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Living Mindfully to Remove Negativity and Cultivate Positivity for Better Life

Mindfulness is liberated awareness, a matured phenomenon of knowing. Practice of mindfulness is essential in order to detect and stay away from negativity to cultivate positivity within and without. Mindfulness is natural human ability. Mindfulness is vigilance and awareness, due to which you know correctly in the right context as it is. Mindfulness is antidote to ignorance.

Mindfully, you are your own gatekeeper who is vigilant and aware. Mindfully, you can remain vigilant and aware of what comes in you, what arises in you and how you are affected. Thus, by living mindfully, you can recognize and shun negativity before getting impacted by it or spreading it out.

By nature you have positive and negative tendencies necessary for your survival and growth. However, as an evolved human, it is your prerogative to nurture your positivity and restrain your negativity so that you can impact your world positively and heal negativity of your world.

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origins of Buddhism

Origin of Buddhism: Spiritual Atheism in a Nutshell

Buddhists are spiritual atheists. Buddhist ideas, values and principles are regardless of monotheism, polytheism or eternal immortal self of any kind. Buddhist spirit is neither eternal nor immortal but conditional due to constituent cause and conditions. Heaven and hell in Buddhism are inner states or person in form of stored memories and impressions.

Free from personal defilements through self-purification, Buddhists realized the emptiness within through meditation and declared emptiness of forms as universal quality well before the discovery of infinite interstellar void. Personal emptiness is not the absence of tangible and intangible but rather to be whole, undivided by self-delineations, in the present without carrying the past seeking the future within.

The spiritual ideals of becoming pure and remaining empty deep within have been upheld in Buddhism through right living and right actions. Infinite void of emptiness is felt deep within as ones own absence in deep conscious sleep. Pure and empty, deep within, everyone is originally a potential buddha, the awakened one who knows correctly.

Buddhism values individual and gives supreme importance to mitigation of suffering for sustainable welfare and happiness of all human individuals in the present and in the future over any other artificial ideas, institutions, personalities, powers, faiths, beliefs etc.

Buddhism does this by encouraging you to give up negativities like personal impurities including but not limited to emotionalism, jealousies, covetousness, conceit, hate, desires, lust, etc.. On the other hand, Buddhism encourages to cultivate personal qualities of awareness, sensitivity, empathy, compassion, skillfulness, tolerance, patience, nonviolence, self-restrain, etc. “Fire can only be doused by water”, “eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”, “treat others as oneself” are some classic altruistic Buddhist principles.

The original form of Buddhism can be found through the Tripitakas or three baskets including Vinayapitak about discipline for monks, Suttapitaka about ideas or principles taught by buddha Siddarth Gautama and Ahidhammapitika about philosophy of original or sublime human nature or duty. These three baskets of Buddhist wisdom were constituted democratically by council of monks who personally learned from the buddha Siddartha Gautama.

According to Buddhism, first you deserve your care and attention then everyone else. Buddhism encourages you to be your own light and guide by finding and knowing the truth on your own using all means of knowledge.

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Nonattachment: Key to Happiness in Impermanence

Suffering can arise due to unnecessary desires, aversions and attachments in the constantly changing impermanent play of life.

The way you live and act in the impermanent constantly changing life and 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, neither psychologically nor materially.

Without attachment there is no association and identification with known or unknown. Without association or identification there is no self. Without self, you are flexible and harmonious like formless water.

Without attachments, desires and aversions you are selfless, like the formless flowing water, neither grasping, nor getting attached but constantly adapting itself harmoniously with the change.

Attached, you are selective, partial, arbitrary and take everything personally. Detached, you are impartial, disinterested and impersonal but not disconnected. Nonattachment is basis of your freedom and autonomy.

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Concise Philosophy of Ideas and It’s Manifestation

Ideas are psychological point of views in some context. Ideas are abstract psychological views of complex realities.

Ideas represent possibilities in reality or imaginations. Due to their creative imagination, humans are capable of understanding greater and lesser contexts, think for themselves and come up with ideas.

Ideas are not tricks or hacks, but tricks and hacks can arise from the idea of making life easy or difficult. Institutions, systems, structures, processes, cultures constituting the society are based on some ideas with some motives.

Ideas constitute philosophy. For example, philosophy of stoicism is based on ideas of minimalism, courage, justice, virtue. Philosophy of Taoism is based on natural richness, balance & equilibrium, being like water etc.. Philosophy of Islam is based on idea of alignment with sublime peace. Philosophy of Buddhism is based on ideas of impermanence, no-self, emptiness, conditional arising, collective karma, end of suffering etc.

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meaning of freedom

True Meaning of Personal Freedom: Not Without Personal Independence

All life forms grow and mature to become independent and free. Personal independence and personal freedom are natural rights of all life forms.

Nature treats all life forms equally by being equally available without discriminating. All life forms are born dependent but become free and independent in the richness of nature. There is no slavery, neither physical nor psychological, in the wilderness of rich 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 state arising like a phenomenon from cause and conditions including right to own will or conscience, right to own options and right to equality in the universal context. Freedom is not wishfulness or the right to fulfill wishes.

As free individual, you belong to yourself, depend on yourself and are responsible for yourself. As a free individual, you are a wild human free to make mistakes and learn from the mistakes.

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Enzo

Spiritual Understanding of Ephemeral Life Without Self-Conception

Self-conception is provisional in order to deal with the demands of environment and society. Self-conception is articulated using the prefix “I am”. For example, I am good or bad, beautiful or ugly, old or young, white or black, rich or poor, atheist or believer, educated or uneducated, father or mother, eternal or ephemeral, etc. Self is not only provisional but also impermanent. There is no eternal immortal self or spirit of any kind independent of its constituent cause and conditions.

Spirit is a phenomenon emerging from dynamic interaction of its constituent cause and conditions beyond its constituent cause and conditions. Like all phenomenon, spirit is ephemeral and empty, devoid of existence without its constituent cause and conditions.

Spirit is ephemeral and cannot exist independent of it’s constituent cause and conditions. There is nothing eternal or immortal about spirit in life that can remain intact after life beyond disintegration of it’s constituent cause and conditions.

Spirit emerges from the improved constituent cause and conditions. For example, a well-played game is said to have played with the right spirit. Great action is said to have great spirit. Gravity is spirit of planetary system. Electric field is spirit of circulating current. Rainbow is spirit arising due to water droplets and sunrays. Moon in water is spirit arising due to night, calm water and moon.

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Authentic Intense Living Through Awareness Without Mind and Self-conception

There is no purpose to life other than to play and have fun whether with oneself or with others using all the means available. Authentic intense living is to play and explore life without motive or expectations.

To live intensely, you need childlike energy and curiosity without beliefs or preconceived notions. For childlike energy you should be whole and free from psychological burdens. For curiosity, you need no-mind of an original explorer of life as if just born. When children enjoy the play, they forget to eat and they do not feel tired. Children enjoy playing with themself or with others using whatever means they have.

To play life and have fun, you need to restore and reconnect to your rich natural innocence by becoming undivided whole. By associating or identifying with known and unknown, you get psychologically divided whereas by dissociating and disidentifying with the known and unknown, you become whole.

Detached Awareness

You cannot live an authentic intense life by constantly engaging with it. You need to know how to disengage and be empty.

By being empty, you can accommodate what is important and great in order to perform the great maneuver of life. By disengaging from the known and unknown, you are in your own charge, and you are not controlled by effects of known and unknown.

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Spiritual Enlightenment is Dispelling Self-Ignorance Through Naturally Rich Innocence.

Enlightenment is to recognize the truth and dispel ignorance. Enlightenment is to recognize the truth that is obvious but forgotten. For example recognizing that earth is not flat or authorities are not divine. Enlightenment feels like great relief and peace due to dispelling of ignorance and realization of reality.

Spiritual enlightenment is to recognize the truth of your nature. Spiritual enlightenment is to recognize your forgotten state of peace and pure wild innocence that is your primordial sublime nature. It is a recognition through intuitive insight because it is obvious but forgotten.

After enlightenment, by recognizing and remembering your naturally rich state of deep peace and purity, your personal benchmark changes and you begin to restore order and peace in your life synchronously with the greater schemes of life.

Through meditation, you can correctly recognize, remember and nurture your state of purity and peace to fall back upon it during any situations of life.

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True Self-Knowledge: Detached Awareness Dispelling Self-Ignorance.

circle of Zen EnzoYou are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing, you become your actions and you continue in the impact of your intentional actions.

Like all phenomenon you arise due to your constituent cause and conditions. Like all phenomenon, you are ephemeral and empty without independent eternal inner self of any kind.

Idea of being eternal self or spirit of any kind is poetic imagination giving rise to self-ignorance. Feeling of being eternal self or spirit of any kind is illusion giving rise to self-ignorance.

Fully aware, you are the spirit of knowing. Fully aware, you know correctly in the right context as it is. Fully aware, you are undivided whole, free from self-ignorance due to self-division based on associations and identifications.

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False misleading beliefs of supreme creator and eternal self

Scam of Eternal Self and The Supreme Creator

There is nothing supreme other than sustainable welfare and happiness of everyone in the present and in the future. There is nothing eternal other than change and impermanence through endless recycling. Ideas of supreme creator and life after death are primitive imaginations of people who could neither see microorganisms nor explore emptiness of space. Based on a limited experience of life and universe, the ideas of supreme creator, eternal spirit and life after death were created.

Ideas of supreme creator and eternal self are primitive clever devices used by authorities to regulate society, not for welfare and happiness of humanity but for convenience of rulership. Such superstitious ideas are part of systems and structures that see humanity as something to be possessed, managed or used rather than empathetically nurtured and liberated.

There is no supreme creator and controller with will or wish because everything arises due to the known and unknown constituent cause and conditions in the infinite emptiness felt retrospectively like void or absence. Improvement happens with improvement in the constituent cause and conditions in right context in the infinite emptiness felt retrospectively like void but not due to worshiping, praying or supernatural blessing.

Spark of life is an accident interspersed with your responses and reactions due to your needs, desires, expectations, attachments, aversions, fears etc. in the momentary rhythm of universe. In the greater context, life and this universe has no meaning or purpose. Supreme creator and eternal self are your own projections for some reason. Life and the world is fallout of accident and your reaction or response to it. This is how life evolves and world operates.

There is no eternal self, spirit or soul of any kind with life after death. You get recycled in your ecosystem and you continue in your impact on yourself and on your ecosystem. Hence create a better flow of world for you and your impact to evolve, whether it is in form of your children, your ideas or your contribution to your ecosystem. Life lived through belief in the ideas of supreme creator and eternal self with after-life is misspent like, as classically said, “the spent arrow that never hit the target”.

Though there is no supreme creator as defined by monotheists or polytheists, there is phenomenal spiritual sense of emptiness felt like void or absence resulting from your naturally rich exalted state of psychological liberation, self-restrain, nonattachment and completeness characterized by awareness, sensitivity, empathy and compassion towards yourself and towards others. This sublime sense of emptiness felt like infinite deathlessness is just a feeling, but it is worth the efforts.

Empathetic nurturing humanity is worth the praise and worship. Natural richness of life and empathetic humanity is great in its wholeness and purity because you are uplifted by natural richness and empathy of evolved humanity, not by beliefs, worships, prayers or supernatural grace. There is neither supreme creator nor eternal self of any kind. Neither are there godmen, messengers and prophets but only narcissists who think they are special, better than thou or greater than thou.

In your natural richness, you are undivided whole, feeling complete, outgrown, weaned, detached, and feeling spiritually liberated from the known and unknown. You are not spiritually liberated due to worship, prayers, devotions or divine grace. Your own efforts harmonious with your ecosystem will uplift and liberate you spiritually and materially.

There is no supreme creator to create the world just like dogs do not cry because of ghosts. The universe does not exist due to supreme creator with will and wish. Universe exists due to endless recycling of multiple cause and conditions in the vastness of interstellar emptiness as evident from historical accounts of human ancestors and space explorers. There is neither hell nor heaven out there. Heaven and hell are your own states of existence shaped by your choices and responses.

Ideas of monotheism, polytheism, and eternal spirit or soul devalues life and human interests. Such baseless imaginary ideas can spoil your attitude and mindset either making you clever but mean or well-meaning but naive.

Authorities use belief in baseless ideas as pretext for grabbing and controlling resources arbitrarily for selective interests. Under the pretext of baseless ideas, authorities interfere in natural personal freedom in order to control masses. The ideas of supreme creator, whether monotheistic or polytheistic, and the idea of eternal self with life after death were created by ancient authorities in order to prevent masses from claiming equal status and rights over earth and nature. False imaginary ideas like supreme creator and eternal self with afterlife are used by authorities to dismantle collective social ownership of ecosystems based on equality and justice. All humans are born equally helpless and nature treats everyone equally. This earth equally belongs to all humanity.

The ideas of supreme creator and eternal self can be helpful for you to stay humble and detached. Such ideas can momentarily relieve you from obsessions and overwhelming effects of known and unknown. However, the crutches of such ideas can spoil your natural intelligence, commonsense and natural uprightness. Hypnotized by such imaginary ideas, the believers in such ideas can irresponsibly get involved into inhuman or antisocial activities in order to please so called “supreme creator” and spoil the world for everyone. Under the brainwashing influence of such false imaginary ideas, you can be “penny wise pound foolish” only to choose unwisely or act unskillfully.

Toxic Ideas of Supreme Creator and Eternal Self

The idea of Supreme Creator and eternal self of some kind is an unreal context based on beliefs and rumors. Your philosophy of life based on such false ideas may be advantageous as part of community or society, but it may cause personal suffering and stagnation by misleading you into self-ignorance, self-negligence and apathy for life.

You are awareness, the phenomenon of knowing arising due to endlessly recycling constituent cause and conditions, you become your tangible and intangible actions, and you continue in the tangible and intangible impact of your intentional actions. You are free and responsible to choose, respond, act and shape your own course of life.

Supreme Creator and eternal self are irrelevant primitive ideas from the dark ages misleading you away from welfare and happiness into self-ignorance, ignorance of what you become through your actions and ignorance of how you impact yourself and your ecosystem in the present and in the future. There is no permanent self of any kind and so it does not matter if there is supreme creator or not after your death.

Such ideas rob you of your agency and smother your potential for higher passions like life, freedom, creativity, adventure, equality, justice, accountability, harmony, sensitivity, empathy, compassion etc. Monotheism or polytheism can make a person fatalist, irresponsible for their own actions or narcissist, thinking oneself special through “higher than though” or “better than though” attitude.

The idea of Supreme Creator is psychological blinder that smothers curiosity and beginner’s mind necessary for authentic living. The idea of eternal self can devalue present life and starve your sensitivity. Without curiosity and sensitivity, you can lack empathy and compassion. Without sensitivity, empathy and compassion, you can either become sadistic or machoistic.

There is no Supreme Creator and Controller with will or wish because there is no fraction or factor representing Supreme Creator that can be found commonly constant in particles of universe. Though there is energy in all the particles of universe, energy can neither be created nor destroyed and energy is impersonal without will or wish.

Universe is neither pyramidal pointing towards a supreme creator nor concentric centered around one supreme creator. If there was a supreme creator, all the planets, stars, milky ways and galaxies would converge towards one single point. Life forms value themselves and their life. Nothing in the kingdom of animal life indicate presence of supreme creator or eternal self. Idea of eternal independent inner self or soul is neither natural realizations nor a practical experience.

All life forms fear pain and death. Though you may believe in eternal self having after-life, you do not opt to live or chose to die. You chose to live despite struggle and die as a last option.

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