Teaching yoga, or practicing yoga, is not about 'I am an unique spiritual being' being chosen by 'God' or 'Guru', being initiated/assigned/given a righteous 'duty' from 'God' or 'Guru', being 'self-righteous' for helping 'God' or 'Guru' to patrol/judge/control/criticize/discipline/punish other people's actions and reactions, or to be interfering with other people's thinking/belief/behavior/practice that are different from one's thinking/belief/behavior/practice, that the mind thinks and believes as 'bad' and 'wrong', and interfering with other people's different ways of life, actions and reactions, mental and physical activities that one's mind doesn't like and doesn't agree with, that one's mind thinks and believes as 'contradicting' with the teachings and practice of yoga.
As all these 'thinking' and 'actions' coming from the mind acting and reacting towards the world of names and forms that the mind comes in contact with/perceives/experiences/acknowledges are nothing but the play of egoism born out of ignorance. Although most minds would think and believe that they are being the 'good spiritual beings' acting on behalf of 'God' or 'Guru', or upholding what they think and believe is 'supremacy', 'authority', or 'righteousness'.
Teaching yoga is merely sharing the knowledge derived from one's direct experience and self-realization, to give guidance to those who come to them to seek guidance to be learning and practicing yoga, while allowing everyone to be what they are, whether they want to take the guidance, or not; whether they want to learn and practice yoga as it is, or not; whether they want to develop awareness, correct understanding, initiative and self-discipline to discipline their own minds, or not; whether they are aware of all the egoistic urges/intentions behind all their actions and reactions, or not; whether they want to restrict their own mental and physical activities, to purify their minds to be free from egoism, impurities and restlessness, to silent the modifications of the mind, or not; and whether they want to perform inquiry towards the truth of everything and be free from ignorance, or not.
There's no egoistic idea/desire/intention of "I want to be a yoga teacher to teach yoga to other people." or "I am a yoga teacher performing action of teaching yoga to other people."
Practicing yoga is also about allowing everyone and everything to be what they are, that everyone and everything are impermanent and selfless, while 'working' diligently to free one's mind from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.
Those who understand this, either they don't need to perform any practice at all as they are peaceful as they are where their minds are free from ignorance, egoism and impurities, or if they are aware of the existence of ignorance, egoism and impurities in the minds, they will mind their own practice to discipline, to purify and to silent their own minds, while allowing all the other minds to be what they are, to be evolving as they are.
If 'God' or 'Guru' exists, they are 'the selfless/mindless silent witness of pure consciousness', being undisturbed/unaffected/uninfluenced/unchanged/unbothered by all the existing impermanent and selfless names and forms of different thinking/belief/behavior/way of life/actions/reactions of everyone and the consequences of that, or whatever is happening in 'the world of ignorant egoistic impure minds functioning under ignorance, egoism and impurities'. If 'God' and 'Guru' exist, they don't have egoism, or the 'self-righteous' urge or intention derived from egoism to be interfering with/patrolling/judging/controlling/criticizing/disciplining/punishing anyone or anything. If they have egoism, or the 'self-righteous' urge or intention derived from egoism to be interfering with/patrolling/judging/controlling/criticizing/disciplining/punishing everyone or everything, making sure everyone and everything 'to be the way that I think it should be', then they are not really God or Guru.
Such like some people would inflict anger, hatred, ill-will and violence towards others out of the excuse of 'upholding peace' or 'upholding righteousness'. This is not yoga practice, although it's everyone's freedom for what they think and believe, and how they behave, act and react.
"In the name of God, I condemn you to hell." or "These are bad and evil people, I hope that they will be punished with great suffering that they deserved." Quite many minds/people would think and speak in such way 'proudly'. No wonder, many of the saints and sages in the past renounced the world and retreated from the society/community to avoid wasting energy from dealing with such affairs.
Those who truly practice yoga, they withdraw the outgoing tendency of the mind, turning the mind inward to be 'working' diligently towards attaining/reaching that 'pure consciousness of the selfless/mindless silent witness', where they go beyond the egoistic urge/intention of interfering with/patrolling/judging/controlling/criticizing/disciplining/punishing anyone or anything.
If one is aware of this 'self-righteous' thinking and behavior existing in one's mind, and is aware of oneself constantly feels dissatisfied, or frustrated, or disturbed, or angered, or offended by other people's different thinking/belief/practice/behavior/way of life/actions and reactions that one's mind dislikes and disagrees with, and couldn't help oneself being over-powered by the 'self-righteous' urge or intention to be interfering with other people's different thinking/belief/practice/behavior/way of life/actions and reactions, then either one can try to help oneself by developing will-power to free one's mind from this self-righteous thinking and behavior, or one can try to seek 'professional helps' from the many 'psychiatric professionals', to have peace in oneself and stop generating 'disharmony' and 'unrest' into the surrounding environment, being free from restless impurities of dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, possessiveness, authoritarianism, offensiveness, defensiveness, hurts, hostility, animosity, aggressiveness, violence, ill-will, ill-thinking, fear and worry. That itself is a great contribution towards peace in oneself and peace in the world.
Look after one's mind before it's too late where one might be completely losing the reasoning power that allow yoga practice to be taking place, even if one is interested in yoga, or strongly believe in 'God' or 'Guru'. One might be doing some form of 'yoga practice' or 'rituals' regularly, but couldn't help being busy looking at other people and shouting at other people, "You people should be like this and shouldn't be like that," expecting everyone and everything 'to be the way that I think it should be'. That's everyone's freedom of thinking and behavior. It's everyone's freedom whether to look after one's mind, or they prefer to be busy minding about other people's minds, and losing the sanity of their own mind being lost in ignorance.
Be free.
As all these 'thinking' and 'actions' coming from the mind acting and reacting towards the world of names and forms that the mind comes in contact with/perceives/experiences/acknowledges are nothing but the play of egoism born out of ignorance. Although most minds would think and believe that they are being the 'good spiritual beings' acting on behalf of 'God' or 'Guru', or upholding what they think and believe is 'supremacy', 'authority', or 'righteousness'.
Teaching yoga is merely sharing the knowledge derived from one's direct experience and self-realization, to give guidance to those who come to them to seek guidance to be learning and practicing yoga, while allowing everyone to be what they are, whether they want to take the guidance, or not; whether they want to learn and practice yoga as it is, or not; whether they want to develop awareness, correct understanding, initiative and self-discipline to discipline their own minds, or not; whether they are aware of all the egoistic urges/intentions behind all their actions and reactions, or not; whether they want to restrict their own mental and physical activities, to purify their minds to be free from egoism, impurities and restlessness, to silent the modifications of the mind, or not; and whether they want to perform inquiry towards the truth of everything and be free from ignorance, or not.
There's no egoistic idea/desire/intention of "I want to be a yoga teacher to teach yoga to other people." or "I am a yoga teacher performing action of teaching yoga to other people."
Practicing yoga is also about allowing everyone and everything to be what they are, that everyone and everything are impermanent and selfless, while 'working' diligently to free one's mind from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.
Those who understand this, either they don't need to perform any practice at all as they are peaceful as they are where their minds are free from ignorance, egoism and impurities, or if they are aware of the existence of ignorance, egoism and impurities in the minds, they will mind their own practice to discipline, to purify and to silent their own minds, while allowing all the other minds to be what they are, to be evolving as they are.
If 'God' or 'Guru' exists, they are 'the selfless/mindless silent witness of pure consciousness', being undisturbed/unaffected/uninfluenced/unchanged/unbothered by all the existing impermanent and selfless names and forms of different thinking/belief/behavior/way of life/actions/reactions of everyone and the consequences of that, or whatever is happening in 'the world of ignorant egoistic impure minds functioning under ignorance, egoism and impurities'. If 'God' and 'Guru' exist, they don't have egoism, or the 'self-righteous' urge or intention derived from egoism to be interfering with/patrolling/judging/controlling/criticizing/disciplining/punishing anyone or anything. If they have egoism, or the 'self-righteous' urge or intention derived from egoism to be interfering with/patrolling/judging/controlling/criticizing/disciplining/punishing everyone or everything, making sure everyone and everything 'to be the way that I think it should be', then they are not really God or Guru.
Such like some people would inflict anger, hatred, ill-will and violence towards others out of the excuse of 'upholding peace' or 'upholding righteousness'. This is not yoga practice, although it's everyone's freedom for what they think and believe, and how they behave, act and react.
"In the name of God, I condemn you to hell." or "These are bad and evil people, I hope that they will be punished with great suffering that they deserved." Quite many minds/people would think and speak in such way 'proudly'. No wonder, many of the saints and sages in the past renounced the world and retreated from the society/community to avoid wasting energy from dealing with such affairs.
Those who truly practice yoga, they withdraw the outgoing tendency of the mind, turning the mind inward to be 'working' diligently towards attaining/reaching that 'pure consciousness of the selfless/mindless silent witness', where they go beyond the egoistic urge/intention of interfering with/patrolling/judging/controlling/criticizing/disciplining/punishing anyone or anything.
If one is aware of this 'self-righteous' thinking and behavior existing in one's mind, and is aware of oneself constantly feels dissatisfied, or frustrated, or disturbed, or angered, or offended by other people's different thinking/belief/practice/behavior/way of life/actions and reactions that one's mind dislikes and disagrees with, and couldn't help oneself being over-powered by the 'self-righteous' urge or intention to be interfering with other people's different thinking/belief/practice/behavior/way of life/actions and reactions, then either one can try to help oneself by developing will-power to free one's mind from this self-righteous thinking and behavior, or one can try to seek 'professional helps' from the many 'psychiatric professionals', to have peace in oneself and stop generating 'disharmony' and 'unrest' into the surrounding environment, being free from restless impurities of dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, possessiveness, authoritarianism, offensiveness, defensiveness, hurts, hostility, animosity, aggressiveness, violence, ill-will, ill-thinking, fear and worry. That itself is a great contribution towards peace in oneself and peace in the world.
Look after one's mind before it's too late where one might be completely losing the reasoning power that allow yoga practice to be taking place, even if one is interested in yoga, or strongly believe in 'God' or 'Guru'. One might be doing some form of 'yoga practice' or 'rituals' regularly, but couldn't help being busy looking at other people and shouting at other people, "You people should be like this and shouldn't be like that," expecting everyone and everything 'to be the way that I think it should be'. That's everyone's freedom of thinking and behavior. It's everyone's freedom whether to look after one's mind, or they prefer to be busy minding about other people's minds, and losing the sanity of their own mind being lost in ignorance.
Be free.
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