The different stages of understanding and realization

The many different individual minds are functioning under the influence of the different degrees of ignorance and its by-products, that gives rise to different degrees of correct understanding, incorrect understanding, misunderstanding, non-understanding, partial understanding, and complete understanding, that gives rise to the different types of way of thinking and reasoning, way of practice and doing things, values, desires, behavior, or action and reaction.

In the beginning on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, when the mind is still very much functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where there is the natural presence of the idea of 'I' in the thinking/thought process/modification of the mind that gives rise to the sense of separateness and duality, that gives rise to grasping, or egoism of attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that gives rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness that forms and empowers the veil of ignorance, on top of the mind has been being conditioned and influenced by certain inherited and/or adopted worldly passionate egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial/philosophical/social/educational/regional/national inputs, ideas, beliefs, values, and practice, to reason, understand, think, feel, desire, behave, or act and react in certain way and not in certain way, that hinders the mind from seeing and knowing and understanding all and everything as it is, then there is the need of the presence of certain teachings/observations/practices under certain names and forms that the mind can grasp, comprehend, attracted to, and agree with.

Under the condition of being ignorant, egoistic, impure, and restless, the mind reasons, understands, thinks, and believes that Selflessness is a quality or state of being that can be developed, modified, and achieved, that can be gained or lost, that can increase or decrease, that can be absent or present. - "I used to be selfless, and now I am not selfless, and vice versa"

Under such understanding, the mind thinks and believes that Selflessness is about the absence of the ego and egoism in itself, that Selflessness is the highest and purest fruit/outcome/result of the practice, where one will attain the state of Selflessness or purity upon the annihilation of the ego and egoism, where the mind understands, thinks, and believes that the ego is about pride and arrogance, where having big and strong ego means having intense pride and arrogance under the absence of humility and humbleness, while having small and weak ego means very little pride or arrogance under the presence of certain degrees of humility or humbleness, while ego-less means the complete absence of pride and arrogance under the full presence of humility and humbleness, or down to earth, or forgiving, or generosity, or simplicity, or gratitude, and so on. - "I was originally selfless and pure, but due to ignorance, I became non-selfless and impure. I need to go back to the state of selflessness and purity, and I will be free"

Under such understanding, the mind thinks and believes that itself has a permanent independent infinite unlimited continuous beginningless and endless (birthless and deathless) immortal selfless pure existence, that is undergoing countless impermanent limited and conditional mortal births and deaths under countless different separate life existence, one after another, that had started due to an initial downfall, or sin, or seed of ignorance, falling down from the realm of immortality to the many different transitional realms of mortality (countless and endless reincarnations/rebirths/births and deaths transitioning in between different realms), that has been being powered by ceaseless and endless generation and accumulation of boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', that gives rise to ceaseless old and new causes and effects, that gives rise to the seemingly endless loop or wheel of endless births and deaths in order to 'burn-off or reap', or to 'enjoy or suffer' the boundless and endless generation and accumulation of 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', that keep carrying forward to the next and next reincarnations/births and deaths, that will never come to an end.

The mind understands, thinks, and believes that in order to stop or to exit the loop of endless births and deaths, or to be liberated from all kinds of painful suffering, limitations, undesirable conditions, or restless mortal life existence that needs constant maintenance, is

either by doing everything good/virtuous and don't do anything bad/sinful in accordance to the particular inherited and/or adopted cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, belief, values, and practice in the mind about what is good and bad, or what is virtuous and sinful, hopefully either one will be reincarnating to the higher realms of enjoyment upon/after death, or hoping that eventually the boundless accumulation of 'good karma' or 'virtues' undergoing many countless different separate life existences or reincarnations will be enough for it to return to the realm of immortality,

or by inaction and non-reaction, to stop generating any type of fresh 'karma' as well as to endure all kinds of difficulties, struggles, hardships, ill-treatments, exploitation, hurts, or painful suffering in silence without reaction or retaliation, in order to 'burn-off' the past accumulated 'karma', and hoping that the loop/wheel of births and deaths will come to a standstill, or disappear,

or by repent and praying day in and day out, sincerely and diligently, hoping that eventually 'the almighty one' or 'the highest spiritual authority of the universe' will come to rescue and bring oneself back to the realm of immortality,

or by purifying the impure body and mind via certain techniques/methods/observations/practices, to render it absolutely pure and perfect physically and mentally without any impurities, or weakness, or short-coming, or illness, or decay, or aging, to merge the body, mind, and spirit/soul to become one, where most minds interpret yoga as 'the union of the body, mind, and spirit/soul',

or by purifying the lower impure consciousness, or the lower impure finite self, that is not who/what I really/originally am. What/who I really am, or my original true identity, was something perfect/pure/infinite/unlimited/unconditional/permanent/independent/birthless/changeless/decayless/deathless/timeless/attributeless, and that was devoid of the painful suffering of undergoing ceaseless impermanent, limited, and conditional impure/decay-able/momentary mortal restless births and deaths, but somehow it is reluctantly undergoing endless 'punishment' to be undergoing countless rounds of impermanent mortal life existences due to an initial downfall, or the initial seed of ignorance/sin. And hence, by purifying the lower impure consciousness/self will allow 'I' to be regaining and identifying with the original higher pure consciousness or the higher pure infinite Self (that is perfect and pure, that is infinite and permanent, or timeless and changeless, that is devoid of impermanent, limited, and conditional mortal transitional life existence under the impermanent, limited, and conditional existence and function of a body and mind that is full of all kinds of impurities, imperfections, limitations, ceaseless maintenance, painful sorrow, physical/mental/emotional suffering, or meaninglessness, transitioning in between different realms governed by the past total generation and accumulation of boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma' or 'virtues and sins').

Under this understanding, the mind thinks and believes that it is or has an individual consciousness that was originally pure, but somehow it is being contaminated and clouded by the impurities in the impure modification of the mind. That is why it doesn't know or recognize itself. By purifying the contaminated impure consciousness will remove the contamination of impurities, to return the state of purity in the consciousness, to return to its original state of purity, which is identical with the timeless attributeless changeless birthless deathless universal consciousness, or what certain spirituality or religion refer as 'The creator and the judge of everything' or 'God existence'. - "I am THAT", "I am purity", "I am immortal", "I am infinite, all powerful, all knowledge, all existing/pervading, and all bliss"

or by dis-identifying with the finite impure mortal body and mind, while identifying with the infinite pure immortal Self identity of a permanent independent immortal unique individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness, where the mind thinks and believes that there is the existence of a permanent independent infinite perfect flawless Self identity of an immortal unique individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness existing, or residing, or being trapped in the limited and conditional mortal finite imperfect impure body and mind, where the immortal pure individual soul/spirit/consciousness is distinct from or separated from the mortal impure body and mind that is full of all kinds of impurity and imperfection, where the mortal impure body and mind is undergoing/experiencing ceaseless impermanent changes and all kinds of suffering deriving from impermanent changes, a.k.a. birth, or coming into existence, growth, ceased growing, decay, weakness, illness, fragility, discomfort, aging, disintegrating, and decomposing, or death, while the immortal individual soul/spirit/consciousness is unaffected or uncontaminated by all that. - "The mortal impure body and mind is subject to death, that will die and cease existing, but the immortal individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness of 'who I really/originally am' will continue to exist 'somewhere' upon/after each of the countless deaths of the different life existences of a mortal body and mind"

Meanwhile, under this understanding, the mortal impure body and mind has a beginning of existence and an end of existence, and the impure ignorant mind has been generating boundless actions and reactions through the physical body that turn into endless accumulation of 'good/bad/neutral karma', but 'somehow', the innocent immortal individual pure soul/spirit/consciousness that is silently residing in the background has to be reincarnating into ceaseless rounds of births and deaths of countless separate different life existences, transitioning in between different realms, based on the boundless and ceaseless past generated and total accumulated 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', which then forms and powers an endless loop or wheel of births and deaths that seemed to be impossible to come to a standstill or to be exit/free from. Or, under certain spirituality/religious ideas/belief/values/practice, upon the death of the impure body and mind, the innocent pure soul/spirit/consciousness will be judged and be sentenced to 'heaven to enjoy' or 'hell to suffer' accordingly by 'the creator/judge/highest spiritual authority of the universe' for all the good and bad deeds that were being performed by the impure mind via the impure body. - "I am not the body. I am not the mind. The mortal impure impermanent imperfect limited and conditional finite body and mind is not I. I am the immortal pure permanent perfect unlimited and unconditional infinite Self"

or by annihilating the veil of ignorance, where the mind understands, thinks, and believes that the veil of ignorance is a form of short-coming, weakness, stupidity, low intelligence, lack of education, lack of knowledge, laziness, reluctant to learn/to know/to understand, negativity, selfishness, or evilness, that it is shame/humiliation/criticism/punishment/suffering deserving, and that the annihilation of the veil of ignorance is absolutely challenging, that it is unrealistic, and even impossible or unreachable no matter how, due to the existing stubborn veil of ignorance,

or by adopting Sattvic food consumption - devoid of stimulants (Rajasic) or depressants (Tamasic), and engaging in Sattvic activities for the body and mind (physical and mental inputs and outputs) that can influence the energy field (the state of mind) up to certain extend, that is highly recommended for the highly passionate egoistic impure restless minds that are seriously lack of conscious willpower, non-attachment, detachment, self-restraint, self-discipline, or self-control, that are easily and/or completely be influenced and determined by the perception of different experiences/dualities/qualities/ideas/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/situations, but, it doesn't matter for the minds that are endowed with basic correct understanding, mental and emotional independence, non-attachment, detachment, willpower, and self-control, that are effortlessly being unaffected or undetermined by the different experiences/dualities/qualities/ideas/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/situations,

or by developing and empowering positive thinking to counter negative thinking, which only serves as a soothing or relieving element, but it is not the end or goal of the journey,

or by engaging in one or combination path of yoga - Karma Yoga (selfless action/service), Bhakti Yoga (devotion - chanting/prayer/japa/mantra/rituals), Raja Yoga (Ashtanga - Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi), or Jnana Yoga (wisdom/right discrimination/contemplation/Self-inquiry/Vichara/Vedanta). They exist to suit the many different minds under different types of condition, situation, temperament, characteristic, and personality, and they appear to be separated and different from one another, but they all have the one same essence which is about the annihilation of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, or the annihilation/subjugation of the passionate egoistic impure restless modification of the mind, or the stillness/silence of the restless thought current.

All the mentioned different types of observation and practice doesn't guarantee the direct realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, if without the elimination of the idea of 'I' and egoism. 

Just by engaging in any or all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism observation and practice regularly or irregularly while observing a clean and pure vegetarian food consumption, that gives rise to many impermanent momentary desirable side-effects or physical and mental health and fitness benefits, as well as 'do everything good and don't do anything bad' and 'positive thinking', that gives rise to the momentary sense of goodness, righteousness, positiveness, happiness, hope, and meaningfulness, but if without working on eliminating the ego and egoism, consciously and practically, during the practice and outside the practice in daily life existence/affair/interaction/relationship, it doesn't lead the mind towards the liberation from ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance. And that's okay too.

Although under the presence of the sense of self-righteousness in the passionate egoistic impure restless mind might give rise to certain harmful action and reaction towards what the mind perceives/understands/thinks/believes/recognizes as 'bad', 'wrong', 'negative', 'intimidation', 'destructive', 'offensive', 'cruel', or 'evil', which is completely nothing to do with yoga and/or buddhism, or wisdom and compassion.

Regular and persistent engagement in certain observation and practice is highly important for the minds that are still functioning under the veil of ignorance and perceiving all kinds of disturbance and painful suffering, but whether the mind will attain direct realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence of all kinds of names and forms, or about the many different individual selfless body and mind and the one and only timeless attributeless all pervading selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, or about selflessness, non-duality, oneness, non-separateness, timelessness, attributelessness, birthlessness, and deathlessness, or about the veil of ignorance, the ego, egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the selfless impermanent limited and conditional manifestation of all kinds of names and forms manifesting/changing/coming and going governed under the nature's law of cause and effect in the infinite space that doesn't belong to anyone and anything, or not, it doesn't matter at all.

And, there might be some other forms of understanding/beliefs/values/ideas that exist as the medium that initiates or motivates the mind to be engaging in some kinds of observation and practice, but all are having the similar goal or objective about attaining, or regaining, or returning to the state immortality, or purity, or unlimited, or unconditional, or suffering free, or pure and eternal bliss, or going back to 'God', or 'the highest realm of optimum enjoyment and bliss', or 'heaven', or 'super extraordinary mystical power of making all wishes come true and controlling everything to be the way that I desire', or longevity, or forever youthfulness, or illness and injury free.

There is an instinctive natural common yearning towards unconditional and unlimited freedom, liberation, knowledge, and peace, or what most minds misinterpreted as the fleeting momentary sense of satisfaction, dominant power of control/influence/manipulation/bully, wealth/possession hoarding, relationship/ties and connection accumulation, power of creation and expansion, and the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, goodness, righteousness, accomplishment, happiness, joyfulness, and meaningfulness deriving from the gratification of boundless desire of craving and aversion, in all the conscious egoistic impure restless minds that perceive restlessness and all kinds of undesirable evitable and inevitable painful suffering under the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness during the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

All conscious self aware and self acknowledging minds naturally want to be free, be happy, be unlimited, be forever, except the minds that have attained direct realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, where these minds are effortlessly resting in unconditional peace.

And hence, the minds that are 'not free', 'not happy', 'being limited', and 'being momentary' are motivated to be engaging in certain observation and practice under different names and forms enthusiastically and regularly, in order to be able to be free from all kinds of limitation, condition, decay, aging, illness, fragility, discomfort, unhappiness, painful sorrow, physical/mental/emotional suffering, disintegration, and mortality (death), or to exit the restless loop or wheel of countless and endless births and deaths, or to be attaining ultimate freedom of existence/being/living/movement/action/expression/thinking and belief, or to be attaining the highest liberation of to be liberated from ignorance and suffering devoid of cruelty and violence, or to be attaining the wishful mystical superpower of controlling/manipulating/influencing/manifesting everything under one's desire.

Regardless of the different motivations, desires, initiations, teachings, practices, or understanding that bring the different minds onto the path/engagement/action of 'attaining what the mind wants to attain', the most important and essential teachings in this beginning stage is about - Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, non-blind propagating, non-blind glorifying, and non-worshiping, while inquiring the truth of all and everything, to attain the direct realization towards the truth of everything that the mind comes in contact with, including all kinds of teachings, observations, and practices of yoga and/or buddhism that the mind comes in contact with, that was heard, read, or learnt from anyone and anywhere, even if it is directly coming from an enlightened mind that has awakened or liberated from the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. any Buddha/Guru/yogi/dhamma teacher, where the essential teachings or dhamma of both yoga and buddhism is the same - 

'All are selfless' - Selflessness

'All are impermanent' - Impermanence

The nature's law of cause and effect

Non-grasping

Non-craving and non-aversion

Non-duality

Dispassion

Desirelessness

Contentment

Non-greed

Non-hatred

Non-hoarding

Non-possessiveness

Non-stealing

Kindness

Non-violence

Truthfulness

Straightforwardness

Simplicity

The middle path

Mind purification

Open mind

Conquest of mind by the mind itself

Self-reliance

Non-blind believing/following/practicing/propagating/glorifying/worshiping

Inquire the truth of everything

Direct self realization towards the truth

The annihilation of the veil of ignorance

The eradication of the ego and egoism

Attentiveness

Clarity

Wisdom

Silence/Samadhi

It is about developing and empowering open mind and non-grasping, self investigation and self introspection, self inquiry and self realization, while engaging in certain observations and practices regularly under the different partial imperfect knowledge and different stages and degrees of understanding, and keep practicing until the mind attains direct realization towards the truth as it is, under a rendered calm, quiet, and focused state of mind.

And hence, the highly importance of the observation of dispassion (Vairagya), right discrimination (Viveka), self inquiry and self introspection (Vichara), study of the scriptures/teachings/dhamma (Swadhyaya), desirelessness, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence (Mauna), mental and emotional independence, withdrawal of the senses (Pratyahara), concentration (Dharana), self discipline (Dama), the middle path, steadiness/equanimity/tranquility (Samadhana), surrendering/letting go the ego and egoism (Pranidhana), or cessation of worldly affairs/activities (Uparati), for an extended duration, under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation, knowledge, freedom, and peace (Mumukshutva), to free the mind from being conditioned by worldly passionate egoistic impure restless ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, ties and connections, activities, affairs, habitual behavior, action, and reaction, to prepare the mind for meditation (Dhyana), self-inquiry, and self-realization. More importantly, all those observation and practice are being performed under the absence of grasping, devoid of attachment or identification towards the practice and the fruit/outcome/result/side-effects of the practice.

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After having engaging in certain regular observation and practice of yoga and/or buddhism for certain duration enthusiastically and diligently, especially under the observation of renunciation, dispassion, and silence in solitude and seclusion to be minimizing or cutting-off worldly passionate egoistic affairs/activities/interactions/communications/ties and connections, to be rendering the mind more and more quiet and focus, or less and less restless and distracted than before, the mind will eventually realize that all those existing understanding, thinking, belief, teachings, observation, practice, desire, and motivation, even though they are directing/showing the mind towards the direction of attaining 'what they want to attain', or mainly the liberation from ignorance and suffering, that initiates and motivates the mind to be embarking onto the journey of self inquiry and self realization, but it is not the truth as it is, nor the ultimate goal of the practice, as the mind won't be able to grasp or comprehend the absolute truth of Selflessness if without the initial active continuous engagement in all kinds of observation and practice regularly being initiated or motivated by the partial incomplete understanding, where they are only some useful and practical partial knowledge and understanding that can be comprehended or grasped by the mind that was highly egoistic, impure, restless, disturbed, or confused.

There is nothing wrong with all those partial knowledge/understanding and initial observations and practices being initiated under certain desires or motivations, that serve as the medium for the minds that are functioning more or less under the influence of the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness, a.k.a. the natural veil of ignorance that is there upon the conscious activation of the modification of the mind under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, to be embarking onto the journey of conscious mind evolution.

The mind that is now being rendered less and less egoistic, impure, and restless, is starting to be aware of the presence of the unknown that is limitless, or there are many things that it doesn't know or couldn't understand, or there are still many doubts about many things, and it realizes that all those understanding, observations, and practices themselves don't lead towards the exit/the end from the loop of births and deaths, or the standstill of the wheel of endless births and deaths, as there are 'irrelevance', or 'incoherence', or 'flaw', or 'unrealistic' about all that, because all those understanding/belief/values/observations/practices about 'exiting the loop of births and deaths to be free from suffering and all kinds of limitations and undesirableness', are merely 'something for the mind to hold onto while functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance perceiving and experiencing all kinds of disturbance, hurts, dissatisfaction, disappointment, untruthfulness, stories telling, bullying ill treatment, violence, cruelty, and undesirable painful physical/mental/emotional suffering' to begin with upon embarking onto the journey of self inquiry and direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, or unconditional peace under the absence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. -

"The more the mind knows and understands under a rendered calm and quiet and focused state of mind, the more it knows and understands that there are many things that it doesn't know and doesn't understand, where what the mind knows is limited, but what the mind doesn't know (the unknown) has no limitation." 

And more importantly, is that there is nothing wrong, or bad, or negative, or short-coming, or humiliating, or shameful, or offensive, or criticism/condemn/punishment deserving towards the presence of ignorance and limitation in the mind, or about the mind doesn't know and doesn't understand towards many things that is beyond the reach, awareness, and knowledge of the mind that is limited and conditional. - "Knowing the presence of ignorance and limitation, is indeed the highly precious presence of wisdom"

The realization towards 'the unknown is unlimited' and the realization towards 'the veil of ignorance is merely a common natural manifestation in all minds, upon the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness', is indeed the greatest realization, understanding, knowledge, or wisdom, that will lead the mind towards the annihilation of the passionate egoistic impure restless modification of the mind, to be able to see the truth of everything as it is.

Dissatisfaction, discontentment, or greed has no limitation or boundary, but the presence of some basic correct understanding deriving from the conscious active engagement in some persistent regular yoga and/or buddhism observation and practice will naturally remove the sense of dissatisfaction, discontentment, or greed, as well as all kinds of egoism and impurities from the modification of the mind, little by little. Just like the development of physical stamina, strength, and flexibility, it is possible to be developing, improving, and gaining stamina, strength, and flexibility little by little up to certain extend, under persistent regular stamina, strength, and flexibility training. Although, again, that is not the goal of the practice, or liberation.

The presence of the ego, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', or the conscious self awareness or self acknowledgement, (the mind perceives the existence and function of itself) is neither something bad nor negative. It is a natural phenomena that manifests as it is under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless modification of the mind. And due to that conscious self acknowledgement, or the idea of 'I', or the ego, on top of under the influence of worldly passionate egoistic ideas, belief, values, and practice about the existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal unique individual self identity/soul/spirit/consciousness, the mind is being ignorant towards the truth of selflessness in all and everything, especially in all kinds of conscious sentient living organisms, particularly in its own selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind itself.

In the beginning, it is the presence of the ego in the selfless mind that was interested in performing certain yoga and/or buddhism practice, or some other name and form of practice, with the intention or desire to gratify its yearning towards liberation from ignorance and suffering, or to know and understand what it doesn't know and doesn't understand. And hence, thanks to the ego, or the conscious self awareness, or the restlessness, or the impurities, or the doubts, or the ignorance, or the perception of all kinds of undesirable limitations/experiences/conditions/situations/relationships and painful physical/mental/emotional suffering, that served as the medium that initiates or motivates the mind to embark onto the journey to be free from all that.

Upon the annihilation of the ego and egoism, the mind will realize that Selflessness is nothing to do with the annihilation of the ego and egoism, and the ego is nothing to do with pride and arrogance, or Selflessness is nothing to do with unselfishness and self sacrifice, where Selflessness is merely the truth of all and everything, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, regardless of the presence or absence of the ego, a.k.a. the conscious self awareness/acknowledgement or the idea/notion of 'I', egoistic or non-egoistic, pure or impure, wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, positive or negative thinking, and so on, where it is the truth of there is no existence of a permanent independent immortal infinite unique individual self identity of an immortal individual soul/spirit/consciousness that exists and resides in the mortal body and mind to be undergoing ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of forming (birth - coming into existence and functioning), ceaseless life maintenance, growth (generation and regeneration/rehabilitation), ceased growing, decay (degeneration), illness, weakness, aging, disintegration, and decompose (death - ceased functioning and existence), or undergoing restless 'births and deaths' transitioning in between 'different realms' (that is referring to the restless impermanent modification of the mind transitioning in between different states of mind), and Selflessness is not a quality or state of being, and is neither a practice nor the fruit/outcome/result of the practice.

The mind will also realize that there were/are many individual unique selfless minds existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, being part of the different selfless mechanisms of the respective many different selfless physical structures of the selfless living organisms that existed/exist under different time (era), space (location), causation (cause and effect), condition, situation, genetic inheritance, characteristic, personality, temperament, behavior pattern, action/reaction and the consequences of action/reaction, where the many different individual selfless bodies and minds existed and functioned/exist and function impermanently and momentarily under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements to be functioning as what it is and maintaining life existence up to certain extend, where all kinds of names and forms have a beginning of existence and an end of existence and there are ceaseless impermanent changes in between beginning of existence and ceased existence, but there is only the one same all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, that gives rise to the different states of consciousness in the living organisms, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is untouched, uncontaminated, undisturbed, unhurt, undamaged, unaffected, or undetermined by all kinds of selfless names and forms being what they are, as they are, or the different selfless impermanent limited and conditional states of mind of each and every countless conscious sentient selfless living organisms being what they are, as they are, where different countless thoughts/ideas/feelings/emotions/desires come and go, where different states of the different minds manifesting as they are, ceaselessly changing and passing away, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

The ceaseless and restless wheel of births and deaths is about the selfless impermanent limited and conditional ceaseless manifestation of countless different names and forms (of countless thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, sensations, desires, conditions, conscious and unconscious physical and mental activities for life maintenance, generation/regeneration/degeneration of all the countless cells that form the different components/systems of the physical structure, actions, and reactions/responses towards the mind perception of the internal and external impermanent conditions/situations/names and forms/activities/sights/sounds/smells/tastes/sensations) that ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away within the selfless body and mind and in the external surrounding environment, but there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual self identity of a unique individual immortal pure soul/spirit/consciousness, of 'who/what I really am' beyond the impure mortal impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, that exists and resides in the respective body and mind to be undergoing all that, or to be accountable for all that, or to be affected by all that.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary mortal body and mind is the one that performs/generates countless actions/activities consciously, semi-consciously, and unconsciously, that gives rise to the consequences of actions/activities, that are impacting the internal and external impermanent condition and situation in certain way or not in certain way.

The selfless body and mind is the one that is accountable for all its conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious activities/actions and the respective consequences of activities/actions, that enjoys or suffers, that is pure or impure, that is kind or unkind, that is peaceful or peaceless, that is selfish or unselfish, that is in doubt and that needs to be free from doubt, that is egoistic under the presence and influence of the ego and that needs to eradicate the ego and egoism, or that perceives restlessness and painful suffering and that needs to be free from all that.

The all pervading timeless attributeless nameless formless actionless selfless universal consciousness is merely the silent witness towards all that, where it is untouched, unchanged, unaffected, undetermined, uncontaminated, undamaged, or unhurt by all that. The countless different bodies and minds/living organisms/non-living objects ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, but the selfless universal consciousness is always there as it is, it doesn't come or go.

It is like all kinds of names and forms manifesting under different qualities keep coming and going/arising and passing away in the infinite space, but the infinite space is untouched, unchanged, uncontaminated, unaffected, undamaged, or unhurt by all that. The infinite space doesn't increase or decrease, doesn't become bigger or smaller, doesn't become pure or impure. It is timeless, attributeless, nameless, formless, changeless, non-manifested, unborn, unlimited, unconditional, indestructible, and immeasurable. The infinite space is limitless, it doesn't has a beginning or an end, and it cannot be seen, or heard, or smelled, or touched, or felt, or held, or detected, but it is there, where all and everything manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away upon, under each of their own respective cause and pace. When the entire world, or universe, or galaxy, or all kinds of names and forms disappear, the space is still there as it is, and the timeless attributeless nameless formless actionless changeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades the entire infinite space, is always there as it is.

The mind will also realize towards Timelessness, where there is only NOW, that there is neither past nor future, where all and everything in NOW are ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, either are still existing, or had ceased existing, or are in the process of forming/coming into existence/growing/ceased growing/decaying/disintegrating/decomposing/ceased existing, in NOW, and the perception of time, or the idea/notion of past/present/future, or the calculation/recognition/representation of second/minute/hour/day/night/week/month/year, is merely the reflection of ceaseless impermanent changes and all kinds of activities that are happening in NOW.

The ideas/beliefs/values/practices about there is the existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self identity of an unique immortal pure soul/spirit/consciousness undergoing countless reincarnations of countless different separate life existences undertaking different names and forms transitioning between different realms from the past to the present and into the future, a.k.a. the beginningless and endless loop of births and deaths or the restless wheel of reincarnation transitioning between different realms governed by inexhaustible boundless generation and accumulation of 'good/bad/neutral karma', or 'virtues and sins', and all the other types of ideas/beliefs/values/practices under different names and forms, as well as the doubt, fear, craving, aversion, clinging, longing, discontentment, greed, and anticipation that come along with all that, and all kinds of partial incomplete understanding, will naturally become invalid and vanish from the mind upon the direct realization towards Timelessness and Selflessness.

All and everything of all kinds of perceptions/experiences, are being reflected and manifesting in the form of thought process/thought current/modification in the mind that is existing and functioning in NOW, not in the past nor in the future. 

In NOW, the mind perceives sights/sounds/smells/tastes/sensations/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations, the mind perceives/sees/hears/smells/tastes/senses/feels through the senses via the organs of the senses, the mind remembers or doesn't remember, the mind imagines/visualizes/anticipates, the mind recognizes or doesn't recognize, the mind knows or doesn't know, the mind experiences, the mind reasons/analyzes, the mind understands or doesn't understand or misunderstand, the mind desires or doesn't desires, the mind likes or doesn't like, the mind agrees or disagrees, the mind believes or disbelieves, the mind acts and reacts or doesn't act and doesn't react, the mind creates, the mind destroys, the mind is aware/conscious/awake/activated, the mind is semi-aware/semi-conscious/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dreaming/resting, the mind is unaware/unconscious/deep sleep/inactivated, the mind is at ease and at peace, the mind is unease/agitated/disturbed/stimulated/unrest, the mind is depressed/confused/lost/bored, the mind grasps or doesn't grasp, the mind tolerates or doesn't tolerate, the mind enjoys or doesn't enjoy, the mind suffers or doesn't suffer, the mind energized or exhausted, there are ceaseless thought process/thought activities/thought current of countless different ideas/thoughts/thinking/understanding/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations/anticipations/desires/aspirations/urges/dreams arising and passing away, either consciously, semi-consciously, or unconsciously, and so on.

What is past or future? Everything is in NOW, and they are ceaselessly changing and passing away.

And all that, the subject and the object, the perceiver and the perceived, the experiencer and the experience, the thinker and the thinking, the action performer and the action, or all the names and forms and the different qualities, are all selfless and impermanent, are all limited and conditional, and are all non-self.

If without the body, what is the mind? If without the mind, what is all that? If without the support of the energy and different elements, what is the existence and function of the body and mind? If without the conscious and semi-conscious awareness, what is all that? What is 'I'? What is this or that? What is good or bad? What is pleasant enjoyment or painful suffering?

If without the space hosting the galaxy, the universe, the planets, the stars, the moons, the earth, the livable condition or atmosphere, the sun, the heat, the air, the water, the minerals, the nature, the plants, the diverse living organisms, the gravitation, the movements of the earth, or the energy and all kinds of inter-supporting elements existing and being what they are, what is life existence and life maintenance? What is the body and mind? What is survival instinct? What is consciousness/awareness? What is possessiveness and ownership? What are all kinds of identifications and the sense of belonging/self-esteem/self-worth/pride and shame/superiority and inferiority/status? What is livelihood, or survival, or self-sufficient, or making a living, or job, or business, or money making, or capitalism, or exploitation, or investment, or economy, or prosperity, or the different ways of living/lifestyles/cultures/beliefs/values/practices? What is anger and hatred? What is love and kindness? What is ties and connection or relationship? What is interaction and communication? What is suffering and the end of suffering?

There is nothing belong to anyone or anything, where all and everything are existing and functioning under the generosity of inter-supporting among all and everything, consciously or unconsciously, what is there that cannot let go?

It is absolutely possible to be free from all that ignorance and consequences of ignorance, although it doesn't matter, if the mind is still not free after engaging in all kinds of observation and practice until the end of life existence. But, more important, is there is the understanding of, "It's okay", "All is impermanent", and "There is nothing that can't let go," upon death, and even better, if while still living and functioning, where the mind is aware of all and everything is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, where under this correct understanding/knowledge/wisdom, the mind doesn't intentionally or unintentionally hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment under any conditions or situations, but making good use or full use of the life existence and function of the body and mind to be doing something beneficial to oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here. 

The persistent regular practice highly matters but the result doesn't matter at all

Why is the active continuous engagement in the yoga and meditation practice regularly highly mattered, but the many different impermanent by-products/side-effects/consequences that come along with the regular practice, as well as the final fruit/outcome/result of the entire total accumulated persevered practice (whether the mind successfully attains direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, or not) at the end of life existence doesn't matter at all?

Just as the existence of all kinds of fruit trees that produce different kinds of fruits respectively might be important and beneficial to the survival of many others, but whether all the fruits on the trees are being consumed, or not, and are being consumed in certain way or not in certain way, is not the responsibility of the fruit trees and the fruits, and it doesn't matter.

Just as performing all actions/duties/responsibilities under the presence of correct understanding is highly mattered, but the fruit of actions/duties/responsibilities, or how others respond and react towards one's actions and fruit of actions, doesn't matter at all.

Just as the effort, or willpower, or resilience of keep going in the journey of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence until it comes to an end under respective cause and pace, is what mattered, but what is there, or not there, in the end of the journey, it doesn't matter at all.

*Such as there are many different wishful and hopeful or fearful and threatening stories telling about 'what happens upon and after death', or the common worldly belief about the existence of a timeless beginningless and endless infinite immortal existence of a permanent independent infinite individual self identity/soul/spirit/consciousness undergoing either several or countless separate births and deaths (limited and unlimited reincarnations/rebirths) ignorantly, reluctantly, and unwittingly, where either the cycle of births and deaths has a beginning that will come to an end, or it is a beginningless and endless loop/wheel of endless births and deaths, where the minds are not being in the present but are being busy building, accumulating, projecting, and anticipating what after now. Or, upon attaining the direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in the finite momentary existence in all kinds of names and forms - regardless of whether living organisms or non-living objects, where there isn't any past different separate existence or future different separate existence beyond this existence, or there aren't continuous past/present/future different separate existences that belong to a permanent independent infinite individual identity/soul/spirit/consciousness that doesn't exist, where the only existence is what is here in NOW, and it is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Just as the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function that is still existing and functioning in NOW is highly mattered, but when (long-lived/short-lived) and how (the cause of death) is the life existence and function comes to an end, doesn't matter at all.

Just as whether the minds believe or disbelieve in 'the creator and the judge of all and everything' or 'God'/'gods'/'soul'/'spirit'/'individual consciousness'/'heaven, earth, and hell'/'different realms'/'ceaseless reincarnations in endless loop of births and deaths undergoing countless different separate life existences transitioning among different realms of a permanent independent individual consciousness or soul or spirit', and etc, doesn't matter at all, but to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process, or the silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the annihilation/subjugation/stillness of the restless thought current, that gives rise to clarity of thinking and reasoning, that gives rise to correct understanding/wisdom/absolute knowledge, that gives rise to unconditional peace in oneself that contribute peace into the surrounding environment, regardless of whether the mind believes or disbelieves in 'all that', where the mind stops hurting or doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment under the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, either wittingly or unwittingly, consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, voluntarily or involuntarily, is what matters. 

*The mind doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment is not because of fear towards painful punishment, but out of conscious freewill under the absence of fear under the presence of correct understanding.

Just as it doesn't matter even when there are many minds believe in the many imaginative wishful thinking, or comforting mystical stories telling, or desirable justifications about 'what happens or what is there after death', that are non-factual, but more importantly, is how the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind making good use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function of the body and mind that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, that is still existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements in NOW, under the existing available physical and mental good condition and functionality, knowledge, understanding, experience, talent, skill, and opportunity, to be performing selfless actions/physical and mental activities that can benefit all and everyone and everything unconditionally and indiscriminately, out of generosity, kindness, and wisdom (correct understanding or absolute knowledge).

Just as all human beings, regardless of young or old, energetic or non-energetic, healthy or unhealthy, fit or unfit, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, intelligent or non-intelligent, talented or non-talented, skillful or non-skillful, happy or unhappy, ambitious or non-ambitious, wise or ignorant, understanding or non-understanding, introvert or extrovert, selfish or unselfish, good or bad behavior, short-lived or long-lived, need to have or develop a specific point of focus/attentiveness/direction/goal throughout the entire momentary duration of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function, to be diverting the entire attention and energy onto the physical and mental engagement in something that is beneficial to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, where there is no extra room/time/space, attention, or energy left for some other physical and mental activities that are harmful to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, during the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, is what matters.

The minds that have attained direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, will naturally understand why it doesn't matter about 'the existence of the many different comforting and/or threatening stories telling or justifications towards the unknown, or painful suffering, or certain behavior and phenomena that the minds couldn't understand', or 'what is there, or not there, upon/after the death of this physical body or the end of this life existence', while making good use or full use of this fleeting momentary 'precious' existence of the body and mind when it is still available and possible, to be doing something beneficial to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

Such minds won't waste any effort, or energy, or life (what most mind referred as time) into useless common mingling, socializing, bonding, connecting, interacting, big talk, small talk, vain talk, chit-chatting, gossiping, slandering, condemning, criticizing, shaming, blaming, boasting, glorifying, worshiping, day dreaming, building castle in the air, regret, guilt, celebrating, mourning, grieving, plotting, scheming, politicking, conflict, argument, debate, envying, admiring, imitating, intimidating, interfering, fighting, hoarding, and so on.

The minds that haven't attained direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, they might or might not be conditioned by certain belief and values to behave and desire in certain way and not in certain way, as well as what they 'want to' believe about 'what is there upon/after death', that they think and believe and evaluate as what highly mattered and meaningful. There is neither right nor wrong. Under such projection and anticipation towards the unknown or 'what is there upon and after death', some minds would refrain themselves from causing any harm unto anyone or anything, while some minds would cause harm unto themselves and others, due to the different degrees of understanding/non-understanding/misunderstanding, even under the similar common belief and values and practice, not to say, under the many different beliefs and values and practices.

That is why there is the highly practical and essential observation or practice of silence (Mauna), solitude, seclusion, being/living/focusing in the present, dispassion, desirelessness, non-grasping, non-association, non-craving, non-aversion, non-building castle in the air/day dreaming/wild imagination, withdrawing the outgoing tendency of the mind chasing after the objects of the senses, renunciation (non-engagement in worldly egoistic activities/affairs/relationships/connections/interactions/communications/aspirations), self-introspection, self-inquiry, concentration and meditation, to gather the passionate restless outgoing tendency/curiosity/random thoughts and desires/discontentment/inattentiveness/constant longing towards receiving attention, acknowledgement, agreement, consent, approval, recognition, understanding, friendship, companionship, interaction, or communication from others/power of influence and control seeking and gathering/possession hoarding and wealth accumulation, a.k.a. the restless thought current, to be concentrating at one particular point of focus/attentiveness/concentration for a prolonged duration, that will eventually and effortlessly turn into meditation (silence/clarity of mind/stillness of the mind or thought current).

The engagement in all kinds of regular persistent physical and mental practice are useful and highly mattered, until the mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of everything under clarity or quiet state of mind, where the conscious mind under the absence of the idea of 'I'/the ego, is resting in peace upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, where the mind can be attending or engaging in some activities, or not, and spending energy or effort onto doing/creating/constructing/sowing/learning/teaching/sharing something, or not, but there is needless to have any form of interaction, or connectivity, or communication, or mutual understanding, or response and reaction with any others.

This is similar to the minds that are being referred as autistic.

They can be learning and performing all kinds of activities/actions selflessly and egolessly, without the need of responding or reacting to anyone, or to be interacting and communicating with anyone, or to gain attention, reaction, appreciation, understanding, agreement, recognition, acknowledgement, liking, love, support, respect, approval, praise and compliment, encouragement, friendship, relationship, companionship, connection, power of influence or control, and etc.

They don't need any encouragement or praise from anyone to motivate them for anything and for being what they are, as they are. They don't respond or react to the presence and absence of encouragement or discouragement/praise or criticism/likes and dislikes/agreements and disagreements about anything from anyone.

They don't interfere with (judge/discriminate/expect) all and everything being what they are, as they are. They don't intentionally go around disturbing any others, but the others are greatly 'disturbed' by their silence and aloneness, or non-interaction and non-communication.

They are constantly self-introspecting, self-investigating, self-inquiring, or self-learning, which is the highest power of learning, knowing, reasoning, and understanding.

They can be highly intelligent and creative and talented and skillful in certain things or many things, but they are not seeking success/name and fame/power of influence and control, or response and reaction, attention, acknowledgment, recognition, praise, understanding, approval, consent, opinion, appreciation, liking, support, friendship, or anything, from anyone.

They are dispassionate but not emotionless, and they perceive or feel or recognize the different sensations of pleasantness and unpleasantness/comfort and discomfort, and they might express feelings and emotions as they are, while not necessarily in the way that most minds would express the different feelings and emotions in certain way respectively.

They don't have the 'common' and 'normal' tendency to interfere with/influence/control/manipulate all the others being what they are, as they don't need to digest/understand/react/respond towards any unnecessary inputs, or the different random and fleeting thoughts/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions/behaviors/understanding and non-understanding/agreements and disagreements/likes and dislikes of anyone.

Just as all the selfless cells in the physical body are performing their respective activity/duty/function selflessly and egolessly for being what they are, as they are.

* Selflessness - The truth of everything, where there is no existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence of a unique individual identity/soul/spirit/consciousness that exists in any names and forms, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self

* Egolessness or 'I'lessness - The absence of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious individual self acknowledgement in the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind or the thinking faculty of the selfless living organisms

'Normal' minds referred autistic minds as 'abnormal', or 'unhealthy', or 'something wrong' because the autistic minds are basically and naturally functioning under the absence of the ego/the idea of 'I'/the conscious individual self acknowledgement and egoism, or the absence of the sense of separateness between 'I' and 'others' or 'not I', and hence, the autistic minds don't behave 'normally' the same as the minds that are functioning 'normally' under the presence and influence of conscious individual self acknowledgment (the ego or the idea of 'I') that gives rise to the sense of separateness between 'I' and 'others' or 'not I', that gives rise to 'relationship', or 'connection', or 'bonding', or 'interaction and communication', or 'corresponding', or 'mingling', or 'socializing', under the influence of the ego/the idea of 'I'/the conscious individual self acknowledgement and egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving and aversion, judgment, comparison, and expectation/anticipation/projection, where the many 'normal functioning' passionate egoistic minds, including enthusiastic scientists or biologists, cannot understand what is going on in the minds that are functioning under the absence of the ego and egoism, that are naturally and effortlessly resting within, or internalized, or focused within.

They think and understand and say that the autistic minds cannot pick up, or learn, or develop, or understand certain things like all the other 'normal functioning' minds, but actually it is the 'normal' individual self acknowledging egoistic impure restless minds that are the ones that cannot understand or comprehend the minds that are functioning under the absence of the ego and egoism, that are devoid of the sense of separateness and possessiveness, egoistic grasping, attachment, identification, association, connection, relationship, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, comparison, expectation, and all kinds of unnecessary evitable impurities and restlessness, of what the 'normal functioning' minds referred as 'normal' and 'healthy' function and behavior.

The autistic minds are indeed showing the world of passionate egoistic outgoing restless human minds about the truth of selflessness in all kinds of names and forms, where living organisms can be existing and functioning selflessly as well as egolessly under the absence of the ego/the idea of 'I' or the conscious individual self acknowledgement and egoism.

The world of many diversities will definitely have more peace and harmony and have less unnecessary unrest and conflicts if most minds are being born autistic genetically and biologically, or devoid of the ego and egoism naturally and effortlessly. Similarly, if more and more 'normal' egoistic impure restless passionate minds practice yoga and meditation diligently, and render the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless modification of the mind to become quiet or silent, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, the world of diverse individuals and diverse communities will definitely and naturally have more peace and harmony.

There is the absence of the ego and egoism in the autistic minds 'genetically', 'biologically', 'physically', 'mentally', 'naturally', and 'effortlessly', which is exactly the ultimate goal of all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism practice under different lineages/styles/schools/paths/gurus/teachings/practices, but with the one same goal of to be consciously and diligently quieting and purifying the restless thought current, by eradicating restlessness and all kinds of impurities via the annihilation of the idea of 'I' and egoism from the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, a.k.a. the annihilation of the veil of ignorance and the consequences/by-products of ignorance.

However, that (the absence of the ego and egoism) is being referred as a form of 'mental deformity', or 'abnormality', or 'unhealthiness', or 'madness', or 'negativity', in the world of ignorance and egoism, where the many passionate egoistic impure restless minds are 'naturally' functioning 'normally' under the presence and influence of the idea of 'I, egoism, impurities, and restlessness, where there are so much unnecessary evitable violence, discrimination, dissatisfaction, discontentment, distraction, disappointment, hurt, offensiveness, defensiveness, argument, conflict, fighting, unrest, resentment, selfishness, possessiveness, greed, aspiration, ambition, self-righteousness, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, guilt, regret, fear, worry, loneliness, boredom, lies, hypocrisy, justification, dishonesty, prejudice, discrimination, self blame, blaming others, slandering, back-biting, politicking, exploitation, plotting, all kinds of corruption, invasion, intrusion, interference, oppression, self harm, harming others and the surrounding environment, and so on, in the passionate egoistic impure restless minds that also contributing unrest, disturbance, and conflicts into the surrounding environment. Completely peaceless within and without.

And the 'normal' minds referred such ignorance and common ignorant behaviors, actions, reactions, interactions, relationships, connections, affairs, or activities of the 'normal' minds, as something 'normal' and 'healthy'.

The rare and precious minds, either being born autistic (absence of the ego and egoism as well as internalized/focused within) biologically, naturally, and effortlessly as it is, or not being born autistic but are functioning under the presence and influence of the ego or the idea of 'I', while out of conscious awareness being aware of the restless/ignorant/distracted/disturbed suffering peaceless state of mind, and having intense yearning to be free from all that, to be consciously making effort to be silent and quiet, by turning inward or internalized/focused within through conscious freewill and self effort via certain practices and observations to be eradicating the idea of 'I' and egoism that gives rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness/distraction that feeds and empowers the veil of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, these minds don't need to have any particular direction or goal, or hanging onto any kind of faith or belief and values, in order to keep them busy focusing onto working and reaching that particular direction or goal, in order to avoid engaging in many other activities that could be harmful to oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

All these self internalized minds won't be engaging in any form of activities that are deliberately or intentionally to be harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment, under the presence of one-pointedness or stillness or quietness, that gives rise to clarity of thinking and reasoning, correct understanding, wisdom, absolute knowledge, and unconditional peace, in silence, a.k.a. under the absence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

That is why the autistic minds are being in the most comfortable state when they are being alone by themselves, not being 'disturbed' or 'stimulated' by any kind of unnecessary boundless inputs that are being ceaselessly generated by the many 'normal' minds that are so restless/puzzled/ignorant/egoistic/impure/passionate/discontented/control freak. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Meanwhile, the 'normal' egoistic restless passionate minds desire to 'change' or 'heal' the autistic minds, that are naturally quiet, peaceful, at ease, or comfortable being alone by themselves, while being 'anxious', 'disturbed', or 'unease' when they are being 'force feed' or 'disturbed' by so much ongoing unnecessary inputs or actions and reactions of the surrounding 'normal' egoistic impure restless minds, especially when there are many 'normal' minds around them aspired to force/change/heal/rehabilitate them to become 'normal', or to behave 'normally' like them.

The 'normal' minds want to interfere with and change the quiet and internalized minds because they don't like the reality of they can't understand the quiet minds where they can't control/influence/manipulate the minds that are quiet/internalized, and that don't interact/communicate with them or don't respond/react/acknowledge towards them and their desire of desiring/controlling/influencing/manipulating all and everything to be the way that they desire.

The selfless mind is fully focusing on doing its own thing quietly and attentively, alone, by oneself, in peace.

But the 'normal' minds/parents/friends/teachers/doctors/scientists in the surrounding environment that are extremely clueless, puzzled, and confused, "Look at me here. I am talking to you. I care for you. I love you. I want to help you. Please say and express something. Tell me what are you thinking and how are you feeling. Why don't you respond or communicate with me at all? I can't understand, and I can't help you, if you don't respond to me or don't communicate with me. It is not good and unhealthy if you cannot and don't mingle and socialize, interact and communicate with some others."

If the mind can be opened, it will start to see and understand all that. If the mind wants to see and understand the mind that is silence and internalized, that doesn't respond towards or interact/communicate with the others in the surrounding environment, the mind can learn about Vipassana practice by attending Vipassana silent meditation retreat, and it will know that there is nothing wrong, or abnormal, or unhealthy about the precious silence, quietness, solitude, seclusion, dispassion, internalization, inputs cut-off, non-expressing, non-communicating, non-mingling, non-socializing, and non-interacting, but it is absolutely highly beneficial to the over-all well-being of oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Silence, correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, wisdom, freedom, respect, peace

Silence (the silent undisturbed clarity/state/modification of the mind under the absence of restless egoistic impure veil of ignorance), is the most precious thing in this world of human beings/minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, regardless of the different qualities of names and forms that all and everyone inherited from birth and changing/adopted/developed after birth.

Silence, gives rise to correct understanding, or clarity of thinking and reasoning, or absolute knowledge, or wisdom.

Wisdom, gives rise to unconditional freedom and peace in oneself.

Unconditional freedom and peace in oneself, gives rise to unconditional and indiscriminate respect and kindness towards all kinds of diversities being what they are, as they are, transcending all kinds of duality of good and bad, right and wrong, positivity and negativity, purity and impurity, superiority and inferiority, deserving and undeserving, appropriateness and disappropriateness, accomplished and non-accomplished, success and failure, gain and loss, joyful and joyless, wise and unwise, kind and unkind, selfish and unselfish, and so on.

Unconditional and indiscriminate respect and kindness among all kinds of diversities, regardless of what and how all and everything are, gives rise to world peace in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The mind that is observing all and everything in silence, as well as performing selfless actions under clarity in silence, understands towards the many other restless minds that are behaving in the way that they behave, where the many restless minds are functioning under the influence of restlessness or ignorance, under the absence of correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, or wisdom.

The silent mind is being undetermined and undisturbed by the disturbing ignorant violent aggressive hurtful destructive behaviors of the restless ignorant minds, and doesn't need to question the restless ignorant minds about why they behave in the way that they behave.

The minds that are restless and ignorant, cannot understand the mind that is silent, that is behaving in the way that it behaves, where the silent mind is functioning under the absence of restlessness or ignorance, under the presence of correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, or wisdom.

The restless ignorant minds are being intimidated, offended, and disturbed by the behavior of the silent mind that they recognized as abnormal, inappropriate, non-acceptable, unreasonable, disrespect, wrong, and bad, and they have the urge to be questioning the silent mind about why it behaves in the way that it behaves.

The silent mind doesn't see or take anyone as 'friend' or 'enemy', regardless of agreeable or disagreeable.

Meanwhile, the restless ignorant minds see or take the one that is agreeable as 'friend' and the one that is disagreeable as 'enemy', and there is the natural tendency to protect and support the 'friend' blindly, and to attack and destroy the 'enemy' that the restless ignorant minds perceived as 'intimidation' or 'threat' to themselves and their 'identity and possession', 'desires and ambitions', or 'dominance and superior status', even when none is intimidating or threatening anyone. However, under the influence of dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, greed, fear, jealousy, selfishness, desperation, pride and shame, and etc, the restless ignorant minds would betray or hurt their 'friend' as well.

The restless ignorant minds are ceaselessly dissatisfying, complaining, arguing, criticizing, condemning, threatening, opposing, protesting, disallowing, disrespecting, causing disturbance and obstruction and destruction towards all and everything that they dislike and disagree with, that they think and believe and judge and recognize as abnormal, bad, wrong, inappropriate, disrespect, non-acceptable, or unreasonable based on their own particular inherited and adopted/developed ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that are different from or going against their particular inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that they think and believe as normal, good, right, appropriate, respectable, acceptable, and reasonable.

The restless ignorant minds are being disturbed, intimidated, or threatened by their own ignorance of being ignorant towards what they don't know and can't understand, such as they couldn't understand the mind that is silent, and hence, they cannot and don't know how to control, or influence, or manipulate, or oppress, or bully, or conquer something and anything (such as the mind that is silent) that they don't know and don't understand, and that incapability to know/to understand/to control/to manipulate/to bully makes the restless ignorant minds very uncomfortable, agitated, or restless.

The silent mind understands and respects the restless ignorant minds being what they are, as they are, where there is needless of argument or criticism, which only wasting the precious energy and life existence and function, that can be reserved and conserved for performing many other beneficial activities/actions that benefit all and everyone and everything.

The restless ignorant minds couldn't comprehend or respect the silent mind being what it is, as it is, and they have intense desire to be interfering, arguing with, and criticizing the silent mind that is silent, that doesn't interfere with anyone, not to say, that doesn't argue with or criticize anyone for being what they are, as they are, even though the silent mind can utilize the existing available energy, life existence and function, knowledge, understanding, experience, talent, skill, and opportunity, that don't even belong to itself, to be performing certain activities/actions and/or carrying-out all its duty and responsibility towards itself and others and the surrounding environment.

The restless ignorant minds become even more offended, dissatisfied, and disturbed (angry and violent) when the silent mind remains silent, and doesn't gratify their desire of what they want (to be engaging in and empowering argument and criticism that derived from and that also feeds/empowers restlessness and ignorance). 

It is like the mad person who is holding and wavering some kind of hurtful weapons in both his hands and keeps shouting aggressively towards the others, "Hey, you all stupid wrongful terrible people! Why are you all going away from me? Why you all don't come to me? I want you all to come to me, so that I can shout at you all to express and relieve my anger, so that I can criticize, discipline, punish, and hurt you all stupid wrongful terrible people, so that you all can hear me shouting at you all, and you all can receive criticism and painful punishment from me. You won't be able to hear me shouting all my anger unto you, and you won't be able to receive criticism and painful punishment from me, if you don't come to me, if you are staying faraway from me. Come to me, now! You are bad and wrong if you don't obey me and don't do as what I tell you to do. Look what you did to me. You made me so angry. You are responsible and accountable for my anger. If you don't come to me now as I am telling you, if you don't let me shout at you, criticize you, and hurt you, I will be getting more angry, and I will hurt and destroy you even more!"

How many minds are drowning in such suffering restless disturbed violent state of mind? Plenty.

Functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, unwittingly and ignorantly, it is common and natural that the minds are under the state of pain/discomfort/dissatisfaction/unhappiness/disturbance/anger/ignorance/hatred/jealousy/fear/unable to dominate, or control, or over-power something or everything, but they don't know or understand why or what is happening in themselves, and they don't know how to be free from all THAT, and hence, naturally, in order to express and relieve the pain/discomfort/dissatisfaction/unhappiness/disturbance/anger/ignorance/hatred/jealousy/fear/unable to dominate, or control, or over-power something or everything, they inflict pain/damage/disturbance/destruction unto the others and the surrounding environment.

The minds that understand all THAT, they know that all THAT are neither good nor bad.

There is nothing to be arguing or criticizing about the ignorance and the by-products of ignorance in any mind.

The mind only knows what it knows (what it thinks and believes). What the mind doesn't know (what it doesn't think and doesn't believe), it doesn't know.

None can liberate another.

None can remove ignorance in another, for another.

Not even buddhas, or yogis, or gurus.

One can only liberate oneself.

One can only remove ignorance in oneself, by oneself.

While all and everyone and everything can help, show, guide, or initiate the others to be aware of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

That's why all and everyone and everything, including this mind itself, regardless of good and bad, right and wrong, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, pleasant and unpleasant, comforting and hurting, constructive and destructive, kind and unkind, wise and unwise, selfish and unselfish, happy and unhappy, peaceful and peaceless, and etc, are the teachers, the teachings, the practice, the realization, the knowledge, or the dhamma itself.

Ignorance is the by-product of ignorance itself.

Ignorance hinders the mind to know and understand everything as it is.

Not knowing or understanding everything as it is, empowers ignorance.

The mind is ignorant towards ignorance due to ignorance.

It has to come from the mind itself, to be aware of ignorance, to have the intense yearning to be free from ignorance, and to have the ceaseless effort/perseverance and determination to be free from ignorance.

And, under such awareness, or condition, or opportunity, or disturbance, or dissatisfaction, or pain, or suffering, or yearning, or effort, it is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The different personalities, characteristics, experiences, understanding, and desires in the different minds

All minds are selfless, and all selfless minds are having their own particular unique modification of the mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, even if there are certain cross-similarities among the many different minds.

Even within the one same particular ancestry lineage, family, and community, sharing the one same similar genetic inheritance, where the minds are growing up being surrounded and conditioned by the one same particular traditional or non-traditional family/communal/tribal/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/national/regional/philosophical/educational/commercial ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and visions, that influence the mind to have a particular way of thinking and reasoning, way of doing things, way of living and interacting, and way of conduct, that give rise to particular understanding, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, that influence the different behaviors or actions and reactions in certain way, but then, each mind also has their own particular unique modification of the mind undergoing specific conscious and unconscious evolution, that influence and determine the different states of mind that impact oneself and others and the surrounding environment differently in certain way and not in certain way, not to say, among the many different minds that are being conditioned by the many different traditional or non-traditional ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and visions, where each mind has their own particular unique personality and characteristic, life experiences and learning process, reasoning and understanding, agreements and disagreements, and desires/don't desires, that are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, that lead to different conscious and unconscious evolution/transformation/changes/outcomes.

Even more importantly, all minds can have their own unique mind thinking and behavior pattern evolving from the existing particular conditional thinking and behavior pattern that was/has been being conditioned by any particular ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and visions, where each mind has or can develop and empower different degrees of patience, acceptance, initiation, determination, perseverance, forbearance, willpower, tolerance, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, decisiveness, self-introspection, and/or self-control, where there are different unique life experiences and learning processes under the presence of different conditions, situations, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, and activities, that give rise to different knowledge accumulation that influence the intellectual reasoning and understanding, that give rise to different agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires, that influence the different behaviors, actions, and reactions, that impact oneself and others and the surrounding environment in certain way or not in certain way.

Because all THAT, not only that they are all selfless and non-self, but more importantly, they all are impermanent, limited, and conditional, that are ceaselessly changing being influenced and determined by the existing internal and external conditions and situations that are also impermanent, limited, and conditional. And the presence of conscious awareness/freewill/effort/action/activity under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness can be influencing all that in certain way or not in certain way, either constructively or destructively, depending on the existing different understanding and desires and don't desires.

The mind that knows and understands this, is fearless and in peace, regardless of what is happening internally in the body and mind, and externally in the surrounding environment of a world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Such mind doesn't desire to be controlling or expecting anyone or anything to be in certain way or not in certain way, but might or might not be making use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function of the mortal body and mind to be performing possible selfless actions within one's ability and limitation, that would benefit oneself and others and the surrounding environment, devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism, not being determined by the actions and the consequences/fruits/outcomes of actions.

"Performing selfless actions without grasping, while allowing and respecting the fruit of actions being what it is, as it is, and it is impermanent," is the essence of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

The minds that have been coming in contact with such knowledge through reading or hearing, while thinking and believing that they know and understand this, but not really (haven't attained direct self realization yet), they are being determined by the internal and external impermanent changes/conditions/situations, and are being over-powered by the instinctive urge of controlling all and everything to be in certain way and not in certain way, being the slave of the boundless and endless conscious desires of craving and aversion, and being over-powered by selfishness, possessiveness, defensiveness, greed, dissatisfaction, discontentment, fear, the sense of pride and shame, the sense of high and low self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of goodness and badness, righteousness and wrongfulness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, positiveness and negativeness, auspiciousness and inauspiciousness, togetherness and separateness, happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and joylessness, pleasantness and unpleasantness, accomplishment and non-accomplishment, success and failure, gain and loss, superiority and inferiority, of all kinds of duality, as well as being over-powered by the sense of boredom, loneliness, emptiness, left-out, unloved, unnoticed, unattended, unrecognized, unsupported, disliked, disapproved, disagreed, disrespected, humiliated, belittled, offended, victimized, depressed, oppressed, lack of freedom, absence of freedom, absence of peace, desperation, painful sorrow, physical pain/discomfort/weakness/injury/illness/aging/decaying, mental and emotional pain/discomfort/shortcoming/hurt/disturbance, of all kinds of physical and mental/emotional suffering. Such mind is restless and peaceless.

Out of restlessness and peacelessness (violent perturbed state of mind), or under the influence of all kinds of unpleasant undesirable impurities or painful suffering, many minds that don't know and/or don't understand towards what is going on in themselves (not knowing Thyself), would behave, act, and react in the way that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment, in order to express as well as to relieve such disturbing painful suffering state of mind.

More importantly, all minds under the presence of conscious awareness and cognition to be consciously perceiving and recognizing pain and pleasure/enjoyment and suffering, regardless of who/what/where/how/when, can be free from all that, out of their own conscious freewill, initiative, effort, intense yearning towards liberation/absolute knowledge/unconditional peace, determination, and perseverance.

The uncontaminated genuine yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practice is all about the annihilation of the veil of ignorance that is naturally formed upon the rise of the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, that are all non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind (the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mechanism that is part of the many different selfless mechanisms/functions/organs/systems of the selfless physical structure of the selfless conscious sentient living organisms) itself, where the mind sees or knows itself upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, and realizes unconditional peace, where the mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment under the presence of absolute knowledge (wisdom) and unconditional peace.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice of performing different practices that suit different minds accordingly, is all about activating the conscious mind evolution process of consciously purifying/quieting/silencing the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, by developing the basic essential foundation of mental and emotional independence while thinning-out and eliminating the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness, via the observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, non-grasping/non-attachment/non-clinging, non-craving, non-aversion, non-association, non-identification, non-comparison, non-judgment, non-expectation, concentration and meditation, and the practice of silence (Mauna), preparing the mind for performing self-inquiry under an open-mind that is free from the influence of any particular worldly egoistic ideas/beliefs/values/practices/visions, to be inquiring towards the truth of everything that the mind comes in contact with/learns/experiences/sees/hears/reads/being told by some others, especially towards realizing or knowing Thyself, knowing and understanding what is going on in the modification of the mind, of knowing what is the 'I' or the self acknowledgment under the presence of the conscious awareness/perception/cognition that the thinking mind/faculty perceives, thinks, believes, acknowledges, recognizes, identifies, and asserts as 'I', or 'myself', or 'mine' that belongs to 'I' or 'myself', that there is the wishful thinking in the selfless mind would like to think and believe that itself is or has a solid permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity of an unique individual consciousness/soul/spirit/being, that is devoid of any kind of suffering or limitation, but somehow, it is unwittingly residing/being trapped in the finite mortal impure physical body, that is full of all kinds of suffering and limitation.

Due to such ignorance, the selfless mind is in a state of suffering, or peacelessness, or not free, and there is a natural spontaneous desire to regain or return to that 'suffering free infinite immortal status/identity' that it wants to believe that it is all true, that it really exists, that itself really has, and that is what itself really is (what many minds would like to think and believe that itself is the existence of an infinite unlimited unconditional immortal existence of 'who I really am', that is super powerful - omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotent, or Shat-Chid-Ananda - infinite existence, all knowledge, and absolute bliss), that belongs to itself.

The one that is or wants to be identifying with something or anything (finite or infinite), is the selfless continuous stream of thinking/thought in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, that doesn't and cannot exist independently as what it is, where it doesn't exist, not to say, that it cannot function, if without the presence of the selfless support of the selfless energy and different selfless elements that enabling the mind to be existing and functioning as what it is.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is not the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that gives rise to the selfless conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the different selfless minds that are functioning consciously and semi-consciously during the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

There is absence of conscious/semi-conscious perception/awareness/knowing/acknowledgement/idea/notion towards subject (the selfless perceiver) and object (the selfless objects of perception) under the state of unconsciousness, even though unconscious physical and mental activities are ceaselessly happening for life maintenance.

Subject and object, or the perception of all kinds of duality, or dualism, doesn't exist under the absence of conscious awareness during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, even if there are still certain non-conscious subtle brain activities (mental activities/thought current) for life maintenance ceaselessly happening until the brain ceased functioning completely (brain dead/irreversible brain damage or dysfunction), and even if the brain dead conscious-less physical body can still be keeping alive for an extended duration via the continuous support of certain life supporting machines of higher advance science and technology, until the entire structure/systems/components/organs of the physical body ceased functioning and disintegrate eventually and completely.

That is why the silence/annihilation/cessation of the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind or the restless thought current, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restless thought activities, where the selfless mind is absorbed into or resting upon the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness (Samadhi), is the core as well as the only objective of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, to know Thyself, that is not about to know who I really/originally/initially am (that doesn't exist at all), but to realize the truth of selflessness and non-self in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind and in everything that the mind perceives, of all kinds of names and forms, of all kinds of duality and separateness, of 'I'/'myself' and 'not I'/'others', the perceiver and the perceived, the subject and object, the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, the knower and the knowledge, the experiencer and the experiences, the thinker and the thinking, the actions performer and the actions and the consequences of actions, the one that enjoys and/or suffers and the objects of enjoyment and suffering, the practitioner and the practice, the observer and the observation, the inquirer and the inquiry, the realization, the liberation, and the peace, and so on. All are selfless and non-self.

Even so, most minds that are still functioning more or less under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that perceive some kinds of suffering/restlessness/disturbance/dissatisfaction/disappointment/hurt, they need to hold onto something that they can comprehend to start with while embarking onto the path of self-inquiry and self-realization, such as, the quest of finding out who I really/originally/initially am, or the quest of attaining liberation from all kinds of suffering, or the quest of exiting 'the infinite loop of ceaseless births and deaths' a.k.a. 'the countless and endless reincarnation of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/consciousness/soul/spirit residing in many different names and forms under separate existences transitioning between different realms/spheres/realities/worlds' (that doesn't exist at all), or the quest of entering/reentering/regaining the superior state of immortality, or the practice of positive thinking to counter negative thinking, or to destroy the lower impure self to regain the higher pure self.

There is neither right nor wrong, even though all that is not the objective of the practice at all. But they may lead the mind towards the direction of attaining direct self realization towards the truth of everything, if there is intense yearning under immovable determination, and perseverance (ceaseless effort) towards attaining the ultimate liberation from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, under the presence of basic correct understanding and attitude, which can be developed and empowered.

All and everything ceaselessly manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away (appear and disappear), except the all pervading timeless (changeless) attributeless (nameless and formless) selfless universal consciousness, that is always there as it is, that is causeless/birthless and deathless/beginningless and endless, that is beyond time (devoid of impermanent changes), space (devoid of limitation), and causation (devoid of cause and effect), that never increase or decrease, that doesn't appear or disappear, that isn't pure or impure, where all and everything of all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms manifesting upon, arising, changing, and passing away.

The yoga and/or buddhism observation or practice that is in accordance to the uncontaminated genuine teachings or dhamma, and that is being observed or practiced as it is, can allow the selfless mind to realize the truth of selflessness and non-self, where all and everything including the existence and function of itself, is selfless, where there isn't any solid permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity existing to be undergoing the selfless formation (birth, or the beginning of existence and functioning), impermanent changes of growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration, or decomposing, or passing away (death, or ceased functioning and the end of existence), and all these selfless manifestations are non-self, where the selfless manifestation of formation/existence/functions/changes/decay/disintegration/decomposition/ceased existence in all kinds of names and forms, don't even belong to the names and forms themselves.

Due to the different minds are being conditioned by the different ideas, beliefs, values, practices, ways of thinking, ways of doing things, ways of conduct/behavior/action/reaction, that give rise to different reasoning and understanding, that is influencing the different desires and don't desires in the different minds, it is common and natural that there are many disagreements, arguments, debates, dissatisfaction, and frustration existing among the different minds that are trying to convince/over-power/conquer one another about what and who is right or wrong, or who and what is more true/accurate/good/appropriate/meaningful than the other. But that not only doesn't lead the mind towards silence that gives rise to correct understanding, or wisdom, or absolute knowledge, but it is augmenting, stimulating, and agitating the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind even more, fueling and empowering the veil of ignorance.

That is why there is the highly practical and essential initial basic observation of forgoing/abandoning/refraining from all kinds of habitual egoistic activities of small talk, big talk, vain talk, boasting, glorifying, story telling, justification, gossiping, slandering, blaming, finger pointing, condemning, criticizing, argument, debate, discussion, interaction, or communication.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and all and everything that the mind has been coming in contact with since birth, of all kinds of information/inputs/ideas/beliefs/values/practices/inspirations/aspirations coming from everyone and everywhere.

The common worldly empowerment towards all kinds of personal and group attachment and identification

Renunciation and the observation of silence (Mauna), is the basic essential teaching, observation, and practice of yoga and/or buddhism,

- To renounce or let go all kinds of worldly egoistic personal and group physical/mental/emotional attachment and identification,

- To move away from the engagement in restless worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/family/national/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, practices, rituals, ways of living, aspirations, affairs, ties and connections, communications, activities, and interactions,

- To be restraining, minimizing, and cutting-off all kinds of worldly egoistic conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious boundless inputs and outputs completely or as much as possible, to practically and effectively purify and quiet the conditional restless egoistic impure modification of the mind physically/mentally/emotionally,

- To turn the common outgoing tendency of the mind inward, to withdraw the senses from the objects of the senses, to focus within,

- To develop self-introspection to know what is going on in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the physical body that comes with the perceptive thinking mind under different states of consciousness, to know Thyself, that leads towards self-inquiry and self-realization towards the truth of everything, 

- To develop and empower and attain mental and emotional independence through non-grasping and letting go, not being determined by all kinds of duality, or the perception of sight, smell, taste, sensation, feeling/emotion, thought/idea/desire, remembrance towards this and that, wild imaginations, and dreams, or all kinds of experience/affair/ties and connection/relationship/interaction/condition/situation that are pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, or enjoyable and non-enjoyable or even painful.

- To change the conditional restless egoistic impure thinking and behavior pattern that is being conditioned by internal genetic inheritance and external conditions and ceaseless inputs that are being empowered by ceaseless outputs/reactions under the influence of ignorance, either consciously, or semi-consciously, or unconsciously,

- To annihilate the veil of ignorance that is naturally manifested or formed under the presence of the ego or the idea of 'I' (conscious and semi-conscious self awareness or self acknowledgement under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness) that gives rise to the natural by-products of egoism of attachment/identification/craving and aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation which also feed and empower the idea of 'I', all kinds of impurities, and restlessness (restless modification/thought current/thought process/state of the mind a.k.a the veil of ignorance, where the veil of ignorance vanished upon silence or cessation of the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, or upon the state of clarity), upon the activation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional function/mechanism/modification of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledging thinking and acting mind under the different states of consciousness, that is existing and functioning being part of the many different components/systems/mechanisms of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional physical body, where all that is non-self, where the momentary finite existence and function of the mortal body and mind doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, not to say, nothing belong to anyone or anything,

- To perform self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of everything, particularly what is the 'I' that the mind perceives/thinks/believes/acknowledges/identifies as its own infinite permanent independent self existence as an immortal individual being/identity/consciousness/soul/spirit that is permanent and independent (that doesn't exist at all), that belongs to itself, that is residing in the mortal finite physical body, where the thinking mind thinks and believes and desires, "The body is mortal, impure, impermanent, limited, conditional, finite, and imperfect. I am immortal, pure, permanent, unlimited, infinite, and perfect,"

- To attain direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self,

- To realize unconditional peace,

- To have clarity of thinking and correct understanding (absolute knowledge or wisdom),

- To cease harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment (unconditional indiscriminate kindness),

- To perform selfless actions that are possible within one's ability and limitation, including certain existing worldly duties and responsibilities towards looking after oneself and others and the surrounding environment, that benefit oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, out of compassion - the selfless indiscriminate power of creation/action/activity, that can be constructive or destructive, depending on the different states of mind under different intentions and understanding. All actions are selfless actions, regardless of whether conscious or unconscious, intentional or intentionless, constructive or destructive. Perform possible actions that are benefiting all and everyone and everything unconditionally and indiscriminately, without forcing, without grasping, devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism, under the presence of conscious awareness.

All kinds of autonomous/absence of conscious freewill/involuntary ceaseless selfless physical and mental activities for life maintenance throughout the entire physical body where all the different bodily systems/components/mechanisms/each and every single individual cells/neutrons/protons/neurons/atoms are all selflessly performing their own respective duty/function as well as communicating and responding among one another throughout all states of consciousness, are all selfless actions and selfless actions performers, not to say, all that are happening devoid of the idea/thought/notion of 'I' (the ego) and egoism, that only exists selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally in the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind upon the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness during the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

All these ceaseless selfless physical activities are being performed/operated by all these selfless different bodily systems/components/mechanisms/each and every single individual cells/neutrons/protons/neurons/atoms throughout the entire physical body and throughout all states of consciousness/semi-consciousness/unconsciousness, under the selfless support of the selfless supportive energy and elements, until they completely breakdown and ceased functioning/operating eventually, regardless of whether there is presence or absence of conscious awareness in the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind during the different states of consciousness/awake, semi-consciousness/semi-awake/semi-asleep/dreaming, and unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma.

Many minds that are operating/functioning consciously/semi-consciously during the state of consciousness/semi-consciousness are not aware of or are ignorant towards the function/modification of themselves are being over-powered by the existing conditional thinking and behavior pattern under the influence of genetic inherited condition, and even more so, the influence of external conditioning inputs/influences/adopted egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices, to reason/understand/judge/feel/desire/behave/act/react spontaneously in certain way, that impact oneself and others and the surrounding environment in certain way.

The momentary existence and function of the body and mind is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, however, under the selfless impermanent intentionless manifestation of the veil of ignorance that naturally manifests as it is upon the rise of the continuous stream of the idea/thought/notion of 'I' (the ego/self acknowledgement/the illusive existence of a permanent independent individual self) that also gives rise to egoism, that gives rise to all kinds of impurities (restless modification of the mind/the turbulent state of mind/the veil of ignorance/the absence of clarity), under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness during the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, the mind is naturally being ignorant towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to itself, that itself is merely a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary continuous stream of idea/thought/notion that appears (birth/arising) under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness and that disappears (death/passing away) under the absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, that manifests/changes under different shapes and qualities (selfless impermanent changes) between appearance (arising) and disappearance (passing away), that is being powered as well as over-powered by egoism and impurities, or restlessness, or ignorance, where the selfless impermanent limited and conditional thinking is wishfully thinking and believing and desiring itself is and/or has an all time, all perfect, all knowing, all pure, and all powerful infinite immortal permanent independent existence.

The yoga and buddhism teachings and practice is all about the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, that naturally enables the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind/the knower/the experiencer/the thinker/the action performer to know Thyself, that is nothing to do with trying to find out and reconnect with an original, ancient, all time, all pure, all perfect, and all powerful permanent independent infinite immortal individual identity/existence/consciousness of a real I/self, that many minds interpreted and referred as "who I really am", that doesn't exist at all.

While the all time infinite selfless attributeless changeless universal consciousness (that is unborn/non-manifested/beginningless and endless/causeless, that doesn't increase nor decrease, that isn't pure nor impure, that pervades all and everything within and without, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that enabling the selfless manifestation of all and everything to be what they are, as they are, governed under the nature's law of cause and effect, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, where all and everything selflessly arising, changing, and passing away impermanently/limitedly/conditionally/momentarily upon the selfless universal consciousness, at particular cause and pace) doesn't have such identification with anything, not even, "I am the all time infinite selfless attributeless changeless universal consciousness."

That is why, the selfless mind that realizes this, is silent.

There is not even "I am THAT (that is infinite, immortal, permanent, unlimited, unconditional, all time, all pure, all knowledge, all powerful, all perfect, causeless, changeless, birthless and deathless, beginningless and endless existence)," or "I am selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that is impure, finite, and mortal."

There is neither permanent I (the truth of selflessness) nor impermanent I (the absence of the selfless impermanent, limited, and conditional ego/idea/notion of 'I') existing to be identifying with something that doesn't exist.

There is no I existing to be identifying with something that is not I.

The selfless plant doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless plant." 

The selfless cell doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless cell."

The selfless element doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless element." 

The selfless infinite attributeless universal consciousness doesn't identify itself as, "I am the selfless infinite attributeless universal consciousness."

But under the influence of the veil of ignorance upon the rise of the continuous stream of the selfless idea/thought/notion of 'I', the selfless human minds think/believe/acknowledge/attach unto/identify themselves as, "I am this and that," or "I am not this and not that," under the presence of selfless conscious/semi-conscious awareness, that can only be existing and functioning momentarily under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements.

 

Meanwhile, the yoga and/or buddhism practitioner that encounters some obstacles or difficulties on the path of yoga and/or buddhism while observing renunciation and silence in solitude and seclusion away from the distractive worldly passionate egoistic impure ambitious restless minds (Kutsanga - ignorant company that empowers ignorance, that inflicts unnecessary problematic disturbance, affairs, situations, and conditions unto oneself and others), may seek the advice or guidance from Satsanga (wise company that empowers wisdom) if there is availability, where it is

- Not only about the coming in contact with the dispassionate minds that have either attained direct self realization towards the truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, that are resting upon unconditional peace, or the dispassionate minds that haven't yet attained direct realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence of all kinds of names and forms, but have been established firmly in the basic essential observation and practice of dispassion and renunciation, solitude and seclusion, and silence, that have attained certain degrees of correct understanding and mental and emotional independence, that have intense yearning towards liberation from ignorance and suffering, that have immovable determination and perseverance on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization, that can guide the yoga and/or buddhism practitioner towards the direction of self-realization.

- But also, the coming in contact with or the engagement in beneficial uplifting inputs/conditions/influences/physical and mental activities, such as regular yoga asana and pranayama practice, energy consumption choices and regulation (that might be different for the different bodies under different conditions and different states of mind, depending on the current predominant energy field (Gunas) - Rajas/Tamas/Sattva), concentration and meditation practice, studying the uncontaminated genuine scriptures/teachings/dhamma, balance in between activity and inactivity/work and rest/eating and fasting/awake and asleep/physical and mental activity (the middle path), and etc, that are conducive and supportive towards the activation of the conscious mind evolution process, of changing/modifying/conquering the hard-wired conditional egoistic impure restless thinking and behavior pattern, towards the thinning-out and annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, restlessness, and all kinds of disturbance, or affliction, or violence deriving from all that, and not towards the empowerment and stimulation of all that.

- If wise company is not available, then Asanga (devoid of company - solitude and seclusion in silence, not reading, not studying, not looking out) is absolutely fine, and even better, as the mind has no choice but to turn inward for seeing/knowing the absolute knowledge that is always there, that will clear all doubts, or obstacles, or difficulties.

All these teachings and observation or practice appeared to be 'opposing', 'detrimental', and/or 'destructive' towards all kinds of worldly passionate restless egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/family/national/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, affairs, activities, ways of living, ways of conduct, connections, and relationships, and hence, it is common and normal that the worldly restless egoistic minds, including some yoga and buddhism enthusiasts/practitioners/teachers, don't like and don't agree with and have intense rejection and aversion against all these basic essential teachings and observation or practice of yoga and/or buddhism, that the passionate egoistic minds perceive/recognize/categorize as a form of destructive intimidation and threat towards the existence and empowerment of their particular passionate egoistic inherited/adopted/created traditional or non-traditional ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, ambitions, and visions of building a relationship, or a family, or a community, or a world that they desire it to be.

Yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practices is not at all about building a world to be in certain way and not in certain way, even if it is about promoting peace and harmony in oneself that would also naturally contributing peace and harmony into the world. There is no control or expectation towards the others or the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, has to be in certain way or not in certain way, or it has to be all perfect, agreeable, desirable, peaceful, and harmony without any imperfection, disagreeable, undesirable, unrest, and disharmony. That is not the same as the many different minds/individuals/communities having different visions, or aspirations, or ambitions, to control/possess/influence/change/build a world that is in accordance to the different desires of the many different minds/individuals/communities under many different ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, ambitions, and visions.

What is wholesome and unwholesome, or what is constructive and destructive, is different for the minds (most minds) that are being ignorant towards the veil of ignorance in oneself, that are functioning under the influence of the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness, while wittingly and unwittingly empowering the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness in oneself and others, and the minds that are aware of the existence of the veil of ignorance in oneself, that are aware of the destructive and harmful side-effects of the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness, and have intense yearning towards thinning-out and annihilating the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness in oneself, while initiate and promote such awareness to all the other minds in the surrounding environment, to also be free from the influence of the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness out of their own conscious freewill and effort, to promote more peace and harmony among the many diversities in the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, to have less minds that ceaselessly and ignorantly generating destructive hurtful and impactful behavior/action/reaction/activity that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment repetitively, out of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, either intentionally or unintentionally, wittingly or unwittingly, deliberately or randomly, consciously or unconsciously.

The empowerment of all kinds of egoistic attachment and identification towards all kinds of worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/family/national/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas, beliefs, values, practices, rituals, ways of living, aspirations, visions, affairs, ties and connections, communications, activities, and interactions, is being seen as a form of good and righteous or positive and meaningful thing/action/activity to be promoting patriotism, loyalty, prosperity, and higher quality of living (economic growth and wealth accumulation to attain easier and enjoyable living condition) by empowering all kinds of personal and communal/social/national/political/commercial/philosophical/cultural/spiritual/religious/traditional/non-traditional/new age attachments and identities, that gives rise to and empowers boundless desires/ambitions/aspirations/visions towards building a world that each and every different community/group desires differently, either to be achieving and possessing endless power of control and manipulation, achievements, possessions, and pleasurable enjoyments, or the complete opposite of that (extremism/dualism/the opposite of one another), for the many minds that are being conditioned to think and believe, evaluate and aspire in certain way and not in certain way, which only gives rise to momentary fleeting sense of satisfaction, goodness, righteousness, and meaningfulness for oneself and/or one's particular family and community under a particular way of thinking, belief, values, practices, desires, aspirations, and visions, selfishly and possessively, but then that would also gives rise to many unnecessary evitable destructive harmful side-effects that impact oneself and one's particular family and community, as well as all the others and everything in the surrounding environment for an extensive duration.

Under the influence of ignorance, some minds might argue that "Respect nature while not going against nature," is about allowing as well as empowering all kinds of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance to be there as they are, as ignorance is also part of nature, or a natural manifestation in all minds, and hence, none should be doing anything to be eliminating ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in oneself or in anything, even if they are the root cause of many destructive hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions/ideas/desires/affairs/ties and connections/activities that give rise to many unnecessary evitable painful suffering in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything. It is like saying, one shouldn't do anything constructive and beneficial even if it is possible, in order to promote and improve over-all physical and mental well-being and better living condition while generate less evitable problematic affair, activity, interaction, relationship, condition, and situation in anyone or anything or anywhere, under the presence of correct understanding and absolute knowledge.

Many minds also argue that "To practice non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-expectation, silence, and respecting the nature's law of cause and effect, being undetermined and undisturbed by all kinds of unpleasantness, undesirableness, disagreeableness, and non-enjoyable painful suffering/conditions/situations/hardships/difficulties/ties and connections/relationships," is about needless to do anything (to learn, to know, to understand, to find solution, to improve, to be happy, to have peace, to have less evitable illness and injury, to avoid any kind of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, to avoid preventable accidents or direct impact from natural disasters, to seek available medical help if needed, and so on), just wake up, eat, drink, shit, pee, generate rubbish, procreate, sleep, and repeat, until the body rots and dies, where all and everyone should silently accept all kinds of ignorant violent hurtful bullying ill-treatments/behaviors from anyone, where none should be learning and improving about anything consciously.

Many minds would also think and believe that if all kinds ancient traditional ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices are not necessarily all true and beneficial, then naturally, any kind of non-traditional or new age ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, visions, and practices that are different from all those previous old ones must be well-improvised and more true and beneficial. Or, any non-traditional/new age/newer ideas, beliefs, values, and practices are inauthentic, and must be less good, or less efficient, or inferior than the ancient traditional or older ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that are authentic, and are better, more efficient, and superior than any newer ones. Or, if one is older and has been accumulating more experiences than the others that are younger and has less experience than oneself, then the older one must be more wise and efficient than the younger one. Many minds would also relate and categorize the existence of yoga and buddhism as non-traditional/new age/newer ideas, beliefs, values, and practices to rebel towards or go against the ancient traditional older cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, beliefs, values, and practices. Many people also think and believe that the newest or latest inventions must be better or more efficient than the older inventions. But all these understanding are not necessarily correct.

Such is the thinking, reasoning, and understanding in the mind that is functioning under the influence of ignorance.

The yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practices is not about being different from, or going against, or being improvised from the ancient traditional ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

It is about going beyond, or transcending, or not being conditioned by all kinds of ancient traditional egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices as well as all kinds of non-traditional/new age/newer egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices that were/are being created to go against or rebel towards the ancient traditional older ones, where both traditional and new age ideas, values, and practices are all the creations of the minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that are ingrained in dualism and that feeds or empowers duality, that is what hinders the mind from knowing Thyself, to realize the existence and function of itself and all and everything that it perceives in this world of diverse names and forms, is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Yoga and/or buddhism is not part of any worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/national/regional/political/commercial/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional/new age ideas and practices that were/are being created by the egoistic minds for their respective propaganda/agenda/purposes, but it is the direct realization by the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting minds and any minds from any era of any background and condition (that had/have been being conditioned by any ancient traditional or new non-traditional ideas/beliefs/values/practices to think and live life in certain ways or not in certain ways) towards the all time universal dhamma, a.k.a. the truth or the science of what things are, as they are, where all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, regardless of who, what, how, where, and when, regardless of what type of thinking and behavior pattern or state of mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.