In trouble with self-ing, replace instead with awareness-ing.

Selfishness is actually delusion, a hoodwinking. (It arises from unaware dualistic self-adherence).

In trouble with self-ing? This is from empowering second order principle.

Sentient beings minds are awakened on empowering first order principle; (through generating awareness in the mindstream and developing an awakening habit of mind).

Remembering first order purity; this is the universal shared ground of awareness electricity. In unawareness humans minds are a slave to functional reality operation, (relative, conventional, second order principle).

Most often this is not operating very well, even on the conventional level? Why is this? It is narrow because of patterning installed before consciousness was fully developed. (So it is based in immature self’s perception to what is happening internally and externally and limited when consciousness is not developed. It is this inner patterning that is gives rise to the results in life, for most human beings because we are not educated on understanding mind and results, unaware of this).

There are better better second order principle, functional level systems. But in order not to enslave the human, the human requires engagement in first order principle awareness and use second order compassionately, skilfully as a tool.

In other words, second order principle functioning in order not to run over the human, and instead work with and empower awareness, skilful means, requires being used from generating awareness in the mindstream, or it feels like this functionality is being done to us.

Two-truths education brings understanding of relative level functioning and ultimate reality together.

Unfortunately, humans are not yet universally schooled in understanding the science of phenomenal reality- the universe experienced by mind, (including self and other), is in the nature of dependent origination, cause, conditions and effects. Or a collection of parts of mind (consciousness) and body that work together. When the awareness moves in harmony with natural order of phenomena (understanding this in inner world), there is good health, mind stop creating an aggressor, stops operating like a wave policemen. Stops being subconsciously propelled by self-adherence karmic forces.

Instead, use compassionate skilful means (masculine principle) to View the appearances to mind, notice their taste; for example suffering or happiness, but not attaching to or reifying around a self. This is countering (antidoting) solidification, fixation to concept in the mind, including self, which is mere imputation arising from the 5 contaminated aggregates of mind.

Mind is trained instead to View negativity in awareness and it is treated with compassion, to bring it into harmony with the natural law of phenomena experienced in the mind, and so reduce the causes of suffering experienced. This is compassionate skilful means action.

The fact that awareness recognition can do that, is from generating wisdom awareness in the mind stream (mental continuum), which releases phenomena in awareness of their true nature (emptiness).

Wisdom emptiness is the feminine principle. On realisation these are indivisibly unified realisation. On the path, use method (system), compassionate skilful means to bring all phenomena onto the awareness path of inner seeing.

Ultimately, with a direct yogic perception of reality, the root of mind is seen, and duality reification for ego-self is dissolved; and action, actioner and acted upon are indivisible awareness compassionate skilful means realising wisdom emptiness.

Reflections in awareness are inseparable like clear ocean-lake of nondual mind awareness; which no longer solidifies around fixation to iron-clad self adherence, (the cause of dualistic perception and suffering). Duality is no longer fuelled. This is the purpose of the Middle Way Awareness Path- for mind to be free from planting the causes of its own suffering, and inside guide to awareness recognition.

It enables mind to realise through bodhicitta activation (awakening mind) of its own compassionate awareness that samsara and nirvana are not separate like two sides of a coin.

A further note, on the relative level, through awakening compassion awareness to suffering (this suffering is a feature of this universe, that is shared by sentient beings); then put to good use our intelligence granted to us in a human life (with its freedoms and endowments) to good and wise functional systems that to bring benefit (self and other are not ultimately separate; only on relative self-adherence attachment level).

So not not blind to the suffering of the world, (and opportunity to release the seeds of own suffering, which may be hidden, masked, concealed or ignored). All phenomena is interdependent, in the nature of dependent arising); use intelligently directed specialised knowledge systems to release suffering.

Or, the wave policeman remains in unawareness that it is the ocean and continue to add to the problem of separation for the delusion of attaching to “me” and “mine”. This does not mean that one does not have an ego; it means it operates functionally well or not, like intelligent or not systems and is not ultimately not real.

Notice problem in the world where unaware humans of (first order principle- awareness), are in functional operation with addiction to consumer functionality (from second order) triggers. This mask over, the ocean of humanness connection electricity (for iron-clad self-adherence “me-ism” or self-ing). This does not generate the true causes of happiness or freedom in the mind. When first order is not first engaged and realised, the mind remains captive to second order principle functionality. Awareness is there to help release causes of suffering, which is why daily awareness recognition and education, to use the analogy of riding bike of inner awareness is required and start educate humans and next generations this way. Or continue to experience the confusion and suffering with enslaving mind to second order principle rather than knowing its nature, first order principle (awareness) and operating with compassionate skilful means in the world that way around.