Inquire towards the different paths of yoga

There are four major paths of yoga as well as their many branches of different lineages to suit the many different individual minds that have different physical and mental abilities, limitations, and conditions, having different personalities and characteristics, being conditioned by the many different genetic biological inheritances, ways of thinking, ways of living, ideas, beliefs, values, practices, visions, inspirations, and aspirations, of different conditional mind thinking behavior patterns, as well as coming in contact with different surrounding environment, growing and learning process, parental inputs, family inputs, community inputs, educational inputs, public social media inputs, commercial inputs, political inputs, financial inputs, non-scientific creative fictional stories, novels, television programs, and movies inputs, and undergoing different types of suppression and empowerment, conditions, situations, affairs, experiences, activities, or interactive relationships and friendships with some others, that influence their state of mind and behavior in certain way and not in certain way.

It is also normal and nothing wrong that the same path or the same teachings and practice are being interpreted or understood differently not only by the different minds under different degrees of clarity and different reasoning power that is being conditioned by the many different sets of ideas, beliefs, values, visions, inspirations, aspirations, or different mind thinking behavior patterns, but also by the same mind that is being conditioned by particular set of ideas, beliefs, values, inspirations, aspirations, or particular mind thinking behavior pattern, under the different degrees of clarity in different stages throughout the conscious process of purifying and sharpening the cognitive intellectual reasoning faculty and quieting the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind consciously, under the presence of the limited and conditional conscious awareness, conscious freewill, conscious initiation, and conscious effort.

More importantly, the different degrees or layers of understanding towards the same teachings or the universal dhamma, will keep evolving towards greater/deeper/clearer understanding under greater degrees of clarity throughout the persistent prolonged process of thinning-out the veil of ignorance by consciously starving the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, until absolute understanding appear as it is under the presence of absolute clarity, or stillness, or silence, upon the complete annihilation of the veil of ignorance.

At certain points, the mind might be confused and puzzled and demotivated by the different teachings from different paths and different lineages, or by the different interpretations of the similar teachings that appeared to be contradicting against one another, as well as by its own different realization and understanding throughout the different stages. But as the mind develops greater degrees of clarity and sharper/purer intellectual reasoning power, the mind will start to see the one common non-distinctive existence/function/meaning/purpose/reason in the existence of all the different teachings and all the different interpretations of the similar teachings that appeared to be distinctive from one another. There is no more contradiction, or confusion, or doubt existing in the mind that sees things as they are, under the state of clarity.

In the path of devotion (Bhakti Yoga), "Focusing on 'God', by performing daily rituals/chanting/reciting japa and mantra/prayers to praise and worship 'God', to only think about 'God', and oneself will be looking after by 'God' naturally." - Surrender to 'God'

In the path of action (Karma Yoga), "Focusing on the well-being of others or the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, by performing action to serve others or serve the world (if disbelieve in 'God') where all and everyone and everything are inter-supporting, inter-influencing, and inter-affecting one another, or to serve 'God' (if believe in 'God') where the mind sees 'God' in all and everything, where serving all and everyone means serving 'God' in all forms, and channel the entire life existence to be giving, supporting, and benefiting others and the surrounding environment, and oneself will be looking after by nature or the universe, naturally." - Surrendering the ego and egoism

In the path of mind conquest (Raja Yoga), "Focusing on oneself, by attending and perfecting one's daily yoga practice of asana, pranayama, yama, niyama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi, by channeling the outgoing tendency to be focusing within to render and conquer one's own modification of the mind, to empty Thyself, to look after the over-all well-being of oneself and perform one's duty and responsibility towards oneself devoid of egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, intention, desire, or expectation, in solitude and seclusion, in silence, and the universal truth/dhamma or the unconditional peace will be revealing to oneself eventually and effortlessly." - Looking after the over-all well-being of oneself is the highest duty of mankind, as looking after oneself is indeed looking after all the others, where peace in the surrounding environment, or in the world (in the relationship, in the family, in the neighbourhood, in the particular community, among the diverse communities, among the diverse Eco-systems, in anywhere and everywhere) begins from peace in oneself, where oneself is kind to (doesn't harm) oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment under the presence of peace under the absence of restlessness

In the path of wisdom and right discrimination (Jnana Yoga), or science, "Focusing on attaining or knowing the absolute truth of everything via self-effort and self-realization, through self-investigation, self-introspection, right discrimination, and self-inquiry, by contemplating and reflecting towards the truth/nature of everything via uncontaminated intellectual reasoning power, under the state of absolute clarity, under the absence of the veil of ignorance (A selfless flawless motionless intentionless non-discriminative mirror that reflects the image of everything in front of it, as it is) - Seeing the universal truth/dhamma of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms including living organisms and non-living objects (the subject and the object, the perceiver and the perceived, the thinker and the thinking, the observer and the object of observation, the nature's law of cause and effect, the suffering and the cause of suffering, the ignorance and the cause of ignorance, the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, the pleasurable enjoyment and the painful suffering, and etc), that also gives rise to the direct realization towards Oneness, Non-duality, Non-separateness, Timelessness, Attributelessness, Namelessness, Formlessness, Birthlessness, Deathlessness, beginninglessness, and endlessness." - Neither about 'God', nor about 'others' or 'the world', nor about 'oneself'

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Due to the different degrees of clarity that give rise to the different degrees of understanding in the many different minds that have different personalities and characteristics, that have different conditions, situations, experiences, impermanent voluntary and involuntary changes, obstacles, energy levels, states of mind, and the different speeds of conscious and unconscious evolution of the mind, that are undergoing different stages of different degrees of clarity and different layers of understanding, where the minds are evolving at their own particular cause and pace, and hence, there are different teachings and practices (the different paths) existing to suit each and every individual mind at the different stages of conscious/voluntary/intentional/freewill by choice evolution and unconscious/involuntary/intentionless/non-freewill not by choice evolution, under different degrees of clarity and understanding, that need to accommodate, adapt, and adjust to the ceaseless impermanent changes in the body and mind, in life, and in the surrounding environment.

It doesn't matter which path that the mind prefers and partakes, or changing path at different stages, or keeping one same path throughout the different stages, or changing teachers/gurus/schools/lineages of the same path or in some other paths, it is about the absence of grasping/attachment/identification towards all and everything while being diligent, persistent, and determined in the practice under any circumstances, ceaselessly making necessary adjustment and adaptation, not being distracted by pleasurable enjoyments and not being hammered by painful difficulties, that will eventually leads the mind towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, where the mind perceives/sees/knows/understands things as they are, under the state of clarity or stillness (non-distracted one-pointedness), and resting upon unconditional peace, that contributes peace and harmony to the surrounding environment, that benefits all and everyone and everything in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It doesn't matter in the end of life existence, the selfless impermanent limited and conditional perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is still not free, still in doubt, and still peaceless or restless under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance. That is also impermanent and non-self. At least during the prolonged process of practicing yoga regularly, to be quieting the mind, to be free from ignorance, and to have peace, or merely to be gaining certain physical and mental health and fitness benefits, is already benefiting oneself and others and the surrounding environment up to certain extend.

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The four paths of yoga - Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga

The minds that are free from the influence of ignorance and are peaceful as they are, they don't need to practice yoga or anything, not to say, to consider which path is suitable for them. They may or may not perform certain yoga practice or activity that benefits the body and mind and/or others and the surrounding environment, if they want.

Bhakti Yoga 

The path of devotion is the easiest path for many minds that are not mentally and emotionally independent, as there is either non-development of mental and emotional independence/maturity either due to genetic biological formation by birth, or (mostly) due to deprived/suppressed/prohibited development of mental and emotional independence after birth by the surrounding ignorant egoistic possessive ties and connections, either wittingly or unwittingly, under certain limited and conditional conditions and situations.

Instead, the minds are being conditioned and empowered to become highly mental and emotional inter-dependence (intense mental and emotional attachment/clinging/craving), being empowered to develop the need (cultural/family/community/spiritual/religious/national/political/commercial values and practice) to depend on receiving love and support, acknowledgement and recognition, agreement and approval, appreciation and togetherness, or praise and compliment from some others to develop, possess, maintain, and empower the sense of success, accomplishment, satisfaction, deserving, worthiness, righteousness, positiveness, togetherness, powerfulness, purposefulness, usefulness, happiness, joyfulness, and meaningfulness, as well as to depend on something better/higher/purer, or more superior, or more perfect, or more powerful than themselves, to give them the sense of hope, or direction, or purpose, or meaningfulness, or to have a refuge, especially either to believe in the existence of an almighty 'Creator/Controller/Judge/Authority of the universe', or to believe in the existence of 'the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths or reincarnation of a permanent independent immortal infinite individual consciousness/soul/spirit being reincarnated into many different separate mortal impermanent limited and conditional life existences transitioning between different realms/spheres/worlds being determined by the inexhaustible past accumulated boundless good/bad/neutral karma or merits and virtues and sins that keeps bringing forward to the next and next mortal life existences', in order to not getting 'lost' or 'drowned' in the ocean of restlessness, ignorance, and suffering, in order to be good and do good as well as not to be bad and not to do bad (out of fear), in accordance to the particular belief, values, and practice about what is good and bad, or what is right and wrong, as well as to justify many things and behaviors that are unknown or painful to the mind.

However, under the influence of the veil of ignorance or incorrect understanding, the minds under this path might also easily be over-powered by the sense of self-righteousness, that is hurtful to oneself and/or others, where the mind might punish and hurt itself and torture the body under the name of shame, guilt, repent, or penance, as well as, might be hurting others out of self-righteousness, pride, possessiveness, sense of belonging, upholding, and protectiveness towards what it thinks is its belief/values/practice/spirituality/religion/'God'/'gods'/temple/holy place and space, based on its own belief, values, and practice about what is right and wrong, what is good and bad/evil, what is should and shouldn't, or what is respectful and disrespectful, and etc, being offended and disturbed by as well as being angry and hating/violent and destructive towards what they don't agree with, don't like, and don't desire, that is against their particular desire, vision, aspiration, ambition, belief, values, and practice, or upon their comforting daily ritual or routine (physical and mental inputs and outputs) is being disrupted by someone or something.

Karma Yoga

The path of action is the most effective path for many minds to be eradicating the ego and egoism practically under the notion of "Perform actions, and let go instantly," a.k.a. "Non-attachment towards the actions, and renouncing the fruit of actions." Or else, the mind will never be free even after many years of performing many good actions to serve and benefit others, if the actions are being performed under the egoistic idea and attachment/identification/craving/aversion/judgment/expectation/desire/intention of, "I have been doing many good actions, and I will receive or experience everything good in return (I will go to heaven, or I will be reincarnated in higher realms), and I won't receive or experience anything bad (I won't go to hell, or I will not be reincarnated in lower realms)."

But that's okay too, because just by spending most of the energy/time/life existence to be performing many beneficial actions that will benefit others and the surrounding environment, where there is no energy/time/attention left to be engaging in unwholesome or destructive activities that hurt oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment, regardless of under the presence or absence of grasping, regardless of with or without intention/desire/expectation to be gaining something or anything, is already what the path is about.

If the mind understands about Non-grasping, then there is no difference in all kinds of actions that are being done for oneself, or not for oneself, or for others, as all actions are beneficial to all and everyone and everything that are inter-related to as well as inter-supporting and inter-influencing the existence and function of one another. It is not only actions that are being done for others and the surrounding environment, is Karma Yoga. Being alone by oneself to be focusing unto oneself to be looking after the well-being of oneself, is also Karma Yoga. Every single action regardless of involving some others, or not, is all Karma Yoga, under the absence of the idea of 'I' and egoism, or grasping.

Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, and Jnana Yoga, are not separated from one another and they exist in one another, but they appear to be distinctive and different from one another for the mind that is still functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

Raja Yoga 

There are minds that are neither devotional nor desire to accumulate good karma and merits, but they have some energy/time/interest/initiation/inspiration/desire/aspiration/ability/possibility for doing something that benefits the over-all well-being of their own body and mind.

There might be something that they want to attain from engaging in some kind of yoga practice.

- there is certain degrees of yearning towards liberation to be liberated from doubts and painful suffering,

- there is the initiation and desire of "I want to be free", "I want to be happy", "I want to have peace", or even, under wishful desire of "I want to develop and possess super physical and mental power to do and achieve everything that I desire and to control everything to be the way that I desire",

- to be recovering from certain existing physical and mental illness/weakness/injury/limitation and to avoid certain preventable physical and mental illness/weakness/injury/limitation,

- to be maintaining and empowering physical and mental health and fitness condition,

- to improve the over-all physical appearance and mental state, to look good and feel good about themselves,

- to be able to perform and demonstrate many of the challenging yoga asana poses,

- to empower the sense of self-esteem and self-worth or meaningfulness,

- to overcome negative thinking and the disturbed unhappy state of mind,

- to improve concentration to enhance study and work performance,

- having the conscious awareness and initiative of want to stop hurting oneself and/or other,

- to expand one's social networking and friends making, to be socializing and interacting with some others of similar interests,

- there is free time and energy to learn and do or experience something or anything,

- challenging oneself, or being challenged by some others,

- being inspired and aspire to become 'yoga teacher',

- want to change the world to be a better place,

- want to have some peaceful quiet moment and space for oneself, to be away from the over-whelming madness in the surrounding environment or in the world, 

- and under any particular type of inspirations, aspirations, desires, and intentions.

These minds are being restless and exhausted swaying back and forth between happiness and unhappiness, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, goodness and badness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, joyfulness and joylessness, positiveness and negativeness, hopefulness and hopelessness, togetherness and separateness, enjoyment and suffering, and so on, however, if they have the basic physical and mental function and ability and energy to be learning something physically and mentally, and to perform certain physical and mental activity, and have certain opportunity and possibility of engaging in certain physical and mental yoga practice such as Asana, Pranayama, Yama, Niyama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhayana, and Samadhi, where all these practices and observations served as the tools to turn the outgoing tendency of the mind inward, to render the mind calm, quiet, focus, and clear.

The path of mind conquest is the most common and all rounded path of yoga, that suits most minds that are interested to be learning and engaging in some kind of yoga practice regularly, especially the inspired and aspiring minds that aspire to become 'yoga teachers' under their own particular reason. But this is also the path of yoga that is easily being contaminated, misused, and/or commercialized widely, even though there is nothing wrong in making an honest livelihood from conducting yoga classes or teaching yoga to others.

The different types/styles/brands of yoga classes/workshops/teachers training courses deriving from and attaching onto different schools/lineages/teachers/gurus, exist for the yoga enthusiasts to learn the basic teachings and practice from certain yoga teachers by attending the yoga classes/workshops/courses that are available easily in everywhere, even if these yoga classes/workshops/courses are heavily commercialized being transformed into a form of commodity/trade/service, and there's neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, but after learning about the basic knowledge and understanding on the teachings and practice of yoga, the yoga students need to develop independent self-practice, without the need to be attending ongoing yoga classes, or to be accompanying by and interacting with some others, or to be supervised and encouraged by some others, in order to be self-independent, self-initiative, and self-discipline to perform the yoga practice diligently and regularly by oneself, alone, in solitude and seclusion.

There is neither right nor wrong, if after many years, one still needs to rely on attending ongoing yoga classes/workshops/courses, to be physically and mentally motivated to perform the yoga practice under the company of some others in the group yoga classes, as well as under the supervision/instruction/encouragement of the yoga teachers in the group or private yoga classes, or else one doesn't know what to do and/or isn't motivated to perform the yoga practice by oneself, alone. Or, to be continuously reminding oneself on the basic teachings and practice of yoga. Or, merely to be continuously learning more new styles or routines. Or, maybe there is no suitable conducive space available to oneself at home or anywhere for performing the yoga practice except in the space provided by the yoga teachers/schools/centres/studios, even if oneself can perform the yoga practice independently by oneself, alone, without the need of companionship, interaction, instruction, supervision, or encouragement from any others. By attending ongoing yoga classes/workshops/courses regularly, regardless of under any particular reason, regardless of highly/slightly commercialized or non-commercialized, and regardless of whether the mind develops correct understanding, or not, it is already a great wholesome activity that benefits oneself and others.

The path of devotion and/or the path of action also can be contaminated, misused, or commercialized, where under the name of highest devotion towards 'God' or 'Guru', and under the name of serving 'God' or 'Guru' or 'others', unconditionally, many desperate suffering disturbed minds are wittingly and/or unwittingly being exploited and/or abused physically, mentally, emotionally, sexually, and/or financially, by the other minds that are highly corrupted.

The minds that are undertaking any of these paths to begin with, might change path later on, or might be undertaking more than one path or all paths simultaneously at different stages under different reasons or just want to experience different paths and/or all paths to see which one suits oneself most, or eventually, the minds start to realize that there is no separateness or distinction among the different paths, where all paths exist among one another, where there is no this path and that path, but all are one, as the minds evolve further and develop greater clarity and understanding towards the universal teachings of Yoga Vedanta, or the dhamma.

It is all about preparing the mind to be focus, calm, quiet, and clear, that enables self-inquiry and self-realization to be happening, naturally, intentionlessly, and effortlessly.

The paths of Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, and Raja Yoga will eventually merge into Jnana Yoga, eventually, intentionlessly, effortlessly, and naturally.

Wisdom (the absolute knowledge, the correct understanding, the universal dhamma) is there as it is, under the absence of the veil of ignorance under the state of absolute clarity, regardless of being rendered under which type of practice under any path.

Jnana Yoga 

The rare minds that are endowed with or that have developed certain degrees of clarity and basic correct understanding under the presence of higher intellectual reasoning power as well as mental and emotional independence, either genetically and biologically inherited by birth, or developed from young after birth, or after have been engaging in the other paths of Bhakti Yoga, or Karma Yoga, or Raja Yoga, to be rendering the mind focus, calm, quiet, and clear (one-pointedness being in the present), to be thinning-out and eradicating the ego and egoism, or have been purifying and sharpening the intellectual reasoning power via the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence, to be free from the influence or contamination of worldly egoistic conditional and influential ideas, beliefs, values, practices, actions, reactions, behaviors, visions, inspirations, and aspirations to reason everything, then these minds are suitable for undertaking directly, or evolving indirectly and eventually onto the path of right discrimination and wisdom, or the path of self inquiry and self realization - Jnana Yoga, to know Thyself, or to attain direct self realization towards the truth of all these names and forms that the mind comes in contact with.

The path of Jnana Yoga cannot be contaminated, misused, or commercialized, even if some corrupted impure minds try their best to do that.

The minds that don't have the basic correct understanding or mental and emotional independence won't be taking the path of Jnana Yoga, because it is too difficult, impossible, unreachable, non-comprehensible, non-interesting, or even too boring for them. Meanwhile, the minds that are taking the path of Jnana Yoga, are already endowed with some essential basic correct understanding (right discrimination - Viveka and dispassion - Vairagya) as well as mental and emotional independence or maturity, where these minds won't be fooled, or influenced, or manipulated, or threatened, or intimidated, or bullied, or lured, or determined by the corrupted activities and behaviors of the corrupted minds.

How can anyone trade/sell/buy wisdom, or liberation from ignorance, or unconditional peace, or absolute knowledge, or self realization, or enlightenment, or the universal dhamma, or the universal truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self that exists in all and everyone and everything, within and without?

The yoga teachers don't and couldn't sell all THAT to anyone, but there is nothing wrong to be making an honest livelihood to support the momentary life existence and function of the body and mind, while exerting energy/time/effort/inevitable cost into engaging in certain activities to transmit the knowledge, teachings, and practice of yoga to some others who are interested in learning and practicing and realizing yoga.

Even after paying some fees, or donations, or offerings to the yoga teachers to learn about the teachings and practice of yoga, the yoga student (the mind) still needs to perform all the practice physically and mentally, regularly and diligently, under its own effort and perseverance, all by itself, to prepare itself for self inquiry, and to attain direct self realization through intense willpower, effort, perseverance, and determination, via direct experience towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self within the body and mind and in the surrounding environment in all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses, while may or may not be undergoing additional evitable and inevitable obstacles or difficulties, of undergoing unpleasant and undesirable difficult conditions and situations internally and/or externally, or coming in contact with painful suffering directly or indirectly, that are all neither good nor bad.

The minds on the path of right discrimination or wisdom, they can be and might be, but they don't need to be engaging in any forms of chanting, prayers, japa and mantra reciting, or serving 'God'/others/the world under particular name and form, or observing yama and niyama, or performing asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, and dhyana practice regularly or irregularly under particular name and form, or in and out of Samadhi.

All and everything is the dhamma/teachings/teachers/gurus/realization/knowledge/wisdom.

All and everything, in action or inaction, understanding or non-understanding, known and unknown, agreeable or disagreeable, true or untrue, perfection or imperfection, pure or impure, contaminated or non-contaminated, finite or infinite, including the existence and function of the different paths of yoga and/or buddhism and their different brunches/lineages, all kinds of the pleasurable enjoyments and painful sufferings, all kinds of ignorance and consequences of ignorance, the direct experience and realization, realized or non-realized, wise or ignorant, peaceful or peaceless, long-lived or short-lived, easy life or difficult life, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, intelligence or non-intelligence, educated or non-educated, aware or unaware, healthy or unhealthy, good or bad, right or wrong, happiness and unhappiness, positiveness and negativeness, success and failure, gain and loss, accomplishment and non-accomplishment, and etc, all kinds of manifestations under whatever types of cause and effect and impermanent changes, and the existence and function of the modification of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under different states of consciousness, are all Selfless, Impermanent, Limited, Conditional, and Non-self.

The violent disturbed minds that would hurt themselves and others and the surrounding environment, as well as the minds that ignite, provoke, and promote others to hurt themselves and others and the surrounding environment, are all functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

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The presence and experience or manifestation of all kinds of obstacles or difficulties on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, or in daily life, are not because of 'bad karma' or 'sin', but merely the consequences or by-products of ignorance coming from the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance in the mind that gives rise to corrupted and ignorant thinking, reasoning, understanding, ideas, beliefs, values, practices, inspirations, aspirations, desires, actions, reactions, or behaviors that are hurting or limiting/affecting/impacting oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment. But more importantly, the veil of ignorance is not something bad, or wrong, or negative, or short-coming, or weakness, or shame deserving, or suffering deserving, but it is a common natural manifestation in all minds under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

Although the veil of ignorance is something common and natural, and there is neither right nor wrong, but the minds that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance are most probably not aware of that, or might be aware of that but don't understand towards all THAT, and hence, either wittingly and/or unwittingly, the minds keep generating actions and reactions (behaviors) that might hurt itself and/or others and the surrounding environment, intentionally or unintentionally, directly and indirectly.

That's why it is the highest duty of all minds to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process (conscious mind evolution towards liberation from ignorance), to be free from the influence of the veil of ignorance, to know Thyself, to know the universal truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, where the mind will stop hurting or doesn't hurt itself and/or others and the surrounding environment.

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Upon the mind is rendering calm, quiet, focus, and clear, contemplate or reflect upon the truth of the essential teachings of yoga and/or buddhism -

"A yogi or vedantin is not determined by the impermanent limited and conditional condition, ability, disability, limitation, achievement, and non-achievement of the physical and mental function of the body and mind. All 'karma' will burn in toto (disappear), the 'wheel of ceaseless births and deaths' will come to a stand still (disappear), the world of names and forms (of duality/separateness/impermanent changes/decay and disintegration/limitation/conditional/restlessness) ceased existing (disappear), in silence, upon self realization, upon reaching the state of Turiya - beyond the three states of consciousness/semi-consciousness/unconsciousness, beyond the three Gunas/energy fields/elements/states of mind/hormonal changes/limitations and conditions." - The essence of Yoga Vedanta.

"All are selfless. All are impermanent. All are limited and conditional. All are non-self. Non-believing/following/worshiping/glorifying, not to say, non-blind believing/following/worshiping/glorifying, as well as non-blind practicing and non-blind propagating. Inquiring and attaining the truth of everything under the limited and conditional impermanent selfless conscious awareness, conscious freewill, self-initiation, self-effort, self-discipline, self-control, self-introspection, self-investigation, and self-inquiry, under the presence of non-grasping. Silencing the restless mind, a.k.a. removing the veil of ignorance, and attaining direct self realization towards the truth of everything." - The essence of Buddhism.

"You come alone. You go alone. You are left alone now. Live alone. Eat alone. Walk alone. Meditate alone. Do not mix. Do not hoard disciples. Do not build ashrams." - The repeated advice of Swami Sivananda

"The only one book to read is in the heart." - The advice of Ajahn Chah

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Both the teachings and practice of Yoga Vedanta and Buddhism are grounded in non-grasping, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-comparison, non-expectation, perseverance, determination, forbearance, patience, acceptance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, intense yearning for liberation/freedom/knowledge/peace, renunciation, dispassion, right discrimination, solitude, seclusion, mental and emotional independence, desirelessness, non-violence, non-greed, non-hatred, the middle path, simplicity, non-hoarding, non-possessiveness, truthfulness, non-interference, respect, self-control, self-discipline, self-effort, self-inquiry, self-realization, direct experience, non-believing/following/worshiping/glorifying, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, open mind, silence, non-dualism, oneness, non-separateness, unconditional peace, the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I'/conscious self acknowledgement/sense of separateness between 'I' and 'not I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness, or the stillness/silence of the restless egoistic impure thought current/thinking process/thought activity/modification or state of the mind, or Samadhi, as well as the universal timeless intentionless changeless permanent infinite truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, and the intentionless and attributeless nature's law of cause and effect (that is widely being misinterpreted as the 'good/bad/neutral karma' or 'merits and sins').

There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, where most minds are being conditioned more or less by all those worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, justifications, values, practices, actions, reactions, behaviors, visions, inspirations, and aspirations, to analyze, evaluate, understand, behave, and desire or expect everything in certain way. 

As the mind evolves towards greater degrees of clarity as well as deeper and clearer understanding, the mind starts to understand the meanings of the essential teachings of Yoga Vedanta and/or Buddhism, as well as about all those worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, justifications, values, practices, actions, reactions, behaviors, visions, inspirations, and aspirations.

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Neither right nor wrong in the different understanding towards the same teachings 

There is neither right nor wrong in the function of the mind that is being determined/affected/influenced/disturbed, or being conditioned and limited by the perception of duality.

Upon reaching the state of absolute clarity, those same minds transcend all kinds of duality, where they perceive, acknowledge, and see things as they are, neither positively nor negatively, neither meaningfully nor meaninglessly, where all and everything are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. There is neither grasping nor non-grasping at this stage, as there is no ego being there to assert grasping or non-grasping.

Suffering arise upon the presence of grasping. There is no suffering upon the absence of grasping, or there is neither grasping nor non-grasping.

There is nothing wrong with the many different understanding and the evolution of the understanding towards the same teachings by the same mind at different stages, not to say, by the many different minds at different stages. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

Healthy body happy mind?

Just like the many common and popular terms of 'mental and emotional healing' and/or 'spiritual healing', or 'be positive, be strong', or 'you can fly', or 'you deserve', or 'you are unlimited', or 'you can be/do/achieve anything that you desire', and etc, similarly, the term of 'healthy body happy mind' is also one of the many common and popular terms in the world of yoga, and they are neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, but all these common and popular terms are nothing to do with the teachings and practice of yoga.

The minds that are still functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, need to be prompted/inspired/motivated/attracted by certain pleasant, desirable, agreeable, enjoyable, motivational, or attractive 'benefit'/'result'/'goal'/'achievement', in order to be inspired and aspired to do something or anything. And hence, there are many different types of 'motivational positive encouragement' existing to motivate the minds to be engaging in certain kind of yoga practice to begin with. If there is persistence and regularity in the engagement in some kind of yoga practice, the mind might or might not start to realize and understand towards all those 'motivational positive encouragements' are not the objective, or the highest goal, or the end of the yoga practice.

Very few minds that are already endowed with the basic correct understanding from young, and that have the intense immovable yearning towards liberation, self discipline, and the mental and emotional independence, where they will devote their entire life existence and function, or their entire attention and energy onto the path of yoga and/or buddhism diligently to inquire the truth of everything internally and externally to know Thyself, even if they have read or heard from someone or somewhere, or they have realized and understood from the very beginning that the path of yoga and/or buddhism is not an easy or pleasant path, but rather there are many challenging obstacles and difficulties arising from time to time, internally and externally, where they endure or forbear, and break through or move around all kinds of unpleasant or even painful obstacles or difficulties, and upon the direct self realization towards knowing Thyself takes place, they might or might not return to the world of ignorant egoistic impure restless suffering minds, served as the reflective object and/or subject for the suffering minds that are in searching for genuine guidance or way towards liberation, to reflect/contemplate upon themselves to know Thyself.

Do not mistaken such devotion onto the path of yoga and/or buddhism as 'Being a monk or a nun living in the temple or ashram with the monk/nun community', as that doesn't guarantee that the mind is practicing yoga and/or buddhism as it is.

There is nothing wrong with 'healthy and fit physical body' and 'happy minds'. 

It is indeed very good to have a 'healthy and fit physical body' with minimum illness, injury, weakness, limitations, or disabilities. It saves lots of unnecessary expenses, conserves life existence/effort/energy, and generates less evitable inconveniences to oneself and others, if one has the basic general knowledge or universal common sense, correct understanding, and proper action taking to avoid or prevent all kinds of evitable unnecessary physical illness, injury, limitation, or disability that is not due to inevitable genetically inherited physical and/or mental condition from the beginning of formation and birth, or if upon the presence of any kind of treatable/recoverable illness or injury, one has the self initiative and understanding to take immediate action to be rehabilitated from the existing treatable illness or injury attentively as soon as possible, before it becomes worst if being left unattended without proper action taking or necessary medical treatments.

It is also very good to have a 'happy mind', even if that state of happiness/satisfaction/comfort is also merely a momentary state of the mind, that is limited and conditional, that is coming and going, that will appear and disappear, that will arise, change, and pass away, but a mind that is in a state of happiness/satisfaction/comfort, will most probably be nicer and kinder to oneself and others, and will be less violent and hurtful unto oneself and others, even if such pleasant behavior is only presence during that momentary state of happiness/satisfaction/comfort.

Just as some people where their mind is being over-powered by the veil of ignorance, will appear to be more difficult than usual, and behaving irrationally and violently upon the presence of hunger or tiredness that is not being satisfied immediately, and even more so upon the presence of hunger or tiredness is persisted not being attended for an extended duration (non-gratification of needs/desires), while they appeared to be more easy going and a lot nicer when there is absence of hunger or tiredness, or upon the hunger or tiredness is being attended immediately and disappeared (gratification of needs/desires).

Such minds are unwittingly being the slave of the conscious/semi-conscious desires of craving and aversion, as well as the non-conscious urges/fluctuation of hormonal changes/involuntary autonomous bodily functions/conditions/situations. Such minds would become agitated/grumpy/bad mood if it doesn't get to sleep when it desires to sleep, or it doesn't get enough of sleep, or the sleep is disturbed by something or someone, or upon waking up but not fully awake yet.

Even though it is not necessarily, but it is a lot easier for the mind that is in a good mood or in state of comfort, happiness, or satisfaction, to be 'more easy going', or 'nicer', or 'kinder', or 'forgiving', or be able to 'let go' and 'not be bothered by' something or anything, even if that is conditional, and it is only possible for a limited duration.

Especially under the absence of the basic essential correct understanding towards what is happening in the mind itself, on top of under the presence of grasping as well as the absence of certain degrees of self control, the mind that is in a state of unhappiness/disturbance/great disappointment/unpleasantness/discomfort/dissatisfaction/painful suffering/exhaustion/tiredness/hunger and thirst, will tend to be violent and hurtful unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment, either wittingly or unwittingly, randomly or deliberately, intentionally or unintentionally.

And more importantly, if under the absence of correct understanding on top of the presence of incorrect understanding, the mind might unwittingly or ignorantly harming the existence and function of the body and mind as well as directly or indirectly harming others and the surrounding environment during the process to achieve a 'healthy and fit physical body' and/or 'happy mind'. Such as some minds feel good, happy, satisfied, or accomplished upon successfully damaging/hurting/manipulating/exploiting/destroying some others or something in order to achieve what they like and desire.

Meanwhile, 'healthy and fit body' and 'happy mind' are not necessarily relate to one another, or the shadow of one another.

Under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, the mind can still be unhappy about something or everything even if the body is super healthy and fit, or is highly energetic and free from illness/injury/weakness/stiffness/limitation, or under the presence of correct understanding, the mind can still be cheerful and happy even if the body is unhealthy and unfit, or is undergoing certain unpleasant and undesirable illness, injury, weakness, stiffness, limitation, disability, discomfort, or painful suffering.

No doubt that, it will be very good if all and everyone can have a 'healthy and fit physical body' as well as a 'happy mind' at the same time. There will be more peace and harmony or less unrest and disharmony, in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

More importantly, a 'happy mind' doesn't necessarily mean that the mind is free from the influence of the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

There are many minds are being happy and feeling good and satisfied because of the gratification of certain desires of craving and aversion, or the manifestation of the momentary conditional sense of confidence, strength, success, achievement, or accomplishment, upon experiencing/achieving/receiving/possessing/enjoying what the mind likes, agrees, and desires, that the mind thinks and believes and recognizes as 'superior' quality or status, while not experiencing/getting/receiving/possessing/suffering what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree, and doesn't desire, that the mind thinks and believes and recognizes as 'inferior' quality or status.

The gratification of the desires of craving and aversion, or the momentary conditional sense of confidence, strength, success, achievement, or accomplishment, as well as during the process of achieving all THAT, are not necessarily be free from certain activities that are harming/hurting/exploiting some others or the surrounding environment directly and/or indirectly, either wittingly and/or unwittingly, that impact all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment short-termly, medium-termly, or long-termly, under the presence of boundless empowered greedy desires, inspirations, aspirations, visions, and ambitions waiting to be materialized and fulfilled endlessly.

It is also common and natural that most minds would like to have longevity or long life span, to be able to live as long as possible, as well as to be aging gracefully and joyfully, and to enjoy all kinds of enjoyments as much as possible, if it is not possible to be immortal and forever youthful infinitely, devoid of decay, aging, old age, weakness, stiffness, illness, injury, immobility, limitation, disability, or death.

Many minds might relate 'healthy and fit body' with 'longevity', because scientifically or biologically, a 'healthy and fit body' has the bigger possibility of having a longer life span.

'Healthy and fit or youthful and energetic body' and 'longevity' are not necessarily the shadow of one another, where there are many people don't or didn't live long due to certain impactful activities/conditions/situations even when the body is/was still in the tip top good health, fitness, youthful, and energetic condition.

Except certain inevitable intentionless natural causes of death regardless of short or long life span (impactful accidents and diseases/non-human's ignorance induced natural disasters/genetically inherited underlying condition/natural process of decay and disintegration), there are many evitable unnecessary non-natural causes of death as well as physical and/or mental painful suffering, is due to the hurtful and impactful activities/conditions/situations/ties and connections/relationships/interactions/communications/affairs deriving from the minds that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I'/the ego (the conscious and semi-conscious self awareness or self acknowledgement under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness), egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

There are many evitable unnecessary human's ignorance induced detrimental and impactful conditions, situations, affairs, activities, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, communications, accidents, illnesses, diseases, injuries, damages, abuse, bully, violence, fighting, killing, unrest, oppression, invasion, intrusion, war, discrimination and prejudice, unjust and cruelty, exploitation and desperation, or all kinds of evitable painful physical and mental/emotional suffering inflicted by oneself and/or others, that are impacting, threatening, damaging, and detrimental towards the surrounding living environment and atmosphere, or the life existence and function as well as the over-all physical and mental well-being of all and everyone.

All THAT are the by-products deriving from the minds under the influence of all kinds of worldly egoistic ideas/affairs/beliefs/values/practices/visions/agendas/activities, especially selfish politicking or political power games, greedy commercial/financial/economical endless investment, development, growth, expansion, and empowerment (beyond the basic need of essential infrastructure development and management for all kinds of diversities to be existing and living in simplicity under a conducive peaceful and harmonious environment freely and indiscriminately), in order to support endless wealth and status accumulation and hoarding, or to gratify and materialize boundless desires, pleasurable physical and mental enjoyments, inspirations, aspirations, visions, and ambitions waiting to be fulfilled, being empowered by as well as empowering selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging and pride, mental and emotional dependence, the power of unity or togetherness, or more precisely, the power of control and authority for maximal survival and expansion (that is widely being misunderstood or linked to non-separateness or oneness or non-duality in yoga and/or buddhism), such as family-hood, brotherhood and sisterhood, gangsterism, nationalism, communism, capitalism, tribalism, leadership, organization, authorization, anarchy, monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, or authoritarianism, as well as the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, envy and jealousy, fear and the urge to control and interfere or manipulate all and everything to be or not to be in certain way, discrimination and prejudice, and all kinds of corruption, exploitation, intrusion, invasion, occupation, fighting, or war, domestically and externally, either being generated wittingly and/or unwittingly, that directly and/or indirectly impacting all and everyone and everything, even to the minds that are functioning under the absence of grasping under the presence of correct understanding (non-feeding ignorance), not to say, even more so to the minds that are functioning under the presence of grasping and incorrect understanding (ignorance gives rise to ignorance, and that also feeds and empowers ignorance).

There are many unnecessary and evitable environmental damages or detrimental conditions and situations that give rise to unnecessary physical and mental painful suffering in the many minds are not because of the sake of 'survival', but the empowered boundless and endless greedy desires, inspirations, aspirations, visions, and ambitions of the minds of human beings functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

What is the point of having 'longevity' or 'continuously living as long as possible', under a 'healthy and fit and energetic physical body', to accumulate and hoard unlimited 'wealth and possessions', or to enjoy unlimited pleasurable enjoyments of the senses, while wittingly or unwittingly harming/hurting/exploiting all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, directly or indirectly, in the process of achieving all THAT?

That is why the highly essential and practical teachings and observation or practice in yoga and/or buddhism about non-grasping, non-association, non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-judgment, non-comparison, non-expectation, live in the present, letting go the desirable and undesirable past memories and future imaginations, renunciation, dispassion, desirelessness, contentment, non-greed, simplicity, generosity, kindness, respect, non-discrimination, inclusivity, forbearance, adjustment, adaptation, accommodation, non-possessiveness, solitude, seclusion, mental and emotional independence, open mind, non-blind believing/following/glorifying/worshiping/agreeing/disagreeing/practicing/propagating, silence (Mauna), concentration and meditation, all kinds of attention demanding and effort exerting/action taking exercises, self-introspection and self-investigation, self-inquiry and self-realization, and the middle path, to practically and effectively moving the body and mind (physically and mentally) away from continuously being bombarded, hammered, disturbed, conditioned, and influenced consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously by so much over-whelming impactful worldly egoistic ideas/affairs/beliefs/values/practices/visions/aspirations/ambitions/agendas/activities/all kinds of 'motivational positive empowerment' to achieve endless higher and higher success, status, power, wealth, and enjoyment', in order to purify and quiet the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, to develop, promote, and empower mental and emotional independence and correct understanding, to practically and effectively freeing the selfless impermanent limited and conditional perceptive, cognitive, intellectual, emotional, thinking, and acting faculty/mind from the influence of the veil of ignorance.

The mind that understands this, it appreciates and makes good use of the availability of a 'healthy and fit and energetic physical body' without harming/exploiting anyone or anything under the presence of unconditional peace and correct understanding, to perform actions/activities that are beneficial to all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, while being at peace being undetermined or undisturbed upon the non-availability of a 'healthy and fit and energetic physical body' to be performing any actions/activities.

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Inquire towards mental and emotional healing or spiritual healing

'Mental and emotional healing', and/or 'spiritual healing', is a very common and popular term in the world of yoga, however, that is nothing to do with the teachings and practice of yoga.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, as all and everyone have the freedom of their own way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practice, desire, inspiration (what and where the mind learn something or everything from, that influence and motivate them for practicing and promoting something or everything), and aspiration (being inspired, influenced, and motivated by someone or somewhere to do and achieve and promote something or everything).

If there is the existence of an individual pure and perfect 'spirit/soul/consciousness' that is permanent, independent, unlimited, unconditional, and immortal residing in the impermanent limited conditional mortal body and mind, then that permanent independent unlimited unconditional infinite 'spirit/soul/consciousness' cannot be hurt, or injured, or damaged, or modified, or destroyed, by anything, not to say, there is no such existence existing.

And hence, the idea and practice of 'spiritual healing' is absolutely invalid.

The selfless impermanent limited conditional mortal finite existence and function/modification of the mind (the physical structure and operation of the brains/the central and peripheral nervous system/the cognition/the thinking process or input processing and output response) can be determined, affected, disrupted, hurt, injured, damaged, modified, and destroyed by something of certain internal or external detrimental hurtful impact, activity, condition, and situation, that might or might not be improving or deteriorating, or be treated by certain treatments or action taking.

Such as the development and maintenance of the function or mechanism of the senses and organs of the senses or the organs of perception and the cognition of knowing, recognizing, reasoning, and understanding, the degrees of intelligence or the accuracy, efficiency, and speed of the intellectual reasoning, problem solving, solution finding, and possible outcomes/consequences visualizing or speculating, the power of memory to memorize and to recall or remember, or the speed of learning, memorizing, and remembering, and etc, can be determined, affected, modified, conditioned, and influenced directly and indirectly by the limited and conditional availability and conscious choices of food consumption/energy inputs/clean air and oxygen sufficiency/sufficient clean and safe water intake and replenishment/sufficient essential nutrients and minerals intake/physical and mental activities and habits/internal and external detrimental or conducive surrounding environment, condition, and situation for life maintenance and over-all well-being/balance between energy input and output/energy conservation, depletion, and restoration, and etc, under the presence or absence of certain knowledge and understanding and appropriate/immediate action taking.

Meanwhile, the manifestation of certain feelings/emotions/thoughts/desires/ideas/manifestation of dreams, or the conscious/semi-conscious/non-conscious state of mind might be determined, affected, influenced, conditioned, or prompted by the mind perception of names and forms of all kinds of experiences regardless of under the presence or absence of grasping, or under the presence or absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, even when most of the time upon the state of consciousness, the mind has no awareness or recollection towards many things internally and externally as it is being busy with something or focusing attentively onto something, but the manifestation of certain reactions, ideas, thoughts, desires, feelings, and emotions arising from the conscious/semi-conscious mind reaction reacting towards something or everything, internally and/or externally, or not, is solely determined by the presence or absence of grasping under the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance.

Under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, there is the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement in the mind, that thinks and believes, and that is identifying with and acknowledging that, "I am experiencing something that is disturbing/hurtful/painful mentally and emotionally. This is hurting me mentally and emotionally. I am mentally and emotionally disturbed/damaged/injured/hurt. I need to be healed from mental and emotional disturb/damage/injury/hurt. I am practicing yoga/buddhism hoping that it can relieve/heal/remove my mental and emotional disturb/hurt/damage/injury/pain instantly, gradually, eventually, partially, or completely."

Under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, there is no idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious/semi-conscious self acknowledgement arising in the selfless mind to be associating, attaching, and identifying, not to say, grasping and reacting ignorantly towards all kinds of perceived names and forms/experiences that are pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, and soothing or painful, except to be performing necessary action for life maintenance under conducive supportive environment/condition/situation in accordance to availability, mobility, and possibility, to create and maintain a conducive supportive beneficial environment/condition/situation for all and everyone ego-lessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, and to avoid or move away from detrimental harmful environment/condition/situation, if possible.

There is only the selfless impermanent limited and conditional conscious and semi-conscious ego-less mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, being aware of the conscious and semi-conscious perception/cognition/knowing/reasoning/understanding/remembering/recognizing/possible consequences projecting, or the conscious and semi-conscious voluntary activities under conscious effort/freewill/choice and clarity or the non-conscious and autonomous involuntary activities without conscious effort/freewill/choice, upon coming in contact with certain names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations being perceived via the senses and the organs of the senses, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness in the present moment now, devoid of grasping/association/attachment/identification, knowing that all and everything are all impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, being reflected in the mind manifesting/arising/changing/passing away upon the all pervading timeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that enabling the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind being what it is, as it is, that is either functioning efficiently or inefficiently, that is being aware, or semi-aware, or unaware.

All minds are selfless, regardless of the presence or absence of grasping or the veil of ignorance, functioning ego-lessly or egoistically.

All selfless minds can be functioning or performing action ego-lessly or egoistically.

The selfless and ego-less conscious/semi-conscious perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer being what it is, existing and functioning under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the all pervading timeless actionless universal silent witness/consciousness, is being undetermined/unaffected/undisturbed/unhurt by the mind perception/cognition/acknowledgement towards all kinds of selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self names and forms of different qualities/conditions/situations/activities/changes that arising, ceaselessly changing, and passing away at their respective cause and pace, being perceived and reflected in the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

Regardless of whether the reflection of the perceived names and forms is being reflected in the mind as it is (under the absence of the veil of ignorance), or not as it is (under the presence of the veil of ignorance), and regardless of how long the reflection of the perceived names and forms stays or lingers in the mind, or regardless of the presence and absence of grasping, or regardless of the presence or absence of egoistic reaction/judgment/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating/the presence or absence of disturbance manifesting in the mind, reacting towards the reflection of all those perceived names and forms, it doesn't determine/affect/change the names and forms being what they are, as they are.

In the modification of the mind/the thinking process/the thought activities, the selfless egoistic perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind can reacts towards the apples or oranges with different judgments/opinions/reactions/desires or doesn't desire/likes or dislikes/agreements or disagreements/pleasing or displeasing/comforting or hurting/manipulating or non-manipulating towards the reflection of the perceived apples or oranges in the modification of the mind, but all those thinking/reactions in the mind doesn't determine/affect/change the apples or oranges being what they are, as they are.

The apples or oranges (non-sentient selfless living organisms existing, functioning, and changing unconsciously), as well as the selfless non-egoistic minds (sentient selfless living organisms existing, functioning, and changing consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously) that are free from grasping or the influence of the veil of ignorance, are not being determined, or disturbed, or changed, or offended, or promoted/demoted, or motivated/demotivated, by any kinds of thinking and reaction or expression/behavior towards them coming from the different minds.

It is only when the mind is functioning under the presence of grasping, under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that there is the thinking/reaction/manifestation of the delusive/incorrect/false thought/idea/acknowledgement/feeling/emotion of, "I am being disturbed and hurt by all these names and forms/experiences/expressions/behaviors that are bad, wrong, negative, offensive, and hurtful, that are disturbing and hurtful to me physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually."

One can be hurt or injured physically by something or some others, including the organ of the brains (the hardware of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind), regardless of the presence or absence of grasping, but none can be hurt or injured mentally or emotionally under the absence of grasping under the absence of the veil of ignorance, that need to be 'healed' mentally and emotionally, not to say, none can be hurt or injured 'spiritually', that doesn't exist, where 'spiritual damage and spiritual healing' is invalid.

Such as the selfless and ego-less (the absence of conscious/semi-conscious self awareness/acknowledgement/sense of separateness) plants (the non-sentient living organisms), they can be determined, conditioned, influenced, and affected by certain kind of internal and/or external limitation and condition, impact, disease, illness, injury, or damage to their physical structure, growth, development, regeneration, reproduction, and ceaseless impermanent changes (non-conscious evolution), while there are ceaseless ego-less autonomous non-conscious intentionless survival activities and response to deal with (ceaselessly adjusting and adapting to) the current internal and external condition, to maintain life existence to the maximum under the best available and possible conducive condition or surrounding environment as much as possible, where they can expand and extend their roots and branches/leaves to reach the essential water and sunlight, that going around or even breaking through any obstacles, to avoid or move away from detected harmful condition, and even disguising themselves, or even be equipped with thorns or certain poisonous sap, to keep away from any kind of potential predators, until the natural process of decay and disintegration takes place, or until they ceased living and existing, while devoid of any egoistic intentional constructive or destructive activities/intentions/desires/behaviors/actions/reactions, unlike the egoistic minds of the sentient living organisms that come with the conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The highly egoistic perceptive cognitive intellectual and emotional minds of the selfless human beings that are operating under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, and that also operating unconsciously under the absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness upon the essential state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, but then, the egoistic conscious/semi-conscious minds of the human beings keep generating unnecessary evitable conscious and semi-conscious *hurtful damaging activities/ideas/behaviors/actions/reactions/intentions/desires/inspirations/aspirations/ambitions, under the presence of grasping, under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

*Hurtful damaging activities are being generated even out of what the mind thinks and believes as 'good intention' based on their particular thinking, belief, values, and practice about what is good and bad, what is right and wrong, or what is deserving and undeserving. And hence, out of the sense of self-righteousness, pride, possessiveness, greed, jealousy, anger, hatred, or fear, the mind wants to control, influence, change, manipulate, discipline, punish, hurt, or destroy what the mind thinks, believes, reasons, understands, evaluates, judges, recognizes, or categorizes as 'bad', 'wrong', 'negative', 'offensive', 'disrespectful', 'belittling', 'humiliating', 'intimidation', 'threat', 'evil', 'condemn, humiliation, shame, and punishment deserving', 'foreigner', 'outsider', 'not one of us', and etc.

*Hurtful damaging activities exist in oneself towards the body and mind of itself, in couple relationship hurting the other or one another, among the minds that think they love one another very much (not really, but only selfish possessiveness and the gratification of lustful desires), among family ties and connections, among siblings, among parents and children, among friends, among relatives, among the same ancestral heritage/culture/belief/spirituality/religion/ethnicity/tribe/community/organization/nationality/area/district/country/political party, and etc, not to say, among the different ancestral heritages/cultures/beliefs/spiritualities/religions/ethnicities/tribes/communities/organizations/nationalities/areas/districts/countries/political parties, and so on.

All those hurtful damaging activities towards others or one another, are due to the minds are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance. It is the most serious form of unnecessary and evitable hurtful destructive mental illness in the world of human beings. The egoistic minds of the human beings justify and argue that, "Human beings are also animals. Human beings are imperfect. All beings have the freedom to behave as they are, and so, we are free to make as many mistakes as we want, and we can cause as much hurtful damages as we want."

The selfless but egoistic conscious/semi-conscious mind/perceiver/knower/experiencer/thinker/input receiver and processor/output responder/action performer under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, is ignorantly being determined/affected/disturbed or 'hurt' by all THAT that the mind reasons/understands/judges/recognizes as undesirable, unpleasant, dislikable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, hurtful, or painful to itself.

It is common and natural that, either wittingly and unwittingly as well as directly and indirectly, there are many minds are more or less being determined, disturbed, affected, or hammered by the presence of ceaseless and boundless hurtful and impactful behaviors and activities and their consequences being generated by human beings that are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, that give rise to many different unhealthy conditions and situations that are detrimental to the over-all physical and/or mental well-being of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment, in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If the mind really wants to practice and realize yoga, it needs to let go the idea of 'mental and emotional healing', or 'spiritual healing', because the presence of association, attachment, identification, and expectation towards that idea itself is a hindrance towards the realization towards Selflessness and Non-self.

Yoga and buddhism is about the eradication of the veil of ignorance, to attain direct self realization towards the universal truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of names and forms, via quieting the restless egoistic impure thought activities or thinking process, or modification/state of the mind, by turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward to focus within for self-introspection and self-inquiry or self contemplation to be inquiring and contemplating towards what is going on in the modification of the mind, of what the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I' and everything that 'I' come in contact with/experience/learn/know/understand, that 'I' like and don't like, agree and don't agree, desire and don't desire, enjoy and don't enjoy, believe and don't believe, do and don't do, achieve and don't achieve, have and don't have, possess and don't possess, and etc, under the help of certain physical and mental observations and practices.

The genuine yoga and/or buddhism enthusiasts/teachers/practitioners don't need/don't promote/don't empower 'mental and emotional healing', not to say, 'spiritual healing', if the mind has the basic correct understanding towards the essential basic teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism that is based on the universal dhamma/truth of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.

The objective of the existence and function of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is for the selfless egoistic impure restless ignorant suffering mind to attain direct self realization towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of itself, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, via non-grasping.

The direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self in all kinds of living and non-living names and forms under the presence of non-grasping, will enable the mind to know and understand that there is no existence of a permanent independent individual self existence of 'I', of an infinite immortal individual consciousness/soul/spirit existing, that resides in and belongs to the mortal selfless impermanent limited conditional body and mind, and/or vice versa.

Such mind won't be determined, or disturbed, or manipulated, or intimidated, or bullied, or hurt by anyone or anything, even if the physical body or the physical component of the brains (the hardware of the thinking process/thought activities/inputs processing and output responding) is suffering from certain evitable or inevitable, acute or chronic, and reversible or irreversible illness, or damages, or injuries, or wounds, or pain, or natural process of decaying or aging.

Either there is presence or absence of conscious/semi-conscious thinking process/thought activities/inputs processing and output responding, either under the complete or semi functional/non-corrupted, or malfunction/corrupted, or non-functional/inactivation of the conscious and semi-conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.

There is nothing soothing or painful/good or bad/positive or negative/enjoyment or suffering, if there is the absence of conscious or semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness.

There is nothing, if there is the absence of thinking process/thought activities/modification of the mind, or upon silence, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness (Samadhi/Nirvana/Nirbhana), and under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of unconsciousness, while the mortal body and mind is still existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and non-selfly, not to say, upon the ceased functioning and existence of the mortal body and mind.

If there is the presence of thinking process/thought activities under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, there can be the presence or absence of the veil of ignorance, or there can be the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping, or there can be the presence or absence of disturbance/unrest/painful suffering/violence or all kinds of impurities/ideas, as well as the impermanent limited and conditional momentary sense of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness and unhappiness, goodness and badness, righteousness and wrongfulness, positiveness and negativeness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, or joyfulness and joylessness, or the mind may or may not be resting in unconditional peace, or silence.

All kinds of thinking/thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations/experiences/names and forms/qualities/relationships/conditions/situations/affairs, and all and everything, are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, soothing or painful, constructive or destructive, beneficial or detrimental, positive or negative, possibility or impossibility, goodness or badness, happiness or unhappiness, and so on.

If the mind knows what is "Being aware of all kinds of names and forms arising, changing, and passing away without grasping," there is no reaction or manifestation of the idea/thought of mental and emotional or psychological 'hurt' or 'injury', even if the physical body or the component of the brains is suffering from certain illness, or injury, or damage, or is undergoing the natural decaying/aging/function declining process.

If there is already the foundation of non-grasping, where the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is consciously/semi-consciously being aware/conscious of all THAT without grasping, the mind will be undetermined, or undisturbed, or unhurt by all THAT (the reflection of the perceived names and forms being reflected in the mind and/or the names and forms themselves being what they are, as they are, and constantly changing), that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

That is freedom, or liberation, or unconditional peace.

This freedom, liberation, or unconditional peace doesn't mean that there is only the manifestation/perception/experience of pleasant, desirable, agreeable, enjoyable, or soothing names and forms, qualities, affairs, activities, relationships, interactions, communications, conditions, situations, or surrounding environment, or there is no manifestation/perception/experience of anything that is unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful.

It is about the absence of grasping towards all kinds of manifestation/perception/experiences/names and forms/qualities/dualities/conditions/situations/relationships/affairs/interactions/communications/ties and connections, under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The mind is resting at peace unconditionally, amid all kinds of conscious/semi-conscious/voluntary and unconscious/involuntary/autonomous physical and/or mental activities for life maintenance that are happening ceaselessly throughout the entire physical body, as well as all kinds of impermanent names and forms/activities/changes in the surrounding environment in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is full of all kinds of ignorance and consequences of ignorance deriving from the minds of the human beings that are functioning under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

There is absence of hurtful ideas/thoughts/desires/feelings/emotions in such mind, where the mind naturally and effortlessly doesn't generate any action or reaction that hurt oneself, or others, or the surrounding environment, under any condition or situation, because it understands towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, as well as there is respect/acceptance towards the nature's law of cause and effect.

There is needless of self-control or self-effort to not hurt anyone or anything in the mind that is rendered quiet and clear under the absence of grasping, as self-control or effort to restrain one's behavior/action/reaction, is needed only when there are still the selfless manifestation of some hurtful ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions arising in the selfless modification of the mind under the presence of grasping, reacting towards certain unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, non-enjoyable, or painful experiences/affairs/interactions/relationships/ties and connections/conditions/situations, and hence, the mind is still being determined and disturbed by all THAT.

But more importantly, if the disturbed mind has the basic correct understanding and has the self-control or effort to hinder all those hurtful mental reactions/ideas/desires/thoughts/feelings/emotions from externalizing and turning into physical actions/activities that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

There is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong, if the mind is still being determined and disturbed by the mind perception of names and forms under the presence of grasping.

Just by having the basic correct understanding and self-control, and under the presence of certain degrees of non-grasping, is already what the practice of yoga and/or buddhism is about.

There is the presence of kindness, or non-violence, or non-hurtful towards oneself and others and the surrounding environment. None needs to be perfect in order to be kind, to have certain degrees of understanding and self-control of not hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The selfless timeless attributeless actionless intentionless beginningless and endless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything under different qualities of names and forms within and without, that gives rise to the conscious/semi-conscious awareness/consciousness to the sentient living organisms upon the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness, cannot be determined, affected, modified, changed, increased, decreased, contaminated, hurt, damaged, or destroyed by anything.

There is no existence of a permanent independent individual self identity of an individual immortal pure 'soul/spirit/consciousness' existing or residing in all kinds of living organisms, not to say, an individual 'soul/spirit/consciousness' that can be hurt or injured by something or anything, that needs to be healed from 'hurt', or 'illness', or 'damage', or 'injury'.

The mind that understands, it doesn't get upset towards anything, or it is not being disturbed by anything, or it doesn't suffer for 'the ignorance and consequences of ignorance in and from anyone'.

"Everyone has the freedom of being what they are, as they are. Your actions/reactions and the outcome of your actions/reactions is your freedom of choice and responsibility. My actions/reactions and the outcome of my actions/reactions is my own freedom of choice and responsibility. None is responsible for the actions/reactions and the outcome of actions/reactions of the others. If I react and feel disturbed and hurt by the actions/reactions and the outcome of actions/reactions of the others, it is my own freedom of choice and responsibility, and if out of my reaction and feeling of being disturbed and hurt by something or someone, I would perform action to hurt myself and others and the surrounding environment, it is my own freedom of choice and responsibility."

"It is because of you and your bad and wrongful and hurtful behavior/action/reaction, that is why I react and feel like this, and that is why I behave and act like this. It is all your fault and responsibility for all my hurtful destructive violent reactions/feelings/behaviors/actions," is incorrect and invalid.

The minds that would generate hurtful destructive violent behaviors/actions hurting oneself and others and the surrounding environment, as well as the minds that react and feel disturbed and hurt mentally and emotionally by the hurtful destructive violent behaviors/actions of the others, and would become hurtful, destructive, and violent like the others, are all functioning under the presence of grasping under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

If all minds of the human beings in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything have this absolute knowledge and understanding, or if all minds are mentally and emotionally matured or independent to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, there is no existence/manifestation of violent destructive hurtful activities/affairs/relationships/interactions/communications/conditions/situations of hurting one another and the surrounding environment.

Inquiry the truth of everything.

Mind the action reaction of oneself, don't mind the action reaction of others

It is a natural common egoistic mind behavior pattern in most minds where upon the state of consciousness/wakefulness and semi-consciousness/semi-awake and semi-sleep, the mind is being busy minding about the action and inaction as well as the reaction and non-reaction of the others, being determined and disturbed by all THAT (what others do and don't do and how others react or don't react) wittingly and unwittingly, as the mind ceaselessly and spontaneously reacts towards all THAT that the mind perceives and recognizes as something good or bad, right or wrong, should or shouldn't, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, and pleasant or unpleasant, based on its own particular way of thinking, belief/disbelief, likes and dislikes, desires and don't desires, agreements and disagreements.

The mind is being pleased and empowered by the gratification of its desire of craving and aversion, while being displeased, dissatisfied, disappointed, demotivated, belittled, unhappy, annoyed, offended, or angry upon the non-gratification of its desires of craving and aversion, upon others don't act/react in the way that it expects how others should act/react (the good and right way based on its own particular belief, values, and practice about what is good/bad/right/wrong/should/shouldn't), or upon others act and react in the way that it thinks and believes that others shouldn't act/react (not the good and right way, but the bad and wrong way based on its own particular belief, values, and practice).

The minds that are not interested in learning and practicing and realizing yoga and/or buddhism, they don't have to practice yoga and/or buddhism, not to say, to practice yoga and/or buddhism as it is.

The minds that are interested in learning and practicing and realizing yoga and/or buddhism, then, only if they want, they can practice yoga and/or buddhism (practically and effectively in everyday life affair/activity/ties and connections/relationship/friendship/interaction/communication beyond the yoga class or the yoga practice session, or beyond all kinds of physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practice), as it is.

In the beginning on the path of yoga and/or buddhism, the mind needs to have the essential basic correct understanding towards,

"All and everyone have the freedom to think, believe, behave, act, and react, in certain way or not in certain way, as they are, as well as, not thinking, not believing, not behaving, not acting, or not reacting, in certain way or not in certain way, as they are. All and everyone are responsible towards their own particular way of thinking, belief, behavior, action, and reaction, as well as also be accountable for the consequences of their own particular way of thinking, belief, behavior, action, and reaction, in certain way or not in certain way."

The mind that understands this, will not be disturbed or determined by the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action/inaction, and reaction/non-reaction as well as the consequences of all THAT, that are coming from oneself and all and everyone.

"How the mind think, believe/disbelieve, agree/disagree, desire/doesn't desire, like/dislike, behave, act, and react towards all and everyone and everything, is the freedom of choice and responsibility of the mind itself." 

"The mind is accountable for the consequences of the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action, and reaction of itself towards all and everything, but none is accountable for the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action, and reaction of all the others towards all and everything."

"Peace and happiness in the mind, is the freedom of conscious and semi-conscious choice/effort/action taking/understanding/responsibility of the mind itself. Similarly, the presence and absence of violence, anger, hatred, bitterness, resentment, admiration, jealousy, intimidation, disappointment, dissatisfaction, offensiveness, defensiveness, fear, worry, discontentment, greed, unrest, and unhappiness in the mind is the freedom of conscious and semi-conscious choice/effort/action taking/understanding/responsibility of the mind itself, where the mind has the conscious and semi-conscious freewill/choice/effort/understanding towards either grasping or non-grasping, holding onto or non-holding onto, letting go or non-letting go towards something or all and everything, and it is the freedom of action reaction of the mind itself, whether to act and react in certain way or not in certain way (either non-grasping or grasping, holding onto or letting go, to be disturbed or undisturbed, to be happy or unhappy, to be selfish or unselfish, to be kind or unkind, to be constructive or destructive)."

"The mind reacts and feels pleased, satisfied, motivated, empowered, good, happy, and meaningful is because its desires of craving and aversion are being gratified, while the mind reacts and feels displeased, dissatisfied, demotivated, hammered, bad, unhappy, and meaningless is because its desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified. It is not the names and forms that the mind perceives/experiences/comes in contact with are having the quality or intention to make the mind reacts and feels in certain way or not in certain way."

"Some people react and feel good and happy when some others give them some apples that they like very much, but they react and feel bad and unhappy when some others give them some oranges that they hate very much. Meanwhile, some people react and feel good and happy when some others give them some oranges, but they react and feel bad and unhappy when some others give them some apples. It is not the quality or intention of the apples or the oranges that make the people react and feel in certain way or not in certain way. The people are happy and satisfied is because either they are getting/experiencing/coming in contact with what they like and desire and agree with, or when they don't get/experience/come in contact with what they don't like and don't desire and don't agree with. The people are unhappy and dissatisfied is because either they are getting/experiencing/coming in contact with what they don't like and don't desire and don't agree with, or when they don't get/experience/come in contact with what they like and desire and agree with."

"Looking after the general physical and mental well-being of the body and mind is the sole responsibility of the body and mind itself upon reaching certain degrees of maturity in the physical and mental development, unless there is completely absence of the physical and mental development of such conscious and semi-conscious physical and mental ability either due to deformity upon birth, or young age, or disease/illness, or injury, or aging, or being conditioned and suppressed by the worldly egoistic ideas, belief, values, and practice of non-development/non-encouragement/suppression/prohibition towards mental and emotional independence under certain selfish and greedy ambitions/visions/agendas in a couple/a family/parents and children/siblings/a community/a tribe/an ethnicity/a culture/a spirituality/a religion/a country/an organization under the sense of belonging/ownership/possessiveness and the urge to influence and control all and everything to be the way that one desires."

"How all and everyone live life and make use of the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary life existence and function of the body and mind, and the outcome of that, is the responsibility and accountability of all and everyone themselves."

Only upon the mind is being undetermined or undisturbed by all THAT (the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action/inaction, and reaction/non-reaction of oneself and all the others towards all and everything as well as the consequences/outcome of all THAT), then there is possibility for the restless modification of the mind to be rendered calm and quiet effectively under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, that will enable the mind to see, or know, or understand all and everything that the mind comes in contact with, clearly as they are, as it is, under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness/cognition/intellectual reasoning/understanding/knowing, under the absence of grasping.

The mind needs to divert the outgoing tendency of "busy minding and interfering towards the thinking, belief/disbelief, agreement/disagreement, desire/don't desire, like/dislike, behavior, action/inaction, and reaction/non-reaction of all the others towards all and everything being conditioned by their own different particular way of thinking, belief/disbelief, agreements/disagreements, desires/don't desires, and likes/dislikes towards all and everything" inward onto minding and introspecting the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self thought process/modification/state of the mind of itself, without grasping, and not being determined or disturbed by all THAT (the action/inaction/reaction/non-reaction and their consequences of oneself and/or all the others), regardless of agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, and pleasant or unpleasant based on one's thinking, belief/disbelief, likes and dislikes, desires and doesn't desires, or agreements and disagreements.

The mind needs to free itself from the sense of self-righteousness and interference towards the freedom of all the others being what they are, as they are.

Such mind will have more and more peace, will be more and more quiet and clear, and will have more and more understanding towards the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function or modification of itself and everything.

Non-grasping/Non-clinging/Non-holding onto/Letting go/Non-possessive, is the entire practice of yoga and/or buddhism, while all the other practices such as yoga asana and pranayama practice, concentration and meditation practice, chanting and japa, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, silence (mauna), and etc, are merely some helping tools that can help the mind to turn inward to focus within, to render the restless thought process/modification/state of mind calm, quiet, and clear, to develop the correct understanding that leads towards the timeless unconditional peace in oneself that illuminates unto all and everyone and everything in the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

The mind that has established firmly on Non-grasping/Non-clinging/Non-holding onto/Letting go/Non-possessiveness, doesn't need to observe or partake all the other practices or observations, however, there are some momentary limited and conditional beneficial side effects deriving from all those regular physical and mental practices that can help to empower and maintain certain degrees of physical and mental health and fitness condition up to certain extend, that enables the body and mind to have the basic health and fitness condition to be performing ego-less activities/actions that can benefit oneself and all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It's absolutely nothing bad or wrong, if under certain condition and situation, there is no availability or there is not enough basic health and fitness condition for the body and mind to perform certain or any actions/activities for oneself and/or others and the surrounding environment. It really doesn't matter. But more importantly, is that the mind is at peace unconditionally under any conditions and situations, under the presence of correct understanding, under the absence of grasping/clinging/holding onto/possessiveness.

What and how much the mind knows and doesn't know, understands or doesn't understand, not to say, what and how much other minds know and don't know, understand or don't understand, is not important at all, but the absence of grasping onto all THAT, is the upmost important element that will lead the mind towards knowing and understanding the truth of everything that the mind knows or comes in contact with, as it is.

The mind is limited and conditional. It is the truth. It is not a weakness or shame/condemn/punishment/suffering deserving. 

Just like the mirror and the reflection being reflected by the mirror. The mirror that is devoid of movement, distortion, crack, dust, stain, or obstacle between the mirror and the object of reflection (the mind that is devoid of the veil of ignorance/the ego/egoism/impurities/restlessness), will reflect anything that is being reflected on it, as it is.

It is not important that the flawless motionless mirror doesn't and cannot reflect all and everything of all angles and all directions at once, where it can only reflects what is there in front of it (what the mind knows or comes in contact with, is limited, and what the mind doesn't know or doesn't come in contact with, is unlimited. The sum accumulated knowledge is limited, the continuous endless accumulation of knowledge is unlimited), but more importantly, whatever that is being reflected on the flawless motionless mirror will be reflected as it is (the truth as it is, or the correct understanding towards what the mind knows or comes in contact with).

Most importantly, the mirror is not being determined, or contaminated, or disturbed, or modified by the reflection of all kinds of objects under different qualities of names and forms that is being reflected unto it.

Similarly, the mind that is devoid of grasping, is not being determined, or contaminated, or disturbed, or modified by the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind, of random thought activities/thinking process, of whatever the mind perceives/experiences/comes in contact with towards all kinds of names and forms under different qualities (pleasant or unpleasant/good or bad/positive or negative/desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable/enjoyable or non-enjoyable/soothing or painful), and vice versa.

The only difference between the mirror and the mind, is that the mirror is a non-living object that doesn't has the conscious/semi-conscious freewill, or choice, or effort, or organs of action to perform action/reaction to be in or move away from certain beneficial or detrimental conditions or situations, while the mind is part of the living organism that has the conscious/semi-conscious freewill, or choice, or effort, or organs of action to perform action/reaction to be in or move away from certain beneficial or detrimental conditions or situations.

Inquire the truth of everything.