The entire worldly life existence is nothing but mind activities powered by the mind perceptions of names and forms through the senses of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations and thoughts/feelings/memories/imaginations/dreams.
If there is absence of the function of mind perception through the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, sensing/touching and thinking/remembering, there are no mind activities, there's no worldly life experience. There's no good life or bad life. There's no good being or bad being. There's no good world or bad world. There's no enjoyment or suffering.
The worldly life existence that the mind perceives or experiences, whether it's pleasant or unpleasant, and whether the mind enjoys or suffers, it's all in the mind itself, and it's in now and it's impermanent. It's nothing to do with the names and forms that the mind perceives. The names and forms are just what they are. Duality doesn't exist in the names and forms, but only in the mind itself. Duality exists in the mind, not in the names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses.
Without the sense of seeing, the mind won't perceive sights or images of colours and shapes. What is beautiful or ugliness? What is attractive or unattractive? What is respectful or disrespectful?
Without the sense of hearing, the mind won't perceive sounds. What is pleasantness or unpleasantness? What is compliment or insult? What is calming or disturbing?
Without the sense of taste, the mind won't perceive tastes. What is tasty or not tasty?
Without the sense of smell, the mind won't perceive smells. What is nice smell or bad smell?
Without the sense of touch/sensing, the mind won't perceive sensations. What is pleasure or displeasure? What is comfortable or discomfortable?
Without the thinking faculty and memory function, there's no thinking and belief, culture and religion, or imaginations, or thoughts/ideas, or feelings. What is good or bad? What is right or wrong? What is positive or negative? What is satisfaction or dissatisfaction? What is joy or grief? What is happiness or unhappiness? What is believe or disbelieve? What is fear or fearlessness? What is birth and death? What is existence or non-existence?
The one who experiences suffering, is the mind that is under the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities. The one who performs yoga and meditation practice to be free from suffering, is the mind that is experiencing suffering. The one who is liberated from suffering, is the mind that is being free from ignorance, egoism and impurities through persevered discipline and practice. There's no 'I' experience suffering, or 'I' perform yoga and meditation practice, or 'I' am liberated from suffering.
The mind that is NOT free from ignorance and egoism, there is an idea of 'I' existing to be identified as the one who perceives names and forms, who is aware of the mind activities, and who experiences worldly life existence, to enjoy or suffer based on the reaction towards the perception of names and forms (mind activities of worldly life experiences). The mind is being in a state of restlessness due to ceaseless passionate reactions of egoistic desires of craving and aversion from 'I' towards all the perceived names and forms (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, thoughts/ideas/feelings/memories/imaginations/dreams).
The mind that is free from ignorance and egoism, there is no 'I' existing to experience worldly life existence, there's no 'I' am perceiving names and forms, or 'I' enjoy or suffer. It's just the mind functioning and perceiving names and forms through the senses via the sense organs. There is mind awareness being aware of the mind activities, but there's no 'I' am aware of the mind activities. The selfless/egoless mind is undetermined or uninfluenced by the perception of names and forms due to the absence of egoism of attachment, identification, clinging, longing, craving or aversion towards the perceived names and forms, and thus, it's free from restlessness. There's no clinging or craving towards the objects of name and form that are pleasant and there's no aversion towards the objects of name and form that are unpleasant.
Practice yoga of annihilating egoism, to purify and discipline and quiet the mind to allow the mind to see the truth of things as it is, to be free from ignorance - the root cause of suffering. All the other effects/benefits derived from the many forms of yoga practice are just some by-products, and they are impermanent and they are not the end of suffering. Even the positive effects of good feelings, pleasant sensations, enhanced physical condition and ability, calmness and positive thinking derived from many different forms of yoga practice are impermanent. They will change and pass away.
Attaining all kinds of impermanent effects/benefits from the yoga practice doesn't guarantee that the mind will be free from being determined or disturbed by the mind perception of names and forms of a life existence that is impermanent and it doesn't stop the mind to experience suffering, if the mind is still under the influence of ignorance and egoism.
It's through the elimination of ignorance and egoism that will lead the mind towards the realization of unconditional peace that is not subject to impermanence, that is nothing to do with the qualities of name and form, good and bad condition, and pleasant/desirable or unpleasant/undesirable life experiences. The selfless/egoless mind is peaceful as it is, while witnessing all the perceived impermanent changes of names and forms, or the countless births and deaths of mind activities arising and passing away.
The mind that is not free from ignorance and egoism will be involuntarily and restlessly swaying back and forth between the state of elevation and depression, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness and unhappiness. The mind will feel good, satisfied and happy when its desires of craving and aversion are being gratified, but the good or happy feelings and satisfaction derived from experiencing good condition or pleasant/desirable experiences doesn't stop the mind from feeling bad, dissatisfied and unhappy when the desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified, or when good condition or pleasant/desirable experiences are not available or no longer available, as the mind is not free from egoism of attachment, identification, clinging, longing, craving and aversion towards life experiences of names and forms. And thus the mind is restless or peaceless, even though the mind attains some momentary effects/benefits from the regular yoga practice.
Upon self-realization of the truth of names and forms as it is, when the mind is free from ignorance, all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceived as suffering due to ignorance, are no longer being perceived as the objects, or the quality, or the cause of suffering, but they are just what they are. There are changes, decay, old age, sickness, weakness, discomfort, pain and the end of the existence and function of the body and mind, but all these are not suffering.
There's neither suffering nor the end of suffering.
Be free.
If there is absence of the function of mind perception through the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, sensing/touching and thinking/remembering, there are no mind activities, there's no worldly life experience. There's no good life or bad life. There's no good being or bad being. There's no good world or bad world. There's no enjoyment or suffering.
The worldly life existence that the mind perceives or experiences, whether it's pleasant or unpleasant, and whether the mind enjoys or suffers, it's all in the mind itself, and it's in now and it's impermanent. It's nothing to do with the names and forms that the mind perceives. The names and forms are just what they are. Duality doesn't exist in the names and forms, but only in the mind itself. Duality exists in the mind, not in the names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses.
Without the sense of seeing, the mind won't perceive sights or images of colours and shapes. What is beautiful or ugliness? What is attractive or unattractive? What is respectful or disrespectful?
Without the sense of hearing, the mind won't perceive sounds. What is pleasantness or unpleasantness? What is compliment or insult? What is calming or disturbing?
Without the sense of taste, the mind won't perceive tastes. What is tasty or not tasty?
Without the sense of smell, the mind won't perceive smells. What is nice smell or bad smell?
Without the sense of touch/sensing, the mind won't perceive sensations. What is pleasure or displeasure? What is comfortable or discomfortable?
Without the thinking faculty and memory function, there's no thinking and belief, culture and religion, or imaginations, or thoughts/ideas, or feelings. What is good or bad? What is right or wrong? What is positive or negative? What is satisfaction or dissatisfaction? What is joy or grief? What is happiness or unhappiness? What is believe or disbelieve? What is fear or fearlessness? What is birth and death? What is existence or non-existence?
The one who experiences suffering, is the mind that is under the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities. The one who performs yoga and meditation practice to be free from suffering, is the mind that is experiencing suffering. The one who is liberated from suffering, is the mind that is being free from ignorance, egoism and impurities through persevered discipline and practice. There's no 'I' experience suffering, or 'I' perform yoga and meditation practice, or 'I' am liberated from suffering.
The mind that is NOT free from ignorance and egoism, there is an idea of 'I' existing to be identified as the one who perceives names and forms, who is aware of the mind activities, and who experiences worldly life existence, to enjoy or suffer based on the reaction towards the perception of names and forms (mind activities of worldly life experiences). The mind is being in a state of restlessness due to ceaseless passionate reactions of egoistic desires of craving and aversion from 'I' towards all the perceived names and forms (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, thoughts/ideas/feelings/memories/imaginations/dreams).
The mind that is free from ignorance and egoism, there is no 'I' existing to experience worldly life existence, there's no 'I' am perceiving names and forms, or 'I' enjoy or suffer. It's just the mind functioning and perceiving names and forms through the senses via the sense organs. There is mind awareness being aware of the mind activities, but there's no 'I' am aware of the mind activities. The selfless/egoless mind is undetermined or uninfluenced by the perception of names and forms due to the absence of egoism of attachment, identification, clinging, longing, craving or aversion towards the perceived names and forms, and thus, it's free from restlessness. There's no clinging or craving towards the objects of name and form that are pleasant and there's no aversion towards the objects of name and form that are unpleasant.
Practice yoga of annihilating egoism, to purify and discipline and quiet the mind to allow the mind to see the truth of things as it is, to be free from ignorance - the root cause of suffering. All the other effects/benefits derived from the many forms of yoga practice are just some by-products, and they are impermanent and they are not the end of suffering. Even the positive effects of good feelings, pleasant sensations, enhanced physical condition and ability, calmness and positive thinking derived from many different forms of yoga practice are impermanent. They will change and pass away.
Attaining all kinds of impermanent effects/benefits from the yoga practice doesn't guarantee that the mind will be free from being determined or disturbed by the mind perception of names and forms of a life existence that is impermanent and it doesn't stop the mind to experience suffering, if the mind is still under the influence of ignorance and egoism.
It's through the elimination of ignorance and egoism that will lead the mind towards the realization of unconditional peace that is not subject to impermanence, that is nothing to do with the qualities of name and form, good and bad condition, and pleasant/desirable or unpleasant/undesirable life experiences. The selfless/egoless mind is peaceful as it is, while witnessing all the perceived impermanent changes of names and forms, or the countless births and deaths of mind activities arising and passing away.
The mind that is not free from ignorance and egoism will be involuntarily and restlessly swaying back and forth between the state of elevation and depression, satisfaction and dissatisfaction, happiness and unhappiness. The mind will feel good, satisfied and happy when its desires of craving and aversion are being gratified, but the good or happy feelings and satisfaction derived from experiencing good condition or pleasant/desirable experiences doesn't stop the mind from feeling bad, dissatisfied and unhappy when the desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified, or when good condition or pleasant/desirable experiences are not available or no longer available, as the mind is not free from egoism of attachment, identification, clinging, longing, craving and aversion towards life experiences of names and forms. And thus the mind is restless or peaceless, even though the mind attains some momentary effects/benefits from the regular yoga practice.
Upon self-realization of the truth of names and forms as it is, when the mind is free from ignorance, all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceived as suffering due to ignorance, are no longer being perceived as the objects, or the quality, or the cause of suffering, but they are just what they are. There are changes, decay, old age, sickness, weakness, discomfort, pain and the end of the existence and function of the body and mind, but all these are not suffering.
There's neither suffering nor the end of suffering.
Be free.
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