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.
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