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 is yoga and meditation practice is about.
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