If the selfless mind is having this doubt and asking this question, then it indicates that, it has -
The selfless consciousness/awareness (to be conscious/aware),
The selfless function of the perception (to perceive/experience),
Cognition and memory (to know and to remember knowledge),
Intellect (to doubt, investigate, inquire, learn, recognize, reason, and understand),
Emotion (to enjoy or suffer),
Thinking and acting (to process inputs and outputs, to attach or doesn't attach, to hold on or let go, to associate or doesn't associate, to make choices, to desire or doesn't desire, to believe or doesn't believe, to agree or doesn't agree, to give/take/accept or doesn't give/take/accept, to perform action (express, respond, act and react) and inaction (doesn't express, respond, act and react), to internalize or externalize (gathering/channeling the focus/attentiveness/awareness/energy inward or outward), to improve or deteriorate selfless evolution/changes,
The organs of the senses and the function of the senses (for the thinking and acting faculty to perceive/experience/learn/know towards what is happening inside and outside of the body/receiving inputs),
And the organs of expression/action (for it to have the physical mobility to express ideas/agreements/disagreements/desires/doesn't desires/feelings/emotions in speech or gesture of the body/facial features/limbs/hands/feet to be communicating and interacting, and to survive/live/adjust/adapt/accommodate/move/act/react/create/develop different skills/improve/strengthen/defense with the physical body, and turning/externalizing/materializing the mental thoughts/ideas/feelings/desires/understanding/choices into physical action and inaction (giving outputs), that will give rise to the respective consequences/effects/fruits of action and inaction.
As long as there is the thinking and acting faculty existing and functioning as what it is, to be aware/conscious, to perceive, to experience, to think, to feel, to doubt, to learn, to reason, to inquire, to recognize, and to understand, and it has certain degrees of remembrance towards what it has been perceiving, experiencing, thinking, feeling, doubting, learning, reasoning, inquiring, recognizing, and understanding,
Where the mind perceives doubt, the unknown, duality, impermanent changes, hunger, thirst, discomfort, pain, sorrow, restlessness, exhaustion, limitation, weakness, uncertainty, insecurity, fear, disturbance, and suffering,
Where the mind has the yearning or desire (willpower and determination) to be free, to know and understand, to be happy, and to have peace,
Then this mind has the opportunity and possibility to evolve towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance/the idea of 'I'/egoism/impurities/restlessness, or the subjugation of the restless impure egoistic selfless modification of the mind, or the attainment of self-realization towards the absolute knowledge of the infinite wisdom and compassion of nature, and be free, be happy, and be peaceful, under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/freedom/peace, right method, right effort, right attentiveness, right attitude, self-reliance, openness, adaptability, patience, forbearance, perseverance, and determination.
The path of yoga and/or buddhism exists for the selfless thinking and acting mind that perceives inevitable suffering (due to the inevitable selfless impermanent changes) and evitable suffering (deriving from ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless modification of the mind that hinders the mind from seeing/knowing the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional life existence and function of itself).
The direct realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence enables the selfless thinking and acting faculty to transcend both inevitable and evitable suffering, not being over-powered, determined, or disturbed by the inevitable selfless impermanent changes, and devoid of ignorance and the evitable suffering deriving from ignorance.
Different minds with different personalities and characteristics can choose from the different types of practices of yoga and/or buddhism that suits oneself most. There is neither this type of practice nor that type of practice is more or less superior or effective.
Even a very weak and ill physical body also can practice and attain liberation.
Even the most violent or restless mind also can practice and attain liberation.
But it has to come from the desire or freewill of the mind itself, to be purifying and disciplining and quieting the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, to change its own thinking and behavior pattern, to be determined to free itself from the influence of ignorance, to inquire the truth of everything, to attain self realization of knowing Thyself, all by itself, without violence.
Regardless of what type of practice, it is all about rendering the selfless impermanent modification of the mind to be clear, pure, calm, and quiet, a.k.a. the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, via the middle path, under the presence of non-violence/non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-association/non-craving/non-aversion/non-comparison/non-judgment/non-expectation towards the entire process and the pleasant and unpleasant side-effects of the process.
The knowledge of the wisdom and compassion of nature, that enables all and everything to be existing, changing, and ceased existing, is always there, as it is, in all and everything, never increase or decrease, uncontaminated/unchanged/undamaged/unhurt by the ability or disability/the functionality or non-functionality/the good or bad condition of the physical body and the thinking and acting faculty, of the perceived or doesn't perceive, experience or doesn't experience, the different degrees of intelligence, the corrupted or non-corrupted reasoning, known or unknown, understanding or non-understanding, correct or incorrect understanding, recognize or doesn't recognize, remember or doesn't remember, action/reaction or non-action/reaction, and desire or doesn't desire of the selfless thinking and acting faculty, as well as the state of purity or impurity, calmness or restlessness, pleasantness or unpleasantness, agreements or disagreements, goodness or evilness, rightfulness or wrongfulness, enjoyment or suffering, joyfulness or joylessness, positiveness or negativeness, selfishness or unselfishness, kindness or unkindness, meaningfulness or meaninglessness, and the presence or absence of corruption and impurities in the selfless impermanent modification of the mind.
Non-blind believing, non-blind following, non-blind practicing, non-blind agreeing/disagreeing, and non-blind propagating.
None can remove the ignorance or suffering for another.
None can give realization or liberation to another.
None and nothing can destroy the wisdom, compassion, and peace that exists in all and everyone, or take away all that from another. Even the thickest veil of ignorance and the highest amount of suffering also cannot destroy the wisdom, compassion, and peace that is always there, as it is.
It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance and suffering.
Inquire the truth of everything.
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