All kinds of yoga and meditation practice are merely some tools

The unconscious evolution of the body and mind activated autonomously under the selfless survival instinct (selfless impermanent changes governed by cause and effect to adapt and accommodate the current internal and external condition and situation that is impermanent) is always happening as it is, even without any conscious awareness or conscious action taking from the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting conscious mind to be aware of or activate all those changes in certain way or not in certain way.

However, the conscious evolution of the body and mind is accessible to all minds out of their own limited and conditional conscious freewill under the presence of conscious awareness, to be consciously aware of the current impermanent condition and situation of the body and mind and the surrounding environment, to be making conscious decisions under the presence of certain knowledge and understanding, and performing conscious actions to make conscious adjustment and adaptation in accordance to the current condition and situation.

The ceaseless unconscious evolution process that is all time activated autonomously under the intentionless unconscious survival instinct, is merely about maintaining maximal survival of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mortal physical structure of the living organisms, regardless of the presence or absence of conscious awareness under correct or incorrect understanding towards anything or everything in the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the physical structure.

Regardless of whether the conscious mind is aware or unaware of, likes or dislikes, agrees or disagrees with, desires or doesn't desire towards the ceaseless unconscious evolution process of the existence and function of the many different selfless mechanisms of the body and mind, the unconscious evolution process (the selfless impermanent unconscious ceaseless changes of the body and mind) is still what it is.

The conscious evolution process that is activated under the conscious desire/yearning/intention/purpose for learning, experiencing, knowing, improving, doubting, and attaining correct understanding (absolute knowledge) towards something or everything - Self inquiry to know Thyself (that is nothing to do with maintaining the maximum survival of the body and mind), to be free from the presence of ignorance (the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness - the egoistic impure restless disturbed dissatisfied violent state of mind/peacelessness/the absence of absolute peace/the evitable mental and emotional suffering) and to transcend the inevitable physical suffering that the mind perceives/experiences due to the inevitable truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self of the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, and in all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses and sense organs, can be non-activated, or activated, or deactivated under the presence or absence and the impermanent changes of the conscious desire/yearning/intention/purpose that is impermanent, limited, and conditional, that will change (intensity and direction), that will increase or decrease, that will be present or absent.

The conscious evolution under conscious awareness/freewill/desire/intention/actions/activities are neither good nor bad. It can be constructive or destructive, depending on the current state of mind.

The non-activated conscious evolution process can be activated by the conscious thinking and acting mind under the presence of conscious desire/yearning towards conscious changes heading towards certain direction (constructive - perform conscious physical and/or mental actions/activities that are constructive/beneficial to be improving the condition and situation of the body and mind and the surrounding environment, or destructive - perform conscious physical and/or mental actions/activities that are harmful and destructive that would be deteriorating the condition and situation of the body and mind and the surrounding environment), as well as the activated conscious evolution process (regardless of constructive or destructive) can be changing direction, or can be completely deactivated (return to non-activation, or the absence of the conscious desire/yearning/action/activity to influence the conscious changes towards any direction, but merely the presence of the ceaseless unconscious evolution process of the body and mind that is always happening until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing.

All kinds of yoga and/or buddhism and meditation practice, or method, or discipline, or observation, are merely some tools that can be utilized by the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under the presence of conscious awareness/freewill/desire/yearning to attain the correct understanding/the absolute knowledge/the truth of things as it is/the peace/the liberation from doubt and painful suffering, or to know Thyself.

The yoga and meditation practice is not (never) a form of obligated commitment, or duty, or responsibility which certain minds perceived, understood, propagated, and took up the practice in such way.

No doubt that the universal activation of conscious mind evolution to annihilate ignorance and the by-products of ignorance is the highest duty of mankind, but, the many different types of practices or tools that can be used for helping the annihilation of the egoistic impure restless modification of the mind (removing the veil of ignorance), are not an obligation, or commitment, or duty, or responsibility.

The action of building a shelter to be having a sheltered space to take rest and to be sheltering from extreme weather, unnecessary disturbance, danger, harm, or life threatening condition, is essential for all living organisms. The many different tools and materials and methods that can help to build a shelter, are subject to the current conditions and situations, availability and possibility (limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation).

Building a shelter needs the help of certain tools and materials and methods that are available. There are many different types of tools and materials and methods to choose from to build a shelter. One doesn't need to use all kinds of tools or materials or methods to build a shelter, although it is possible. One is not committed to specific tools and materials and methods, and be obliged to use only those specific tools and materials and methods to build a shelter. Some time, a shelter can be built under some specific tools and materials and methods, while some time, the specific tools and materials and methods need to be changed to some other tools or materials or methods under different conditions and situations, subject to availability and possibility.

The entire yoga and meditation practice is about letting go or renouncing all kinds of physical/mental/emotional grasping/clinging/attachment/identification, to thin-out/weaken/eliminate the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, or more precisely, to eliminate the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness (the formation of the veil of ignorance, that hinders the conscious mind to perceive/see/know/understand the perceived names and forms or the objects of awareness as it is).

It is not about developing and empowering a strong commitment/attachment/identification/clinging/connection/relationship/obligation/duty/responsibility towards the yoga and meditation practice under specific or many different names and forms/types/lineages/paths.

Under the presence of such idea/understanding, the mind is being conditioned to think and believe and acknowledge that, "If I do my practice for minimum two or three hours a day, for six days a week, persistently, and if I do this and don't do that, then I will feel good and meaningful and accomplished about myself and my life existence. Or else, I am not good enough, or I am weak and bad, and that makes me feel bad and meaningless and failing, because I didn't manage to perform my obligated and committed duty and responsibility (the regular daily yoga and meditation practice), I am unable to achieve the goal/mission of the practice, as well as I am unable to do what I should be doing and I am doing what I shouldn't be doing, as a genuine committed practitioner/student of yoga and/or buddhism. I am not a genuine committed yoga and meditation practitioner."

That is moving away from the essence of yoga and meditation - 'liberation', or 'free as it is', under the absence of grasping. The yoga and meditation practice itself becomes the name and form (the activity) that binds the mind, or generates the idea/notion of "lack of freedom", or "I am not free", or "I am sacrificing my worldly affairs, activities, ties and connection, relationship, duty, and responsibility for focusing on my committed personal yoga and meditation practice."

However, if the mind persists in such disciplined rigid fixed-routine practice under fixed timing regularly on daily basis for a prolonged period of time (sort of unwittingly/unintentionally renouncing or moving away from the passionate worldly egoistic life activities and connections, as they won't have much extra energy, time, effort, or attention left for attending and engaging in some other activities, as the intense disciplined physical and mental yoga and meditation practice took up most of the energy, time, effort, and attention), the mind might eventually realize the truth of impermanence, limitation, and conditional, that will also lead to the realization of selflessness, after a prolonged period of intense discipline/commitment towards performing the daily practice on specific timing and under specific way or fixed-routine (autonomous familiarity that is needless of thinking/analyzing/understanding while keeping the awareness/focus at one particular point - quieting the restless modification of the mind effectively), while attaining all kinds of physical and mental benefits from the regular practice (the skill, the stamina, the strength, the flexibility, the ability, the health and fitness status, the state of mind), that are all impermanent, that need ceaseless and endless effort for maintenance, that cannot exist or function without the selfless support of energy and elements, which will eventually give rise to the direct realization or understanding towards this body and mind, the regular physical and mental yoga and meditation practice/activity, and the effects of the practice, or the consequences of the conscious and unconscious physical and mental activities, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Even if the mind doesn't realize this upon the end of its momentary existence and function, but at least during its entire life span where it spent most of its selfless impermanent momentary existence and function or the energy, time, effort, and attention (the conscious awareness and conscious activities during the state of consciousness/wakefulness) into performing such intense disciplined daily yoga and meditation practice, it didn't have the additional energy, or time, effort, and attention to do anything physically and mentally that would be harming itself and others or the surrounding environment.

That is already serving one of the purpose of performing the yoga and meditation practice - Ahimsa, or Non-violence/Non-harming/Non-interference/Surrendering, by fully focusing the entire energy/life span/effort/attention/existence and function onto performing the yoga and meditation practice, even if it doesn't lead to complete self realization upon the end of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

Meanwhile, the minds that have evolved further, and have certain degrees of correct understanding, even though they have not yet attaining the direct realization towards selflessness (where the mind is still being conditioned by the worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestral/political/national/commercial idea/belief/values/practice of believing in "the existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity/soul/spirit/consciousness" that has been undergoing ceaseless endless rounds of reincarnations under different physical structures transitioning in many different realms determined by the belief of ceaseless boundless accumulated 'good/bad/neutral karma'), but they will know and choose the middle path, by performing the yoga and meditation practice regularly while constantly making adjustment and adaptation in accordance to the current condition, situation, availability, and possibility (devoid of rigidity/fixed timing and fixed routine/the notion of "lack of freedom" or "I am not free").

One can take up the practice, and practice as it is or not as it is, or abandon/forgo/modify the practice in accordance to the current condition and situation, availability and possibility, under any reason or at no reason, but it is not about to gratify the egoistic desires and don't desires under the influence of egoistic likes and dislikes/agreements and disagreements.

Upon the mind knows Thyself, or attained direct realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself, the physical structure, and all kinds of names and forms that it perceives through the senses and sense organs (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations, feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, dreams, memories, imaginations, all kinds of living organisms and non-living objects), where the conscious mind transcends the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself, not to say, all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceives/experiences/comes in contact with through the senses (pleasant/unpleasant, agreeable/disagreeable, desirable/undesirable, enjoyable/non-enjoyable or painful names and forms, conditions, situations, affairs, activities, interactions, or connections), the conscious evolution process will drop-off by itself naturally.

There is needless of the presence or activation of conscious mind evolution (all kinds of yoga and meditation practice) in order to know Thyself, upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness or restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, upon the direct self realization towards knowing Thyself, of knowing the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self of this mortal body and mind, and all kinds of names and forms.

Even though the selfless impermanent limited and conditional thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness may or may not make use of the available existing energy, conscious awareness, life existence and function of the body and mind, knowledge, experience, talents, skills, opportunities, and possibilities (all are momentary, selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional), in NOW, to be performing conscious actions/activities that are benefiting oneself, others, and the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

The minds that are resting in unconditional peace, devoid of grasping, have no obligation to perform action, or not. They are free as they are.

The presence of the thinking/thought/idea/belief/identification of, "I have to do this because it is my personal and family and community commitment, obligation, duty, and responsibility towards myself, my family, my community, and the surrounding environment or the world," is not yoga, or buddhism, or freedom.

Performing all actions without the sense of commitment, obligation, duty, or responsibility, that are benefiting oneself and all and everyone and everything, indiscriminately and unconditionally, without grasping, is freedom, is inaction in action, is the essence of yoga and buddhism.

There is absence of the thinking/thought/idea/notion/identification of, "lack of freedom", "I am not free", "Sacrificing myself for others", or "Sacrificing something or everything for the sake of performing the yoga and meditation practice", while performing the regular yoga and meditation practice and/or performing actions that benefit oneself and all and everyone.

Attending and engaging in all kinds of worldly commitment, connection, relationship, affair, activity, duty, and responsibility, while without correct understanding, or under the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, doesn't benefit anyone or anything. One keeps generating actions and reactions that are hurting oneself and others, unwittingly and unintentionally, while thinking and believing that oneself loves all and everyone and everything very much.

And hence, the highly importance of renunciation to be renouncing/moving away from unnecessary worldly egoistic affairs and activities to be focusing on one's conscious mind evolution, to be free from ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, then only one knows how to truly love and be kind to oneself and others, indiscriminately and unconditionally, while attending and engaging in all kinds of commitment, family ties and social connection, relationship, friendship, affair, activity, duty, and responsibility.

The minds that know this, might still be performing some kind of physical and mental exercise/practice from time to time, that is adequate enough for maintaining certain degrees of good health and fitness condition and function of the body and mind up to a certain extend (the presence of inevitable limitation), to maintain certain degrees of physical/mental independence, to be looking after oneself, others, and the surrounding environment, if possible, as they like, if they want, while still existing and functioning momentarily, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, in NOW, without grasping, devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

The minds that don't know this (yet), they would think and believe and desire that all kinds of conscious physical and mental actions/activities/practices/trainings are for challenging, changing, controlling, influencing, defying, and if possible, escaping the selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration of the body and mind, to be free from being limited and conditioned by any kind of limitation and condition (to be superhuman with super extraordinary power or ability), if not, to exit/to be liberated from what the mind thinks and believes as 'the ceaseless endless wheel of births and deaths (ceaseless endless reincarnations transitioning under different realms)', under the worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestral/political/national/regional/commercial ideas/beliefs/values/practices, or what the mind thinks and believes as 'entering Nirvana/Nibhana'.

The Nirvana/Nibhana in both the teachings of yoga and buddhism, is merely about the annihilation/silence/absence of the egoistic impure restless selfless modification of the mind, or more precisely, the absence of the idea of 'I' and egoism, and all kinds of impurities deriving from the idea of 'I' and egoism, that give rise to restlessness/peacelessness/murkiness, or the existence/presence of the veil of ignorance (the restless selfless thoughts activities/process/current, or the ceaseless births (arising) and deaths (passing away) of countless names and forms of countless ideas/thoughts/desires/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions under different shapes/qualities and forming the different impermanent realms/states of mind), where the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind of the physical structure functioning under the presence of conscious awareness cannot perceive/know/see/understand things as it is.

Self inquiry, of seeing the truth of things as it is, devoid of the intellectual thinking process/reasoning/analysis/modification of the mind, under the presence of the one-pointed thoughtless desireless intentionless attributeless actionless selfless conscious awareness (the stillness/silence/absence/annihilation of the selfless restless egoistic impure modification of the mind/conscious thought activities a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness under the presence of conscious awareness), is absolutely possible. Even if it is also impermanent, but that momentary precious glimpse of the truth of selflessness will change how the conscious active selfless mind functions/thinks/reasons/understands/acts/reacts/feels/desires/behaves constructively/compassionately/wisely/selflessly/desirelessly/peacefully/fearlessly/freely as it is, while still existing and functioning selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, in NOW.

And there is neither right nor wrong to maximize the good health and fitness condition and function for maximal survival and longer life span with maximum enjoyment of the body and mind, not to the point of hurting oneself and others or the surrounding environment in order to achieve such aspiration/desire/goal, ignorantly and unintentionally. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind propagating, non-blind glorifying. 

The difference between the presence and absence of grasping

All kinds of physical and mental yoga and meditation practice is about developing and empowering non-grasping, or the thinning-out/elimination/absence for grasping, or clinging.

Upon the direct realization towards selflessness, there is neither grasping nor non-grasping (the end of practice), as the mind is resting upon the selfless universal consciousness devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, or restlessness.

As long as the mind still hasn't attained direct realization towards selflessness, where the mind is still in doubt towards the truth of selflessness, then all kinds of regular ongoing physical and mental yoga and meditation practice to move the mind away from the worldly passionate egoistic conditioned habitual thinking and behavior pattern, is highly useful and valid.

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It is normal and nothing wrong to like and enjoy certain agreeable and pleasurable experiences, conditions, activities, interactions, affairs, or connections, including any particular type of food and drinks, living space, surrounding environment, companionship, relationship, friendship, daily or regular physical and mental health and fitness training activities, yoga and meditation practice, rituals, and etc, if they are available to the mind, or it's possible for the mind to enjoy all that, in the present moment NOW.

If for any reasons, all those agreeable and pleasurable names and forms that give rise to the sense of enjoyment, accomplishment, satisfaction, goodness, positiveness, healthiness, righteousness, joyfulness, happiness, or meaningfulness in the mind, are not available in the present moment NOW, or under the presence of certain limited condition and situation (the presence of obstruction, or obstacle, or disturbance, or disruption, or sickness, or injury, or weakness) where it's not possible for the body and mind to be enjoying all those agreeable and pleasurable names and forms in the way that the mind would like it to be, even if they are available in the present moment NOW, and the mind will be disturbed, dissatisfied, disappointed, depressed, frustrated, irritated, agitated, restless, angry, or violent, being determined or disturbed by the non-availability or the impossibility of the enjoyment towards some or all or certain agreeable and pleasurable names and forms that the mind likes and enjoys from time to time or regularly, especially under the presence of disagreeable and unpleasant experiences, conditions, activities, interactions, affairs, or connections, then it indicates the presence of grasping, or clinging (the presence of physical/mental/emotional attachment and the desire of craving and aversion).

Such minds are not practicing yoga or meditation as it is, even if they have been 'practicing' some kind of yoga and meditation practice regularly for a prolonged duration, and are enjoying many of the benefits deriving from the regular physical and mental practice (the enhanced physical and mental health and fitness condition/strength/flexibility/stamina/ability and the sense of calmness/positiveness/righteousness/joyfulness/meaningfulness, that are also impermanent, limited, and conditional).

And if the mind is still peaceful as it is (resting in unconditional peace), being undetermined or undisturbed by the non-availability or the impossibility of the enjoyment towards some or all or certain agreeable and pleasurable names and forms that the mind likes and enjoys from time to time or regularly, regardless of whether the non-availability or impossibility is for short-term or long-term, as well as particularly under the presence of disagreeable and unpleasant experiences, conditions, activities, interactions, affairs, or connections, then it indicates the absence of grasping, or clinging (the absence of physical/mental/emotional attachment and the desire of craving and aversion).

Such minds are the identity-less, nameless, and formless yogis or buddhas, even if they didn't or couldn't practice any kind of yoga and meditation practice under certain names and forms.

However, there is neither bad nor wrong about the minds are not practicing yoga and meditation as it is, even though they have been practicing some kind of yoga and meditation practice regularly and enthusiastically, as the minds don't know what is non-grasping yet.

In the beginning, the mind might not be aware of what is going on in the modification of the mind, due to the veil of ignorance. That is something natural and very common.

As the mind keeps practicing, the mind might start to develop certain degrees of awareness/observation/understanding towards what is going on in the modification of the mind, even if the mind still doesn't know what is non-grasping yet, where the mind is unwittingly being determined or disturbed by its own ungratified desires of craving and aversion, and all kinds of impurities.

And as the mind keeps practicing, it might start to develop certain degrees of detachment or non-association, standing as a third party looking into the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mind and the modifications/states/thought activities of the mind.

And as the mind keeps practicing, it might develop certain degrees of non-grasping or non-attachment towards the restless modification/states/thoughts activities of the mind, and becoming less and less disturbed or determined by the presence and absence/availability and non-availability/possibility and impossibility of all the pleasant and unpleasant/desirable and undesirable/agreeable and disagreeable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable experiences that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional.

And as the mind keeps practicing, it might come to the point that it is no longer being determined or disturbed by all kinds of names and forms that it perceives through the senses, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, and enjoyable or non-enjoyable.

Or, the mind might still hasn't developed any of that (not practicing yoga and meditation as it is) until the end of the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, and still being determined and disturbed very much by all and everything that it perceives/experiences, and that's okay too.

And so, does the mind still feel disturbed, offended, dissatisfied, disappointed, depressed, demotivated, or upset, hurt, humiliated, disrespected, belittled, victimized, cheated, ill-treated, angry, and hatred towards the presence of certain disagreeable/unpleasant/undesirable/non-enjoyable/undeserving names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/interactions/relationships and the absence of certain agreeable/pleasant/desirable/enjoyable/deserving names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/interactions/relationships? If yes, then just keep practicing, but if possible, with better understanding towards what yoga and meditation practice is about.

It doesn't mean that one should just stand there not moving away from any kind of ill treatment or hurtful behavior of some others, and silently accepting all kinds of physical/mental/emotional ill-treatment or hurtful behavior inflicted unto oneself by others who are functioning and behaving under the influence of ignorance. One should try to move away from such ignorant hurtful conditions, situations, affairs, interactions, or connections if possible, even if they are one's family members/relatives/friends/community, while need not be determined by the ignorant hurtful destructive behaviors of the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance. Even a two years old toddler that has just learnt how to walk and run would also have the autonomous survival instinct to run away from risky situation and to take shelter or hideaway from anyone who is violent and hurtful, or to ask help or take refuge in some others who are available to give help or protection.

The minds that understand this, there is no difference between all the different types/lineages/paths of yoga and/or buddhism. There is neither superior nor inferior. It is about choosing which type/lineage/path that is available to oneself, and that suits oneself most, in the present moment NOW. While that might or might not change depending on the current condition and situation in NOW, that is always changing.

If the mind still thinks and believes, or debates and justifies that this particular type/lineage/path of yoga and/or buddhism is the best among all, or is more superior or inferior than some other type/lineage/path of yoga and/or buddhism, or the mind thinks and believes and desires that this is the only type/lineage/path of yoga and/or buddhism that it likes and wants to practice, and reluctant to make adaptation and adjustment to accommodate the current selfless impermanent limited and conditional condition and situation of the body and mind and the surrounding environment, in the present moment NOW, then the mind needs to keep practicing until it sees the one same nature in all kinds of diverse names and forms. All debates and justifications, or superiority and inferiority and all kinds of duality, will disappear naturally.

If the mind still needs the presence of something or someone externally to motivate itself to be performing certain action/practice/duty/responsibility that will benefit itself and others and the surrounding environment, then it needs to keep practicing until it no longer needs to depend on the presence or availability of anything or anyone externally to motivate it for anything.

The only motivation/intention/desire is the intense yearning towards liberation/absolute knowledge/unconditional peace arising from the mind itself, that keeps the mind to keep going in life and keep practicing no matter what, while constantly making necessary adjustment and adaptation to accommodate the current condition and situation, and even that intense yearning will also have to be let go/dropped-off, where the mind completely surrenders to all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant/agreeable and disagreeable/desirable and undesirable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable or painful experiences being absent or present as they are, without craving or aversion, accepting the perceived reality as it is, knowing that all are impermanent, where the modification of the mind is completely devoid of any desire/intention/expectation including the intense yearning towards liberation from suffering/painful sorrow/doubt/ignorance/unpleasant, disagreeable, undesirable, non-enjoyable or painful experiences, then the mind will start to see things as it is, and realize Selflessness, and unconditional peace, resting upon the timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness.

One doesn't need to be physically and mentally super extraordinary, healthy, fit, strong, flexible, long-lived, knowledgeable, intelligent, talented, skillful, well-learnt, well-informed, well-lived, accomplished, or highly experienced, to realize all that.

Regardless of what/who/where/how one thinks and believes oneself is, one just needs to be able to let go grasping, towards all kinds of worldly/personal/communal/ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial/philosophical egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, aspirations, desires, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation.

Just do what one can do that is possible, in the present moment NOW.

In the beginning, the mind needs to take refuge in something externally (to have external teachers and teachings to help, teach, and guide oneself). Upon it developed mental and emotional independence, the one and only refuge/teacher/teachings is the mind itself, where all and everything that it perceives/experiences/comes in contact with, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant/desirable or undesirable/enjoyable or non-enjoyable, including the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the body and mind, are the timeless selfless teachers and teachings that teach and reflect about selflessness and impermanence, as well as the answers to all the doubts in the mind itself.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

Inquire towards the selfless conscious awareness

All are selfless.

The mind stuff, is selfless. 

The thinking faculty, or the function of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, is selfless.

The modification of the mind, or the thought process/activity, is selfless.

All the different selfless mechanisms that enabling the selfless thinking faculty, or the selfless mind to be existing and functioning as what it is, that consists of the conscious awareness, the senses and the organs of the senses, the perception, the cognition/the accumulated knowledge/the memory storage, the intellect/the reasoning/the discrimination/the understanding, the feelings and emotions, the sensations, the thinking, and the conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious desires/urges/actions and reactions, including the idea of 'I' (the ego), or the self awareness/acknowledgement, as well as the selfless supportive energy and elements that enables all cells/organs/systems/functions/mechanisms to be functioning as what they are, are all selfless.

The presence and absence of conscious awareness that enables the mind to be aware (conscious) or semi-aware (semi-conscious) or unaware (unconscious) of the objects of awareness, or the existence and function of itself, the modification of the mind, the physical structure, and the surrounding environment, is also selfless. It can be present or absent, or it comes and goes, depending on the different states of consciousness that is impermanent.

The selfless universal consciousness that is always there as it is, that doesn't come or go, that doesn't change, that pervades all and everything within and without, that gives rise to the different impermanent states of consciousness/awareness to the selfless minds - Complete absence of consciousness/awareness (state of unconscious/deep sleep/coma), partial absence/presence of consciousness/awareness (state of semi-conscious/semi-sleep/semi-awake/dreaming), and complete presence of consciousness/awareness (state of fully conscious/aware/awake), is also selfless.

The selfless mind stuff, or the different selfless mechanisms of the mind (the different tools that are needed to be making the movies, the movies projector, and the projector screen for screening/reflecting/hosting the movies) and the selfless states/modifications/thought activities of the mind (the movies), is neither pure nor impure, while the contents of the modification of the mind, or the thought process/activities in the many different minds (the different contents of the many different movies produced by the many different movies makers), that consists of many different way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practices, thoughts, ideas, sensations, feelings and emotions, desires, actions and reactions, even though they are just what they are, neither pure nor impure, but they can be conditioning and influencing the selfless mechanisms of perception, cognition, intellect, reasoning, understanding, aspiration, behavior, action, and reaction in certain way or not in certain way, that appeared to be destructive or constructive, that can give rise to destructive or constructive consequences unto oneself, others, and the surrounding environment.

Just like the selfless universal consciousness is untouched, unchanged, undetermined, undamaged, or uncontaminated by the selfless impermanent manifestations of all kinds of names and forms manifesting under different qualities/conditions/time, space, and causation/impermanent changes upon itself, the selfless conscious awareness is also untouched, unchanged, undetermined, undamaged, or uncontaminated by the objects of awareness.

There might be pure or impure/pleasant or unpleasant/positive or negative/constructive or destructive thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, sensations, feelings and emotions, behaviors, actions and reactions, ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the selfless modifications of the mind governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, but the selfless impermanent conscious awareness that can be presence or absence depending on the different states of consciousness, is untouched, unchanged, undetermined, undamaged, or uncontaminated by all that.

The mind might be in a state of purity (clarity) or impurity (murky), happiness or unhappiness, positiveness or negativeness, constructiveness or destructiveness, but the selfless conscious awareness doesn't become pure or impure, happy or unhappy, positive or negative, constructive or destructive.

The practice of concentration and/or meditation is about strengthening and sharpening the power of awareness by gathering the dissipated wavering awareness to be focusing at one particular point of focus or at one particular object of awareness (particularly focusing within towards what is happening in the body and mind in NOW, towards the breathing, or sensations, or thoughts, or feelings and emotions, that enables the mind to see the truth of impermanence and selflessness directly as it is), devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, association, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

During and after the prolonged process of the practice of gathering the dissipated awareness at one single object of awareness, or keeping the attention or the focus at one point of focus, the strength and sharpness of the conscious awareness will increase, just as the power or efficiency of the eyesight or hearing, or the power of intellectual learning, reasoning, and understanding, or the power of memory, can be declining or improving under different influential condition.

The strengthened and sharpened conscious awareness can even maintain fully presence during the semi-conscious state, or the sleep state, or the dream state, or even in the unconscious/deep sleep/coma state. Such as, certain minds can be aware of and remember clearly towards the dreams (vivid dreams) or even the unconscious perception of names and forms (the unconscious autonomous thought process/perception of names and forms) during the state of unconsciousness, or deep sleep, or coma.

The mind that was in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/complete resting/coma wasn't consciously aware of itself and the surrounding environment during the state of complete absence of conscious awareness, being unaware of itself (the absence of the idea of 'I' (the ego), or self acknowledgement/awareness - the reflection of Selflessness) and its selfless impermanent autonomous modification of the mind, or the different autonomous bodily functions, or the surrounding environment, however, there are some minds don't even consciously know/aware of what was happening during the state of unconsciousness under the absence of conscious awareness, and they don't know why, but they come back into the state of consciousness (waking up) remembering partially/mostly/fully not only the accumulated conscious memory/imprints of before they went into the state of sleep/dream/deep sleep (the self acknowledgement/awareness of a particular self identity under a specific accumulated memory/imprints), but also the ceaseless autonomous memory/imprints of the ceaseless unconscious autonomous physical and mental activities during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, due to the selfless universal consciousness (the timeless changeless silent witness) that pervades all and everything, is always there as it is, beyond the three states of consciousness in all minds, that doesn't come and go, even though the conscious awareness can be presence or absence depending on the different states of consciousness, that is highly important and inevitable for all kinds of sentient and non-sentient living organisms to be interchanging between conscious activities and complete rest from conscious activities even though there are still some essential continuous autonomous physical/mental activities ceaselessly happening for life maintenance under the momentary state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma.

Similarly, there are minds that have very little or even no awareness towards themselves, of what is going on in the body and mind, or towards the surrounding environment, even under the state of wakefulness. Or, when the mind is fully focusing on reading a book, or watching a movie, or it goes into a deep contemplation (state of meditation), it has no awareness towards certain bodily sensations or certain noise/sound/smell/talking/movement/activity in the surrounding environment (being momentarily cut-off from the conscious perception of names and forms via the senses and sense organs, even though the unconscious autonomous imprints of everything is still there as it is).

All these are neither good nor bad. The most important thing is about the absence of grasping, or attachment/association/identification/craving/aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation under the presence of conscious awareness towards anything and everything (the selfless impermanent modifications/states/thought activities of the mind, or the objects of awareness/perception/knowing/experience).

All kinds of physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practices are merely about the thinning-out of the degrees of grasping that leads to the complete annihilation of grasping (the thinning-out of the idea of 'I' and egoism, that also lead to the thinning-out of impurities and restlessness).

The prolonged practice of concentration and meditation under the presence of non-grasping (the absence of grasping), will eventually lead towards the process of self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of things as it is, where the mind perceives the perceived names and forms as they are, or is aware of the objects of awareness as they are, under the absence of the subjective thinking/reasoning/judgment under the influence of any particular worldly passionate egoistic impure desires/ideas/beliefs/values/practices (under a one pointed quiet thoughtless desireless peaceful state of mind).

The minds that have no correct understanding towards the selfless modification of the mind, are unwittingly or ignorantly being the slave of all that, where there is the idea of 'I (the ego) and egoism of grasping, or attachment, identification, association, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation being generated towards all those selfless manifestations of perceived names and forms/thoughts/sensations/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations/dreams/urges/inspirations/aspirations, that lead to ceaseless and restless ideas/desires/actions/reactions/behaviors (the presence of restlessness and all kinds of impurities - The formation of the veil of ignorance).

The minds that have correct understanding towards all that, they are resting upon the unchanging timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, having the selfless conscious awareness being aware of all that, while being undetermined or undisturbed by all that - devoid of the idea of 'I' (the ego), or egoism of grasping, or attachment, identification, association, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, allowing all the selfless manifestations of perceived names and forms, thoughts, dreams, memories, imaginations, ideas, desires, sensations, feelings, and emotions, being there as they are, allowing them to be arising, changing, and passing away, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, without being influenced or determined by all that to be acting or reacting that are unnecessary, apart from attending the inevitable essential needs/activities for life maintenance.

The minds that are practicing yoga and/or buddhism and meditation, is all about non-grasping, or the absence of grasping, where the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is being conscious towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself and the selfless impermanent modification of the mind under the presence of the selfless impermanent conscious awareness, is aware of all those selfless manifestations of names and forms or the thought process/activities/ideas/sensations/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations, but devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment/grasping, identification, association, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation towards all that.

Non-grasping doesn't exist or is invalid in oneness/non-duality/non-separateness, upon the selfless mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness.

Non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-craving/non-aversion/non-comparison/non-judgment/non-expectation don't exist in the timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, or upon the mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness (the absence of the idea of 'I'/the ego).

Meanwhile, the selfless mechanisms of the mind is not the contents of the selfless modifications of the mind.

The conscious mind awareness is merely existing and being what it is along with the selfless existence and function of the different selfless mechanisms of the body and mind.

Under the presence of conscious awareness, the conscious mind is aware of the objects of awareness, or the knower knows the knowledge, or the perceiver perceives the perception of names and forms via the selfless function of the senses and the sense organs that are existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements.

The conscious mind (the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the physical body) under the presence of conscious awareness, is not the objects of awareness, and vice versa, the objects of awareness is not the awareness, including what the mind perceives/acknowledges/understands/identifies as 'this is I/me/myself' (thoughts/ideas) is also not the conscious awareness.

The presence of conscious awareness is merely the 'connecting bridge' that allows the selfless mind to be aware of the selfless existence and function of the mind itself and all kinds of perceived names and forms in the surrounding environment, that are all selfless and impermanent (there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence that exists in the body and mind, or in all kinds of names and forms).

Just as the presence of light (the 'connecting bridge') that enables the perceptive mind to perceive sights via the sense of seeing to see the objects of seeing through the organ of eyes. Under the absence of light, the mind doesn't perceive sights even if the different mechanisms of the mind and the sense and organ of eyes are existing and functioning perfectly as they are.

The presence/availability of light is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional (can be strong or weak/brighter or dimmer/complete or partial presence and absence), so as the presence of conscious awareness that exists along with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the mortal body and mind.

Without the selfless support of the selfless energy and different selfless elements that come together to form the selfless impermanent existence and function of the limited and conditional mortal body and mind, what is the selfless impermanent existence and function of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind of the selfless impermanent mortal physical structure?

Without the selfless impermanent existence and function of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mechanism/mind of the selfless impermanent physical structure, what is the restless modification of the mind or the worldly life existence of enjoyment and suffering?

Without the selfless universal consciousness, what is conscious awareness?

Without the conscious awareness, what is the objects of awareness?

Without the selfless existence and function of the different selfless mechanisms of the mind, what is good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, purity and impurity, happiness and unhappiness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, appropriateness and disappropriateness, deserving and non-deserving, enjoyment and suffering?

And hence, non-grasping is valid and possible, as long as there is still the restless modification of the mind manifesting under the selfless impermanent existence and function of the different selfless mechanisms of the selfless mind under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness, that gives rise to duality or separateness (subject and object, 'I' and 'not I').

Non-grasping (the yoga and/or buddhism practice, or meditation/self-inquiry/conscious mind evolution to eliminate the veil of ignorance and to transcend suffering), or non-grasping towards the objects of awareness, or the conscious mind perception/experience of dualities/separateness/subject and object, or enjoyment and suffering, doesn't exist or is invalid, upon Silence, or the stillness/annihilation of the restless modification of the mind.

That is why, it really doesn't matter if the mind still hasn't understand (completely) towards all these, even if the mind might still keep hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment either intentionally or unintentionally, due to unwittingly and ignorantly functioning under the influence of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

Because at least, the mind might stop harming/hurting itself and/or others and the surrounding environment during the time when it is being occupied by all kinds of ongoing physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practices during its momentary selfless and impermanent existence and function. However, there are some minds might still be harming/hurting the body and mind during the process of learning and performing the different yoga and/or buddhism practice under the presence of the habitual ignorant and egoistic ideas, thinking, understanding, attitude, desire, aspiration, action, and reaction.

That's why the highly importance of the initial mind purification process (mental practices) under the help of the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence, in order to eliminate the ego and egoism even before the beginning of learning and performing the physical practices.

Such as, occupying the entire life existence into performing ceaseless selfless service or karma yoga for oneself and others, or performing one's duties and responsibilities towards looking after oneself and others and the surrounding environment, without the need of performing any kind of specific yoga asana practice, breathing exercise, chanting, prayer, ritual, concentration and meditation practice under particular name and form, and etc.

It's about perform all kinds of actions without grasping/attachment.

Perform all actions/practices/duties/responsibilities, and let go the fruit of actions/practices/duties/responsibilities, allowing the fruit of actions to be what it is.

The minds that understand this, there is no difference between action and inaction, between worldly duties and all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism physical and mental practices, between different types of yoga/buddhism practice, or between different lineages/paths of yoga/buddhism. Not to say, there is no this type/lineage/path of yoga/buddhism is more superior/inferior than some other type/lineage/path of yoga/buddhism. But the presence of correct understanding towards all that is crucial, as that is influencing whether the mind will be generating behaviors, actions, and reactions that hurt oneself and others, or not, regardless of whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Meanwhile, the direct self realization towards all these, can allow the mind to be resting in peace amidst the chaotic world of ignorance and egoism, and/or to be making full use of the selfless impermanent momentary existence and function of the body and mind with the available existing and accumulating talents, skills, knowledge, understanding, experience, and opportunity, under the absence of ignorance, the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, restlessness, and all kinds of impurities (corrupted and destructive ideas, thinking, understanding, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, actions and reactions, feelings and emotions, self-righteousness, pride, the urge to control everything to be or not to be in certain way, and etc), to be looking after and benefiting oneself, all and everything, and the surrounding environment, selflessly and indiscriminately.

And hence, it is highly important for activating the mind conscious evolution, to eliminate the veil of ignorance, to be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless universal consciousness, during the momentary existence and function of the selfless impermanent mortal body and mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Heart Sutra - The realization of Selflessness - Transcending all suffering

觀自在菩薩, 行深般若波羅蜜多時, 照見五蘊皆空，度一切苦厄。

When Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva contemplated profoundly upon Prajnaparamita, he realized that the five aggregates are empty (Selflessness - All names and forms/mind perception/sensation/feeling/thinking/thought process/modification of the mind/action and reaction/consciousness are all selfless), and thus transcended all suffering and distress. 

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Regardless of how much knowledge/information/teachings about all and everything that the mind has been accumulating/memorizing, it still needs to inquire the truth of all knowledge/information/teachings and attains direct self realization towards all that.

Just by coming in contact with/hearing/reading/studying/analyzing/memorizing/talking/propagating/discussing/debating/researching towards all kinds of teachings/Sutras/Mantras/Scriptures/knowledge/information doesn't remove the veil of ignorance and doesn't free the mind from the perception/experience of all kinds of disturbance and suffering.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Purify. Meditate. Inquire. Realize.

Root out passion, the idea of 'I', and egoism.

Renounce the world of egoism and ignorance. 

Let go all kinds of worldly egoistic attachments, identifications, ideas, beliefs, values, and practices. 

Attain direct self realization towards Impermanence (諸法無常) and Selflessness (諸法無我).

Do not blind-believing, blind-following, blind-practicing, blind-agreeing/disagreeing, blind-propagating, blind-glorifying.

The countless individual minds are many and different, the timeless universal consciousness is one and same

Just as the paths/lineages of yoga and buddhism are many and different, but the self inquiry and self realization is one and same, similarly, there had been, and there are many different individual selfless physical structures (all sentient living organisms, not just limited to human beings) with their own respective individual selfless modification of the mind, that had been or are existing and functioning under many different conditions, qualities, traits, personalities, states, desires, behaviors, actions and reactions, manifested under different time (timing), space (location), and causation (cause and effect), are many and uniquely different from one another, but the selfless consciousness that gives rise to different states of consciousness and conscious awareness to all the countless different individual minds that had ceased existing/functioning and/or are existing/functioning, in NOW, is the one same timeless attributeless selfless consciousness.

There had been, and there are countless individual minds existing and functioning under each of the countless individual physical structures ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away at their own respective cause and pace under different time, space, and causation, while the timeless selfless consciousness that pervades all and everything within and without throughout the infinite space, doesn't come and go, or change.

 

The selfless existence and function of the many different individual selfless minds are non-independent (depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning), impermanent (ceaselessly changing), limited, and conditional.

They are non-self (their impermanent dependent limited and conditional existence and function doesn't even belong to themselves, not to say, all and everything that the minds think and believe that belong to them).

They have a beginning of existence and an end of existence, they are limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation, and it is limited and conditioned by discriminative and assertive or subjective functions/modifications of the limited and conditional perception/cognition/memory/intellect/thinking/feeling/emotion/action and reaction/desire/self-identification or self-acknowledgement (the idea of 'I' or the ego, that gives rise to separateness and egoism, that give rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness - The veil of ignorance).

The selfless universal consciousness is independent, changeless, unlimited, and unconditional. It is beginningless and endless (unlimited by time or impermanent changes and activities), it is all pervading (unlimited by the limitation of space that exists in all kinds of names and forms), and it is unborn (non-manifested), nameless, formless, attributeless, or substanceless (unlimited by causation - cause and effect).

Just like the infinite space is timeless, attributeless, and unborn/non-manifested, the selfless universal consciousness is infinite, timeless, attributeless, and unborn/non-manifested.

Everything that are manifested in the infinite space under specific qualities of names and forms (matters/molecules/cells/atoms/protons/neutrons/neurons/electrons/elements/light/heat/gas/energy/air/water/minerals/living organisms/objects/planets/stars/suns/galaxies/universe/world/atmospheres/environments/conditions) are all limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation. But the infinite space is untouched, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or undetermined by all kinds of manifestations that come and go. The space doesn't increase or decrease regardless of all kinds of names and forms arising and passing away.

The selfless universal consciousness is the timeless selfless silent witness towards (the indiscriminate/non-judgmental/non-interfering imprint of) all kinds of selfless manifestations. It is untouched, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or undetermined by the selfless manifestations of all kinds of names and forms that are limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation, that existed/exist, ceaselessly changing, and had/will be ceased existing, in NOW.

Just as the function of memory itself is uncontaminated or undetermined by the contents of memory, and it is indiscriminate/non-judgmental/non-interference towards the contents of the memory.

The countless different individual selfless minds of the countless different individual physical structures functioning under the many different impermanent qualities/conditions/states/limitations might be pure or impure, might be kind or unkind, might be good or evil, might be constructive or destructive, might be intelligent or non-intelligent, might be knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, might be enjoying or suffering, and so on, and ceaselessly changing, but the selfless universal consciousness that pervades all kinds of names and forms and gives rise to the different states of consciousness in all minds to be unconscious (complete resting/deep sleep/coma), semi-conscious, and fully conscious towards themselves and the surrounding environment, enabling all the countless different individual minds to perceive/experience/know/think/reason/understand/remember/desire/behave/act/react in their own particular way at their own particular cause and effect (unconsciously/semi-consciously/consciously), is untouched, undetermined, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or unchanged by all that.

All the countless different individual selfless minds have their own each and particular personal imprint (limited and conditional individual memory storage) of their own particular personal and collective existence/function/impermanent changes/causes and effects/experiences during their limited and conditional momentary existence and function under different time, space, and causation, while the timeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, is the timeless selfless silent witness towards the all time manifestations of all kinds of names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, or the all time endless sum total imprints of the all time momentary existence/function/impermanent changes/causes and effects/experiences of all and everyone and everything (all kinds of sentient/non-sentient living beings and non-living objects) in the infinite space.

 

The selfless universal consciousness is selfless, neither self nor non-self.

It doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It's not 'my consciousness', 'your consciousness', 'our consciousness', 'their consciousness', 'its consciousness'.

The body is not 'I'. The 'I' is not the body. 

The mind is not 'I'. The 'I' is not the mind.

All and everything that are manifesting in the body and mind, are not 'I'.

There is no 'I' in anything (All and everything are selfless). 

The 'I' (the ego) is merely an idea or thought that manifests in the mind in a continuous stream of ceaseless ideas/thoughts of 'I' or self acknowledgement/conscious self awareness, ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, manifesting/transitioning under different states.

The momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind and the ideas/thoughts/modifications/the ego/the intellect/the cognition/the memory of the mind, are not 'I'.

All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that only existing and functioning/manifesting while ceaselessly changing/decaying/disintegrating under the selfless support/influence of the selfless energy and elements for a momentary limited duration.

The minds are not the selfless universal consciousness. The selfless universal consciousness is not the minds.

Regardless of what or who the minds think and identify as they are and are not, regardless of what the minds think or don't think, believe or disbelieve, behave or don't behave, understand or don't understand, all and everything will change and pass away.

The selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is always there as it is.

Just by reading or knowing this knowledge doesn't liberate the mind from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

Quiet the mind.

Eliminate the idea of 'I' and egoism.

Purify. Meditate. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

Attain direct self realization, and be free.

Inquire towards the cultural and spiritual belief of countless reincarnations of a permanent infinite immortal individual self existence

Inquire towards the truth of everything, including all kinds of teachings/interpretations/transcriptions/translations of yoga and buddhism coming from everyone and everywhere as well as all kinds of worldly cultural and spiritual beliefs/values/practices, upon coming in contact with all kinds of inputs, information, and knowledge, including all that is here, regardless of agreeable or disagreeable to the mind based on the intellectual reasoning power functioning under the influence of the existing particular type of inherited and adopted cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestral/political/philosophical beliefs/values/practices in the mind,

to be purifying and quieting the restless impure modification of the mind,

to free the mind from being conditioned and influenced by the existing intellectual reasoning power or judgment based on the existing knowledge/understanding being conditioned and influenced by any particular type of inherited and adopted cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestry/political/philosophical beliefs/values/practices,

to be performing self inquiry to inquire towards what the selfless mind perceives/acknowledges/thinks/believes/identifies as its unique individual permanent independent infinite immortal self existence/acknowledgement/identification of 'I', that the selfless mind acknowledges/thinks/believes/identifies as what it is, or, what and who 'I' am,

to attain direct self realization towards the truth of Impermanence (ceaseless selfless impermanent changes in all and everything) and Selflessness (there is no permanent independent immortal individual self existence (permanent independent infinite self identity/spirit/soul/individual consciousness) that exists in and belongs to any names and forms to be undergoing ceaseless selfless impermanent changes (ceaseless births and deaths within the selfless impermanent physical structure (growth/decay/disintegration - ceaseless cells regenerating, new cells arising and changing/decaying, and old cells passing away/disintegrating) and in the selfless impermanent restless modification of the mind - ceaseless thoughts/ideas/desires/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions arising and passing away) that are happening ceaselessly in all kinds of names and forms (all kinds of sentient and non-sentient/conscious and non-conscious living organisms and non-living objects) that are arising, momentarily existing and functioning, ceaselessly changing, and passing away under different qualities/conditions/causes and effects, in NOW,

is the one same upmost essential teaching and practice of yoga and buddhism.

 

Inquire towards the two basic and yet highest teachings/dhamma/dharma/realization of both yoga and buddhism - 

Impermanence (諸法無常)

Selflessness (諸法無我)

and the direct self realization of Impermanence and Selflessness that leads to -

Silence (极静, 涅槃)

Transcend 'ignorance' and 'births and deaths' (超越'無明'與'生滅')

 

All kinds of physical and mental practices are merely serving the purpose of preparing the egoistic impure restless mind to be performing self inquiry under a non-grasping, desire-less, identity-less (I-less), intentionless (devoid of expectation), purified, and quiet state of mind.

Inquire towards -

"Ceaseless births and deaths (諸法生滅) governed by the nature's law of cause and effect transitioning/changing in between different conditions/qualities/states within the selfless impermanent existence and function of the selfless mortal physical body and restless selfless modification of the mind in NOW" vs "The worldly egoistic cultural and spiritual or religious belief/values/practices of the countless reincarnations/rebirths (生死輪迴) of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness transitioning into countless different life existences under different names and forms/conditions/qualities/experiences in different realms/states/worlds/spheres determined by the past and present continuous accumulated boundless and endless good/bad/neutral karma"

The cultural/spiritual/religious/worldly egoistic beliefs/values/practices is about the belief of there is an infinite permanent independent individual immortal self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness that has been undergoing countless different reincarnations of different life existences under many different names and forms/conditions/qualities/experiences transitioning in different realms/states/spheres/worlds determined by 'the belief/values/practices of past and present continuous accumulated boundless and endless good/bad/neutral karma' being generated from the countless past life existences and the present life existence.

The dhamma/dharma is not a belief. It is what things are, as they are.

The teachings of yoga and buddhism is about all kinds of existence under different names and forms being manifested under different time (timing/era/duration and selfless impermanent changes), space (restricted location/presence/volume/shape/size/physical structure), and causation (cause and effect), are all selfless and impermanent. That there are ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of ceaseless births and deaths that are happening ceaselessly within the selfless impermanent existence and function of the mortal selfless physical structure and restless selfless modification of the mind, where this selfless impermanent body and mind is ceaselessly changing/transitioning in between different impermanent conditions/states/qualities, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, as well as inevitably and ceaselessly decaying and disintegrating, in NOW.

There aren't countless reincarnations/rebirths/ceaseless births and deaths of an infinite permanent independent immortal individual self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness that exists in and/or belongs to any particular selfless impermanent mortal physical structure and restless modification of the mind, that are being reincarnated into countless different life existences under different mortal physical structures/names and forms/conditions/qualities transitioning in between different realms/states/worlds/spheres governed by the worldly egoistic cultural and spiritual or religious belief/values/practices of boundless and endless good/bad/neutral karma or merits and virtues/sins.

There is only the one same selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everything, within and without, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that hosts and witnesses all kinds of selfless impermanent manifestations of different names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away under different conditions/qualities/causes and effects, that gives rise to the selfless state of consciousness or conscious awareness to the selfless existence and function of the mortal physical body that comes with the selfless impermanent restless impure modification of the mind.

There isn't countless different infinite immortal permanent independent individual self existence/identity/consciousness/spirit/soul that exist in or belong to each of the countless different names and forms that are all selfless and impermanent, that either had been manifested or are manifesting (forming/coming into existence) in NOW, that either had ceased existing or are existing in NOW, that are changing (growing and decaying) in NOW, and that either had passed away (disintegrated/decomposed) or are passing away (disintegrating/decomposing) in NOW.

And thus, both the teachings of yoga and buddhism stated - Upon the direct self realization towards the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness, there is only NOW, there is neither past nor future, 'All karma - regardless of good/bad/neutral' vanished, 'The wheel of ceaseless births and deaths/reincarnation' ceased existing, 'the individual consciousness' is one with/non-distinctive from/non-separated from the selfless universal consciousness, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, form is non-distinctive from emptiness and emptiness is non-distinctive from form, neither good nor bad, neither 'I' nor 'not I', there is no 'I', all are impermanent, all are selfless, all are subject to selfless impermanent changes, decay, and disintegration governed by cause and effect, regardless of wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, good or evil, healthy or unhealthy, strong or weak, flexible or non-flexible, understand or don't understand, happy or unhappy, rich or poor, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, intelligent or non-intelligent, peaceful or peaceless, accomplished or non-accomplished, long-lived or short-lived, easy life or difficult life, all are impermanent and selfless.

Time - past, present, and future, are merely the reflection of the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of forming, growth, decay, aging, disintegration, and all kinds of activities (movements or motions and speed of movements or motions), in NOW.

If past and future exists, anyone and everyone can just go back to the past or travel into the future, to change or edit or undo the past, and to control or dictate the future to be in certain way, but that is not possible, because the past and future doesn't exist, that there is only NOW, and it is ceaselessly changing. 'The past' is merely some flashback of memories and 'the future' is merely some wild imaginations/anticipations/projections. The thinking, or the thought process that consists of the names and forms that the mind comes in contact with/is aware of/perceives/experiences internally and externally in the present moment, the memories flashback, and the future imaginations/anticipations/projections are all happening in the NOW. The thinking, or the thought process or activities, is always in NOW.

Time doesn't exist, or timelessness, or there is only NOW where the past and the future doesn't exist, it doesn't mean that there is no history (memory) of all the selfless impermanent manifestation of names and forms or the mind perception/experience/knowing/learning/understanding of everything in NOW, that is impermanent, where all and everything is changing inevitably and ceaselessly.

The realization towards timelessness, will also lead to the realization of - 

There is no past live(s) or future live(s) of any particular permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity/spirit/soul/consciousness (that is non-existing, that doesn't exist).

There is only this selfless impermanent momentary life existence of this selfless impermanent ceaselessly changing and decaying mortal selfless physical structure that is existing and functioning in NOW under the selfless support of the selfless supportive energy and elements, while ceaselessly changing and decaying governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, in NOW, being perceived/experienced via this selfless impermanent momentary perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness 'deriving' from the one and only timeless causeless attributeless all pervading unchanging unlimited unconditional selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

And hence, live in the present moment, as it is.

That is the freedom (自在) that exists in all and everyone, that is also selfless and impermanent.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here.

Attain direct self realization, and be free.

To be selflessly existing, functioning, and living freely in the present moment NOW as it is.

 

Be free from being conditioned and limited by any kind of worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/ancestral/political/philosophical beliefs/values/practices that are neither good nor bad, that were being created and introduced by the worldly egoistic impure minds under specific intentions/desires/aspirations/ambitions/visions/purposes functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, the idea of 'I', impurities, restlessness, and the suffering deriving from all that a.k.a. the consequences of ignorance,

of not knowing the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness,

ignorantly or unwittingly being the slave of the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, restlessness, the selfless function of the mind perception of names and forms, the selfless presence of conscious awareness (if without conscious awareness to be conscious/aware of this and that, what is suffering and the end of suffering?), the selfless function of the senses and the objects of the senses, the sights, the sounds, the smells, the tastes, the sensations, the random thoughts and ideas, the feelings and emotions, the actions and reactions (all kinds of physical and mental activities) and the consequences of that (cause and effect), the memories flashback and the wild imaginations, the corrupted thinking, understanding, intellect, reasoning, judgment, and expectation, all kinds of dualities, the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of superiority and inferiority, the sense of deserving and non-deserving, the sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness, the sense of joyfulness and joylessness, the sense of appropriateness and disappropriateness, the sense of being unappreciated and taken advantage by others, all kinds of beliefs/values/practices, superstitions, myths, spiritual healing, spiritual cleansing, manipulations, justifications, lies, story telling, politics, all kinds of personal, family, and group attachment, identity, ties and connection, relationship, friendship, duty, and responsibility, pride and arrogance, offensiveness and defensiveness, selfishness, self-righteousness, possessiveness, separateness, discrimination, dissatisfaction, irritation, frustration, boredom, loneliness, disturbance, anger, hatred, jealousy, hostility, self-protectiveness, resentment, vengeance, violence, greed, the urge to control everything in accordance to one's desire, plotting, scheming, building castles in the air, day-dreaming, wishful thinking, ambitious aspirations, boundless desires of craving and aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, love and support seeking, attention and acknowledgement seeking, agreement and recognition seeking, guilt and regret, fear and worry, gain and loss, the feelings of being hurt or victimized, and so on.

 

All are selfless (諸法無我). Who, or what is there that is infinite/unchanging/immortal/permanent/independent, that is undergoing ceaseless selfless impermanent changes/births and deaths (無常生滅), or even the cultural and spiritual belief of ceaseless reincarnations (生死輪迴)?

Go beyond positiveness and negativeness. Go beyond goodness and badness. Go beyond meaningfulness and meaninglessness. Go beyond positive energy and negative energy.

Energy is just what it is. It is neither positive nor negative.

The mind is just what it is. It is neither positive nor negative. 

It is merely whether the mind is functioning under the influence of ignorance and its by-products of the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness, unwittingly being determined and disturbed by the conscious mind perception towards the selfless manifestation of all kinds of names and forms or experiences that are pleasant and unpleasant/desirable and undesirable/agreeable and disagreeable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable, that ceaselessly manifesting internally and externally, not knowing the truth of Impermanence and Selflessness, and being over-powered by the restless impure modification of the mind that the mind itself has no correct understanding and is ignorant towards what all that is about, or, the mind is free from all that. 

It is absolutely possible to be free from all that.

It is not about how much the mind can gain/achieve/learn/know/accomplish.

It is about how much the mind can let go all THAT that it has been gaining/achieving/learning/knowing/accomplishing, that is conditioning its selfless modification, perception, cognition, thinking, intellectual reasoning, understanding, desire and don't desire, behavior, action, and reaction in certain way.

Empty Thyself. Empty the mind. Let go the egoistic attachment/grasping/identification/pride towards all kinds of beliefs/values/practices, including all kinds of yoga and buddhism teachings and practices deriving from and attaching towards many different types of lineages and teachers, regardless of authentic or contaminated.

Quiet the restless impure modification of the mind (the thinking/thought process).

Root out passion, the idea of 'I', and egoism, and all kinds of impurities and restlessness will subside as it is.

Non-blind believing. Non-blind following. Non-blind practicing. Non-blind propagating. Non-blind glorifying.

That is why the highly importance of the observation of renunciation and dispassion, solitude and seclusion, and the practice of silence, for all minds that genuinely and determinedly want to know Thyself, to inquire towards what is 'I', 'my', and 'mine', or the selfless impermanent existence and function of the body and mind, or the worldly life existence that is selfless and impermanent.

And it is absolutely okay, if by the end of this selfless impermanent life existence, the mind still doesn't know itself, and doesn't understand all this (completely). It really doesn't matter.

Meanwhile, being aware of all that and be able to let go all that (known and unknown, understanding and non-understanding), and be able to be at peace in this present moment NOW, is already what all the yoga and buddhism practice is about.

The indiscriminate and unconditional selfless compassion

Compassion is not a sentiment.

Compassion is not about pleasing all and everyone to make all and everyone feel happy, good, positive, and meaningful, or to take away the sense of unhappiness, badness, negativity, and meaninglessness from all and everyone.

Compassion is the selfless indiscriminate and unconditional power of manifestation, existence and function, and inter-supporting actions or activities, that enables all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are.

It is a selfless power of manifestation or existence and function that exist and function selflessly in all and everything and the surrounding environment that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, where all kinds of selfless names and forms are existing and functioning as what they are, selflessly, to be indiscriminately and unconditionally inter-supporting the selfless existence and function of all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are, momentarily in this space of the universe that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

In the yoga class, the yoga teacher might or might not emphasize on bringing the awareness, or attention, or focus onto the centre of the heart (the position of the selfless organs of the heart and the lungs).

It is not so much about stimulating, or stabilizing, or energizing, or purifying, or opening the so called 'Heart Chakra', but it is for the minds to have a direct reflection or contemplation upon the selfless compassion that exists in all and everything, that enables all and everything to be existing and functioning as they are.

We all are existing, functioning, and living in this present moment NOW, is because of the power of selfless compassion that exists throughout the entire selfless physical body and in the surrounding living environment that provides the supportive selfless energy and many other selfless elements for all kinds of names and forms to be existing and functioning as it is.

If the heart and lungs are not selfless and are functioning under the absence of the selfless power of compassion, or if they are functioning under the idea of 'I' (the ego) and egoism, where they have the sense of 'I' and 'mine', self-esteem and self-worth, superiority/inferiority, deserving/undeserving, pride/shame, success/failure, selfishness, possessiveness, discrimination, desires, discontentment, anger, hatred, fear, insecurity, and greed, just as the corrupted minds of many human beings, where they have the egoistic impure tendency to interfere, invade, attack, intimidate, threaten, bully, conquer, and control, and to manipulate, oppress, influence, discipline, and punish all the other organs or systems in certain way or not in certain way, where they will want to hurt and damage and destroy all the other organs and systems that they dislike and disagree with, it will be exactly like what is happening in the world of human beings, where the many minds of the human beings are functioning/operating under the influence of the idea of 'I' (the ego) and egoism, under the influence of the veil of ignorance/impurities and restlessness, where there are so much unnecessary hurtful and damaging physical and mental activities happening everywhere in the world, starting from within the minds themselves, that extend to the surrounding environment, into the personal and community ties and connections, relationships, affairs, and interactions with all and everyone and everything, into the family and one's particular community as well as the other communities in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If the 'prideful', 'self-righteous', 'possessive', 'selfish', 'discriminating', 'easily be annoyed and offended', 'highly sensitive', 'attention and agreement seeking', 'full of desires of craving and aversion', or 'angry and aggressive' heart and lungs decided to stop functioning, not performing their respective duty and responsibility, or being discriminate towards certain organs or systems in the physical body, as they get upset and angry and hating towards the other organs or systems due to their desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified, or when things are not happening in the way that they desire, like, and agree with, or they want to covet and occupy the space of the other organs, it will be the end of life existence for the entire physical body.

Self destruction.

Such as the egoistic human beings that are hurting and destroying one another and the surrounding living environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, under the name of self-righteousness based on one's particular belief and under the excuse of survival, either consciously or unconsciously, wittingly or unwittingly, intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly. - Self destruction.

Blaming the survival instinct? What survival instinct? Because of want to survive, oneself and/or one's particular community want and need to hurt and destroy the others? That is nothing to do with survival instinct, but merely ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, or mentally corrupted, or mentally unwell.

All and everyone MUST look after one another, and not like what is happening in NOW, in the world of human beings, where there are all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, discrimination, violence, and cruelty, where the minds are being conditioned to profit oneself and one's particular family/community selfishly, as well as being discontented, ambitious, and greedy to be coveting, possessing, and hoarding unlimited natural resources/lands/space that don't belong to anyone or anything, for the survival and enjoyment of oneself and/or one's particular family and/or community.

If human beings don't look after one another but being discriminating and cruel towards one another, there is none, not any individual, not any community, can survive, in peace, not to say, to enjoy this or that, as there won't be a conducive surrounding living environment for survival or making a living, not to say, a pleasant enjoyable environment for additional pleasurable leisure enjoyments, but only full of fear, hatred, unrest, and violence everywhere.

It is never too late.

To (start) promote peace and harmony among all diversities, to look after one another and the surrounding living environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

To refrain from any ideas or activities that are promoting untruthfulness, lies, story telling, superstitions, myths, manipulation, mental and emotional dependency, ignorance, restlessness, the ego and egoism, pride, possessiveness, greed, selfishness, separateness, discrimination, exploitation, bullying, politicking, anger, hatred, or violence. 

To start looking after one another, to extend a helping hand, to the ones in painful suffering, to the ones that are weak, young, old, sick, injured, disabled, less opportunity, or unfortunate, to the ones being exploited and bullied, to the ones being ill-treated, to the ones that in need of helps, to the ones that don't even know that they need help, and to the ones that don't know how to reach out for help, selflessly, indiscriminately, and, unconditionally.

And all that, has to starts from within oneself.

Help oneself, accept and love oneself as one is, be kind to oneself, and liberate oneself from ignorance, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally. Then, everything will be happening accordingly, even without any intention to help others or be kind to others, but all one's thinking and activities will be promoting peace and harmony in the world of diversities, that will be benefiting all and everyone and everything, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, in one's life, in one's family, in one's relationships, in one's work place, in one's neighbourhood, and in the surrounding living environment.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

The selfless leader for all in the world of diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything

It's okay, if the mind doesn't know what is leadership and how to be a leader, or is not interested to get involved in leadership, or reluctant to hold the heavy duty and responsibility of a leader that makes important influential and impactful decisions that influence and impact all and everyone and everything in a world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, but more importantly, there is the selfless conscious and/or unconscious intention that is based on indiscriminate and unconditional kindness or the selfless power of compassion (the selfless intentionless indiscriminate power of selfless action/manifestation that gives rise to the selfless manifestation of all kinds of names and forms and activities) to SERVE all and everyone selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

None need to become a leader in order to serve all and everyone and the surrounding living environment.

All and everyone can serve all and everyone and look after the general welfare of the surrounding living environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, out of one's self-initiative and under the presence of correct understanding and the mental and emotional maturity or independence, by performing one's respective duty and responsibility individually and independently, that inter-support the selfless existence and function of all and everyone and everything, selflessly.

The world is in a state of madness, or chaos, or unrest, is because many leaders who think and believe that they know what is leadership, that they know how to lead, and that they have intense enthusiasm/desire/ambition to be the leader of any particular community or all diverse communities, but not really, as they are functioning or operating under both the conscious and unconscious intention/urge/desire/ambition under the absence of indiscriminate and unconditional kindness and/or the universal conscience of basic correct understanding, but they are functioning under the presence of incorrect understanding that gives rise to the sense of belonging, separateness, personal and community identity pride and selfishness, self-protectiveness, self-righteousness, self-survival, fear, insecurity, discontentment, possessiveness, ownership, greed, pride, the urge to control/over-power/interfere/manipulate/exploit, or all kinds of hurtful damaging ideas, desires, visions, aspirations, ambitions, behaviors, actions, and reactions that hurt oneself, one's particular community, the many other diverse communities, and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It is not even, "We all are one big community. The world belongs to all of us."

It is better to NOT knowing how to lead, or lack of interest in becoming a leader to lead or control the others, than to have the prideful enormous ambition to be a proud and powerful leader to lead and/or control all the others under incorrect understanding or selfish ambitious intention, but more importantly, all and everyone are having the indiscriminate and unconditional kindness or the selfless power of compassion to serve one another, or all and everyone selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, by looking after and performing one's respective individual duty and responsibility independently under the selfless support of all and everyone, that are inter-supporting one another indiscriminately and unconditionally, for all and everyone to be existing and functioning as what all and everyone are, while performing one's respective individual duty and responsibility individually and independently.

The world of many diversities doesn't really need any leader to lead anyone, if all and everyone are mentally and emotionally matured or independent, where all and everyone know how to look after their own well-being, and perform their each respective duty and responsibility individually and independently, that inter-supporting one another, that enables all and everyone to be existing and functioning as what they are.

Just as Swami Sivananda Guruji taught, "If all leaders retreat into the forest, the world will still be running as it is, and most probably, more smoothly."

However, under the prolonged manipulation and suppression deriving from the many minds that have been functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that have been manipulating the many minds to think and believe and behave in certain way, while suppressing the 'normal' and 'healthy' growth or development of correct understanding and mental and emotional maturity or independence in the many minds, and hence, there are many minds of the human beings functioning under the influence of incorrect understanding and under the absence of mental and emotional maturity or independence, where they don't have the basic correct understanding or the mental and emotional maturity or independence, to manage or look after themselves and their life existence and function properly, and hence, they need to have not just any leader, but a wise and compassionate selfless leader that can teach, if not, to lead and guide them on how to look after themselves and their life existence and function properly, until they developed the essential correct understanding, and achieved mental and emotional maturity or independence, being a self-initiative and responsible human being towards looking after themselves and others and the surrounding environment, where they don't need any leader to lead/guide them on how to look after themselves and their life existence and function, but they know how to manage themselves and their life existence, where they can carry out or perform their respective individual duty and responsibility towards themselves and others in the world of many diverse individuals and communities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything (looking after one another as well as the surrounding environment out of self-initiative) independently, that enables all individuals to perform their own different respective duties and responsibilities to serve all and everyone selflessly, by working together and inter-supporting one another selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

That is why the highly importance of if there is a need of a leader, or many leaders, then the leader(s) need(s) to know Thyself, that has/have the basic essential universal conscience or correct understanding, that are mentally and emotionally matured or independent, that is/are wise and compassionate, that serve(s) all and everyone selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

A successful leader is not only a leader that leads and guide a group of followers that are dependent on the existence of a leader to lead and guide them, to think for them, to solve problem for them, to make important influential and impactful decisions for them, and to look after them or to manage/influence/control/manipulate their life existence and function to be in certain way and not in certain way, but is also a wise and compassionate teacher that teaches, supports, and allows the group of followers to be developing and attaining mental and emotional maturity or independence, to be free from the influence of ignorance and its by-products, where there is no longer the need of any leader or teacher to guide and teach them, to think for them, to solve problem for them, to make important influential and impactful decisions for them, and to look after them and manage/influence/control/manipulate their life existence and function to be and not to be in certain way, but all and everyone are capable of looking after themselves individually, and performing their respective individual duty and responsibility independently, that inter-supporting one another in the world of many diversities, not only one's own particular community, but all the diverse communities, that enables all and everyone to be existing and functioning as what all and everyone are.

 

To know what is the essential quality of a wise and compassionate leader that is also a teacher for all kinds of diversities in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, the mind just need to look into the physical body that doesn't even belong to the physical body itself, not to say, it doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The physical body is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. Similarly the world of many diversities or the surrounding living environment is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. 

The selfless existence and function of the physical body of any living organisms depends on the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements for the physical body to be existing and functioning as what it is. Similarly, the selfless existence and function of all kinds of names and forms in the world of many diversities are existing and functioning as what they are under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements for all and everything to be what they are - Momentary, Selfless, Impermanent, Limited, Conditional, and Non-self.

All the many different individual cells (just as the many different individual living organisms in the world, or the many different individual human beings of the many different diversities in the world of human being) are selfless. All cells are existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements that come together and form the many different individual cells. While all the many different individual cells come together and form the many different individual components that are selfless, where the many different individual components come together and form the many different individual mechanisms/functions that are selfless, and the many different individual mechanisms/functions come together and form the many different individual systems that are selfless, that allows the selfless physical body to be existing and functioning as what it is, selflessly.

None and nothing can exist or function by oneself, alone, without the selfless inter-support of all and everyone and everything that enabling a conducive internal and external surrounding environment for existence.

Even the selfless energy that enables all and everything to be manifesting to be what they are, is also the selfless manifestation deriving from the selfless support of the many different selfless elements. While the many different selfless elements also inter-supporting one another to be existing and functioning as what they are.

The entire physical body that is being formed under the existence and function of the many individual selfless elements under the selfless support of the selfless energy, that form the many different individual parts or components, functions, mechanisms, and systems of the physical structure, forming the head, the skull, the brains, the central and peripheral nervous system, the nerves, the senses, the organs of the senses, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the lips, the face, the jaw, the scalp, the hair, the neck, the spine, the core, the ribs, the limbs, the organs of actions, the arms, the shoulders, the elbows, the hands, the wrists, the fingers, the hips, the legs, the knee joints, the ankles, the feet, the toes, all the different bones, all the different muscles and muscle groups, the fatty tissues, the connective tissues, the ligaments, the tendons, the organs, the heart, the lungs, the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the spleen, the pancreas, the big and small intestines, the gall bladder, the bladder, the rectum and anus, the genital organs, the glands, the hormones, the secretions, the blood, the blood vessels, the veins, the heat, the energy, the minerals, the fats, the glucose, the proteins, the nutrients, the water, the oxygen, the skin, the nails, the throat, the voice box, the food passage, the air passage, the membranes, the thinking and acting faculty, the thoughts/inputs/outputs processor, the perception, the intellect, the cognition, the memory, the emotion, the conscious awareness, the different states of conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious, the instinctive intentionless indiscriminate survival instinct, the auto-immune, the cells, the atoms, the protons, the neutrons, the neurons, and etc, where all and everyone cannot and doesn't exist or function as what they are, if without the selfless existence and function of one another that carry out their own respective duty and responsibility, that inter-supporting the existence and function of one another, under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements that all work together and inter-supporting one another selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

What is superiority and inferiority?

What is social classification or caste?

What is pride and shame?

What is success and failure?

What is gain and loss?

What is 'I' and 'mine'? 

All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. 

All and everyone needs to be able to perform their own respective duty and responsibility individually and independently, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, where all are working together and inter-supporting one another selflessly (consciously and/or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly) without superiority or inferiority, without gain or loss, without pride or shame, without 'I' and 'mine' or 'the others that are not I and not mine', that enables the existence and function of all and everyone to be existing and functioning individually and independently, as what they are.

All cells/components/functions/mechanisms/systems don't even need to be conscious or aware of oneself to be existing and functioning as what they are, not to say, to know one another personally, or develop a personal or community ties/connection/friendship/relationship. But all and everyone interact and communicate with one another selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, that allowing the entire physical body (the world of many diversities) to be existing and functioning as what it is, or enabling a conducive surrounding living environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, for all the different elements/cells/components/functions/mechanisms/systems/organs (the reflection of the many diversities in the world) to be existing and functioning as what they are in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal physical body that is non-self, that doesn't belong to itself, or anyone and anything (the reflection of the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, even though all and everything are forming the world selflessly, and sharing the space of the surrounding living environment selflessly and momentarily).

One doesn't need to know all the others personally in order to be kind to all and everyone indiscriminately and unconditionally, regardless of who or what they are, young or old, men or women, healthy or unhealthy, agreeable or disagreeable, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, wise or ignorant, friendly or unfriendly, constructive or destructive.

All living organisms come with the selfless intentionless indiscriminate survival instinct for them to be surviving or maintaining the selfless existence and function of the living organisms unconsciously/autonomously up to a certain extend of a limited duration of life span, even if under the absence of the selfless intentionless indiscriminate conscious awareness to be consciously aware of one's own existence and function and/or the surrounding living environment.

However, many living organisms also come with the selfless conscious awareness in the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty to be aware of one's own existence and function or the surrounding environment, or to be aware of/to know/to understand/to discriminate the conditions/states of oneself and the situations in the surrounding environment, to act or react, to make choices or decisions, to move or don't move, to be active or inactive/take rest, to strengthen or weaken, to improve or deteriorate, to stay or leave, to replenish and restore and rehabilitate or not, and etc, that is neither good nor bad, that might be beneficial or detrimental, that might or might not expand the life span/survival to the maximum, depending on the 'understanding' and 'knowledge' in the selfless thinking and acting faculty/modification/function/mechanism of the living organisms that come with the selfless conscious awareness, that are operating under the presence and absence of the selfless conscious awareness, consciously, semi-consciously, and unconsciously.

All kinds of diversities that come with their respective different duties and responsibilities might or might not need to be organized under an organizer (leadership), functioning under the selfless instinctive survival instinct and/or the presence and absence of the selfless conscious awareness, to be performing certain conscious and/or unconscious actions that give rise to certain results/outcomes.

Such as,

- Find or build a shelter to be sheltering from harmful and risky condition and situation, without possessiveness or ownership.

- Find and consume sufficient food and water to replenish energy/water upon hunger and thirst or energy depletion, without greed or hoarding or exploiting.

- To let go or not letting go/to move away or not moving away, upon coming in contact with extremely hot or cold or sharp abrasive object that can cause unnecessary damage or injury.

- To stay or move away upon the presence of detrimental hurtful and harmful condition and situation.

- Problem solving based on logic, or science, or fact, or truth.

- Outsourcing, or seeking external help and assistance selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, if lack of intelligence, or knowledge, or experience, or skill, or talent, or energy/fitness, or manpower, or conducive condition, or opportunity in oneself or in one's community. Meanwhile, the act of giving help and assistance to the ones that need help and assistance are also being carried out selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

- Respecting nature (selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, non-self) and the nature's law of cause and effect.

Meanwhile, 

Greed, insecurity, fear, possessiveness, separateness, selfishness, hoarding, stealing, coveting, anger, hatred, pride, shame, offensiveness, defensiveness, aggressiveness, violence, discrimination, exploitation, urge to control/manipulate others, interference, invasion, occupation, force, politicking, plotting, scheming, all kinds of personal and community comforting and manipulative beliefs, rituals, story telling, myths, superstitions, values, and practices, or corrupted thinking and behavior, incorrect understanding, superiority and inferiority, high and low confidence/self-esteem/self-worth, and etc, are merely the by-products of the veil of ignorance, that don't need to be existing for survival, that doesn't help to maintain peace and harmony among the many diversities, but more likely to cause unnecessary damage and destroy peace and harmony among the many diversities, just as the corrupted auto-immune that attack and hurt itself and all the other cells/components/functions/mechanisms/systems in the entire physical body, just as all kinds of madness in the history and that are happening everywhere in this world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in NOW.

A corrupter leader, or leadership, or government of any particular community or all diverse communities, regardless of monarchy or anarchy, democratic or authoritarian, that is meant to be serving and protecting the people, but then it is hurting, harming, and killing the people as well as the surrounding living environment, is like the (corrupted) head gives order to the heart, ordering the heart to hurt and damage and destroy the lungs and some any other organs or systems, while ordering the hands to destroy the eyes and the mouth, and ordering the legs to destroy the fingers.

Like wise, if the minds of the human beings are not mentally and emotionally matured or independence, and are functioning under the influence of ignorance or incorrect understanding, it is like the different bodily organs or systems want to hurt and destroy one another.

All those impurities/ignorance/corrupted thinking and behavior that hurt oneself and all and everyone exist along the presence of the idea, or notion, or thinking, or belief, or understanding, or attachment, or identification, or possessiveness, or sense of belonging, or sentiment, or pride in the minds towards, "Our ancestors were born and lived on this land. We were born on this land. We are the earliest family and community that have been living on this land for generations/We found this land/We were given this land/We bought this land/We own this land. This land belongs to us. This is our land. This is our home. This is our village. This is our town. This is our state. This is our country. This is our nationality. This is our world. This is our pride. We have the rights to be here and live here. All the others that are not us, that are not one of us, they don't have the rights to be here and live here. We need to protect our land from foreigners. We need to expand our family and community. We need to find and have and occupy and own more other lands/space/natural resources."

Where in truth, none and nothing belongs to anyone or anything.

 

The essential qualities or elements under different names and forms of a wise and compassionate selfless leader for all kinds of diversities are equally existing or non-existing side by side along one another. If one is presence, all the other elements will also be presence. If one is absence, all the other elements will also be absence.

Clarity of thinking and unconditional peace in the selfless modification of the mind, regardless of functioning or operating consciously, semi-consciously, and/or unconsciously.

Correct understanding, or wisdom.

Indiscriminate and unconditional kindness, or the selfless power of compassion/action/manifestation.

Non-grasping.

Non-attachment.

Non-identification.

Non-craving and non-aversion.

Non-comparison and non-judgment.

Non-expectation.

Non-possessiveness.

Non-separateness.

Neither superiority nor inferiority. All are equally essential for all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are.

Non-greed.

Non-hoarding. 

*Non-extremity.

*Extremity - Greed/hoarding/excessive unnecessary expenditure and indulgence as well as stinginess/deprivation/intense austerity, will only be harming oneself and impacting all the others and the surrounding environment in certain way. Just as over and under eating and drinking many different types or specific type of food and drink, or over and under activity and inactivity/awake and asleep will eventually cause damage to the selfless bodily systems of oneself, as well as might be impacting the others and the surrounding environment in certain way.

Non-violence.

Non-forcing.

Non-interference.

Non-control.

Non-grouping.

Non-politicking.

*Neither anarchy nor monarchy.

*Neither democratic nor authoritarian.

*Neither leader nor follower.

*Because nothing will work if the minds, especially the minds that have the power to lead and that make important impactful decisions that impact all and everyone and the surrounding environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, where the core of leadership is not based on selfless indiscriminate and unconditional kindness or compassion to serve all and everyone and the surrounding environment selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, without the ego and egoism.

The wise and compassionate leader cum teacher exists temporarily to be guiding and teaching all the others to become independent under their own self-initiative, to be able to look after themselves and one another, and be able to perform their respective duty and responsibility towards themselves and others and the surrounding environment selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

All and everyone under the many different personalities and characteristics of the many different degrees of intelligence, knowledge, backgrounds, fields, interests, talents, skills, experiences, or strength and weakness, and have their own respective unique duties and responsibilities that need to be carrying out by each and everyone themselves individually and independently, that inter-supporting all and everyone to be existing and functioning as what they are, that give rise to a conducive surrounding living environment for all and everyone, not just for one single individual or one particular community.

 

The basic universal conscience or basic correct understanding :-

None and nothing belongs to anyone or anything.

The existence and function of all and everything depending on the existence and function of one another that inter-supporting one another to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are. 

The existence and function of all and everyone and everything don't even belong to all and everyone and everything themselves. 

The world of many diversities doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The universe, the space, the sun, the earth, the water, the air, the nature, the lands, the oceans, the rivers, the lakes, the mountains, the plants, the natural resources, the atmosphere, all kinds of diverse living organisms and non-living objects, don't belong to anyone or anything.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of all and everyone and everything in are inter-depending and inter-supporting among one another to be existing and functioning as what all and everyone and everything are, individually and independently.

All parenting method, school education, corporate and business training and management, governmental organization, knowledge, skill, talent, experience, effort, attention, or enthusiasm are being carried out and/or utilized based on indiscriminate and unconditional kindness or the selfless power of compassion/action/manifestation to serve all and everyone and everything and the surrounding living environment selflessly, indiscriminately and unconditionally, that allows all and everything to be existing and functioning as what all and everything are.

The physically, mentally, and emotionally matured and independent adults help and look after the young children until they are independent physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Like wise,

The young and strong and the healthy and fit (mobility) individuals help and look after the old and weak and the sick and unfit (immobility) individuals.

The higher intelligent and knowledgeable and correct understanding ones help and guide the less intelligent and less knowledgeable and incorrect understanding ones to develop higher intelligence and knowledge and correct understanding.

The wise ones reflect and show and initiate wisdom to the ignorant ones.

The kind ones reflect and show and initiate kindness to the unkind ones.

The peaceful ones reflect and show and initiate peace to the peaceless ones.

The liberated ones help and guide the suffering ones to also be liberated from suffering.

The ones with more opportunities help and guide the ones with less opportunities.

Serve. Love. Give. - Selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally.

Purify. Meditate. Inquire. Realize. - Selflessly, consciously, semi-consciously, and unconsciously.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Attain direct self realization towards Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self.