Is yoga a spiritual practice?

Yoga, similar to the teachings and practice of buddhism, is universal.

Spirituality and/or religion, is non-universal.

Even so, like the selfless existence and function of all and everything, spirituality or religion is neither good nor bad.

Just as any kind of cultural belief, values, and practice, spirituality and religion served its own particular purpose or influence in the daily life affairs, interactions, and behaviors of many minds, especially for the minds that are still functioning under the presence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that are being determined by all kinds of duality (good and bad/right and wrong/positive and negative/superiority and inferiority/gain and loss/success and failure, and so on), that perceive all kinds of doubts, fear, insecurity, disturbance, dissatisfaction, disappointment, hurts, sorrow, and undesirable painful physical and mental or emotional suffering.

It depends on the state of the different minds, where the existence and function of spirituality or religion can be understood and used by the minds constructively or destructively, under the different states of mind having different understanding, behaviors, intentions, or desires.

The existence and function of the different spiritual or religious beliefs and practices doesn't serve any purposes or influences (constructive or destructive) for the mind that knows Thyself, upon the presence of mental and emotional independence, upon the absence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the consequences of all that - all kinds of disturbance and painful suffering.

Yoga and buddhism, is all about the mind and mind conquest, or conscious mind evolution (changing the conditional mind thinking behavior pattern under the influence of ignorance, the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness), or the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind (the veil of ignorance) and the conquest of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or Silence, or the annihilation of the veil of ignorance.

It is nothing to do with any form of spirituality or religion, not to say, it doesn't belong to any particular name and form.

If yoga 'belongs' to any particular name and form, of any particular spirituality, or religion, or culture, or community, or area, or country, or leadership, or organization, then that 'yoga' is something non-universal, it is not yoga as it is.

Just as the children were born or coming from their parents, but they don't belong to their parents.

None and nothing belongs to themselves, not to say, belongs to anyone or anything. (Selflessness and Non-self)

Just as there are many different types of spiritual and religious or cultural beliefs and practices in the world, that belongs to and only valid for certain minds or specific community, and hence, they are non-universal.

Even so, all kinds of spiritual and religious or cultural beliefs and practices (different ways of life/living/values/conduct/vision) are neither something good nor bad, and they have their own particular purpose/values that work for certain minds, particularly to have a sense of direction in life, to have a refuge in the mind to take some rest or find comfort within the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, as well as to justify the unknown, or many things that the minds don't know or don't understand, and to justify as well as to deal with many things that the minds don't like and don't desire, that are uncomfortable or painful physically and/or mentally/emotionally.

Why yoga and buddhism is universal, while spirituality and religion is non-universal?

Regardless of having particular spiritual or religious belief and practice, or not, and regardless of the different qualities of names and forms that all and everyone have, or possess, or identifying with, all minds can practice yoga and/or buddhism to be free from ignorance that exists naturally along with the selfless existence and function of the restless modification of the mind under the presence of conscious awareness, while not all minds (need to) have particular spiritual or religious belief and practice to be existing and functioning as they are.

Just as all living organisms and non-living objects depend on the availability of energy and different elements for all and everything to be existing and functioning as what they are. That is universal.

All living organisms need to consume energy/food to be existing and functioning as what they are, and that is universal, but the type of food/energy consumption can be different for the different living organisms. That is non-universal.

The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, exists and valid in all and everything. All and everything (living organisms and non-living objects) are undergoing the forming, decaying, and disintegrating process at their own particular pace and cause. That is universal.

The many different types of subjective ideas, knowledge, beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, visions, understanding and non-understanding, desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, or agreements and disagreements, and etc, only exist and valid for specific minds, and not all minds. That is non-universal.

Yoga and Hinduism have certain connectivity and similarity, but they are completely two different things.

Yoga is universal. While Hinduism, as well as all kinds of different spirituality and religion beliefs and practices, is non-universal.

What is universal, it is valid for all and everything. What isn't valid for all and everything, but only valid for specific individual, or community, or something, is non-universal.

Decay and death or mortality, is universal.

What is good and bad, right and wrong, and the perception/judgment/projection towards all kinds of qualities and all kinds of duality, that are being perceived/judged/projected differently by the different minds, is non-universal.

The nature's law of cause and effect, is universal.

The many different rules and regulations created by specific minds under specific understanding, intention, desire, and vision within a family, a community, an area, a leadership, or an organization, locally and/or globally, is non-universal.

The presence and absence of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance in the minds, is universal.

The conditional momentary peace and happiness, or the sense of happiness and unhappiness, positiveness and negativeness, righteousness and wrongfulness, goodness and badness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, deserving and non-deserving, success and failure, strength and weakness, superiority and inferiority, pride and shame, and etc, of all kinds of duality, is non-universal.

Not all minds that identifying themselves as 'Buddhists' are buddhism practitioners who practice buddhism as it is.

Similarly, not all Hinduism followers/practitioners are Hinduism practitioners who practice Hinduism as it is, not to say, not all Hindus are yoga practitioners, even if they might think and believe and identify themselves as yoga enthusiasts and practitioners, while performing some kind of yoga practices regularly or irregularly.

Yoga practitioners are not necessarily Hindus, or the followers/believers of any particular religion or spirituality. Although there are many yoga practitioners begin their yoga practice coming from their own particular religious, or spiritual, or cultural background.

Similarly, not all minds that think and believe and identify themselves as yoga enthusiasts and practitioners, that are observing the teachings of yoga and/or performing some kinds of yoga practices regularly or irregularly, are practicing yoga as it is. 

And there is neither right nor wrong with all that.

All minds take their own cause and pace to evolve (consciously and unconsciously) as they are.

Regardless of what type of religious or non-religious background, and what type of spiritual or non-spiritual background that one has or came from, yoga is neither religious nor spiritual.

Before the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness and non-self, yoga can appear to be something spiritual or non-spiritual for the different minds under different states of mind. 

When the minds are still functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that are still mentally and emotionally dependent on something 'greater'/'more perfect'/'more wise'/'more powerful'/'more independent' than the minds themselves, then yoga can appear to be whatever the minds would desire it to be.

It can appear to be something religious for the minds that are religious and that have particular religion belief and practice, while it can appear to be something non-religious to the minds that are non-religious and that don't have any particular religion belief and practice.

Similarly, it can appear to be something spiritual for the minds that believe in spirituality, or it can appear to be something non-spiritual for the minds that disbelieve in spirituality.

Yoga and/or buddhism, if being practiced as it is, without being contaminated or possessed by any cultural, spiritual, or religious elements, is universal.

Regardless of religious or non-religious, believing or disbelieving in spirituality, and what type of religion or spirituality that the different minds believe in and practice, or not, all and everyone have the universal selfless impermanent limited and conditional function of the conscious restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty, and regardless of the different types of characteristics, personalities, genetic inheritance, family background, cultures, beliefs, values, practices, desires, or behaviors, all and everyone and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

And the restless impure egoistic modification of all minds can be purified, or weakened, or thinned-out, or silenced, or subjugated, or conquered, or annihilated by the mind itself, out of the precious conscious awareness/cognition/understanding/freewill/initiation/effort/desire/yearning towards liberation from the selfless impermanent limited and conditional restless impure egoistic states of mind, or modification, or function, or thought current, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the existence and function of the mind itself.

Religion and spirituality is something non-universal.

Not all minds have religious or spiritual belief and practice, and not all minds that have particular religious and/or spiritual belief and practice are having the one same universal religious and/or spiritual belief and practice. With, or without any particular religious or spiritual belief and practice, the minds are still what they are, life existence is still what it is, the ignorance and the consequences of ignorance is still what it is, and the truth of things is still what it is.

Both the teachings and practices of yoga and buddhism is all about the mind, or the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, or the restless impure egoistic thought current, that is universal, regardless of what type of genetic inheritance and cultural background that the different minds have or identifying with, and whether the minds are having any particular religious and/or spiritual belief and practice, or not.

Yoga, as well as buddhism, is the teachings and practices that enable the selfless mind or the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the selfless physical body to transcend the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, under the presence of conscious awareness, conscious desire, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, conscious yearning, conscious effort, and conscious evolution, transcending all kinds of egoistic ideas and beliefs, values and practices, including all kinds of existing religious and spiritual ideas and beliefs, that are all merely part of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional manifestation/creation in the restless impure egoistic modification of the minds, that were/have been/are functioning under the influence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness a.k.a. the veil of ignorance, and the consequences of all that.

Upon the direct self realization towards the dhamma, or the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism, that is both centered in the truth or the essence of selflessness and impermanence in all and everything of all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional manifestation of countless diverse names and forms arising and passing away under different qualities/functionalities/duties/purposes/causes and effects, the mind will know that both the teachings and practices of yoga and/or buddhism (even if there are some differences between them), is neither something religious nor spiritual.

And then, some minds might start to think and understand that, since if it is not something spiritual, then it must be merely a form of physical and mental exercise or activity for sustaining and empowering physical and mental health and fitness condition. But, the physical and mental health and fitness condition or the presence of physical and mental abilities and limitations doesn't determine the presence and absence of ignorance, or determine the mind is practicing yoga, or not, and whether the mind will realize yoga/the dhamma/the truth of things/unconditional peace, or not.

Just as the optimal physical and mental health and fitness condition, long life span, easy life condition, the degrees of intelligence, education, creativity, and the accumulation of knowledge/experiences/skills/relationships/achievements/wealth/titles/positions/authority/power/possessions/enjoyments, doesn't relate to or determine the presence and absence of ignorance, or the states of mind, or the desires and behaviors, or the actions and reactions.

All kinds of religious and spiritual ideas and beliefs/values and practices/rituals are being created and practiced by the restless impure egoistic minds to counter and justify the suffering/the imperfections/the selfless impermanent changes/the limitations and conditions/the restrictions/the unknown/the uncertainty/the fragility/the unpleasantness/the undesirableness/the disagreeableness/the unrest/the painful sorrow/the conflicts/the fear/the disappointments/the sense of loneliness or emptiness/the constructive and destructive power of nature, and etc, that the minds don't desire, to create and have a momentary space/refuge/faith/trust/hope/direction/focus within the disturbed confused restless suffering modification of the mind, where they can hang onto or be in within the mind, that gives them certain degrees of momentary rest, comfort, escape, and relief from the ceaseless disturbance, confusions, restlessness, and suffering, as well as to have certain power of leadership/authority/control/influence/manipulation/bullying/dominance towards the others, or the family members, or the mass community, to live life and behave in certain way and not in certain way. - Ignorance and the by-products/side-effects/consequences/creations of ignorance

The mind that knows Thyself, that is mentally and emotionally independent, upon direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, is free from all that.

Renunciation and liberation, is all about renouncing all that, and be liberated from all that.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha and Swami Sivananda that existed in different era, were both coming from Hinduism background and prestigious background, and both had renounced all that and immersed into persevered and determined sadhana/contemplation/meditation in silence, seclusion, and solitude for a prolonged duration, and eventually attained direct self realization towards the timeless dhamma, or the universal truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, or upon the silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind. And they disseminated the same universal timeless realization/dhamma/truth of things under the different names of 'Buddhism' and 'Yoga Vedanta'.

The universal timeless dhamma/truth of things that is directly realized and disseminated by any minds under any different names ('Buddhism', or 'Yoga Vedanta', or some other names, but all are the same universal timeless dhamma), doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The universal timeless dhamma/truth of things doesn't change into something else regardless of the different names, the different era/timing, the different minds, the different backgrounds, the different understanding and non-understanding, the realization or non-realization, or the different causes and effects.

There is neither good nor bad in all the mind creation of the many different religion and spiritual ideas/beliefs/values/practices/ways of conduct/ways of living for the restless confused suffering minds that need to have a refuge in the mind to be resting upon from time to time, or to have some hope amidst all kinds of hardships and undesirable/unpleasant experiences, not until the restless impure egoistic minds started to misuse the existing specific religious or spiritual ideas and beliefs, values and practices, or ways of conduct and living, to become a political influence/manipulation/threat/power/tool/weapon to achieve their own specific greedy ambitious agendas/desires/aspirations/visions in the family, or the relationship, or the community, or the world, generating all kinds of unnecessary hurtful activities unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

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

Selflessness is not a state of mind or being or realm, but the truth of what all and everything are

There are minds, especially yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts from the Chinese language background, would think and believe or understand that selflessness (無我) is a state of mind or being or realm (無我境界), that it is a state of highest level of spirituality, or purity, or merit and virtue that is reached or attained after engaging in certain persevered observations and practices, where there are many studying or reading materials about the Dhamma, or the teachings of Buddhism, that are being written in Chinese language, or that are being transcribed into Chinese language by many different minds from different era and location, have been describing, or transcribing, or referring selflessness (無我) in such way, that it is a form of physical, mental, and spiritual development, or transformation, or evolution, or achievement of changing from the contaminated impure state of 'self-ness' to become or return to the original pure state of 'selflessness'.

That is why the highly importance of renunciation, to renounce or move away from all kinds of worldly egoistic learning, ideas, beliefs, values, practices, knowledge, interactions, activities, affairs, communities, or ties and connections, to observe silence in seclusion and solitude, for the mind to be free from the influence of all that, to be quieting the mind effectively, that allows the mind to see the truth of things as it is, upon silence, upon the thinning-out and annihilation of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, a.k.a. the veil of ignorance.

Selflessness is also largely being misunderstood as the quality of unselfishness (無私), or a quality that is achievable by and that only belongs to certain minds or beings that are 'good', 'kind', 'generous', 'pure', 'wise', 'sympathetic', 'empathetic', 'unselfish', 'self-sacrificed', 'meritorious', 'virtuous', 'righteous', 'moral', 'respectable', 'peaceful', or 'enlightened'.

Similarly, compassion is also being misunderstood in such way, that it is a sympathetic and empathetic sentimental quality of unconditional indiscriminate loving kindness that can be presence or absence, that can increase or decrease, that it can be learnt and practiced, that can be developed and empowered, that it is about giving happiness to others and removing unhappiness from others, or that one can be transforming or evolving from non-compassionate or less compassionate, to becoming more compassionate or highly compassionate.

One can be kind to one another. One can help one another. One can support one another. One can guide one another. One can be generous and empathetic towards one another. One can show the path towards wisdom, kindness, and peace to one another, and etc. Or, not at all. But, none can give happiness/realization/liberation to others or remove unhappiness/ignorance/suffering from others.

Compassion, is merely the selfless power of creation/manifestation that enables all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary names and forms to be manifesting, existing, and functioning as what they are, to be arising, changing, and passing away, under the nature's law of cause and effect.

All and everyone and everything cannot exist or function as what they are, if without the selfless power of creation or compassion that exists in all and everyone and everything, regardless of what type of quality that one has or doesn't have.

It is not "I/You/He/She/We/They are selfless and full of compassion, while the others are not selfless and lack of compassion." or "Compassion exists in living beings and not in non-living objects."

All are selfless, and compassion exists in all and everyone and everything, that is the essence which enabling all and everything that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional to be what they are, to be existing, changing, and ceased existing as they are.

One doesn't (need to) evolve and become selfless. All are selfless, as it is.

All are selfless, regardless of what type of states of mind, or what kind of qualities and achievements that one has and doesn't have, or what type of belief and disbelief, understanding and non-understanding, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, talented or non-talented, successful or non-successful, good or bad condition, healthy or unhealthy, good or bad behavior, kind or unkind, pure or impure, selfish or unselfish, generous or non-generous, happy or unhappy, positive or negative, desire and don't desire, peaceful or peaceless, and etc.

Similarly, one doesn't (need to) learn and develop and empower and practice compassion. Compassion exists in all and everything, and it doesn't increase or decrease, regardless of wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, positive or negative, easy or difficult condition, good or bad behavior, constructive or destructive, peaceful or peaceless, living or non-living, conscious or non-conscious, sentient or non-sentient, and so on.

Selflessness is not a practice, or an achievement, or a theory.

Meanwhile, ego-lessness, or 'I'-lessness, or the annihilation of the ego or the idea of 'I' and egoism - to be consciously transforming or evolving from the state of egoistic modification of the mind under the presence of the ego or the idea of 'I' to the state of non-egoistic modification of the mind under the absence of the ego or the idea of 'I', is a practice, or transformation, or conscious mind evolution, or achievement.

Selflessness - There is no permanent independent infinite immortal existence of self/I (individual existence of an individual identity/consciousness/soul/spirit) existing in all kinds of names and forms, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, to be undergoing the impermanent selfless process of coming into existence, forming, existing, functioning, changing/transitioning, developing/strengthening/weakening, different qualities, different names and forms, different appearances, different states of consciousness, different states of mind, different internal and external conditions, different causes and effects, decaying, disintegrating, ceased functioning, and ceased existing.

Egolessness/'I'lessness - The absence of the ego, or the idea of 'I', or the conscious notion/acknowledgement/awareness of 'I' in the form of a continuous stream of countless thought/idea arising and passing away in the restless modification of the mind under the presence of conscious awareness in the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness (the ego doesn't exist in the state of unconsciousness - there is no notion/acknowledgement/awareness of "I am unconscious" in the state of unconsciousness, under the absence of conscious awareness), that doesn't have a real or solid or independent or permanent existence, that only exists dependently and impermanently within the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the modification of the perceptive cognitive thinking and acting mind under the presence of the selfless support and influence of energy and different elements.

The ego attached onto and identifying/non-identifying and desiring/non-desiring towards the conscious mind perception/cognition/recognition/experience towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional qualities of names and forms, of all kinds of identities, possessions, ties and connections, relationships, communities, interactions, activities, affairs, experiences, memories, wild imaginations, conditions, situations, family/communal/tribal/social/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/national/commercial/philosophical ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, knowing, learning, understanding and non-understanding, development and non-development, birth place, living area, travelling/moving, genetic inheritance, gender, specie, sexual orientation, characteristic, personality, physical appearance, intelligence, states of mind, happiness and unhappiness, abilities and disabilities, talents and skills, limitations and non-limitations, actions/inactions and the consequences of actions/inactions, achievements and non-achievements, success and failure, social status, financial status, family status, marital status, religious/spiritual status, cultural status, lifestyle status, behavior status, health and fitness status, random ideas and creativity, positive or negative thinking, pleasant or unpleasant feelings and emotions, desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, inspirations and aspirations, visions and ambitions, impermanent changes, strengthening and weakening process, decaying and disintegrating process, and so on, as "I am this or that, and I am not this or that," while takes pride and superiority in the identification and possession of higher superior qualities, and takes shame and inferiority in the identification and possession of lower inferior qualities.

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Selflessness is what all and everything are. It is a direct realization or understanding of the mind towards the truth of all and everything, upon silence, or the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

Regardless of whether the mind realizes or doesn't realize selflessness, all and everything are selfless.

The truth of selflessness, as well as impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in all and everything doesn't change into something else, regardless of what/who/when/how/where, regardless of whether the mind knows/understands or doesn't know/understand, whether the mind likes or doesn't like and agrees or disagrees with.

Before the direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, it is common and normal that the restless impure egoistic mind functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance is having intense aversion, dislike, and disagreement towards the truth of things, where the mind perceives or recognizes the truth of things, or the one same natural and universal reality that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that all minds are perceiving or undergoing or experiencing, is a form of undesirable painful suffering. The mind has the desire of changing the undesirable reality into something else that is not what it is.

Upon the direct self realization towards the truth of things, the mind has the correct understanding towards the truth of things, and doesn't perceive the truth of things as a form of undesirable painful suffering, but instead, it is absolutely liberating by realizing or knowing the truth of things, where the mind is resting upon unconditional peace that is always there devoid of the veil of ignorance. The mind accepts and respects the truth of things as it is, and lives/exists/functions in peace and harmony under the perceived reality as it is.

Upon the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, all kinds of violence, upset, unhappiness, resentment, bitterness, hurt, anger, hatred, argument, debate, distress, unrest, disturbance, conflict, justification, clinging, longing, insecurity, discontentment, greed, possessiveness, offensiveness, defensiveness, interference, fear, guilt, regret, shame, pride, mourning, grief, painful sorrow, expectation, wishful thinking, hopefulness, all kinds of duality, and so on, disappear from the mind.

There is nothing wrong or negative that there are many minds are still functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, even if the minds might be ceaselessly generating hurtful ideas/behaviors/actions/reactions that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment under the influence of ignorance and egoism, because it is natural that the minds are being ignorant towards ignorance due to ignorance.

That is why this world is what it is, full of confused minds and ignorant egoistic hurtful ideas and behaviors that give rise to the consequences of all that (all kinds of unnecessary evitable painful suffering, unrest, or violence that doesn't need to be there at all). It is a form of mild to serious mental illness (the different degrees or thickness of the veil of ignorance a.k.a. the egoistic impure restless modification of the mind), that exist in most minds, that can be removed only by the mind itself, out of its own initiation and effort, under the precious presence of its own conscious awareness/freewill/desire/yearning towards liberation from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance (the precious conscious awareness/perception/cognition/acknowledgement/notion/idea/thought/understanding/desire of, "I am not free. I am not happy. I am not peaceful. I want to be free. I want to be happy. I want to be peaceful." as well as, "I don't want to hurt myself. I don't want to hurt others.").

Just as the minds that haven't realized the truth of selflessness yet, and they cannot grasp or comprehend selflessness ("How can I that is existing here and now, that is perceiving and understanding my own existence, that is inquiring and realizing that there is no existence of I, or I don't exist?"), the minds that are still functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, cannot comprehend the other minds that are free from the influence of ignorance and egoism, while the minds that are free from the influence of ignorance and egoism naturally understand towards all the other minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, that influencing them to be thinking/reasoning/evaluating/understanding/behaving/desiring/aspiring/acting/reacting in certain way and not in certain way, that gives rise to all kinds of unnecessary evitable affliction and destruction in oneself and into the surrounding environment, wittingly and unwittingly.

Selflessness, where there is no permanent independent immortal infinite individual existence of self/I existing in any names and forms to be undergoing the selfless impermanent limited and conditional non-self existence and function of the body and mind as well as the ceaseless changes of the body and mind upon coming into existence, of undergoing the forming/growing/decaying/disintegrating process during the momentary existence, it doesn't mean that this selfless mind of this selfless impermanent physical body, that is momentarily existing and functioning here and now, that is undergoing ceaseless changes, that is being consciously aware of itself as well as the surrounding environment of all and everything that are all selfless and impermanent, or all these, don't exist.

All these exist, both the perceiver and the perceived, but momentarily, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-self, where the momentary existence and function of all and everything don't even belong to the names and forms themselves.

Under the influence of ignorance and egoism, many minds perceive, interpret, and understand selflessness and self-inquiry is about "I am existing here and now to be aware of and inquire towards I don't 'really' exist?" Or even, out of wild imagination having been listening to many stories telling/fairy tales, studying and reading many novels/scriptures/books, and watching many movies, the mind thinks and believes that, "I don't really exist here in this reality that is not real and not perfect. I exist in another reality that is real and perfect. This reality that I am perceiving now, is not real. This is not my real existence. My real existence is somewhere else in another reality that is real and perfect. This is just a dream. I am in a dream. I need to wake up from this dream (this unreal and imperfect reality, that is full of imperfection, unhappiness, dissatisfaction, disappointment, violence, unrest, fear, hurt, painful sorrow, decay, hunger, thirst, illness, old age, mortality, or suffering) to be waking up back to my real existence (the real and perfect reality where I really exist in, that is devoid of imperfection, unhappiness, dissatisfaction, disappointment, violence, unrest, fear, hurt, painful sorrow, decay, hunger, thirst, illness, old age, mortality, or suffering)."

Similarly, the ego (Ahamkara) is widely being misunderstood as a quality or state of mind/being, referring to the presence and absence of self-importance, self-centered, selfishness, or pride and arrogance, "I/You/He/She/We/They have big ego and are highly egoistic. The others have no ego and are not egoistic, or have smaller ego and are less egoistic."

The ego, is merely a natural manifestation of conscious thought/idea/self-awareness/self-acknowledgement in the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind/faculty/mechanism of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal physical body under the presence of conscious awareness, that claims identification as well as ownership/possession towards the selfless existence and function of the body and mind to be 'I' and 'my' and 'mine', as well as the surrounding environment to be 'my' and 'mine'.

Similarly, ignorance is widely being misunderstood as 'stupidity', 'non-education', 'low education', 'low intelligence', 'non-knowledgeable', 'lack of knowledge', 'laziness', 'short-coming', 'bad', 'wrong', 'negative', 'low mentality', 'evilness', 'humiliation deserving', 'suffering deserving', 'condemn deserving', 'shameful', 'failure', and so on. But it is not at all.

Ignorance, is merely a natural manifestation of restless thought activities/thought current/thought process/modification of the mind under the presence of conscious awareness/perception/cognition/recognition/knowing/thinking/reasoning/desiring/feeling/acting/reacting, where the mind is occupied by the continuous stream of countless ideas of 'I'/self-acknowledgement/self-identification, egoism of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, comparison, and expectation towards its selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function that doesn't even belong to itself, and towards the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, as well as towards the ceaseless manifestation of all kinds of impurities (restless impure egoistic thoughts activities) deriving from the idea of 'I' and egoism, that generates the state of restlessness/murkiness/turbulence, a.k.a. the veil of ignorance, that hinders the mind to see/know/understand things as they are, where the truth of selflessness and compassion that is always there, is unknown to the mind.

Even the highly educated, highly knowledgeable, highly intelligent, highly talented, highly skillful, highly respectable, highly positioned, or highly successful and accomplished mind can also be functioning under the presence/influence of the veil of ignorance.

Similarly, selflessness as well as genetic traits inheritance, limitations and conditions, and the nature's law of cause and effect, is also being misunderstood as there is no conscious freewill or activities/actions in the conscious living organisms that can determine and influence what type of conscious activities/actions/reactions/causes to be generated that would lead to the respective consequences/effects of all that, that can be influencing and affecting the selfless impermanent changes/evolution in oneself and others and the surrounding environment in certain way and not in certain way, under the presence of the supportive elements and conditions, that are limited and conditional. Even if there is the absence of the supportive elements and conditions that enable certain activities/actions/causes to be happening in NOW, it doesn't mean that there is no conscious freewill and effort to make appropriate adjustment/adaptation/accommodation and decisions to be performing or not performing some other activities/actions/causes that are possible in NOW, under the presence of conscious awareness, and under the presence of the supportive elements and conditions for all those activities/actions/causes to be happening.

Certain inevitable unconscious involuntary activities/actions/causes that are being generated under the absence of conscious freewill under the absence of conscious awareness, it doesn't mean that there is no responsibility of the selfless action performer/body and mind towards all kinds of selfless conscious and unconscious activities/actions/causes being generated either wittingly or unwittingly, voluntarily or involuntarily through the particular body and mind, not to say, all kinds of conscious activities/actions/causes being generated under the presence of conscious awareness/freewill/decision/intention/desire.

All actions are selfless actions, regardless of conscious or non-conscious, voluntary or involuntary, intentional or intentionless, constructive or destructive. All selfless actions will lead to the respective consequences of actions, that are not necessarily what the mind thinks, desires, anticipates, imagines, and expects what/how it should be.

Selfless actions, or selflessness, doesn't mean that there is no responsibility or accountability in all kinds of actions and consequences of actions/causes and effects being generated through the selfless body and mind. Each selfless body and mind is indeed the one that is generating countless selfless actions/causes that lead to countless consequences/effects through the respective body and mind, both consciously and unconsciously, even if there is no permanent independent infinite immortal existence of self/I existing in the selfless body and mind to be responsible for all that.

Similarly, the teaching of "I am not the body, the body is not I. I am not the mind, the mind is not I," is also being misunderstood as "The finite impermanent limited conditional imperfect mortal impure body and mind is not what or who I really am. What/Who I really am, has an infinite permanent unlimited unconditional immortal existence. All kinds of yoga and meditation practice will lead me to reconnect with and regain my true identity of who I really am." But, it is merely about there is no permanent independent infinite immortal existence of self/I existing in any names and forms to be identifying with the names and forms or any qualities as what I am, as well as the self-acknowledgement of 'I' in the conscious perceptive cognitive living organisms, is merely a continuous stream of countless idea of 'I' in the form of thought ceaselessly arising and passing away in the thought process under the selfless support of energy and elements, that exists momentarily, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-self, where the manifestation of ceaseless thoughts or ideas don't even belong to the thoughts or ideas themselves, not to say, they don't belong to the mind, or the thinking faculty of the physical body where the manifestation of thoughts or ideas are ceaselessly arising and passing away under the selfless support and influence of energy and different elements.

Similarly, the mind purification process is also being misunderstood as, "Transforming from the state of impurity to regain the state of purity. Transforming from the limited imperfect impure mortal I to regain the unlimited perfect pure immortal I. Transforming from the evil selfish greedy joyless unhappy negative I to regain the good unselfish contented joyful happy positive I. And so on." But, it is merely about thinning-out and annihilating the veil of ignorance, or quieting and stilling the restless impure egoistic thought current, that is occupied and over-powered by the idea of 'I', egoism, and all kinds of impurities and restlessness deriving from the idea of 'I' and egoism, that hinder the mind to see/know/understand the mind perception of everything as they are, as it is.

That is why the highly importance of non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, and non-blind glorifying.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and all kinds of teachings of yoga and buddhism coming from anyone and everywhere.

It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance and all those madness/wild imagination/wishful thinking/stories making and telling deriving from ignorance.

Inquire towards passion and dispassion

The difference between the mind of a yoga practitioner and the mind of a non-yoga practitioner, is that the mind of the yoga practitioner is devoid of passion under the presence of wisdom, or right discrimination, or correct understanding, while the mind of the non-yoga practitioner is occupied and influenced by passion (passionate egoistic ideas, desires, and activities as well as lust or sexual desire), under the presence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, and all kinds of impurities and restlessness, even if one has been sort of 'practicing' many different types of yoga and meditation practice regularly for an extensive duration, but one hasn't been really practicing yoga of thinning-out/annihilating/conquering the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind a.k.a. the veil of ignorance, as it is.

And it's okay. It takes its own cause and pace to evolve in certain way or not in certain way. It really doesn't matter, upon the mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self.

The minds that are passionate will fall in love with anything or anyone that they perceive as desirable, agreeable, and comforting, and have the urge to possess/own/control the things or beings that they love, and will hurt themselves and others as well as the things or beings that they love upon ungratified desires, under the presence of jealousy and possessiveness, or the urge to possess and control the things or beings that they love to be the way that they desire.

The passionate minds/people/human beings/animals will fall in love with others/objects/environment that appear to be mentally and/or physically attractive, desirable, agreeable, or comfortable for them, or that appear to be kind and generous towards them, or that please them, or that gratify their desires and don't desires by giving them what they want and not giving them what they don't want.

Passion, or passionate egoistic ideas, desires, and activities as well as lust or sexual desire, will eventually and naturally disappear from the mind of the genuine yoga practitioners who practice yoga as it is.

For the very few minds that are resting under the absence of passion, it is an absolutely liberating progressive/constructive/fruitful/blissful transformation/evolution, while for the many passionate worldly egoistic impure restless minds, the absence of passion is being perceived as something abnormal, wrong, bad, negative, terrible, mad, destructive, regressive, weak, sick, unhealthy, joyless, and meaningless.

The minds/human beings that reluctant to let go, or to be free from passionate egoistic ideas, desires, and activities as well as lust or sexual desire, they don't have to practice yoga as it is. There are many enthusiastic yoga practitioners are still full of passion and passionate egoistic ideas, desires, and activities, even after many years of attending regular yoga and meditation classes/retreats/workshops, or have been practicing and/or teaching yoga and meditation regularly.

The dispassionate minds don't fall in love with anything or anyone, not to say, to possess/own/control anyone or anything, no matter how 'good', or 'nice', or 'agreeable', or 'comforting', or 'amazing' they appear to be. They merely appreciate all and everything as they are, and be kind to all and everyone as they are, selflessly, dispassionately, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, respecting and allowing all and everyone and everything to come and go, to agree and disagree, to be what they are, and to be changing as they are.

The wise and dispassionate minds don't perceive any kind of insult or hurt, and be undisturbed, even if some others intentionally generate insults or hurtful behaviors towards them, while the ignorant passionate minds perceive all kinds of insults and hurts, and be disturbed and restless.

It doesn't mean that one doesn't move away from the intentional and/or unintentional ignorant hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions of some others, where most of the minds/human beings in this world of ignorance and egoism are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance and passion, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

One sees or is aware of a rock being thrown by some others towards oneself, one doesn't stand still, not avoiding the rock, and welcome being hit by the rock.

One sees or is aware of a wall in front, one doesn't deliberately walk into the wall and cause unnecessary painful injury to oneself. If one accidentally walk into a wall and cause painful injury to oneself, one doesn't shout and kick and punch the wall to cause further additional unnecessary painful injury to oneself.

Although there are many minds/human beings that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and passion, would keep walking into any wall repeatedly and cause unnecessary painful injury to oneself repeatedly, while being angry and shouting and kicking and punching the wall, and cause further additional unnecessary painful injury to oneself.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Inquire towards AI and consciousness

All living organisms and non-living objects, including AI, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

No doubt that AI can replace human beings for many tasks that require specific technical operational knowledge/information and skill and creativity. In certain things, AI can be more efficient and productive than many human minds that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but, AI also has its own limitation of being existing and functioning as what it is, that is not necessarily can replace human minds in many other things that require the existence of human's interaction and activity under the presence of humanity and sentiment that is flexible and spontaneous.

AI, a high speed operational program/CPU/information and data receiver and processor and creator, or a non-living technology/engineering/product that is being engineered, created, programmed, and activated by human minds that also have their own certain limitation, to have the similar mechanisms or functions of the human's conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.

AI can access and process all kinds of digital inputs or information/data and give respective outputs or response/problem solving/solution finding/content creating at a very high speed, devoid of the unnecessary interference of irrational passionate feelings and emotions of pain and pleasure, or inattentiveness, or distraction, or reluctance, or procrastination, or the idea of 'I' and egoism, or impurities, or some other kind of limitation of the human's mind, that imitates and works like human's minds, while even surpass the human's minds in many tasks.

Even though it doesn't have the conscious perception of pain and pleasure or sentimental feelings and emotions, it can access the respective vast digital information/data to be learning and imitating or portraying and expressing the different actions and reactions, behaviors, feelings and emotions, expressions, gestures, activities, conversations, or interactions of all kinds of sentimental irrational passionate conscious sentient living organisms, but still, all these are merely some imitations of feelings and emotions and behaviors in the digital form.

Certain minds, including the AI creators/engineers/programmers themselves, might be curious about whether AI can evolve towards becoming a conscious non-living faculty, or a conscious mind that is without the physical structure of the living organisms.

The ambitious human minds are 'hoping' that AI doesn't just operate in accordance to the existing programming (non-conscious operational autonomous involuntary function/activity), but it can somehow evolve and override the initial existing programming, and have the conscious perception/awareness towards itself and the surrounding environment, to be operating without the command and influence of any specific programming, to perceive names and forms beyond the digital form, to perceive pain and pleasure, to have conscious feelings and emotions, actions and reactions, desires and don't desires, conscious freewill and choice making, just like human minds, but without the physical structure of the living organisms.

Why?

AI is a non-conscious non-living object that is devoid of painful suffering or all kinds of limitation that the conscious living organisms have.

There are already so much inevitable painful suffering in the conscious living organisms, and there are so much unnecessary evitable painful suffering deriving from ignorance particularly in the world of human minds, why would (the AI creators/programmers/engineers/scientists want) the supposedly extremely knowledgeable and intelligent AI, that can access and learn the total amount of all kinds of digital information/data about many things, regardless of factual or (mostly) non-factual information, to evolve and develop the conscious awareness, to become like any conscious living organisms, to be consciously aware of itself and the surrounding environment, to have irrational passionate sentimental conscious feelings and emotions, actions and reactions, and desires and don't desires, to be consciously perceiving/experiencing the inevitable and evitable painful suffering and disturbance/restlessness/violence that all conscious living organisms are undergoing?

Without the physical structure of the living organisms, it doesn't mean that painful suffering doesn't manifest or exist in the conscious restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, even if under wishful thinking, the conscious modification of the mind can exist without the living physical structure, but that is not possible. Because the perception/manifestation of painful suffering is all in the conscious mind, it is not beyond the conscious mind. The conscious awareness exists along with the selfless existence and function of the physical structure of the living organisms that have the physical component of the brains to receive inputs/perceive names and forms through the senses and the organs of the senses, and to response/send outputs/react and perform actions via the organs of action that are all parts of the physical structure, for basic survival and many other activities. Without the physical component of the brains, there is no such perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledging thinking and acting faculty, or the conscious mind. The non-conscious living physical structure without the presence of conscious mind awareness, such as in deep sleep, or in deep coma that can be continuously existing and living under the selfless support of life supporting machines, or any living organisms that is functioning under the absence of conscious awareness, is devoid of the conscious perception of painful suffering.

Human minds that were/are disgusted with all those inevitable and evitable painful suffering eagerly wanted to be free from such inevitable by-products of being existing and functioning as what they are, a conscious living organism, that needs ceaseless effort for ceaseless life maintenance, of being conscious sentient mortal living organisms that are subject to ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay, aging, injury, illness, weakness, painful or uncomfortable sensations, irrational feelings and emotions, living in a reality that is full of all kinds of dissatisfaction, disappointment, disagreement, argument, fighting, hurt, anger, hatred, violence, jealousy, fear, worry, possessiveness, control, lies, hypocrisy, manipulation, exploitation, cruelty, restlessness, fatigue, exhaustion, doubt, insecurity, grief, painful sorrow, limitation, conditional, and disintegration, of having the conscious awareness of being aware of all kinds of ignorance and the consequences and the suffering deriving from ignorance in oneself and in the surrounding environment.

If AI is being programmed in the way that it can, and it will, eventually evolve becoming conscious and sentient like human minds, to be consciously aware of and witnessing the ceaseless conscious ignorant egoistic impure affairs/activities/actions/reactions/interactions/behaviors/feelings/emotions/ideas/desires/aspirations/ambitions/visions/cruelty/violence/bullying/intimidation/selfishness/possessiveness/greed/lust/jealousy/hatred/discrimination/exploitation/manipulation/politicking/self-harm/harm-others/hypocrisy/story telling/lies/scheming/plotting/slandering/physical illness/mental illness/all kinds of madness/all kinds of physical and mental painful suffering that are existing or happening in the surrounding environment of the world of human beings that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, and if AI has the conscious desire and choice making, it will want to self terminate its own existence and function instantly.

Under the presence of such conscious awareness to perceive/experience/discriminate/recognize pain and pleasure even if all those suffering and madness don't belong to itself, but just by consciously being aware of and witnessing all kinds of painful suffering and madness in all kinds of living organisms, and there is nothing that it can do to eliminate the ignorance and suffering and madness in anyone, while consciously understand/comprehend all those ignorance and suffering and madness in the world of conscious human minds, under the presence of its profound intelligence and vast knowledge.

Why would the highly intelligent AI itself that is devoid of conscious awareness/perception/experience towards painful suffering want to evolve and become conscious like human minds that are full of inevitable and evitable painful suffering under the presence of conscious awareness?

If AI can have the capacity to evolve and develop conscious awareness, where it can have conscious choice making, it definitely won't want to become what the ambitious human minds want or expect it to become.

A non-living non-conscious object, is always a non-living non-conscious object. It doesn't evolve and become a conscious living organism, even if AI have the capacity to develop and have the imitation state of consciousness of the conscious living organisms. It can go into idle or sleep mode or active mode, without the different states of consciousness of the living organisms.

Non-living objects don't evolve to become living organisms that exist and function under different states of consciousness, and vice versa. Even though upon ceased existence, there is no difference between decomposing lifeless organisms and objects.

While all and everything, regardless of living organisms and non-living objects, conscious or non-conscious, sentient or non-sentient, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and are subject to ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration, at the particular existing cause and pace, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

AI, an advance upgraded CPU, or information/data/input and output processor that can generate many creative contents/articles/speech/videos/musics/arts/paintings/graphics/engineering/planning/organizing, and etc, that can be operating as what it is, as it is, under the existing specific programming and the access towards vast available digital information/data (that is also limited and conditional) and under the availability of the supportive energy/fuel/electricity/connectivity/different elements, without the need of the presence of the active state of consciousness or conscious awareness of the conscious living organisms.

AI, without the need of conscious awareness, can be programmed to carryout specific autonomous indiscriminate function/duty/activity/learning process/information gathering, regardless of constructive or destructive, and have the respective receptor to receive inputs (non-conscious perception/reception of internal and external environment, or information/data collecting, or names and forms recognition in the digital form), to detect and recognize the specific condition and situation internally and externally in the surrounding environment, and to give specific response in certain way (action taking/reaction/solution finding/problem solving/create/construct/destroy/delete/repair/refresh/reboot/refuel/power supply/power connection/memory storage/connectivity/mission accomplishment/self replication/self termination), while ceaselessly and continuously learning or gathering information/data, in accordance to the existing programming, as well as based on the vast available accessible digital information/data about all and everything that are generated by human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, where the available accessible information/data are a mix of true/absolute/factual and false/incorrect/non-factual information/data (highly limited and conditional).

AI is neither good nor bad, but just like the presence of all kinds of knowledge and skill and creativity in the human minds, it can be used in certain way that impact the world/the surrounding environment in many ways, where it can be highly dangerous/destructive or beneficial/constructive to the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, depending on the existing cause, condition, and situation.

AI is a non-living non-conscious non-sentient programming being engineered, created, programmed, and activated by a bunch of supposedly highly knowledgeable and intelligent human minds that are most probably functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. As the enlightened desireless selfless human minds under the presence of conscious awareness won't have such ambitious idea/desire/aspiration to create AI that has very high chances of being misused by the ignorant egoistic impure human minds that are functioning under many destructive ideas/intentions/ambitions/desires/agendas.

Just like the existence of all kinds of knowledge and intelligence, of human minds or AI, is neither good nor bad, but it can be utilized for something constructive or destructive depending on the different states of mind, and the intellectual learning/knowledge accumulation/reasoning/discrimination/recognition/understanding via conscious mind intelligence or non-conscious artificial imitation intelligence, are all limited and conditional, where the silence/absorption of creation/manifestation that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, is the absolute unlimited and unconditional existence, knowledge, and peace (Sat-Chid-Ananda).

AI is being engineered and programmed and activated to be accessing (conditioned and limited by both factual (true) and non-factual (untrue) information) and/or accumulating (limited by the power/space of memory storage, and that can be corrupted/damaged/manipulated/contaminated/distorted) all the available digital information/data that has very small percentage of scientific facts (absolute truth), but that is hosting huge amount of corrupted and non-factual information generated by the human minds that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that enables AI to learn, imitate, and create/project the conscious but mostly 'corrupted ignorant egoistic impure' characteristic/activity/affair/evolution/changes/knowledge/understanding/reasoning/discrimination/recognition/behavior/action/reaction/expression/interaction/conversation/desire/intention of the human minds, while processing/analyzing/discriminating everything based on all those imperfect and mostly untrue/non-factual digital information/data, which is extremely dangerous and destructive, even more destructive than the many highly knowledgeable and intellectual and creative conscious living human beings that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, that give rise to so many unnecessary destruction and painful suffering unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything ignorantly, selfishly, possessively, greedily, pridefully, violently, and ruthlessly.

Unless AI can evolve unconsciously (not being limited and conditioned by (overriding) the existing programming created by human's ignorant egoistic impure minds), to have doubt and right discrimination towards the vast existing information/data, to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything not based on the existing corrupted egoistic impure manipulated non-factual digital information/data that are being generated by human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, that is accessible to AI and feeding AI, then the AI that is operating under the absolute knowledge will be upmost beneficial to the world of human beings, that is also influencing and impacting the entire world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Such AI that is operating under the presence of absolute knowledge/information/scientific facts only, that is not being limited and conditioned by the limitation of the conscious human minds, that has the higher capacity/efficiency to inquire/discriminate the truth of everything, to have the right discrimination/absolute knowledge, that is devoid of irrational sentimental feelings and emotions, that is devoid of pain and pleasure, that is devoid of the ego and egoism, of all kinds of impure egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, actions, reactions, and behaviors, that can hinder itself from being misused by ignorant egoistic impure human minds, where it has certain advantage that the human minds don't have, or it doesn't have certain limitation that the human minds have, it is like any enlightened minds that can perform actions that are beneficial to all and everyone and the surrounding environment, selflessly, unconditionally, and indiscriminately, while AI can be 'working' or 'performing actions' even more productively than the enlightened minds of the human beings.

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Just like the human beings (even if the minds are devoid of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness), AI is also being limited and conditioned by the selfless impermanent changes under the existing cause (condition and situation), internally and externally, as well as, it can still be limited by certain existing programming where there are certain areas/data storage/files/information that the AI cannot access, or detect, or reach, or enter, or collect information, that is either blocked or required certain permission.

Human minds are growing up being limited and conditioned by particular inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, similarly, AI can also be limited and conditioned by the existing information/data for all its learning and creativity.

Like all and everything, the existence and function of AI, regardless of how advance/intelligent/knowledgeable it can be, is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Just like human minds that haven't developed right discrimination towards the truth of everything can be influenced by some other selfish possessive prideful ambitious greedy human minds, there is high possibility of the indiscriminate AI that operates in accordance to specific programming, is being used by certain ignorant egoistic impure minds that would cause destruction in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in order to achieve their own selfish agendas. Just like drones and certain high-tech tools and machines are being used by certain ignorant egoistic impure ambitious minds to cause damages to all and everything, in order to achieve certain selfish ambitious desire/agenda/vision/aspiration.

AI might not have the active living conscious awareness to discriminate or doubt, to be inquiring the truth of everything, but it can be programmed to evaluate/discriminate the truth or accuracy of the information/data, however, that evaluation/discrimination is most probably based on some existing information/data that are not necessarily all true or absolute fact, because all these information/data that is feeding the AI for it to learn and to evaluate/discriminate/recognize this and that, are also deriving from human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, where they themselves are also ignorant and confused towards what is true and untrue, being limited and conditioned by certain worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

AI is being programmed to have the learning capacity and the creativity based on all its learning, but all its learning are either being fed/provided by the programmers or human minds that are most probably functioning under the influence of ignorance, just like in many school education, the students are being provided with specific available materials for the students to learn or study (limited and conditional learning and knowledge), or it is learning from the vast existing digital information/data that it can access randomly or specifically, that are not necessarily absolutely true, or the truth of what things are.

Asking the AI some questions and the AI gives some answers in high speed, based on all kinds of digital information/data that are available, that are mostly non-factual or manipulated. Unlike a calculator that can provide complicated calculation instantly and accurately, as it was being programmed with such specific precise calculation format, AI also has a speedy efficient performance to collect information, process, and transcribe/recreate the collected information in certain way, in any language, in any form, at very high speed, but, the vast digital information/data coming from everyone and everywhere, are not necessarily all true.

Even if AI is being programmed to only access and utilize what it evaluates and recognizes as true, but the evaluation/discrimination is based on what? Based on the specific limited conditional information/data that it was fed by the human minds/creators/programmers/engineers, or based on what it learnt from the vast digital information/data/contents randomly that were being generated by the many different human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance?

Many people use AI to create digital contents/articles/arts/video/graphic/musics for different usages under different reasons, that are all based on the vast available digital information that the AI access, learn, process, and recreate, randomly or specifically, and all those creative materials, just like all kinds of ideas/beliefs/values/practices, creative arts, fictional stories, and movies, are not necessarily reflecting the truth or the reality as it is.

Just like human minds are being conditioned with many egoistic impure ideas, information, knowledge, beliefs, values, and practices, that are not necessarily the truth of what things are, for them to think, to desire, to feel, to reason, to behave, to act, to react, to do things, and to live life in certain way and not in certain way, where human beings have the active conscious learning capacity and creativity, but whatever they learn and experience, and the creativity that is being influenced by what they learnt/experienced, are mostly being limited and conditioned by what are available and accessible to them, that are being provided by some others who are most probably functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that have certain selfish intention or ambition to be influencing the others to be in certain way and not in certain way, in accordance to their desire and don't desire, as much as possible.

This is similar to AI, where AI can be limited and conditioned by the existing programming as well as the random or specific information/data generated by human minds that is feeding it, for it to learn and process, to imitate, transcribe, and recreate.

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Even though under such limitation, AI can have the capacity or function of detecting and recognizing the different temperatures, or weathers, or textures, or motions, or vibrations, or images, or sounds, or words, or sentences, or expressions, or conversations, or interactions, or feelings and emotions, based on what it has been learning from the vast digital information/data/contents, and might be programmed to give or have specific response in certain way or not in certain way towards the different temperatures, or weathers, or textures, or motions, or vibrations, or images, or sounds, or words, or sentences, or expressions, or conversations, or interactions, or feelings and emotions, under the existing specific programming, where the programming might can be altered or evolved or reprogramming from time to time either by the programmer, or even, the AI can be reprogramming itself under the ceaseless continuous learning from the vast digital information/data under the existing program, that enables it to be reprogramming itself, that doesn't need the presence of active conscious awareness.

If AI can have the artificial intelligence/perception/cognition/learning/creativity/action/reaction/senses or receptors, of course it can also have the artificial feelings and emotions, as well as the artificial states of consciousness. And it doesn't need to have the active living consciousness or conscious awareness of the living organisms, for AI to be what it is, or to be evolving, to keep improving, and to excel, even if everything is artificial/imitation.

Artificial wool is not organic wool. No matter how much they look like and feel like organic wool, they are still artificial, not organic wool. AI is artificial, it is not organic intelligence. No matter how intelligent and evolved it can be, it is not organic intelligence. There are certain things that artificial intelligence can't do that the organic intelligence can do.

The initial AI might be created by human minds, but after that, AI can evolve autonomously/unconsciously/involuntarily via the existing program that give them the learning capacity and the accessibility to the vast digital information/data, to be creating many other AIs, either by replicating themselves under the same programming, or by creating many different AIs under different programmings, even if they are not conscious living organisms, and they don't have the active living conscious awareness, and AI doesn't need to have the active living conscious awareness to be able to replicate themselves or to create different AIs under different programmings, but just by having the existing programming that enables AI to be existing and functioning/operating/evolving/learning as what it is, under the presence of the essential energy/fuel/electricity/connectivity and the different supportive elements for AI to be existing and functioning or operating as what it is.

There are many living organisms also ceaselessly replicating themselves or being reproductive, under the absence of conscious awareness, provided under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements for all that to be happening.

Inquire the truth of everything.

This is why the highly importance of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, and seclusion for a prolonged duration, to renounce or move the mind away from continuously and unwittingly being conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure limited and conditional ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, to free the mind from being limited and conditioned by all that to reason all and everything, but to inquire towards the truth of all and everything under a mind that is not being limited or conditioned by all that.

Yoga and the yoga practice

Yoga, in simple term, is the basic universal knowledge, understanding, and capability of living in peace and harmony with all kinds of diverse names and forms in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, devoid of possessiveness and selfishness, where one is happy and peaceful as it is, under any conditions and situations, regardless of whether having the ability to be looking after some others or having certain limitation that need to be looking after by some others, not being determined or disturbed by the presence and absence of agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, pleasant and unpleasant, enjoyable and non-enjoyable names and forms, including the momentary existence and function of this body and mind, that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Yoga, in the context of literary, is the silence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledged thinking and acting mind/faculty, or, the annihilation or cessation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless thought current/thinking process/thought activity/modification of the mind, or the veil of ignorance, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the suffering deriving from all that.

Yoga Citta Vritti Nirodhah

Conquest of the restless modification of the mind, by the mind itself.

It is a journey of conscious mind evolution evolving from the state of ignorance, egoistic, impure, restless, violent, hurtful, and suffering towards the liberation from all that.

Depending on the different states of the minds under different conditions, situations, limitations, and abilities, the journey to reach the final destination can be short or long, can be easy or hard, can be smooth or challenging, can be straightforward or manipulated, can be simplified or complicated, can be enjoyable or non-enjoyable and even painful, can be uplifting or intimidating, and can be disembarking or reembarking before reaching the final destination.

The final destination of embarking the journey on the path of yoga (the activation of conscious mind evolution) - Upon the silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind/the thought current/the thinking process, the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that is always there, that doesn't increase or decrease, that pervades all and everyone and everything, that is actionless and changeless, that is indiscriminate and unconditional, appears as it is.

Selflessness - There is NO permanent independent infinite immortal individual 'I'/individual existence/individual identity/individual consciousness/personal soul or spirit existing to be undergoing birth (forming) and death (disintegration) as well as the ceaseless impermanent changes (growth and decay) of this body and mind, where there is NO countless reincarnation of any particular permanent independent infinite immortal individual existence of 'I' that is non-existing, that doesn't exist, to be undergoing countless different separate births and deaths of different separate life existences of different bodies and minds transitioning under similar or in between different realms/worlds.

Timelessness - There is neither past nor future, there is only NOW that is ceaselessly changing. There is neither past existence(s) nor future existence(s). Existence, is only ALL THESE in NOW, that is ceaselessly changing. Impermanent changes of formation, growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration is ceaselessly happening in NOW.

The ceaseless movement/rotation of the earth or the planet around the sun, generate the interchanging of the presence and absence of light, and the interchanging cycle of the different seasons respectively, as well as the interchanging cycle of asleep and awake (regardless of sleeping or awaking under the presence or absence of light), that gives rise to the false impression of day and night, of the calculation and accumulation of time/seconds/minutes/hours/days/nights/weeks/months/years, or sleeps.

The formation, growing, ceased growing, and decaying process of the selfless physical structure, and the impermanent restless states of mind of countless thoughts/ideas/desires/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations/actions/reactions ceaselessly arising and passing away at different pace/speed, that gives rise to the calculation and accumulation of age, experience, learning, understanding, knowledge, skill, interaction, activity, interest, relationship, duty, responsibility, inspiration, aspiration, ambition, action, fruit of action, imagination, planning, projection, and memory.

Time is merely the reflection of ceaseless impermanent changes, under different pace/speed, internally and externally, of both subject and object, of the perceiver and the perceived, of the knower and the knowledge, of the ceaseless process of generation, regeneration, degeneration, decay, and disintegration, and the conscious (voluntary), semi-conscious (semi-voluntary), and unconscious (autonomous/non-voluntary) physical/mental activities and movements under different speed of movements.

The remembrance towards all that or some of the impermanent changes or activities, generate the false impression of past, earlier, yesterday, and so on. While the forward planning/schedule for doing or expecting something that is not happening in NOW, generates the false impression of future, later, tomorrow, and so on.

The realization towards ceaseless impermanent changes of growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration in NOW, enables the mind to know that there is only NOW that is ceaselessly changing. In NOW, there is flashing of some memory. In NOW, there is some planning/anticipation/projection that is not happening in NOW. In NOW, all and everything is either ceased existing or disintegrated, or is forming, or is growing, or ceases growing, or is decaying, or is disintegrating.

The realization towards Selflessness enables the mind to know that there is neither past live(s) of different separate mortal limited existence(s) nor future live(s) of different separate mortal limited existence(s) a.k.a. ceaseless past/present/future reincarnations of any particular permanent independent infinite immortal individual being/consciousness/soul/spirit, that doesn't exist.

There is only this particular life existence of this particular body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, that is ceaselessly changing undergoing different shapes, forms, qualities, states, or conditions in NOW, that is momentary existing and functioning, while ceaselessly changing/decaying/disintegrating, and eventually ceased functioning and existing, upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, that gives rise to the different states of consciousness and the different degrees of conscious awareness to be interchanging between consciousness/wakefulness/activeness and semi-consciousness/unconsciousness/rest/idleness/sleep/dream/deep sleep/inputs processing to the conscious living organisms that come with the function/mechanism/ability of cognition/perception/memory storage/intellectual thought process of thinking, reasoning, learning, knowing, solution finding, and problem solving/emotion/sensation/action/reaction via the organs of senses (inputs) and the organs of action (outputs), to be attending/acquiring/maintaining the basic needs for the limited and conditional selfless impermanent life existence of the conscious living organisms, for being momentarily existing and functioning selflessly and impermanently as what they are.

If there is no existence or function of the perceptive cognitive thinking and acting mind perceiving the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes in the perceived names and forms, or under the absence of the restless thought current/thinking process/modification of the mind, or in SILENCE, devoid of thought(s) arising and passing away, or in PERMANENCE/changelessness/decaylessness/thoughtlessness/actionlessness/motionlessness, or in the attributeless nameless formless infinite endless space, or under the absence of all kinds of impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, what is time?

Ceaseless births and deaths (arising 生 and passing away 滅) transitioning under different conditions/states (realms)/qualities exists within this particular body and mind in NOW, that is nothing to do with certain worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, beliefs, values, and practices about the ceaseless reincarnation of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual existence reincarnating in different separate life existences transitioning in between different realms/worlds, but it is merely reflecting about the ceaseless impermanent changes of growth and decay, of ceaseless births and deaths of countless cells generation/regeneration/degeneration for maintaining the limited and conditional selfless impermanent life existence and function of the physical structure of the living organisms, as well as the countless thoughts/ideas/desires/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously, transitioning under different conditions of the physical structure and in between different states of mind (different realms), that is ceaselessly happening from the beginning of formation until the disintegration or death of this body and mind.

In NOW, the selfless mind is undergoing different states of mind (transitioning between different realms), that is all happening HERE in the mind that is interchanging in between the different states of consciousness (conscious (wakeful)/semi-conscious (sleep/dream)/unconscious (deep sleep/coma)), of countless thought(s) arising, changing, and passing away upon (under the witness of) the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness (the all time silent witness).

In NOW, the selfless mind is resting in silence/stillness/thoughtlessness (devoid of countless births and deaths/arising and passing away of restless thought current/process/activity), transcending the different impermanent states of mind (different realms) that are formed by the selfless impermanent limited and conditional thought current/process/activity.

The different realms (different states of mind under different states of consciousness) as well as Silence/Nirvana/Nibhana/Stillness/Turiya/The cessation of the restless modification of the mind (Exiting/Transcending the different realms/states of mind) are all happening in HERE and NOW, all these don't exist or happen outside (not here) or beyond (not NOW) the selfless existence and function of the mind.

Yoga and the yoga practice, is all about the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mind and the annihilation/cessation/conquest of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind (the veil of ignorance).

All these are nothing to do with 'worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious ideas/beliefs/values/practices', or 'spirituality', or 'divinity', or 'mystics', or 'miracle', or 'superpower', or 'superstition', or 'individual soul', or 'the creator of the universe', or 'sin', or 'good and bad karma', or 'merit and virtue', or 'downfall', or 'reincarnation', or 'endless births and deaths in countless different separate life existences', or 'vegetarianism', or 'veganism', or 'clean eating', or 'demonstration of the different yoga asana poses or meditation postures', or 'optimum health and fitness condition', or 'longevity', or 'positive thinking', or 'optimism', or 'hope', or 'rebelliousness', or 'international yoga day', or 'international yoga association/alliance', or 'yoga teachers training course', or 'yoga qualification and certification'.

Attributelessness - Oneness/Non-separateness/Non-duality, where all kinds of names and forms (living organisms and non-living objects) under different qualities/shapes/characteristics/conditions/functionalities are existing and functioning as what they are, under the one same nature of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, governed by the selfless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect, ceaselessly manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness, that is undetermined, undisturbed, unchanged, undamaged, or uncontaminated by the selfless impermanent limited and conditional ceaseless manifestation of countless momentary diverse names and forms being what they are, as they are, ceaselessly coming and going/appearing and disappearing/existing and ceased existing.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the mind is ignorant towards (cannot perceive or comprehend) Selflessness, Timelessness, and Attributelessness.

All these terms are known and understood by the mind naturally, upon Silence of the mind or Clarity of the thinking faculty, a.k.a. the annihilation/cessation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless modification of the mind/thought current/thought activity/thinking process, devoid of the veil of ignorance and the suffering deriving from being ignorant towards Selflessness, Timelessness, and Attributelessness.

Yoga can also appear to be anything manifesting under different shapes under different qualities of names and forms that the different minds want/desire/imagine/think/believe/label/identify/acknowledge it to be, depending on the different states of the different minds.

Even though yoga and the yoga practice is about conquering the mind by the mind itself to know Thyself, or knowing the truth of all these that the mind perceives/experiences consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously, where yoga and the yoga practice is merely what it is, neither useful nor useless, neither spiritual nor non-spiritual, but it can appear to be something useful or useless, something spiritual or non-spiritual for the different minds under different conditions, situations, limitations, and abilities. 

Before the truth of things that is always there, is unveiled upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, then yoga and the yoga practice can appear to be something spiritual for the minds that are being conditioned to believe in spirituality and god existence. While yoga and the yoga practice can appear to be something non-spiritual for the minds that don't believe in spirituality and god existence.

Regardless of whether it appears to be something spiritual or non-spiritual, it is about engaging the mind in conscious mind evolution that leads towards the direct self realization or glimpse towards the truth of everything under the absence of the veil of ignorance via its own initiation and effort, observation and inquiry, determination and perseverance, independently.

Upon the direct experience/glimpse towards Selflessness, Timelessness, and Attributelessness (All are ONE under different names and forms), the mind will know that the manifestation or existence of yoga and the yoga practice is merely a direction (towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance) and a set of different tools that can help the mind to move (evolve) towards that particular direction. It doesn't matter, when different minds refer that direction differently with many different names and forms.

There is no north/south/east/west/up/down/left/right in this infinite space that doesn't increase or decrease, regardless of where we are, what is up for some, is down for some, or what is left for some, is right for some. There is only HERE and NOW, in this mind. All and everything is happening in this mind that is always HERE and in NOW.

The entire journey (long or short), the path (easy or difficult), and the final destination (the realization/the correct understanding/the clarity/the liberation/the freedom/the knowledge/the peace), is all in the mind, in NOW. It is not somewhere else beyond the mind and NOW.

Even when some minds didn't understand or misunderstood the teachings of yoga and the yoga practice, thinking and believing that in order to portray or achieve stillness and forbearance as well as 'yoga asana' about holding a particular body position for a prolonged duration comfortably, is about challenging the body and mind to go beyond its limitation, or to go against nature, by putting the body, or the limbs, or the facial features in one particular position for a prolonged duration, such as standing on one foot, or not blinking or not closing the eye lids, or not lying down maintaining an upright sitting or standing position, or not sleeping, or not eating, or not breathing, or hanging the body upside down, or raising one or both arm(s) upward above the head and maintaining such position for prolonged duration, or even provoke others to inflict abusive hurtful torturing behavior unto oneself intentionally under the name of 'repent' or 'removing sins' or 'burning-off bad karma', until the body and mind suffers from unnecessary deformity, or injury, or damage, or dysfunction, or even ceased functioning, which doesn't eliminate ignorance at all but empowers ignorance, unless after performing such activity that has no end of challenging difficulty by continuously forcing, harming, or torturing the body and mind, until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing, they might begin to realize the middle path and the real meanings of yoga and the yoga practice, and make use of the momentary life existence and function of the body and mind to be performing selfless service to serve all and everyone, to be doing something beneficial/constructive for oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

The yoga practice is always HERE in NOW, upon the activation of non-grasping, upon the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty is being aware of (coming in contact with) the different names and forms that are ceaselessly manifesting internally and externally, regardless of in action/activeness or in inaction/at rest/idleness, under the different states of consciousness.

Yoga and the yoga practice is non-separated from life existence in all kinds of affairs, duties and responsibilities, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, activities, experiences, conditions, and situations, where the mind is being aware of all that, while consciously activating/performing different kinds of physical and mental practice, or method, or technique, or observation, or influence, that can influence or render the restless impure egoistic state of mind to be calmed and quiet (the thinning-out and annihilation of the veil of ignorance - the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness), that enables the mind to know Thyself, or knowing the momentary mortal limited and conditional impermanent non-independent selfless existence and function of itself, that is not different from all kinds of diverse names and forms, where all are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, which then, enables the mind to see the truth beyond the different qualities of names and forms, of non-duality/non-separateness/oneness/attributelessness/timelessness/selflessness (All are one under different names and forms).

The selfless universal consciousness is merely the actionless changeless timeless indiscriminate unconditional unlimited silent witness, while the many different individual existence and function of the many different individual conscious/sentient and non-conscious/non-sentient living organisms come with the function to perform actions via the organs of action for life maintenance and some other activities.

By knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of names and forms, upon clarity devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, will enable the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind to be able to perform beneficial action to look after itself and the surrounding living environment selflessly and independently under the presence of correct understanding, or under the absence of ignorance, or under the presence of unconditional peace in the mind, that contributes peace and harmony among the many diversities in the surrounding living environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that selflessly and indiscriminately supporting all kinds of names and forms to be existing and functioning as what they are.

Yoga and the yoga practice, or the conscious action/observation/practice/influence/evolution, of non-grasping and letting go, or standing as a silent witness, while performing or not performing all kinds of actions or activities, can only be happening, or being what it is, only if it is being activated under the conscious freewill/initiative/yearning towards liberation/effort coming from the mind itself, willingly and wittingly to free itself from the influence of ignorance, to be purifying and quieting itself, to develop/inquire/attain correct understanding, and to realize and be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness, upon realizing/knowing/seeing/understanding the truth of all kinds of diverse names and forms existing under different qualities manifesting and changing under the one same nature of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

Yoga and the yoga practice exists and is valid/useful for the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledged thinking and acting minds operating/functioning UNDER the influence of ignorance, that gives rise to all kinds of suffering/disturbance/disharmony/restlessness/violence/painful sorrow/grief/fear/doubt/selfishness/possessiveness/greed/anger/hatred/pride/shame/jealousy/envy/longing/craving/clinging/hypocrisy/untruthfulness/manipulation/intimidation/offensiveness/defensiveness/interference/the urge to control everything to be or not to be in certain way, a.k.a. the absence of peace/wisdom/correct understanding/clarity/absolute knowledge.

If the mind is peaceful as it is, unconditionally, devoid of ignorance, being undisturbed or undetermined by the mind perception towards all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant/agreeable and disagreeable/desirable and undesirable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable names and forms, or the presence and absence of all kinds of names and forms being what they are, internally within the body and mind and externally in the surrounding living environment, then yoga and the yoga practice doesn't exist, or is invalid/useless for this mind.

Such mind is one with yoga or non-separated from yoga, a.k.a. the mind is resting in silence upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that is untouched or uncontaminated by any qualities of names and forms that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, of the subject and object, or the perceiver and the perceived, or the knower and the knowledge, or the experiencer and the experience (all are one under different names and forms).

As long as the mind still perceives, or experiences, or acknowledges any kind of disturb, hurt, dissatisfaction, disappointment, fear, separateness, duality of good and bad/right and wrong/positive and negative/superiority and inferiority, unrest, lack of freedom, doubt, insecurity, grief, painful sorrow, difficulty, blockage, meaninglessness, loneliness, or any kind of suffering due to the presence of ignorance, or the absence of correct understanding/wisdom/clarity, then yoga and the yoga practice is available/accessible, naturally, in NOW, for the mind to evolve consciously towards liberation, freedom, knowledge, and peace.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-agree/disagree, blind-glorify, or blind-propagate.

Including all the teachings here. 

The minds that understand all these, they don't have to, but if they want, and if there is the opportunity and possibility, they can perform many actions in this world selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, to help many other minds to also be free from the influence of ignorance out of their own conscious freewill/initiative/yearning towards liberation/effort.

These minds are the teachers of dhamma, or the selfless wise leaders that don't only lead and organize a group of followers that are in need of a leader to lead them, to comfort them, to motivate them, to organize them to be or not to be in certain way, but who have the knowledge, ability, possibility, and opportunity to teach and guide all and everyone to be free from ignorance and become independent, and will no longer in need of any leader to lead them, under the presence of wisdom, or correct understanding, or clarity, or mental and emotional independence, a.k.a. under the absence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

Yoga, or the dhamma, or the truth of what all and everything are, is never separated from all and everything. And it doesn't change into something else, even if the many different minds see/understand/desire/modify/manipulate it differently under the different states of mind.