For the minds that sincerely want to realize yoga/selflessness/unconditional peace, they need to know what is the middle path, and adopt the middle path in everyday life's relationships, affairs, duties, and responsibilities, as well as in the physical and mental yoga and meditation practice.
When it's time to rest, one rests.
When it's time to be active, one be active.
When it's time to retreat, one retreats.
When it's time to move forward, one moves forward.
When it's time to exert energy, one exerts energy.
When it's time to conserve energy, one conserves energy.
When it's time to eat, one eats.
When it's time to sleep, one sleeps.
When it's time to perform action, one performs action.
When it's time to be silence, one be silent.
There's nothing wrong if the yoga practitioner still have to be living among the worldly passionate egoistic society, and have to be spending approximately 2/3 of one's life existence into the family/social inputs, outputs, affairs, interactions, activities, relationships, duties, and responsibilities, as well as making a living to support oneself and those under one's care, and spending certain amount of time into performing specific physical and mental yoga practice, while spending the rest of one's life existence into sleeping. Although one is sort of being inactive and alone by oneself during the time of sleeping, it's highly important for the yoga practitioner to also reserve a few moments to be alone in solitude and seclusion, in silence and inaction (including not performing any specific physical and mental yoga practice, or so called spiritual practice), while awake, being away/cut off from all kinds of worldly and/or spiritual inputs, outputs, affairs, interactions, activities, relationships, duties, and responsibilities, and eventually, prolonged the moments of being in silence, in solitude and seclusion.
That alone, will allow the mind to develop essential understanding towards the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind, and to attain direct self-realization towards selflessness and impermanence, even if under the absence of a personal teacher or guru.
Many passionate minds might see and criticize the practice of solitude and seclusion, or dispassion and renunciation, as a form of extremity, but, it is indeed an essential part of the middle path that will lead the mind towards knowing Thyself.
Inquire the truth of everything.
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