Yoga practice in everyday life

The yoga practice that most people know or familiar with, is about the yoga practice under certain names and forms that people learn and do in the yoga class, of specific style of yoga asana practice, breathing exercises, concentration practice, relaxation, chanting, cleansing practice, diet regulation, or meditation practice. These yoga practice are very good for the minds that are restless and passionate, to be calming the restlessness, to be balancing the energy field, and for developing certain degrees of basic correct understanding and self-discipline.

Yoga practice is more about applying the essential teachings of yoga into everyday life, by ceaselessly purifying, disciplining, filtering, and restricting the mind inputs and outputs, or the modification of the mind, of the thoughts, actions, speech, expressions, interactions, or conduct in every moment of this selfless impermanent life existence, practically.

Just by doing some form of yoga practice under certain names and forms for many hours a day without knowing how to practice yoga practically in everyday life, integrating the teachings of yoga into the thoughts, actions, speech, expressions, interactions, and conduct, it doesn't lead the mind towards liberation.

One who practices yoga in everyday life, ceaselessly and vigilantly purifying, disciplining, filtering, and restricting the mind activities, or the modification of the mind, doesn't necessarily has to be performing some form of yoga asana practice, breathing exercises, concentration practice, relaxation, chanting, cleansing practice, diet regulation, or meditation practice. All these yoga practice are merely served as the tools that help to purify, calm, and quiet the mind, preparing the mind for self-inquiry, that allow the mind to attain direct experience towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence. However, if without knowing what is non-attachment, non-identification, desirelessness, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, or non-expectation in the daily life existence, all these practice might give rise to certain momentary and conditional physical and mental health and fitness benefits, but it doesn't lead the mind towards the realization of selflessness, or unconditional peace.

It's the development of openness, independence, self-inquiry (Vichara), right discrimination (Viveka) and dispassion (Vairagya) that will lead the mind towards liberation from ignorance, and hence, be free from the suffering and restlessness or peacelessness deriving from ignorance.

It's about freeing the mind from the idea of 'I', 'my', and 'mine', or the ego and egoism.

In the yoga class, all kinds of physical and mental practice must be practiced along with non-attachment, non-identification, non-craving, non-aversion, non-comparison, non-judgment, and non-expectation, as well as it's all about eradicating the idea of 'I', and moving the mind away from the conditional worldly passionate egoistic ideas, values, and practices, while not empowering all that.

The only thing that hinders the mind from realizing selflessness, or attaining self-realization towards oneness, non-separateness, or the selfless universal consciousness, that leads to the vanished of suffering, is the idea of 'I' and its by-products, that derived from ignorance, as well as that fuels and empowers ignorance.

It's nothing magical, or mystical, or super extraordinary, or sentimental about self-realization, where there's no 'I' existing in any names and forms (sentient living beings and non-living objects). It's what all and everything are. But, out of ignorance, there's a very strong idea of 'I' existing in the form of thinking, that identifying with certain impermanent qualities of selfless names and forms as 'I' and/or 'us', which is the main culprit that gives rise to all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, separateness, discrimination, unhappiness, dissatisfaction, corruptions, conflicts, violence, hatred, fear, and unrest in this world that doesn't belong to anyone.

Inquire the truth of everything.