Buddhism gives supreme importance to welfare and happiness of individual over any artificial ideas, institutions, persons, powers, faiths, beliefs etc.

Buddhism is a way to carry yourself in life so that you mitigate suffering and reach the natural happiness of life. For that, Buddhist philosophy proposes how to mitigate suffering individually and collectively through right living, right actions and right effect of actions.

Buddhism gives importance to mindful living for mitigating suffering by shunning negativities or defilements and cultivating positivity or virtues. Buddhism is all about shunning negativity and cultivating positivity for individual human welfare and happiness.

Early Ideas of Buddhism

Early Buddhism is an atheist’s way of a sublime life based on knowing correctly in the right context as it is rather than following belief or faith.

“Tathata” is ancient Pali word for knowing correctly in the right context as it is. “Tathagat” is word for person who has attained to such authentic or pure knowing, also knowing the truth of their own nature as they are. Such persons were called Buddhas, the awakened ones who can know as it is.

Buddha means “bodh” in Pali language which also means intellect or awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context as it is. The sublime ethical way of life lived through awareness is called “dhamma” in Pali language which can be translated as “sublime human nature” or “ultimate human duty” leading to a sublime life.

Anitya or impermanence, “anatta” meaning no eternal inner self or soul, and “samutpada” or conditional arising are key ideas in the foundation of Buddhism. According to Buddhism life is impermanent, there is no eternal inner-self and we are recreated as part of collective through recycling of cause and conditions.

Hence, Buddhism gives importance to living the rare phenomenon of human life correctly in the present, act correctly and effect correctly because according to Buddhism, you become your actions, and you continue in the effect of your intentional actions. Hence Buddhism encourages you to live a good life and leave a holistic impact of you life and actions on your environment.

Buddhist ideas were collectively documented during first and second Buddhist councils attended by hundreds of monks who personally knew their teacher, the renunciate Sakya prince Siddhartha Gotama later called Gautam Buddha.

Later, due to loss of patronage and status in the society through decline of Mauryan Dynasty, Buddhism adapted with the theistic ideas like deities, past birth and next birth. Some of the later schools of Buddhism may erroneously believe that life forms are reborn due to intact transmigration of mind even after death, decay, disintegration, dispersion and recycling of the life form.

However, different Gods and ideas of multiple births in the philosophy of later Buddhism are underplayed and made subservient to humans for individual human welfare and happiness.

Sublime Philosophy of Buddhist Atheism

Like atheists, Buddhists do not believe blindly.

Just like atheists, the early Buddhists emphasized on knowing correctly in the right context through all the right means including but not limited to the six senses and clarity of awareness.

Early Buddhists were naturalists and extrapolated the recycling nature of life to the beginningless universe which constantly changes and transforms dialectically through disintegration, dispersion, endless recycling and recreation.

Unlike theists, the early Buddhists did not bother themselves with imaginary ideas that cannot be validated, verified, proven, demonstrated, applied or known correctly. Hence early Buddhists did not consider irrelevant ideas like supreme creator and controller or God, past birth, next birth and eternal immortal inner self independent of cause and conditions.

According to Buddhists, everything known and unknown is a phenomenon arising due to constituent cause and conditions. All phenomena are empty without it’s constituent cause and conditions. Buddhists attribute personal and impersonal cause, conditions and circumstances to determine the course of human existence rather than supreme creator, past birth or after life.

When asked about god or the God, Buddha is known to have remained silent and when asked about after life, Buddha said that there is neither permanent Self nor independent inner self. However, Buddha was confronted by priests for preaching a Godless philosophy.

In later Buddhism, the supreme creator is rendered as one of the many insignificant dispensable factors that contribute to the story of creation and life.

On the other hand, the core Buddhist ideas like

Pragya or ability to know correctly in the right context,

anatta meaning no inner self,

anitya meaning impermanence, and

samutpada meaning collective conditional arising due to cause and conditions,

all indicate towards absence of monotheism or polytheism and after life, thus clearly indicating their atheist disposition.

Buddhism’s core emphasis on no eternal immortal inner self renders the idea of supreme creator or controller irrelevant.

Based on the philosophy of impermanence, phenomenon of creation due to eternal recycling of cause and conditions, no inner self and emptiness of awareness, Buddhists carved a map of life for their monks and their lay followers for mitigating suffering and attaining supreme peace of enlightenment or Nirvana as objective of the one and only life to make it meaningfully fulfilled.

Without eternal immortal inner self, Buddhism proposed that individual is a phenomenon of knowing arising due to constituent cause and conditions, individual becomes their tangible and intangible actions and individual continues in the effect of their intentional actions. However, Buddhism encourages to dispel ignorance, acknowledge suffering, expel impurities and escape the recycling of life to escape suffering.

Early Buddhism, without any beliefs in ideas of supreme creator and eternal inner self, was practice of living responsible ethical life and becoming sublime by expelling negativity through skillful actions producing benevolent effects.

Map of Sublime Ethical Buddhist Life

Early Buddhists carved a system of living life in order to take it to it’s sublime conclusion through emphasis on dispelling ignorance and performing good deeds skillfully so that it had benevolent effect on oneself and on everyone.

Buddhists do not believe in praying for better life or for better after-life. Buddhists avoid unethical life and follow the principle of nonattachment to the impermanence of life and forms.

Buddhists strive to cure negativities by improving themselves, try to avoid negative activities, and try to do more meritorious deeds in order to mitigate the negativity in life. This principle is classically explained as “reducing the saltiness of water by adding more pure water”.

The way of sublime life, according to Buddhists, lay emphasis on ethical life, restrained actions, getting rid of negativity, self-improvement and leaving good effect on the world.

This is done through the 4 Buddhist noble truths that address suffering, the 5 Buddhist principles to live ethically, and the 8 Buddhist rules for skillful living.

According to Buddhists, human nature is perfect without negativity, life is happiness without suffering and suffering is due to ignorance giving rise to unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments.

Buddhist Practices

Buddha urged his followers to be their own guide, carve their own path, follow the middle way and avoid extremes in order to live ethically and act skillfully. Buddhism encourages to purify the body and mind of defilements, act skillfully and benevolently, and follow the middle way for human welfare and happiness.

For self-purification and self-improvement, Buddhists practice “pragnya” or seamless clarity of awareness for knowing correctly in the right context as it is. For skillful and benevolent actions Buddhists follow truth and nonviolence.

Catharsis Through Meditation

Buddhism has the idea that “tanha” or stress giving rise to the Self is a source of conflict. According to Buddhism, the Self and it’s negativities give rise to rigidity, unskillfulness and conflict through self-conception, self-ideation, self-identity, self-image, inner self etc. Hence buddha encouraged living stress-free natural life of nonviolence and self-care.

Buddha encouraged practicing constant awareness of breath at entrance of nostrils through practice of “Vipassana” or “Anapanasati” meditation. Through Vipassana meditation stress is relieved, the awareness becomes seamlessly clear and without activities in mind. Without activities in the mind, the Self is dispelled and it’s negativities are expelled through process of catharsis. Catharsis is one of the many benefits of meditation.

Buddha taught to cure or shun negativities, cultivate “pragya” or seamlessly clear detached awareness to reveal the natural pleasures of meditation and peace. Through “pragya” the “maya” or hypnosis is cured thus dispelling the charms of life and the world. According to Buddha, natural pleasure of meditation can render the meditator independent of external agencies for happiness.

Non-Violence and Supreme Value of Life

Buddha, knowing the precarious position of human life under some pretext or the other in the factionalized society of his time, declared human life to be rare, impermanent and of supreme value.

Buddha had declared absolute non-violence towards oneself and others as supreme duty or “dhamma” and upheld compassion as absolute principle to follow for his students. Buddha positively emphasized the moto of collective or universal human welfare and happiness, “bahujan hitaya bahujan sukhaya” to his disciples.

Declaring that all life tremble at the prospect of pain and fear death, Buddha upheld the ancient sublime idea of treating the other as oneself. Buddhis said that life is the ultimate value and non-violence is the ultimate human duty or sublime human nature.

However, Buddhism does not impose dietary rules of vegetarianism as evident through the Buddhist monks eating any food offered by any person regardless of their status in society. However, Buddhists do not adopt occupations that can harm life.

Nonviolence of Buddhism begins with oneself and does acknowledge the right to defend oneself and escape harm.

Enlightenment In Buddhism: Relief and Peace

Buddhist spiritual enlightenment is characterized by a feeling of deep relief and peace

The relief felt is due to freedom from “maya” meaning hypnotic attachment to the world and the feeling of peace is due to freedom from cravings or unnecessary desires. There is nothing supernatural about enlightenment in Buddhism.

However, the sublime peace of enlightenment is compared to relief from grave illness, big debt, coming home safely without getting robbed from dangerous route etc..

Buddha remembered and compared the peace of enlightenment to the deep peace he had felt during his carefree moments of happy childhood.

Death in Buddhism

Buddhism regards death as the end of life without any afterlife but declares continuity of individual in the effect of their intentional actions after death, disintegration, dispersion and recycling of life. Buddhism in later periods erroneously declared intact continuity of mind after life beyond death.

According to Buddhism, a lay person who has continued in the effect of their actions through possessions and relationships, does not ceased completely after death and may continue to suffer in the unwholesome effects of their intentional actions.

On the other hand, a monk who has not left any effect of their intentional actions will reach “nirvana” or enlightenment after getting purified through spiritual efforts and ceases completely after their death thus leaving behind nothing and thus reaching the state of “mahaparinirvana” or meta-enlightenment from the point of view of living beings.

Hence, life is a rare and valuable phenomenon according to Buddhism but not worth getting attached due to the suffering inherent in it.

Rebirth Through Collective Arising

Though there is no permanent “Self” in Buddhism, the ideas of eternal self and cycle of birth and death mushroomed in later Buddhism due to misunderstanding created by Buddha referring to contemporary ideas of rebirth and formation of living beings due to infiltration of womb by consciousness.

This misunderstanding in Buddhism, of the consciousness entering womb, is further fueled by the story of Mahamaya dreaming a white elephant entering her womb. Rather than understanding it as her subconscious interpretation of fertilization due to white sperm entering womb it is customarily misinterpreted as buddha-consciousness entering her womb. Mahamaya was mother of prince Siddartha Gotama the Buddha.

Though, some of the modern Buddhists believe that mind transmigrates after life beyond death and some believe that conditions of Buddha consciousness get recreated repeatedly, most Buddhists adhere to the known facts of impermanence, no independent inner-Self, no permanent Self, and collective conditional arising of life forms without any supreme Creator.

Buddhist does not believe in individual rebirth or after life because there is on inner self or soul independent of cause and conditions. However, Buddhists acknowledge recycling and recreation of collective. Individual is dispersed, recycled and recreated in the collective. Hence the Buddhists emphasize individual and collective liberation from the recycling and collective arising.

According to Buddhist philosophy of “Samutpada”, we are collectively reborn as part of nature and society or “Samsara” in a closed system of world. Hence Buddhism lays stress upon the importance of renunciation, wandering and living alone, “like a Rhino” in order to escape the stream of recycling and prevent rebirth as part of collective society in a closed system.

Hence Buddhists acknowledge that life is suffering in order to escape the stream of recreation and collective arising. Samutpada means collective arising which means individual is reborn as part of collective through their associations and effects of intentional actions. In Buddhism, since there is no soul, there is no rebirth but recreation of cause, conditions and circumstances.

Since there is no independent eternal inner self or soul, nothing about the individual remains intact to be reborn after death, decay, disintegration and dispersion. For an individual there is no rebirth according to Buddhism but as part of nature and society, we are reborn through recycling and recreation. Individuals are not reborn but human societies or Samsara are reborn through recycling in a closed system.

The Statue of Buddha

The statue of buddha is symbol of peace, resolve and detachment.

The statue of Buddha represents a state of meditation in which Buddha is at peace, withdrawn and detached from known and unknown by closing his eyes to remain blissful in himself.

The statue of Buddha siting in cross legged Lotus posture is only symbolic of resolve to sit and meditate until ignorance is dispelled, and truth is known. However, the Lotus posture is not healthy to sit for long duration as evident from the fact that Buddha himself suffered from back pain. Buddha was against violence towards oneself and other life forms.

Reference to Buddha in scriptures indicate that Buddha use to meditate sleeping on his right flank. Buddha indicated to meditate in a comfortable posture with a straight lower back.

Buddha explained practice of meditation through example of a monk going to forest and sitting in Lotus posture under a tree to remain aware of incoming and outgoing breath.

Lotus posture is not suitable for prolonged sitting and meditation, especially for children, because it prevents lower back from remaining straight naturally. Lotus posture or cross legged sitting posture is not only unnatural but also most uncomfortable to sit for long. Sitting on a low pedestal with lower legs on floor is necessary to avoid the harmful effects of sitting in lotus posture for long.

Trying to sit straight for long with legs cross locked one above the other can depress core muscles, give rise to stress and lower back issues. Rather than relaxing body and mind, this posture can make meditation more difficult.

Traditionally, the people in India sit on low pedestal for sitting comfortably in Lotus posture; however, Seiza posture is best for prolonged sitting and meditation.

The statue of Buddha in a lotus posture is a later creation few hundred years after demise of Buddha. Lotus posture is best for the poor to sit down on hard surface without any carpet, low bench or low pedestal but it is not good for meditation or prolonged sitting without any back-support.

Seiza is the best natural posture for meditation and prolonged sitting if you can afford a carpet or low bench.

Idea of Constant Becoming in Buddhism

The idea of constant becoming also called “bhava” in Pali language means feeling. Bhava or constant becoming means feeling of being the Self on account of association with the known and unknown.

Constant becoming or Bhava is feeling of being Self, whether inner self on account of association with experiences or the Self on account of association with ideas of name, class, caste, nationality, gender, relations, inner self etc. Hence when the mind calms and body relax, then there is no association giving rise to “bhava” or feeling of being inner self or the Self.

Buddhist idea of constant becoming is based on transmigration of mind. However, in reality, it is not possible for mind to transmigrate intact because of it’s constantly changing nature subject to disintegration, dispersion and recycling just like body.

There is no independent inner self that has past birth or will have next birth. Without eternal inner self or soul, life is impermanent in Buddhism.

Constant becoming does not mean rebirthing. Constant becoming means recreation as part of a flow of life. Hence no person is reborn, but the cause and conditions can get recreated as effect of person’s intentional actions, also called “Karma” in Pali language. The idea of Samutpada proposes rebirth of human society rather than rebirth of individual.

Nonattachment is key to happiness in the constantly changing world and impermanent life.

The way you live and act in the world can give rise to attachment and suffering. Hence, you should acknowledge impermanence and live in such a way that you do not get attached.

Nonattachment is to be like water, not grasping neither the known nor the unknown but letting go and moving on in order to be harmonious with the changing cause and conditions.

Impermanence Reigns Supreme

Everything known, unknown or beyond are impermanent phenomena arising due to constituent cause and conditions, which ultimately change, die, disintegrate, disperse and gets endlessly recycled.

Since you are also an impermanent phenomenon, the idea of “God” or “The supreme power that create, control or judge after life” is also irrelevant. Even “the God or the Supreme Power” is one of the impermanent factors among the many causes and conditions in the story of creation. Impermanence reigns supreme.

Since you are impermanent and everything known and unknown is impermanent on account of it’s changing constituent cause and conditions, there is no point in getting attached to anything.

Non-attachment is harmonious with the supreme law of impermanence, whereas attachment is against the supreme law of impermanence. Hence attachment brings suffering whereas non-attachment avoids suffering.

Attachment is Due to Association

Attachment arises due to association. You associate with known and unknown by identifying yourself with respect to known and unknown.

You may have physical association, for example association with one’s clothes. You may have psychological association, for example association with one’s name. Due to association with clothes, you may feel physically uncomfortable in a dress that is not suitable, or you may feel elated in good clothes. Due to psychological association with your name, you may like or dislike your name.

Attachment arises due to association through which you identify yourself with respect to known and unknown. You may get attached through association with known or unknown due to ignorance and lack of seamlessly clear detached awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context as it is.

Lack of awareness can be due to different reasons for example, immaturity, hypnosis, chronic stress etc. Factors like immaturity, hypnosis, stress etc. can be due to different cause and conditions. Attachment through association with known and unknown gives rise to the Self and feeling of being inner self which is self-ignorance.

Self-ignorance arises through self-delineation by associating with self-ideation, self-image, self-conception, self-identification or feeling of being inner Self independent of constituent cause and conditions. Inner Self is due to stress and self-delineation is self-ignorance making you rigid and in conflict with life and the world.

During meditation you relax and dissociate step by step away from the known and unknown to become fully aware and detached without mind and without inner self. Fully aware and detached without inner Self, you find the pleasure of nonattachment.

Happiness In Nonattachment

Enjoy your life sustainably by living in such a way that you do not get attached.

Since you and everything known, unknown or beyond is impermanent, there should be no fear of loss or jealousy of success. Everything good and bad that everyone has will be eventually lost.

Life is impermanent and so it is to be enjoyed sustainably without regrets; however, nothing is worth regretting in the one and only ephemeral life without permanent Self.

Living without attachment, you will neither be saddened by loss nor fear loss. Without attachment, you will accept change and move on with the great natural flow of life.

Without attachment there is no association with known or unknown, without association there is no Self. Without the Self, you will enjoy what you have without unnecessary personal desires.

Nonattachment Through Meditation

Nonattachment is one of the many benefits of meditation. Meditation detaches your attention by withdrawing and focusing your attention. Through focused but detached attention, you dissociate from known and unknown.

Meditation relieves the subliminal stress of association with known or unknown and gives sublime seamless clarity of detached awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context. Due to stress relief, inner-Self is dispelled, and you disappear psychologically but remain self-aware without Self due to crystal clear detached reflecting awareness.

Without inner Self, you do not associate with known or unknown and you can remain self-aware without the Self. Self-awareness is aware of being aware due to detached reflecting seamlessly clear awareness.

Through meditation you become aware and detached without the inner Self. Through detached seamlessly clear awareness without the inner Self, you know correctly in the right context without getting attached or controlled by known and unknown.

Ideas represent possibilities in reality or imaginations. Ideas are imaginations or psychological point of views that can be real or unreal. Ideas are not tricks or hacks, but tricks and hacks can arise from the idea of making life easy or difficult. Ideas are imagination in some context.

Creativity and resourcefulness can give person the ability to see the contexts and come up with ideas. Due to their creative imagination, humans are capable of complex thinking and creating ideas. Ideas that you behold knowingly or unknowingly affect your attitude, your actions and the effect of your actions.

Ideas constitute philosophy. For example, philosophy of stoicism is based on ideas of minimalism, courage, justice, virtue. Philosophy of Taoism is based on naturalism, balance & equilibrium, being like water. Philosophy of Islam is based on idea of surrender to the security of supreme peace. Philosophy of Buddhism is based on ideas of impermanence, no-self, emptiness, conditional arising, collective karma, end of suffering etc.

Ideas can be universal or narrow, good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, real or unreal, advantageous or disadvantageous etc. Some ideas can be materialized to represent reality, for example scientific ideas. Some ideas are false and do not represent reality, for example idea of independent eternal immortal inner self and supreme creator.

True ideas can be materialized, verified, validated, proven, demonstrated, applied or at least known personally. Some ideas can be invented and turned into reality in form of technology, for example, ideas of currency representing valuables or idea of artificial wings in order to fly. Ideas can get misused due to wrong motives and methods behind their execution.

Under the umbrella of ideas, thoughts and philosophies manifest principles, policies, institutions, laws, rules, regulations, strategies, forms, practices, culture, customs, etc. For example, idea of right to privacy implemented through policies like HIPAA and upheld through laws and judiciary. This gives rise to a culture based on respecting others privacy. Thoughts and Ideas lie at the root of the human world.

Narrow rigid ideas bring mental slavery. Universal ideas broaden mind whereas freedom from all kinds of ideas bring psychological maturity.

Ideally, ideas should be universally true or real, manifestable, applicable, demonstrable, beneficial, evident or at least a personal experience, knowledge and understanding. Blind belief and faith in ideas can mislead you. Ideas should be livable rather than believable.

Beliefs in wrong ideas can manifest knowingly or unknowingly in form or wrong attitudes, actions, forms, practices, cultures, customs etc. Early life beliefs can have hypnotic effect on individuals making them psychologically immature and credulous.

It is also necessary to understand which ideas are important for reaching objectives, meeting goals and nurturing values. Objectives are motives, intensions or reasons behind goals. Ideally, objective should be ethical or noble. Goals, representing needs and desires, should be SMART, i.e. specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound. Value system represents what is of value or importance and in what order.

When you know what to value, you will know which ideas and it’s manifestations are important and in which order of priority. For example, for some the idea of life is more valuable than the idea of freedom and justice; but for some, the idea of freedom and justice are more valuable than the idea of life. Hence some societies will invest more in life science and healthcare while some will invest more in law, order and judiciary.

To know and understand manifestation of ideas correctly in the right context, it is necessary to have a seamless clarity of detached awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context as it is without getting associated with known or unknown.

Without associating with known and unknown, you are self-aware without the Self, you can understand ideas more impersonally in greater or deeper context.

Without self-ideation or self-identification, you are fully aware without inner self and your thinking is universal. Thinking through a universal point of view, your ideas can be wise and harmoniously synchronous with the greater context of life, nature and society.

Based on right thoughts, ideas and philosophies, the long haul of life and actions can mature in the right direction and get fulfilled meaningfully. Matured and meaningfully fulfilled life can outgrow giving rise to healthy detachment.

How to Manifest Ideas

For anything to manifest you need right cause and conditions. For example, to manifest moon in water, there has to be a watcher at night watching into clear calm water on full moon night.

To manifest idea dear to your heart, define it clearly and write it down. Writing down the idea and it’s definition can bring clarity to your understanding and give the idea reality in seed form.

Think and understand why you want the idea to manifest. Create list of goals and objectives that will create conditions for the idea to manifest. When there are right conditions, that means the manifestation is in alignment with the greater scheme of life.

When the conditions are right you can do what is happening and manifest the idea through actionless action or by acting without striving. Do not get attached to the manifested idea because nothing stays forever and everything is subject to change and impermanence.

Nature treats all life forms equally by being equally available to all. All life forms are born in freedom in the richness of nature. Naturally, all life forms chose to escape captivity or perish in captivity. There is no slavery, neither material nor spiritual, in the wilderness of nature.

Independence is the foundation of freedom. Greater the independence, greater the right to freedom and liberty. Freedom is natural in the wilderness whereas, freedom in the society is qualified, called liberty.

Meaning of Freedom

Freedom is a phenomenon of independence resulting from the cause and conditions including right to own will or conscience, right to own option and equal rights. If there is no equal right to own will, and no equal right to choose own option then there is no equal freedom.

Freedom is not wishfulness or the right to fulfill wishes. Freedom is a state arising like a phenomenon from conditions of right to own will, right to own options and right to equality in an universal context. In an universal context, freedom is harmonious with other life forms.

However, freedom in context of society, if not equal, and can go against the freedom of others. For example, religious freedom of one group can go against cultural freedom of another group.

As free individual, you belong to yourself, depend on yourself and are responsible for yourself. As a free individual, you are a wild human.

Understanding Freedom Through Slavery

Freedom can be understood from the institution of slavery. Freedom is the opposite of slavery. Slavery is enforced without the right to own options and without equal rights.

Slave is not free because they are in slavery against their will. Slaves own what is provided by the master and slaves do not have right to equal status. Slave are of the master, dependent on the master and for the master.

If you do not have will of your own, if you do not have right to own options, if you do not have equal rights, then you are not free. If you are dependent, if you are for something other than you, and if you belong to something or someone, you are not free.

Freedom Is A Natural Right

Freedom is natural. Freedom justifies itself. Freedom may have external objections, but it does not need external justification. Freedom is a natural human instinct and destiny. Infants wean, grow, mature, become independent and free. Freedom is a right and not a favor. Freedom is a necessary condition for life to flourish.

Freedom allows to make mistakes, learn from the mistakes, grow and mature. Without freedom, lifeforms remain immature because they cannot grow to their full potential. Individual as well as society without the right to equal freedom remains immature.

Liberty is Limited Freedom

Freedom is individual and liberty is institutional. Because society may not be able to accommodate the individual right to equal freedom, society may give and protect a restricted form of freedom called liberty. For example, kings and feudal lords allowed limited degree of freedom to their subjects through unequal rights.

Liberty is freedom in the context of society or within the framework of society and it’s institutions. Liberty is artificial. Autonomy is institutional. For example, educational institutions have autonomy due to which they independently operate within the premise of state laws. Freedom, liberty, or autonomy cannot exist without independence.

Right Knowledge Brings Independence and Freedom

Right knowledge brings independence and freedom as evident through the evolution of science and technology. Due to knowledge based on truth, nature and reason, humans evolved in their ability to imagine and think as evident through the European renaissance and made use of new thoughts to develop practical ideas, science and technology. True knowledge, science and technology has contributed to increase in human independence and freedom. Due to knowledge, science and technology, individuals lives are less under the control of institutions and society.

Independence Through Basic Natural Rights

If you are independent, then you have the right to freedom. Unfortunately, authorities use institutions of society to control natural richness of your environment and corrupt the processes of your life in order to make you weak and dependent on society for resources and natural fulfillment.

Women lose freedom due to their weakness and inability to assert themselves in a society where they are dependent on men. Human strength, independence and freedom is hampered with the destruction of nature and stress inducing corruption of life-processes.

In order to keep the flame of independence burning and the light of freedom shining, it is necessary for humans in society to have the universal right to life, basic healthcare, basic education, and basic natural wealth and basic income so that the authorities of society cannot misuse institutions to play humanity against each other for their selfish desires and ambitions.

You are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing, arising due to your indispensable constituent cause and conditions, you become your actions and continue in the effect of your actions. Detached and fully aware without associating with the known and unknown, you reflect and become self-aware without the Self.

You are not the Self that exist due to your association with the known and unknown. Like all phenomenon, you are empty, ephemeral without independent Self or inner self and you exist on account of your cause and condition.

Awareness is natural phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context whereas self-awareness without the Self is knowing the truth of your nature, correctly in the right context due to reflecting, awareness.

Self-aware, you know the truth of your nature beyond expression as it is without the Self, inner self or any other strings attached. Awareness and self-awareness without the Self is sublime because words cannot explain its obviousness and profound simplicity.

Awareness is a phenomenon of knowing due to cause and conditions of life just like brightness is a phenomenon of illumination due to dispersion of light. Awareness is a phenomenon of knowing just like brightness is a phenomenon of illumination. There is no eternal Self or inner self independent of cause and conditions.

Awareness and self-awareness without the Self is your psychological independence and freedom resulting from your naturally rich growth and maturity. As you grow and mature naturally, you become fully aware, mature, independent and free.

Fully aware, you can remain aware and detached, knowing correctly in the right context as it is without getting swayed by the effect of known and unknown.

Pure Knowing Through Clear Seamless Detached Awareness

Clear seamless awareness is phenomenon of knowing the reality correctly in the right context as it is without getting affected by the known or unknown. It is an eagle’s eye view of the know and known.

Clear seamless awareness is knowing without any reaction to the known or unknown. Through clear seamless awareness, the knowing and response is purely harmonious with the reality of cause and conditions.

Clear seamless awareness is pure knowing without activities in the mind or without giving rise to inner knower or inner self. Through clear seamless awareness, you know with equanimity and respond impersonally not according to the Self. Knowing through clear seamless awareness is neither arbitrary nor selective.

Through clear seamless awareness, you neither associate nor identify with the known or unknown. Without your association or identification with known or unknown, you are neither the Self nor the inner self.

Inner self and the Self both are due to association or identification with known and unknown whereas seamlessly clear awareness is due to lack of association or identification with the known and unknown. Self-awareness is to be your natural self and not self-knowledge.

Sublime State of Detached Awareness Without Self

The state of detached awareness is sublime because it is difficult to explain its obvious simplicity and profoundness in words.

Awareness is Enlightening

Ability to remain aware and detached without getting psychologically glued to known or unknown is the highly venerated phenomenon of knowing because of it’s enlightening effect on experiences, life, actions and effects of those actions.

Detached Self-Awareness Dispels Self-Ignorance

Fully aware and detached, you know yourself correctly in the right context to become self-aware. Self-aware, you realize that there is neither inner self nor the Self that is independent of constituent cause and conditions.

Remaining seamlessly aware and detached, knowing correctly in the right context, can relieve subliminal stress, dispel the hallucination of being inner self, dispel hypnosis due to self and cure self-ignorance just like darkness is dispelled by brightness.

Self-aware you are at peace as if at your home, feeling secure and rescued from the hypnosis by the world and hallucinations of the Self.

Detached Self-Awareness is Awareness of Being Aware Without Self

Fully aware and detached without inner self, you are free from the Self and self-ignorance. Without the Self and self-ignorance, you are free from the negativities that arises due to the Self and self-ignorance. Without the Self, you are no more rigid, you become well-adjusted and harmonious with the reality of cause and conditions.

Detached Awareness is Non-Attachment

Knowing correctly in the right context as detached awareness without inner-self, you can be free from desires, aversions and attachments. Non-attachment is harmonious with the supreme law of change and impermanence. Non-attachment to the changing world and impermanent life is the key to happiness.

Detached Awareness Without Self is Natural State of Peace and Relief

Without desires, aversions and attachments, you are unaffected by insecurity, uncertainty or lack of control. You feel naturally relieved, secure and at peace when fully aware without self and all the negativities of self that gives rise to rigidity and conflict.

Detached awareness is a natural state of peace, relief and equanimity unaffected by known or unknown. It is naturally rich state of individual irrespective of and their external attitudes or actions and independent of their external circumstances.

Detached Awareness is Your Psychological Maturity and Suppleness

Awareness is your psychological independence and freedom due to your psychological maturity and suppleness.

If your constituent cause and conditions are healthy, you are a fully matured phenomenon of awareness, knowing your experiences correctly in the right context and without ignorance, hallucinations or hypnosis in form of the Self.

Harmonious integrity of your constituent cause and conditions can be due to different factors including right birthing, right upbringing, right living, right actions, deep stress relief, freedom from desires, aversions, and attachments, etc.

As you grow psychologically mature and become aware, you get detached from the known and unknown. Detached from the known and unknown, you know without getting controlled by the effect of known or unknown.

Fully aware without inner self or the Self, you are equanimous knowing impartially and impersonally. Knowing is neither arbitrary nor selective. Fully aware and detached without the Self, you are impartial and impersonal neither being arbitrary nor selective.

Source of Compassion and Empathy

Greater natural complexity and evolution of life-form manifest as greater sensitivity, empathy and compassion. Matured and without self-ignorance, as detached awareness, you are sensitive, empathetic and compassionate towards yourself and other life forms.

Detached Awareness is Involuntary Self-Regulation

Aware and detached, you are naturally or instinctively balanced and involuntarily self-regulated without trying. This way you are naturally or instinctually righteous.

Detached Awareness Feels Like Deathlessness

Detached seamlessly clear awareness is state of natural peace and natural fulfillment resulting from your psychological maturity. Seamlessly clear detached awareness is unrestricted awareness and may feel like deathlessness due to harmony in the conditions of life-processes.

Without the Self or feeling of being inner self, seamless clarity of detached awareness feels like deathlessness.

Connect To Natural Innocence

Aware and detached, you can get rid of inner-self and all notions of the Self that you accumulated while growing as the part of society and you become whole by restoring and connecting to your natural innocence, as if never corrupted throughout your growth and maturity. Aware and detached you are real by being the truth of your nature.

Detached Awareness is North Star of Life

As detached clear seamless awareness, you are your own refuge and north star in the wilderness of life without need for crutches of the Self and duality of inner self.

Method of Becoming Self Aware Between Thoughts

Sit comfortably in right posture with straight lower back for meditation.

Withdraw and detached from known and unknown by focusing and remaining aware of each and every breath at entrance of nostril in such a way that you do not get any opportunity to think.

Remain aware of each breath at entrance of nostrils until you remain clearly and seamlessly aware of gap between two consecutive thoughts.

As constant clear seamless awareness of gap between two consecutive thoughts, you can get completely detached from known and unknown experiences including but not limited to body, mind and the world around.

While remaining aware OF gap between two consecutive thoughts you disappear psychologically and mature into detached awareness IN between two consecutive thoughts.

Aware and detached in between two consecutive thoughts, you can remain aware or being aware and become self-aware.

Life Through Detached Awareness Without Self-Ignorance

Hallucination of being inner self and hypnosis by the Self is due to stress of association with the known or unknown. Detached awareness is self-awareness without the Self, due to dissociation with the known and unknown. Without the Self or inner self, there is no self-ignorance.

You Live Like Water

Fully aware without inner self and the Self, you become like water, fluid, well-adjusted and at advantage, harmoniously adapting with your conditions, without rigidity or conflict that arises due to inner self and self.

Live With Beginner’s Mind Like an Original Explorer

Detached and aware without the Self, you approach life impersonally and spontaneously with beginner’s mind and spirit of an original explorer but with more awareness, sensitivity, empathy and compassion due to your maturity.

You Connect to Open Intelligence

Aware and detached without self, you are connected to the vast interconnected reality of life and you not only have your known individual intelligence but also the unknown intelligence from life and reality of cause and conditions.

Live Synchronously with Life Acting Skillfully Without Striving

Aware and detached without self, without getting attached, you can live spontaneously synchronous with the great natural flow of life without personal likes or dislikes arising due to self. Through such awareness, you skillfully chose right cause and conditions to act effortlessly without striving.

Live By Being Real

Aware, while being detached from experiences amidst experiences, you are the truth of your nature without trying and you become your actions involuntarily without trying just like you breathe air and digest food without trying. Fully aware and self-aware without the Self, you are real. Being real, you can know correctly in the right context and live an authentic intense life.

You do not exist as anything other than the ephemeral phenomenon of knowing arising due to dynamic interaction of your indispensable constituent cause and conditions. You become your actions, and you continue in the effects of your actions.

You cannot live an authentic intense life by constantly engaging with it. You need to know how to disengage from life in order to live it authentically and intensely. By disengaging from the known and unknown, life can happen to you in all its depths and dimensions.

Detached awareness, the phenomenon of knowing correctly in the right context without associating with known or unknown, is necessary to disengage and live an authentic intense life. Aware and detached from known and unknown, you do not associate with known and unknown thus not becoming the Self or inner Self.

Through a detached awareness without the Self, you neither engage with life selectively nor arbitrarily according to the Self. Through detached awareness, you disengage and know life correctly in the right context through a higher perspective like a high-flying eagle.

Fully aware without Self, you can know life correctly in the right context as it is and can live it authentically. Self-aware, knowing the truth of your nature without the Self, you can dare into maximum depths and dimensions of life fearlessly with restraint and balance, without getting lost yet knowing correctly in the right context.

Fully aware and detached without Self, you can live a naturally spontaneous authentic life, free from the Self and without self-ignorance.

Without the Self, you can live and act unrestricted without inhibitions, harmoniously with right cause and conditions, leading the great span of your naturally spontaneous authentic intense life to reach its natural fulfillment and purpose.

Without Self, you are neither restricted by negativities nor positivity of the Self. Without the Self you are like water, harmoniously adapting with the reality of cause and conditions and using all the situations of life to your advantage resourcefully.

Life is Ultimate Value

The natural truth is that one day everyone will lose everything after they disintegrate and perish. Whether joy or suffering, success or failure, it will all end with the end of life. Life is the ultimate value.

When you know that the one-and-only life is ephemeral, you will value it over everything else and try to make most out of it in an authentically meaningful way. Authentic life can be hard or easy, but it is correctly experienced and correctly known in the right context without any self-ignorance. To live authentically is to live without self-ignorance.

Life lived through seamless clarity of awareness without self is experienced and known correctly in the right context thus leading to your natural self-regulation, self-development, maturity, outgrowth, detachment, peace and order. Seamless clarity of detached awareness dispels self-ignorance.

Stop Living Self-Ignorantly

Life is ephemeral. The accidental spark of life is a rare opportunity. Hence every moment of life has to be lived and sustainably enjoyed authentically without ignorance.

You are awareness, the natural phenomenon of knowing, arising due to your indispensable constituent cause and conditions. You become your actions. However, due to self-ignorance, you may hold on to wrong ideas about yourself and life.

For example, you may live according to your self-image as if you are inner self that is eternal or immortal. Eternal immortal inner self is an imagination, and the Self is artificial based on name, gender, class, caste, religion, race, nationality etc..

Due to self-ignorance, you may live according to the Self based on self-conception, self-ideation, self-identity, inner-self etc. and waste your life in order to decorate or protect the Self through unnecessary desires and aversions.

Believing that you are eternally immortal inner self or the Self, you may not value the natural life, peace and security. Due to self-ignorance, you may live and act out of order and conflict with the reality.

Identify Truth of Your Nature from The Imagined Self

Know the truth of your nature.

As evident through right meditation, you can survive without inner being or inner self, your self-image, your mind, your memories, identity, class, caste, race, religion, ideas, beliefs, unnecessary possessions, etc. Hence these are not your constituent conditions.

You cannot continue to survive without being aware, knowing what you experience. You also cannot continue to survive without the processes of life. You cannot continue to survive without taking necessary actions. You cannot continue to survive without necessary effects of your action and you cannot continue to survive without nature. You will Know that as part of nature, you are not limited to your skin.

You will know that you are awareness, the natural phenomenon of knowing, arising due to dynamic interaction of your indispensable constituent conditions including but not limited to processes of life; you involuntarily become your actions, and continue in the effect of your actions.

By recognizing the truth of your nature, you are naturally aware without hypnosis or hallucinations. By recognizing truth of your nature, you know why, when and what you need to value and in what priority.

Life lived rightly matures, outgrows, weans and gets detached to be at peace and order.

True Natural Self Care First.

First and foremost, take care of yourself including everything without which you cannot continue to survive, grow and flourish, i.e. nurture your health, wellness, natural environment, etc. To take care of yourself, first ensure your security, safety, peace and order in life.

Then, give importance to your sustainable development through right living and right actions and producing right effect of actions. This includes developing your mind, emotions, intelligence without which you may survive but not develop, mature and outgrow.

Growth and development of life to a high degree of harmonious integrity gives rise to a detached clear seamless awareness, involuntary self-regulation, natural fulfilment, maturity, detachment, independence and freedom.

Life evolved and detached, is liberated without any self-ignorance, and can be lived meaningfully through peace and order. Evolved and detached life is neither hypnotized nor overwhelmed by experiences.

Fully aware in between two consecutive thoughts, without being inner self and free from self-image, you live with the immense natural flow of life unaffected by personal likes and dislikes, actions are harmonious with the right conditions without striving and effect of actions are benevolent without interfering as if empathetic and compassionate.

Without self-ignorance, going with the immense natural flow of life, important events of your life are harmoniously aligned and achieved synchronously with the greater scheme of existence. Actions are drawn harmoniously from the conditions rather than personal whims.

The fulfillment and happiness felt through effortless detached clear seamless awareness arising from right conditions of life is due to restoration of rich natural innocence as if it was never lost throughout the course of your growth, maturity and development since the beginning of your infancy.

Life is an ephemeral natural flowering due to right cause and conditions. Spark of life is a rare accident and death is for sure. So, celebrate life neither getting attached nor getting serious about anything because eventually nothing will remain as it is.

Learning From Nature To Live Authentically

In nature all forms of life seek security of food and life. All forms of life want to relax, sleep, hibernate and be at peace. All forms of life seek pleasure and that is how they seek contact, reproduce, clean themself, and love the offsprings.

All forms of life which can move, seek freedom and avoid getting confined. All forms of life avoid death by staying away from predators. So also humans basically need and seek security, peace, pleasure, freedom, order and long life.

Mature humans without self-ignorance or ignorance about life and society, seek to become wise, and eventually get detached after fully experiencing the life. Security, peace, pleasure, long life, maturity, wisdom, freedom and detachment. This is what we seek through our objectives and goals in various forms.

Life in itself is a purpose, there is no need to go about seeking purpose in society. We, like silly with our body, processes of life and functions want to know who am I? and what is the purpose of life?

Art of Intense Living Through Self-Awareness Without Self

To live intensely is to live life in it’s all possible depths and dimensions while knowing correctly in the right context. You can live life in it’s all possible depths and dimensions while knowing it correctly in the right context through self-awareness without self.

The Self is due to self-conception, self-ideation, self-image, self-identification, inner self etc. through association with known and known ideas like name, age, gender, race, relations, class, caste, eternal self, divine self, religion, nationality etc.

Without the Self, you are fluid like water whereas due to the Self, you are hard like ice. Fluid and formless without self like water, you are well adapted, well adjusted, advantageously resourcefully with your assets and harmonious with the cause and conditions of life. Due to the Self, you are rigid, at odds with life, at conflict with the cause and conditions of your life and uncreative with your assets.

As the Self, you are associated with the known and known and you feel as if you are inner self in form of inner doer, inner thinker, inner feeler, eternal inner self etc. As self, you are associated with the known and unknown due to which you are controlled by the effects of known and known and lost in the known and unknown. Without the Self, you are fully aware and detached without inner self.

Fully aware and detached without inner self, you known correctly in the right context. Aware and detached, you dissociate and reflect to known the truth of your nature thus becoming self-aware.

Self-awareness without self is reflecting awareness and like north star in the wilderness of life. Self-aware, you are like a well build ship exploring the ocean of life by following the north star without getting lost. Self-aware without self, you can dare into all the depths and dimensions of life knowing correctly in the right context without getting lost.

Living life selflessly, you are not limited or restricted by self-conceptions, self-ideations, self-conceptions, self-images, inner self in forms like class, caste, gender, age, race, relations, caste, religion, nationality, inner thinker, inner doer, inner feeler, self-consciousness etc..

Without self, the whole world becomes resource at your disposal and you can use and take advantage of all situations. For a person without self, the world is like a uncarved block full of possibilities if they have the awareness to know.

Suffering is the nature of life just like darkness is the nature of space. Happiness needs sustained efforts to exist in life just like light needs constant energy to exist in the universe.

Human suffering is the effect of their unskillful actions due to their defilements including but not limited to physical defilements and psychological defilements. Ignorance and attachments are among the defilements of minds in addition to greed, ambitions, anger, jealousy, hate etc.

The way we live, act, and effect the world through our attitudes and responses determines whether we will be happy or suffer in life.

Ignorance is the root cause of suffering because due to ignorance we do not know correctly in the right context as it is. Without knowing correctly in the right context as it is we do not live and act harmoniously with the reality.

Ignorance is due to hypnosis and hypnosis can be due to different reasons including but not limited to unhealthy conception, unhealthy birthing, unhealthy upbringing, unhealthy environment and immaturity.

Due to self-ignorance and ignorance of life, you may desire, detest or get attached. Your desires, aversions and attachments due to ignorance can determine your attitudes and responses shaping how you live, act and effect in the world.

There is neither past birth nor supreme creator and controller to affect our life. We shape our life by our choices and by effecting our internal and external ecosystem.

Ignorance as The Root Cause of Suffering

Cause has to be real. Imaginary causes of suffering like fate, supreme creator and controller, planets in heaven, previous birth, past birth karma etc.… are not real.

Desires, aversions and attachments due to ignorance as the causes of suffering, are real and within the reach of individual to address.

Every individual has ability to become free from ignorance, desires, attachments and aversions in order to mitigate suffering, attain natural peace, happiness and fulfillment.

Ignorance can be in various forms like self-ignorance, ignorance about nature of experiences, ignorance about the world etc.

Self-ignorance can be due to the Self based on self-conception, self-ideation, inner-self, self-image etc. through association with ideas like name, gender, relation, class, caste religion, nationality, eternal self, etc. The Self arising due to self-ignorance can occupy you with personal desires not worth the occupation.

Ignorance about life can be in form of hypnosis and illusions due to which you may get drawn and lost into pomp and drama of experiences without knowing correctly in the right context as it is.

Due to ignorance about the impermanent and changing nature of life and the world, you may get attached and suffer due to desires and aversions. Due to ignorance, you may live and act against the supreme law of change and impermanence.

Vicious Cycle of Suffering Through Desires, Attachments and Aversions.

Unnecessary desires and cravings are psychological blinders which can defile or spoil your mind and mislead your actions to produce undesirable effects of your actions for yourself or for others.

Dependence on fulfillment of unnecessary desires, attachments and aversions for happiness is just like any other addiction. Process of fulfillment of desires, attachment and aversions in order to feel happy can get wired in the process of life.

Unnecessary desires, attachments and aversions, as long as you have them in any form, can create physiological repression and psychological burden, thus clenching the autonomous involuntary springs of your natural fulfillment.

If desires, attachments and aversions are fulfilled, you can feel the momentary pleasure but become more dependent on their fulfillment in order to feel happy.

Society exploits you by taking advantage of your unnecessary desires, attachments and aversions. Due to desires, attachments and aversions, you become victim of your own intelligence and fears like spider entangled in its own web.

If a desires, attachments and aversions are not fulfilled, you can develop negative emotions and energy blocks. Fulfillment of desires, attachment and aversions can create new problems and suffering through the chain reaction of cause and effect.

If you feel guilty for indulging and satisfying your desires, attachments and aversions, it can trigger more stress and make you more vulnerable to craving. Due to ignorance, you can get trapped into the vicious cycle of indulgence, avoidance, suffering and stress.

Unnecessary desires, unnecessary attachments and unnecessary aversions are futile because impermanence is the universally constant law that all has to follow. Nonattachment is key to happiness in the impermanence of life and changing world.

It is not worth spending one and only impermanent life suffering ignorantly due to unnecessary desires, unnecessary attachments and unnecessary aversions.

How to Dispel Ignorance and Shun Attachments

Self-Ignorance can be dispelled through practice of right meditation, cultivation of seamless clarity of detached self-awareness without the Self, recognizing the truth of your nature and living according to the truth of your nature i.e. without the Self or inner self.

You can protect and shield yourself from effect of ignorance by shunning negativities associated with the Self or inner self, for example subliminal stress of being inner self, association with the Self through ideas like name, gender, relations, class, caste, religion, nationality, community, eternal self, etc..

Dissociated from the Self without inner self, you are formless, non-grasping and detached like water, harmonious and well-adjusted with the reality.

Detached and self-aware without the Self, you do not grasp or get attached and you can stay aligned with greater scheme of life synchronous with the supreme law of impermanence.

Ignorance about the life and the world can be cured through practicing seamless clarity of detached awareness due to which you know correctly in the right context as it is. When you know correctly, you are free from the crutches of beliefs and misleading ideas. Without ignorance, you can relieve yourself from the entanglements of unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments.

You can shun attachments by living and acting in such a way that you enjoy life sustainably without getting attached. You can live and enjoy life sustainably without possessing or getting attached by not investing yourself too much in the life and the world.

Acknowledging and accepting change and impermanence, you will remain detached and not grasp at anything. You will remain unburdened and without regrets by letting go what is not worth grasping.

Dispelling ignorance will help you to live life free from unnecessary desires, aversion and attachments. Without ignorance, unnecessary desires, aversion and attachments you will be naturally happy, fulfilled and at peace.