain part of the dream, a.k.a. the mind is aware of itself witnessing the semi-conscious/voluntary and unconscious/involuntary thought activity during the sleep and dream state (I slept and/or there was dreaming). Or, the mind wakes up doesn't know/remember anything that had been happening internally in the body and mind and externally in the surrounding environment after falling asleep - unconscious/deep sleep/coma/complete absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness.

The manifestation of dreams a.k.a. the subtle involuntary thought current processing and 'digesting'/'filtering'/'discarding'/'reconstructing' the ceaseless and boundless random inputs and outputs, activities, interactions, memories, wild imaginations, desires, and physical/mental/emotional tension built up, might be happening during the state of semi-consciousness (presence of semi-conscious awareness) and throughout the state of unconsciousness (absence of conscious awareness), however, the mind that is in sleep and deep sleep state under the absence of conscious awareness might not be aware of and/or remember the dreams.

Not being consciously aware of and don't remember the dream (the subtle involuntary thought activities during sleep) doesn't mean that there is no dreaming, or absence of the subtle thought process/current/activity processing all kinds of ceaseless conscious and unconscious inputs and outputs.

Some minds might even have the presence of conscious awareness in the sleep and dream state, where the mind is aware of or witnessing the ceaseless subtle involuntary random thought current/activity/process of processing/digesting/filtering/discarding/reconstructing all kinds of inputs during sleep state that is being referred as 'the manifestation of dreams', and these minds have the limited conscious awareness and freewill to be interfering with the dreams or the subtle thought activity during the sleep and dream state (the subtle ego-less involuntary thought current/activity/process is being dominated and interrupted by the egoistic voluntary thought current/activity/process).

That is how extremely restless and busy the modification of the mind is.

That is why the highly importance of the observation of renunciation and dispassion and the practice of silence (mauna) in solitude and seclusion, to limit and minimize all kinds of conscious and unconscious mind inputs, especially all kinds of worldly egoistic affairs/activities/interactions/communications/ties and connections as much as possible, on top of engaging in the persistent regular practice of asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, and dhyana, to be quieting/calming/reducing the speed and volume of the conscious and unconscious thought current/activity/process, diligently and practically.

The veil of ignorance (the busy restless random gross and subtle thought current of ceaseless voluntary and involuntary thought after thought arising and passing away) is always there as it is, manifesting along with the ceaseless and restless continuous conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious modification of the mind, however, it is only valid or prevail (being the intentionless veil of ignorance/hindrance/murkiness) upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness (there is the conscious and semi-conscious awareness/acknowledgement towards the existence and function of the body and mind, a.k.a. the arising of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the sense of separateness), while it is invalid or doesn't serve any purpose of being the veil of ignorance/hindrance/murkiness upon the state of unconsciousness, under the complete absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the mind that is unconscious (there is no conscious awareness/acknowledgement towards the existence and function of the body and mind, a.k.a. absence of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the sense of separateness).

The mind awareness is temporary absence, or cut-off, or disconnected, during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma (temporary cutting off from conscious and semi-conscious physical and mental activity, a.k.a. complete rest and sleep, is highly essential for life existence and function, especially when there is the presence of illness, or injury, or traumatic impact), where there is no conscious or semi-conscious perceptive/cognitive/intellectual/emotional/thinking/acting self-assertive thought current/process/activity, but only the presence of subtle autonomous thought current or brain activity happening ceaselessly to be maintaining the non-self life existence and function of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional body and mind.

There is no perception of time in the state of unconsciousness, or upon the complete absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in deep sleep or coma, even though unconscious subtle involuntary brain/thought activity is continuously happening.

Such as the mind wakes up from the state of deep sleep or complete absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness for a prolonged duration would be thinking that, "I thought I have just lied down or gone to sleep for a moment."

Meanwhile, there is the perception of time in the sleep and dream state where the mind is aware or semi-aware of itself witnessing the subtle involuntary brain/thought activities that is happening under extremely high speed (so called dreams) and the mind wakes up from the state of sleep and dream state for a very short duration, remembering the entire process of the dream (the subtle involuntary thought activity/process/current that it witnessed and remembered), would be thinking that, "I thought I have been gone for many days/weeks/months/years," or "I had a very long dream."

This indicates that 'time', or 'past and future', or 'existence that is not in NOW, that is before and after or beyond NOW', is merely the perception or reflection of physical and mental activities/movements/impermanent changes/growing, decaying, or aging process/thought process or thinking, that are happening under a particular speed being perceived by the perceptive cognitive mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the function of memory and remembering.

This allows the mind to know and understand towards Timelessness, or there is only NOW, or there is only this existence in NOW, and it is ceaselessly changing (formation, growth, decay, and disintegration under specific pace/speed governed by the nature's law of cause and effect) in between the beginning of existence and ceased existence.

The realization towards Selflessness and Non-self and Timelessness, will also allow the mind to know and understand towards there is NO past or future continuous different separate life existences of a permanent independent immortal infinite individual self identity/consciousness/soul/spirit (that doesn't exist) ceaselessly undergoing the beginningless and endless countless reincarnations of ceaseless births and deaths reincarnating into countless separate different life existences transitioning under many different realms/worlds/spheres being determined by the belief of past and present ceaseless accumulation of boundless inexhaustible good/bad/neutral karma or merits and virtues and sins, being generated through the ceaseless and boundless thoughts, actions, and speech that are being perceived or categorized as good/bad/neutral/neither good nor bad, based on the specific inherited and/or adopted ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, beliefs, story telling, fairy tales, values, desires, and practices in the mind.

In certain cases, under the usage of certain drug substances or hypnotism (induced state of trance/hypnotized), similar to the perception/experience of vivid dream (that appeared to be realistic), the mind strongly thinks and believes that, "I saw my previous past lives," not knowing that all kinds of images/names and forms/experiences/perceptions that the mind witnessed/perceived/experienced/remembered under such states of mind, are merely part of the selfless random manifestation of restless thought activities/current/process that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, processing the ceaseless gross and subtle/conscious and unconscious boundless physical and mental inputs and outputs/sights/sounds/smells/tastes/sensations/thoughts/ideas/feelings/emotions/desires/urges/memories/wild imaginations/inspirations/aspirations, and etc.

That is why the highly importance of renunciation to be moving away from all kinds of worldly egoistic affairs, activities, ties and connections, interactions, or communications, to be observing silence (mauna) in solitude and seclusion, to be quieting and silencing the restless modification of the mind practically and effectively, to attain direct realization towards knowing Thyself, while refraining from activities that stimulate the restless thought activities/current/process, such as novels, magazines, and newspapers reading, fictional and non-fictional story listening, TV and movies and advertisements watching, social media scrolling, or engaging in such influential activity involving the usage of drugs substances/hypnotism that empowers ignorance and the idea of 'I' and egoism, although it is the freedom of the minds for what they want to do or don't do with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary non-self life existence and function that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself. There is neither right nor wrong.

Under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, the thought current/activity/process or the modification of the mind, is a mix of egoistic voluntary (the presence of self awareness and self assertiveness a.k.a. the conscious and semi-conscious ego, of limited conscious freewill of choice making, thinking, and acting) and ego-less involuntary activity (the absence of the conscious and semi-conscious ego, of limited autonomous involuntary activity prompted by the selfless survival instinct, just like the earth is rotating and orbits around the sun prompted by the selfless power of gravitation).

Under the state of unconsciousness, there is only ego-less autonomous brain activity for life maintenance prompted by the selfless survival instinct.

Regardless of egoistic voluntary or ego-less involuntary activity, all are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. This understanding is highly important in order to proceed in the process of self-inquiry.

The veil of ignorance - The selfless autonomous manifestation of the idea of 'I'/the ego/the conscious and semi-conscious awareness, or acknowledgement, or perception, or cognition towards the existence and modification of the body and mind as well as the surrounding environment of everything that is not this particular body and mind (the sense of separateness), that gives rise to and empowered by egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that gives rise to and empowered by all kinds of impurities, and that gives rise to and empowered by the restless thought current/process/activity (restlessness).

Unwittingly, or naturally, autonomously, and ignorantly being hindered/veiled/obstructed by the veil of ignorance, the conscious/semi-conscious mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness cannot see/know/understand things or the perception of names and forms (clearly) as they are, where it is being ignorant towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, or it is being ignorant towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

The mind doesn't know Thyself is due to the natural formation of the intentionless veil of ignorance/hindrance/murkiness/restlessness.

Because of not knowing Thyself, on top of under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the mind keeps generating actions/reactions/responses/activities/behaviors through the organs of action and speech that would be hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment ignorantly, intentionally and unintentionally, randomly and deliberately.

The mind that knows Thyself, will also know that "There is none and nothing belong to anyone or anything" - The truth of Selflessness and Non-self in all and everything, including the momentary impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence and function of the body and mind itself, not to say, all and everything that is related to the body and mind (under the presence of grasping/attachment/identification/possession/ownership/belonging/pride/self-esteem/self-worth/self-expansion or procreation) - my ancestor, my parents, my children, my siblings, my spouse, my family, my community, my ethnicity, my tribe, my birth place, my country, my nationality, my friends, my effort, my hard work, my initiation, my action and fruit of action, my achievement and contribution, my reputation, my status, my job, my business, my livelihood, my survival, my happiness, my ability and disability, my home, my house, my land, my property, my belongings, my health, my wealth, my suffering, my enjoyments, my ideas and point of views, my belief, my culture, my spirituality, my religion, my inspiration and aspiration, and etc. 

The minds that know Thyself and the truth of "None and nothing belong to anyone or anything" are free from the sense of separateness, selfishness, possessiveness, sense of ownership and belonging, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, discrimination, insecurity, fear, worry, anger, hatred, dissatisfaction, disappointment, violence, or fighting within oneself and towards others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

That is the essence of the upmost essential peace and harmony in oneself, in the relationship, in the family, in the community, in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

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To be free from ignorance, the mind needs to inquire towards what does it mean about "None and nothing belong to anyone or anything." Or, about what does the terms of Selflessness and Non-self really mean.

It has to come from the direct self inquiry and direct self realization of the mind itself towards knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of Selflessness and Non-self.

It is not that difficult for the mind to reason and understand towards what is impermanence, limitation, and conditional, but it is quite challenging (and yet it's possible) for the mind to inquire/investigate and know what is Selflessness and Non-self, even if the mind thinks that it sort of understands, but not really, or not completely, not until the mind is completely free from the influence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness (the annihilation/absence of the veil of ignorance), to see things as they are, where the mind sees the selfless and non-self existence/function/modification/manifestation of itself through the reflection reflected upon the all pervading, all presence, all existence, all knowledge, selfless, timeless, attributeless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The minds that know and understand this, will know that there are many different individual body and mind of different qualities of names and forms and characteristics and personalities and impermanent changes, but there is no individual consciousness that belong to the many different individual body and mind respectively.

The selfless body and mind is finite, impermanent, conditional, and limited. The selfless universal consciousness is infinite, permanent, unconditional, and unlimited.

The minds that know and understand this, will also know the truth of about the creation and existence of the many different worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, fairy tales, justifications, values, practices, desires, inspirations, aspirations, visions, ambitions, wishful thinking, or empowerment in the world of human beings that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, such as the belief of karma (good/bad/neutral karma), or merits and sins, or the almighty creator/controller/authority/judge of the universe, or the after life upon death, or the ceaseless reincarnation of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self identity/consciousness/spirit/soul, as well as all kinds of superstitions and myths.

Without the presence of consciousness/awareness, upon the state of unconsciousness, under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, there is no "I am thinking", "I am inquiring", "I am meditating", "I am enjoying", "I am suffering", "I am good", "I am bad", "I am happy", "I am sad", "I am calmed", "I am disturbed", "I see", "I hear", "I smell", "I taste", "I feel", "I touch", "I act and react", "I know", "I understand", or "I think I know and understand."

It is merely the selfless perceptive mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness being aware of the selfless restless modification of the mind existing and functioning being what it is, as it is, that is neither good nor bad, and that is ceaselessly changing (different states of mind).

Time, or the notion of the past and the future, or age, or moment, or second, or minute, or hour, or day, or month, or year, is merely the reflection of the ceaseless impermanent changes of the selfless and non-self formation, growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration process of the mortal physical body and mind, as well as the reflection of ceaseless physical and mental activity/movement at a particular speed, or the sleep/wake cycle, or the breath coming and going, or the heart beats one after another, or the planets self-rotating while orbit around the sun at a particular speed, being perceived by the mind that is conscious/semi-conscious under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness on top of the function of memory and remembering.

There is only NOW, and it is always NOW, and everything in NOW is ceaselessly changing.

The minds that know and understand this, will also know that there is no continuous past existence(s) or future existence(s) (ceaseless continuous reincarnation - the cultural/spiritual/religious/commercial belief of the infinite wheel of births and deaths transitioning under different realms/worlds/spheres) of a permanent independent immortal infinite existence of an individual self identity/consciousness/spirit/soul (that doesn't exist) in anyone or anything, where there is only this selfless and non-self momentary impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence in NOW, and it is impermanent, limited, and conditional.

In NOW, this is what the body and mind is, this is where the body and mind is, this is how the body and mind is, this is what the mind perceives/experiences/acknowledges/comes in contact with/conscious of, and everything that is existing here and everywhere throughout the infinite space, in NOW, is ceaselessly changing/moving/aging/decaying/disintegrating/decomposing, and ceased existing, under a particular speed and cause.

That is why the minds that truly understand this, they are appreciating and making good use of the existence and function of the body and mind that is still existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and many different elements, in NOW, to be performing action that will be benefiting oneself and all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally, without grasping. All actions are being performed effortlessly without forcing the body and mind beyond its limitation.

Just be kind, be generous, and let go.

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To perform self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of itself, there is prerequisite of preparing the mind by diligently purifying and sharpening the intellectual reasoning power (free from the influence of worldly passionate egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, desires, and practices), turning the restless outgoing tendency of the mind that ceaselessly chasing after the objects of the senses inwards resting upon the selfless universal consciousness, which also leads towards rendering the restless modification of the mind one-pointed, focus, calm, and quiet (desirelessness/stillness/silence), where the conscious/semi-conscious mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness stands as the silent selfless witness witnessing the selfless and non-self thought activity/process/current or modification of the mind without grasping, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation. 

It is because of the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness that is why the mind is perceiving/knowing/acknowledging/sensing/doubting/thinking/reasoning/understanding/remembering/imagining/projecting/anticipating/acting/reacting/seeing/hearing/smelling/tasting/enjoying/suffering/and etc.

There is no conscious self-assertive intellectual cognitive reasoning or discrimination, intention, duality, or suffering and enjoyment in the state of unconsciousness.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice and observation if being practiced as they are, under the presence of basic correct understanding and mentality, served as the tools that help the mind to purify and quiet the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, to allow the rendered pure and quiet and ego-less mind to have a precious glimpse towards the truth of Selflessness and Non-self under the presence of the limited conscious awareness during the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness (the rendered state of meditation/stillness/silence/one-pointedness that is also impermanent).

There is nothing spiritual, or religious, or mystical, or extraordinary, or miraculous, or magical, or unreachable about all this.

The minds that understand this, are devoid of justification, debate, argument, or fighting, and will only make use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function of the body and mind on top of the existing available energy, physical and mental condition, knowledge, learning, experience, ability, and opportunity to be looking after oneself, others, and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, without grasping.

Do not blind-believing, blind-following, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, blind-practicing, blind-glorifying, blind-worshiping, or blind-propagating anything from anywhere and anyone. 

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and attain direct self realization, and be free.

The core pillar and other elements that build and support and empower a country

Different houses can be built under many different types of materials and elements of different degrees of durability and functionalities, that can be having different types of architectural designs, sizes, shapes, layouts, functional spaces, functional rooms, positioning, directions, characteristics, appearances, essential equipment, safety features, and etc, that are being built in accordance to the existing landscape, the surrounding environment, the climate, the weather, the way of living or daily routine and habitual activity of those who will be living in the house, and etc. Other than providing a refuge and shelter for rest, the house also needs to be somewhat (if not perfectly) durable, safe, and functional for everyday living.

Similarly, there are many different elements that can help to build and support and empower a country, such as good quality of living, sufficiency, government agency, public service, basic infrastructure, housing, logistic, livelihood, basic and higher education, skills and talents, health care, science and technology, community welfare, food productivity, air quality, clean water, hygiene, rubbish and waste management and treatment, all kinds of maintenance, safety elements and features, social security, national security, internal political stability, international diplomacy, and etc, under the presence of a conducive livable condition or atmosphere.

If the conducive livable condition is absent or not available (such as climate collapse or Eco system collapse - extreme heat and cold / extreme wet and dry, not to say, war and violence, or global economy collapse, or chronic pandemic), even the most developed and wealthiest country in the world will also fall apart and be unlivable.

No matter what are the many different elements that play their own specific roles in the process of building and supporting and empowering a country, there should be one main core foundation pillar that is strong enough on its own to uphold the entire country independently that needs to be there rooted in the centre, where it doesn't matter if all or some of the other secondary elements or pillars that might provide some additional specific support and empowerment for the country are either non-existing, or are corrupted and fragile, or are broken and collapsing, but at least there is this one strong foundation pillar at the centre that is upholding the entire country in one piece (resilience).

And that resilient core centre pillar is about the majority (if not all) of the people who are permanently or impermanently residing in the country are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, that are mentally and emotionally independent or matured, that have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, or wisdom and kindness.

It is okay and there is nothing wrong about having certain inevitable physical and financial/livelihood/survival limitation and dependency onto some others or one another, but the upmost important element or pillar of any relationship/family/community/country or the world of many diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is the presence of mental and emotional independence or maturity, a.k.a. the clarity of thinking and correct understanding in the minds.

Because if the people who live in the house are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where everyone, especially the head of the house occupants, is selfish/possessive/jealous/greedy/violent/hurtful/prideful, or mentally and emotionally immature (mentally ill or corrupted), and that doesn't look after the general maintenance and well-being of all and everything inside and outside the house, but instead ceaselessly causing unnecessary damages to all and everything ignorantly, wittingly and unwittingly, the house as well as everyone who are living in the house will be suffering from many unnecessary damages that could have been avoided.

Even the most beautiful functional house with all kinds of advance higher technology features and conveniences, and that are decorated with the most beautiful decorative items and collections, will also become a ruin, or a rubbish dump, or a warehouse of junks, or a perfect disease cultivator, if it is being occupied by people that keep damaging all and everything in the house wittingly and unwittingly, that is addicted to endless creativity, accumulation, and hoarding of all kinds of stuff, and that don't have the correct understanding, or initiative, or enthusiasm, or attention, or effort, to be looking after the cleanliness, tidiness, general welfare, and ceaseless maintenance of all and everything of the house internally and externally.

Even if there is one or a few people in the house restlessly trying their best to keep the house in good condition and tidiness, to clean up the mess that is being generated by the others repeatedly, but the ceaseless selfish and damaging activity and behavior of the others in the house will keep generating ceaseless unnecessary problems and damages to the house and the house occupants, and that will cause those who try to keep the house in good condition and tidiness to be in a state of continuous exhaustion, and eventually, breaking down.

Even if there is the best of the best leader in the country, but if the majority of the people of the country are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where many people keep acting and behaving ignorantly that keep hurting and damaging all and everyone and everything, wittingly and unwittingly, the country will still be a mess. 

Even the presence of higher education or advance science and technology in the country also cannot guarantee that the people in the country are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, including the people that are highly educated, knowledgeable, intelligent, successful, accomplished, and holding certain impactful/powerful/influential position. All these don't guarantee that the mind is wise and kind.

Wisdom and kindness is the core of everything.

There is needless of the existence of egoistic politics, or politicians, or manmade rules and regulations in the world, not to say, corrupted politicians and government have no place or opportunity to be existing in anywhere if the majority of the people are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, that have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, and that are wise and kind.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Superiority and inferiority vs neither superior nor inferior

There is a bridge that is made only to hold certain limited weight, and that can only accommodate a single person to cross over the river at one time.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, many minds are being conditioned by the worldly egoistic idea, belief, values, and practice about the existence of superiority and inferiority (ranking/title/position/power/authority/caste/family background/lineage/social status/skin colour/gender/physical appearance/mental state/physical and mental ability and disability/accomplishment and non-accomplishment/success and failure/educational opportunity and achievement/nationality and citizenship/spirituality and religion/etc), where the minds would discriminate and acknowledge and identify themselves and others as 'who is superior and who is inferior', or 'who is more or less superior and who is less or more inferior than the others'.

The ones that identify themselves as more superior than the others, would think and believe that they rightfully have the priority to cross the bridge first before the others who are more inferior than them, while the others who think and believe that they are more inferior than the others should autonomously let the others whom they think and believe as more superior to cross first.

Most of the time, the ones that identify themselves as more superior than all the others (from both sides of the river) are all insisting that they themselves have the priority and that they should cross first, and hence, all of them cross the bridge at the same time and end up getting stuck in the middle of the bridge, and if out of pride and arrogance, where none of them would retreat, the bridge will eventually collapse and so are all those prideful arrogant minds.

Meanwhile, the ones that identify themselves as more inferior than the others (from both sides of the river) are all insisting that they themselves shouldn't cross the bridge not until the other cross first, and hence, none of them would cross the bridge, and just wait for the others from the other side of the river to cross first.

The minds that are free from the sense of superiority and inferiority, where they don't identify themselves and/or others as more or less superior or inferior, they would acknowledge one another and cross the bridge one after another, regardless of who goes first, without any problem.

The bridge doesn't belong to anyone, even if the bridge was built by someone, under the initiation, effort, support, idea, and design of someone.

There is neither more priority nor less priority in anyone.

All and everyone respect one another. 

All and everyone just take their turn to cross the bridge, one after another.

All and everyone would show thankfulness to each and everyone upon crossing, one by one, one after another, smoothly.

All and everyone would also look after the condition of the bridge that benefits all and everyone to cross from both sides of the river.

Needless to have superiority and inferiority, or more and less priority.

Needless to fight against one another (bullying, over-powering, sabotaging, and conquering one another).

Needless to have pride or shame.

Needless to have arrogance or humility.

But all and everyone just be kind and help one another (from being dependent to become independent).

There are many minds might think and believe that this is merely an unrealistic ideology/philosophy, that it doesn't work or cannot exist in the world of human beings that is strongly being empowered and rooted in selfishness, pride, sense of ownership and belonging, possessiveness, greed, endless accumulation and hoarding of wealth and enjoyment, as well as 'governed by' the sense of superiority and inferiority, in order to survive and prosper, is merely because they are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

Just as there are parents/teachers would think and believe that the children/students need to be brought up/disciplined/moulded/conditioned by force under the presence of threatening painful physical and mental intimidation and punishment, if not, by temptation under the presence and absence of reward, in order for them to become 'good' and 'obedient' and 'successful' and 'giving back' in the way that the parents/teachers expect them to be.

Just as many minds would think and believe that they need to be the bully that bully others, in order not to be bullied by the others.

The world of human beings doesn't need to be like that, at all.

Sustainable survival and prosperity (sufficiency, neither insufficiency nor abundance) for all and everyone will be there as it is, naturally, upon more minds are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, under the absence of the sense of superiority and inferiority (even if there are many existing inevitable differences and conditions as well as there are different degrees of livelihood or financial development, opportunity, and status among all and everyone in different regions and areas), when there are more kindness and generosity while less cruelty and selfishness, under the absence of pride, sense of ownership and belonging, possessiveness, greed, endless accumulation and hoarding of wealth and enjoyment, or boundless ambitious aspirations and ambitions that exploit and destroy all and everyone and everything to the maximum, where the minds understand that none and nothing belong to anyone or anything, while all and everyone has the basic universal common sense or conscience to be kind to and look after oneself as well as one another, in order to support and develop and empower a conducive healthy living environment and condition for all and everyone, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

The ones that cross the bridge before or after one another, it's not because of who is more superior or inferior, or who is younger or elder, or who is male or female, or who is darker or fairer skin colour, or who is more or less beautiful and attractive, or who is more or less successful and contributing, or who has more or less priority, or who deserves more or less respect, or who has higher or lower ranking/title/caste/power/authority, but all and everyone naturally and wittingly coordinate with one another to create a smooth flow of movement or traffic under the presence of correct understanding or clarity.

Under the presence of certain emergency situation, the ones that have the need or urgency to go first will go first, under the acknowledgement and understanding of all and everyone. Such as on the road, where all drivers will autonomously move their car aside and allow the ambulance to pass urgently.

That action or behavior should come from the presence of basic universal common sense, or conscience, or kindness/generosity, deriving from the presence of correct understanding or clarity in the mind, not because of there is the existence of manmade law and order or rules and regulations that the drivers are being threatened and will be prosecuted with certain type of prosecution and punishment, if they don't obey the law and order about all drivers should move their car aside to allow the emergency ambulance to pass smoothly.

If all the minds in the world are free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, where all minds are functioning under the presence of correct understanding or clarity, there is needless of all those manmade worldly egoistic rules and regulations or law and order that only serves very little or completely no effect of 'controlling' people's activity and behavior in certain way and not in certain way, where the minds, especially those so called 'world leaders or law makers that were either self-proclaimed or being given certain power of authority by the people that impact all and everyone and everything directly and indirectly', that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance will still be acting and behaving ignorantly regardless of whether they will be prosecuted and punished under the presence of local and global international law and order, or not, and whether their ranking/title/power of authority will be stripped off, or not. These minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance will still be continuously acting and behaving ignorantly in the way that hurt all and everyone and everything, due to the absence of correct understanding or clarity in these minds.

That is why the upmost important element or the core pillar/foundation/structure to build, or support, or empower a relationship, or a family, or a community, or a country, or a world, or the highest duty of all humanity, is about the mind conquest, or the mind conscious evolution, or the annihilation of the veil of ignorance in the mind, by the mind itself. 

The king is a powerless 'king' upon none see and acknowledge him as the king. The power of a king is given and empowered by the people.

The bully is a powerless 'bully' upon none play along 'the game of the bully and the victim of bully' with it. The power of bully is given and empowered by the ones who accept the bullying, that entertain the bully, and that give attention, acknowledgement, and importance to the bully and its bullying.

The belief and values is nothing upon none believe in it or practice it.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Renounce worldly passionate egoistic thinking and behavior

The teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism are for the minds that are interested to learn and practice and realize the universal teachings or dhamma of yoga and/or buddhism through direct self-realization via purifying and quieting the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind.

The minds that are not interested in learning, or practicing, or realizing yoga and/or buddhism, they don't need to practice yoga or buddhism, not to say, to practice yoga or buddhism as it is.

The core of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about activating the mind purification process to be modifying/changing the limited and conditional passionate egoistic impure restless mind thinking and behavior pattern, a.k.a. engaging in the mind quieting process to be free from the influence of the veil of ignorance a.k.a. the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement and the sense of separateness, egoism, impurities, and restlessness, effectively and practically, by renouncing, or letting go, or moving away from the worldly passionate egoistic minds, ties and connections, relationships, affairs, activities, interactions, habits, or the passionate egoistic way of living, thinking, and behavior.

What is normal way of thinking, meaningful way of living, and appropriate behavior for the passionate egoistic minds, is exactly what needed to be renounced or letting go in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

There are different worldly egoistic cultures (different ways of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior), while regardless of from the one same cultural background or from the different cultural backgrounds, all and everyone have the freedom of their own particular way of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior.

Meanwhile, all kinds of different cultures have some similar common egoistic ideas, values, and practice that they all share in common, that is exactly what needed to be renounced or letting go during the mind purification and quieting process. Or else, even after years and years of practicing yoga and/or buddhism, the mind is still being conditioned by the worldly passionate egoistic mind thinking and behavior pattern to think, to evaluate, to desire, to act and react, or to live life and behave in certain way or not in certain way. The mind is still being restless swaying in between satisfaction and dissatisfaction, elevation and depression, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and joylessness, togetherness and separateness/loneliness/missingness, goodness and badness, pleased and displeased, enjoyment and suffering, and etc. Even so, there is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong about that.

For the minds that sincerely want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism as it is, then they can contemplate upon this, if they want. 

The commonly shared among the different worldly passionate egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, practices, inspirations, aspirations, desires, visions, or ways of living, thinking, and behavior is about -

- "We all need to have family and friends, and we all need to have our particular community mental and emotional support."

or, "Aloneness, being by oneself, living by oneself, eating by oneself, enjoying life by oneself, navigating life existence in the world of impermanence and uncertainty by oneself, dealing with all kinds of challenging condition and situation by oneself, and performing beneficial action to be looking after the well-being of oneself and others and the surrounding environment, without family and friends or community mental and emotional support and interaction, is lonely and unhealthy, is bad and wrong, and is joyless and meaningless."

There is nothing wrong with having the companionship of family and friends or community mingling and interaction and support, but for the minds that want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism, it is about - "We can have family and friends or engaging in community activity and interaction to be giving and receiving mental and emotional support among one another, but we don't need to must have family and friends, or engaging in community activity and interaction to attain mental and emotional support among one another. It is absolutely okay and there is nothing bad, or wrong, or meaningless, or joyless, or unhealthy, if we are being alone and living alone by ourselves without being surrounded by family and friends or without mingling and interacting with any particular community.

Mental and emotional independence is one of the essential criteria and precious element to be developed and empowered in yoga and/or buddhism. All kinds of worldly passionate egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial/national/communal ideas, beliefs, values, and practices are all about developing and empowering mental and emotional dependence, that is a huge hindrance towards attaining direct self realization towards the truth of names and forms - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, that is crucial for promoting and maintaining world peace and harmony among the countless diversities in the world of diverse names and forms that doesn't belong to anyone or anything."

- "As human beings, we should behave like this and we shouldn't behave like that."

Which also being brought into the path of yoga and/or buddhism - "As a yogi or a buddhist, we should behave like this and we shouldn't behave like that."

There is nothing wrong with we ourselves want to be behaving in the way that we think and believe as 'good and appropriate', and don't want to be behaving in the way that we think and believe as 'bad and inappropriate' in accordance to our own particular cultural belief, values, and practice, but for the minds that want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism, it is about - "Our own particular cultural belief, values, and practice is only limited to ourselves. Others have their own freedom of their own particular cultural belief, values, and practice. What we think and believe and how we want to behave is our own freedom of thinking, belief, and behavior. What others think and believe and how others want to behave is their own freedom of thinking, belief, and behavior, including our particular immediate family members, parents, siblings, children, relatives, friends, and particular community, not to say all the others that are not our immediate family members, parents, siblings, children, relatives, friends, and particular community. Even the minds that are practicing yoga and/or buddhism, they are not necessarily practicing yoga and/or buddhism as it is, and they have the freedom for what they want or don't want to practice, and how they want to practice."

- "Life like this is joyful and meaningful, and life like that is joyless and meaningless."

There is nothing wrong that we have our own interpretation towards what is meaningful and meaningless, and what is joyful or joyless, but for the minds that want to practice and realize yoga or buddhism, it is about - "Our own interpretation towards what is meaningful and meaningless or joyful and joyless, is only limited to ourselves. All the others, including our family members, parents, siblings, children, friends, relatives, our particular community, and the many other diverse individuals and communities, they all have their own interpretation towards what is meaningful and meaningless, that can be completely different from one another."

Apply this inquiry towards all and everything about ourselves and all the others that are different from us.

The minds that have this understanding, will not be disturbed or offended by the other yoga and buddhism practitioners being what they are, not to say, all the others (non-yoga and buddhism practitioners) that have their own particular worldly egoistic cultural belief, values, and practice that influences their own particular way of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, reasoning and evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior, while respecting all and everyone as they are.

If there is intense disagreement or discomfort towards some others' cultural belief, values, and practice or way of living, thinking, and behavior, then one can distance oneself away from such minds, environment, condition, and situation, to minimize coming in contact with anyone and anything that oneself strongly dislikes and disagrees with, as much as possible, while not expecting or bullying the others to change their cultural belief, values, and practice or way of living, thinking, and behavior, that oneself doesn't like and doesn't agree with, or expecting the others to go somewhere else to move away from oneself.

There is a room full of many different people. One person that doesn't like some others or all the others can leave the room, and everyone will have peace. But out of ignorance and possessiveness, this person expects the others that oneself doesn't like to leave the room - "I have the rights and freedom to be here, all these people that I don't like shouldn't be here."

Meanwhile, under certain passionate egoistic cultural practice, the one that wish to leave the room and let all the others to be what they are and have peace, would be stopped by the minds that are being conditioned by the cultural practice about, "No. You cannot leave the room. It is rude and inappropriate to leave the room. You need to stay here and interacting with all the others even if you don't like all the others, and you need to behave yourself as a well brought-up good and civilized human being (which means being a hypocrite that tell all kinds of lies to please all the others)."

So many minds are developing certain degrees of mental illness/blockage because of being conditioned and limited by such cultural practice from young, where it affects their relationship with all and everyone, and many of them who have became parents themselves also conditioning and limiting their own children in such way, to be well-trained professional hypocrite that please all and everyone, while being told that they should either keep all the dissatisfaction, complaints, and unhappiness suppressing within, or there is nothing wrong to be doing and saying everything bad behind people's back (back-stabbing their parents, their siblings, their children, their spouse, their friends, their colleagues, or the members of their particular community, behind their back, while being super nice and loving and hugging and saying all kinds of nice things towards one another all the time in front of them.)

That is not what kindness, compassion, accommodation, acceptance, and respect is about. Real kindness, compassion, accommodation, acceptance, and respect is free from any kind of ill will or resentment towards anyone or anything.

Hypocrisy is merely a hurtful values and practice and behavior that hurt oneself and others. It is indeed a form of hidden abusive behavior that begins in oneself that might grow into the surrounding environment that hurt all and everyone and the surrounding environment, where the accumulated intense disagreement, dissatisfaction, frustration, unhappiness, anger, and resentment towards someone or something are being directed to all the others and objects that are innocent, that are nothing to do with the accumulated intense disagreement, dissatisfaction, frustration, unhappiness, anger, and resentment towards someone or something.

All and everyone have the freedom to be what they are and where they are. All the others have the freedom to be what they are and where they are. We ourselves also have the freedom to be what we are and where we are, but we all need to know and understand that we all are co-existing and sharing the space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything with the many diversities, where there are many things or affairs are not necessarily pleasant, desirable, or agreeable. The infinite space in anywhere and everywhere doesn't belong to 'I', or 'my family', or 'my community', or 'my country', or 'my ancestors', or 'my spirituality/religion', or 'my almighty creator and authority and judge of the universe', or anyone and anything.

It has to come from ourselves to accommodate and respect towards all kinds of diversities that are co-existing in this space and sharing this space, under the presence of correct understanding, without any ill will, frustration, resentment, or bitterness. If we can't accommodate or tolerate this or that, we are the ones that can leave and go somewhere else, and let all the others to have peace and freedom being what they are and where they are.

The minds that don't have this understanding, will easily be disturbed or offended by all the others that have their own particular cultural belief, values, and practice that influences their own particular way of living, thinking, belief and disbelief, reasoning and evaluation, desire and don't desire, practice, and behavior. They expect and insist all the others to also think and behave like themselves. They want to interfere with and change the others either by temptation, reward, conversion, and manipulation, or by force, threat, intimidation, bullying, oppression, suppression, restriction, and/or painful disciplinary and punishment, if not, they want to chase away and eliminate anyone that are different from them. They gather power of control and bullying by encouraging and empowering financial and mental and emotional dependence among their own particular family, siblings, friends, relatives, or community in order to achieve their aspiration, vision, and ambition of to be possessing the power of control towards everyone to think and behave and desire in certain way and not in certain way, to gratify all their desires of what they want and don't want, as well as to be coveting and hoarding unlimited wealth and possessions and enjoyments, or land and space and natural resources that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

And hence, the highly importance of the observation of dispassion and renunciation, solitude and seclusion, and silence (Mauna), in the path of yoga and/or buddhism, to move the body and mind away from continuously being conditioned and influenced by such worldly passionate egoistic selfish, possessive, prideful, and hurtful ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, while respecting and non-interference towards all the others to be what they are, as they are.

As long as the mind still has the conscious and semi-conscious attachment and identification towards "This is 'I', this is who and what I am, I am this and I am not that, and this is my body, my mind, my ideas/thoughts/thinking, my feelings and emotions, my knowledge, my experience, my qualification, my identity, my self-esteem and self-worth, my confidence, my family, my friends, my relatives, my father, my mother, my siblings, my husband, my wife, my children, my community, my tribe, my village, my birth place, my origin, my country, my nationality, my belief, my culture, my spirituality, my religion, my land, my space, my rights, my deserving privilege, my pride, my belongings, my achievements, my lineage, my teacher, my guru, my yoga, my buddhism, my practice, my fruit of practice, my action, my fruit of action, my peace, my happiness, my realization, my liberation, my freedom, and so on," the mind is not free.

The mind that realized the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self will understand that -

The idea of 'I' and 'my' or 'mine', is mere ignorance.

The body and mind doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, or to one another. The body and mind cannot exist or function as what they are, if without energy and all kinds of elements come together selflessly and ego-lessly that enabling the body and mind to be existing and functioning as what they are.

The parents might give birth to the children, but the children don't belong to the parents, and vice versa. Even though the children don't belong to the parents, but the parents are the ones that are responsible for giving birth to the children and have the responsibility, kindness, and generosity of looking after the children until they become independent. Even though the parents don't belong to the children, but the children can be looking after the well-being of the aging parents out of kindness and generosity.

The fruits, the flowers, the leaves, or the structure of the tree don't belong to themselves or one another.

The same as all and everything don't belong to themselves, or anyone, or anything.

Even though all and everything don't belong to anyone or anything, but all and everyone and everything are inevitably inter-supporting and inter-influencing the existence and function of all and everyone and everything, directly and indirectly.

One doesn't need to be acknowledging and identifying as, "I am the citizen of this country. This is my country. This country belongs to me and I belong to this country. This is where I belong. And hence, I have the duty and responsibility to look after the well-being of this country," in order to be performing action to be looking after the well-being of oneself, others, all and everyone, and the surrounding environment (the world of many diversity) that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, while not hurting oneself, others, all and everyone, and the surrounding environment, out of kindness and generosity, out of correct understanding, and out of one's own freewill and initiation.

There is nothing belong to anyone or anything. The existence/function/mechanism/state of mind doesn't even belong to the mind itself, what is there that is belonging to who or what? All and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. None or nothing can exist as what they are if without all the other names and forms are existing to be inter-supporting and inter-influencing one another selflessly and ego-lessly to be manifesting/existing/changing/decaying/disintegrating/ceased existing as they are. None and nothing belong to anyone or anything.

There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong if the mind is not free. 

However, the mind that is not free might be keep hurting oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment ceaselessly, either wittingly or unwittingly, out of ignorance, under the presence and influence of the idea of 'I' and everything that belong to 'I' (a.k.a. possessiveness and hoarding, or greed and discontentment, or fear, or the urge to control all and everything to be or not to be in certain way, and the sense of belonging, pride, and self-righteousness), impurities, and restlessness.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Healthy body happy mind?

Just like the many common and popular terms of 'mental and emotional healing' and/or 'spiritual healing', or 'be positive, be strong', or 'you can fly', or 'you deserve', or 'you are unlimited', or 'you can be/do/achieve anything that you desire', and etc, similarly, the term of 'healthy body happy mind' is also one of the many common and popular terms in the world of yoga, and they are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, but all these common and popular terms are nothing to do with the teachings and practice of yoga.

The minds that are still functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, need to be prompted/inspired/motivated/attracted by certain pleasant, desirable, agreeable, enjoyable, motivational, or attractive 'benefit'/'result'/'goal'/'achievement', in order to be inspired and aspired to do something or anything. And hence, there are many different types of 'motivational positive encouragement' existing to motivate the minds to be engaging in certain kind of yoga practice to begin with. If there is persistence and regularity in the engagement in some kind of yoga practice, the mind might or might not start to realize and understand towards all those 'motivational positive encouragements' are not the objective, or the highest goal, or the end of the yoga practice.

Very few minds that are already endowed with the basic correct understanding from young, and that have the intense immovable yearning towards liberation, self discipline, and the mental and emotional independence, where they will devote their entire life existence and function, or their entire attention and energy onto the path of yoga and/or buddhism diligently to inquire the truth of everything internally and externally to know Thyself, even if they have read or heard from someone or somewhere, or they have realized and understood from the very beginning that the path of yoga and/or buddhism is not an easy or pleasant path, but rather there are many challenging obstacles and difficulties arising from time to time, internally and externally, where they endure or forbear, and break through or move around all kinds of unpleasant or even painful obstacles or difficulties, and upon the direct self realization towards knowing Thyself takes place, they might or might not return to the world of ignorant egoistic impure restless suffering minds, served as the reflective object and/or subject for the suffering minds that are in searching for genuine guidance or way towards liberation, to reflect/contemplate upon themselves to know Thyself.

Do not mistaken such devotion onto the path of yoga and/or buddhism as 'Being a monk or a nun living in the temple or ashram with the monk/nun community', as that doesn't guarantee that the mind is practicing yoga and/or buddhism as it is.

There is nothing wrong with 'healthy and fit physical body' and 'happy minds'. 

It is indeed very good to have a 'healthy and fit physical body' with minimum illness, injury, weakness, limitations, or disabilities. It saves lots of unnecessary expenses, conserves life existence/effort/energy, and generates less evitable inconveniences to oneself and others, if one has the basic general knowledge or universal common sense, correct understanding, and proper action taking to avoid or prevent all kinds of evitable unnecessary physical illness, injury, limitation, or disability that is not due to inevitable genetically inherited physical and/or mental condition from the beginning of formation and birth, or if upon the presence of any kind of treatable/recoverable illness or injury, one has the self initiative and understanding to take immediate action to be rehabilitated from the existing treatable illness or injury attentively as soon as possible, before it becomes worst if being left unattended without proper action taking or necessary medical treatments.

It is also very good to have a 'happy mind', even if that state of happiness/satisfaction/comfort is also merely a momentary state of the mind, that is limited and conditional, that is coming and going, that will appear and disappear, that will arise, change, and pass away, but a mind that is in a state of happiness/satisfaction/comfort, will most probably be nicer and kinder to oneself and others, and will be less violent and hurtful unto oneself and others, even if such pleasant behavior is only presence during that momentary state of happiness/satisfaction/comfort.

Just as some people where their mind is being over-powered by the veil of ignorance, will appear to be more difficult than usual, and behaving irrationally and violently upon the presence of hunger or tiredness that is not being satisfied immediately, and even more so upon the presence of hunger or tiredness is persisted not being attended for an extended duration (non-gratification of needs/desires), while they appeared to be more easy going and a lot nicer when there is absence of hunger or tiredness, or upon the hunger or tiredness is being attended immediately and disappeared (gratification of needs/desires).

Such minds are unwittingly being the slave of the conscious/semi-conscious desires of craving and aversion, as well as the non-conscious urges/fluctuation of hormonal changes/involuntary autonomous bodily functions/conditions/situations. Such minds would become agitated/grumpy/bad mood if it doesn't get to sleep when it desires to sleep, or it doesn't get enough of sleep, or the sleep is disturbed by something or someone, or upon waking up but not fully awake yet.

Even though it is not necessarily, but it is a lot easier for the mind that is in a good mood or in state of comfort, happiness, or satisfaction, to be 'more easy going', or 'nicer', or 'kinder', or 'forgiving', or be able to 'let go' and 'not be bothered by' something or anything, even if that is conditional, and it is only possible for a limited duration.

Especially under the absence of the basic essential correct understanding towards what is happening in the mind itself, on top of under the presence of grasping as well as the absence of certain degrees of self control, the mind that is in a state of unhappiness/disturbance/great disappointment/unpleasantness/discomfort/dissatisfaction/painful suffering/exhaustion/tiredness/hunger and thirst, will tend to be violent and hurtful unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment, either wittingly or unwittingly, randomly or deliberately, intentionally or unintentionally.

And more importantly, if under the absence of correct understanding on top of the presence of incorrect understanding, the mind might unwittingly or ignorantly harming the existence and function of the body and mind as well as directly or indirectly harming others and the surrounding environment during the process to achieve a 'healthy and fit physical body' and/or 'happy mind'. Such as some minds feel good, happy, satisfied, or accomplished upon successfully damaging/hurting/manipulating/exploiting/destroying some others or something in order to achieve what they like and desire.

Meanwhile, 'healthy and fit body' and 'happy mind' are not necessarily relate to one another, or the shadow of one another.

Under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, the mind can still be unhappy about something or everything even if the body is super healthy and fit, or is highly energetic and free from illness/injury/weakness/stiffness/limitation, or under the presence of correct understanding, the mind can still be cheerful and happy even if the body is unhealthy and unfit, or is undergoing certain unpleasant and undesirable illness, injury, weakness, stiffness, limitation, disability, discomfort, or painful suffering.

No doubt that, it will be very good if all and everyone can have a 'healthy and fit physical body' as well as a 'happy mind' at the same time. There will be more peace and harmony or less unrest and disharmony, in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

More importantly, a 'happy mind' doesn't necessarily mean that the mind is free from the influence of the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

There are many minds are being happy and feeling good and satisfied because of the gratification of certain desires of craving and aversion, or the manifestation of the momentary conditional sense of confidence, strength, success, achievement, or accomplishment, upon experiencing/achieving/receiving/possessing/enjoying what the mind likes, agrees, and desires, that the mind thinks and believes and recognizes as 'superior' quality or status, while not experiencing/getting/receiving/possessing/suffering what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree, and doesn't desire, that the mind thinks and believes and recognizes as 'inferior' quality or status.

The gratification of the desires of craving and aversion, or the momentary conditional sense of confidence, strength, success, achievement, or accomplishment, as well as during the process of achieving all THAT, are not necessarily be free from certain activities that are harming/hurting/exploiting some others or the surrounding environment directly and/or indirectly, either wittingly and/or unwittingly, that impact all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment short-termly, medium-termly, or long-termly, under the presence of boundless empowered greedy desires, inspirations, aspirations, visions, and ambitions waiting to be materialized and fulfilled endlessly.

It is also common and natural that most minds would like to have longevity or long life span, to be able to live as long as possible, as well as to be aging gracefully and joyfully, and to enjoy all kinds of enjoyments as much as possible, if it is not possible to be immortal and forever youthful infinitely, devoid of decay, aging, old age, weakness, stiffness, illness, injury, immobility, limitation, disability, or death.

Many minds might relate 'healthy and fit body' with 'longevity', because scientifically or biologically, a 'healthy and fit body' has the bigger possibility of having a longer life span.

'Healthy and fit or youthful and energetic body' and 'longevity' are not necessarily the shadow of one another, where there are many people don't or didn't live long due to certain impactful activities/conditions/situations even when the body is/was still in the tip top good health, fitness, youthful, and energetic condition.

Except certain inevitable intentionless natural causes of death regardless of short or long life span (impactful accidents and diseases/non-human's ignorance induced natural disasters/genetically inherited underlying condition/natural process of decay and disintegration), there are many evitable unnecessary non-natural causes of death as well as physical and/or mental painful suffering, is due to the hurtful and impactful activities/conditions/situations/ties and connections/relationships/interactions/communications/affairs deriving from the minds that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I'/the ego (the conscious and semi-conscious self awareness or self acknowledgement under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness), egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

There are many evitable unnecessary human's ignorance induced detrimental and impactful conditions, situations, affairs, activities, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, communications, accidents, illnesses, diseases, injuries, damages, abuse, bully, violence, fighting, killing, unrest, oppression, invasion, intrusion, war, discrimination and prejudice, unjust and cruelty, exploitation and desperation, or all kinds of evitable painful physical and mental/emotional suffering inflicted by oneself and/or others, that are impacting, threatening, damaging, and detrimental towards the surrounding living environment and atmosphere, or the life existence and function as well as the over-all physical and mental well-being of all and everyone.

All THAT are the by-products deriving from the minds under the influence of all kinds of worldly egoistic ideas/affairs/beliefs/values/practices/visions/agendas/activities, especially selfish politicking or political power games, greedy commercial/financial/economical endless investment, development, growth, expansion, and empowerment (beyond the basic need of essential infrastructure development and management for all kinds of diversities to be existing and living in simplicity under a conducive peaceful and harmonious environment freely and indiscriminately), in order to support endless wealth and status accumulation and hoarding, or to gratify and materialize boundless desires, pleasurable physical and mental enjoyments, inspirations, aspirations, visions, and ambitions waiting to be fulfilled, being empowered by as well as empowering selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging and pride, mental and emotional dependence, the power of unity or togetherness, or more precisely, the power of control and authority for maximal survival and expansion (that is widely being misunderstood or linked to non-separateness or oneness or non-duality in yoga and/or buddhism), such as family-hood, brotherhood and sisterhood, gangsterism, nationalism, communism, capitalism, tribalism, leadership, organization, authorization, anarchy, monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, or authoritarianism, as well as the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, envy and jealousy, fear and the urge to control and interfere or manipulate all and everything to be or not to be in certain way, discrimination and prejudice, and all kinds of corruption, exploitation, intrusion, invasion, occupation, fighting, or war, domestically and externally, either being generated wittingly and/or unwittingly, that directly and/or indirectly impacting all and everyone and everything, even to the minds that are functioning under the absence of grasping under the presence of correct understanding (non-feeding ignorance), not to say, even more so to the minds that are functioning under the presence of grasping and incorrect understanding (ignorance gives rise to ignorance, and that also feeds and empowers ignorance).

There are many unnecessary and evitable environmental damages or detrimental conditions and situations that give rise to unnecessary physical and mental painful suffering in the many minds are not because of the sake of 'survival', but the empowered boundless and endless greedy desires, inspirations, aspirations, visions, and ambitions of the minds of human beings functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

What is the point of having 'longevity' or 'continuously living as long as possible', under a 'healthy and fit and energetic physical body', to accumulate and hoard unlimited 'wealth and possessions', or to enjoy unlimited pleasurable enjoyments of the senses, while wittingly or unwittingly harming/hurting/exploiting all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, directly or indirectly, in the process of achieving all THAT?

That is why the highly essential and practical teachings and observation or practice in yoga and/or buddhism about non-grasping, non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-comparison, non-expectation, live in the present, letting go the desirable and undesirable past memories and future imaginations, renunciation, dispassion, desirelessness, contentment, non-greed, simplicity, generosity, kindness, respect, non-discrimination, inclusivity, forbearance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, non-possessiveness, solitude, seclusion, mental and emotional independence, open mind, non-blind believing/following/glorifying/worshiping/agreeing/disagreeing/practicing/propagating, silence (Mauna), concentration and meditation, all kinds of attention demanding and effort exerting/action taking exercises, self-introspection and self-investigation, self-inquiry and self-realization, and the middle path, to practically and effectively moving the body and mind (physically and mentally) away from continuously being bombarded, hammered, disturbed, conditioned, and influenced consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously by so much over-whelming impactful worldly egoistic ideas/affairs/beliefs/values/practices/visions/aspirations/ambitions/agendas/activities/all kinds of 'motivational positive empowerment' to achieve endless higher and higher success, status, power, wealth, and enjoyment', in order to purify and quiet the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, to develop, promote, and empower mental and emotional independence and correct understanding, to practically and effectively freeing the selfless impermanent limited and conditional perceptive, cognitive, intellectual, emotional, thinking, and acting faculty/mind from the influence of the veil of ignorance.

The mind that understands this, it appreciates and makes good use of the availability of a 'healthy and fit and energetic physical body' without harming/exploiting anyone or anything under the presence of unconditional peace and correct understanding, to perform actions/activities that are beneficial to all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, while being at peace being undetermined or undisturbed upon the non-availability of a 'healthy and fit and energetic physical body' to be performing any actions/activities.

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.