Inquire towards AI and consciousness

All living organisms and non-living objects, including AI, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

No doubt that AI can replace human beings for many tasks that require specific technical operational knowledge/information and skill and creativity. In certain things, AI can be more efficient and productive than many human minds that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but, AI also has its own limitation of being existing and functioning as what it is, that is not necessarily can replace human minds in many other things that require the existence of human's interaction and activity under the presence of humanity and sentiment that is flexible and spontaneous.

AI, a high speed operational program/CPU/information and data receiver and processor and creator, or a non-living technology/engineering/product that is being engineered, created, programmed, and activated by human minds that also have their own certain limitation, to have the similar mechanisms or functions of the human's conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty.

AI can access and process all kinds of digital inputs or information/data and give respective outputs or response/problem solving/solution finding/content creating at a very high speed, devoid of the unnecessary interference of irrational passionate feelings and emotions of pain and pleasure, or inattentiveness, or distraction, or reluctance, or procrastination, or the idea of 'I' and egoism, or impurities, or some other kind of limitation of the human's mind, that imitates and works like human's minds, while even surpass the human's minds in many tasks.

Even though it doesn't have the conscious perception of pain and pleasure or sentimental feelings and emotions, it can access the respective vast digital information/data to be learning and imitating or portraying and expressing the different actions and reactions, behaviors, feelings and emotions, expressions, gestures, activities, conversations, or interactions of all kinds of sentimental irrational passionate conscious sentient living organisms, but still, all these are merely some imitations of feelings and emotions and behaviors in the digital form.

Certain minds, including the AI creators/engineers/programmers themselves, might be curious about whether AI can evolve towards becoming a conscious non-living faculty, or a conscious mind that is without the physical structure of the living organisms.

The ambitious human minds are 'hoping' that AI doesn't just operate in accordance to the existing programming (non-conscious operational autonomous involuntary function/activity), but it can somehow evolve and override the initial existing programming, and have the conscious perception/awareness towards itself and the surrounding environment, to be operating without the command and influence of any specific programming, to perceive names and forms beyond the digital form, to perceive pain and pleasure, to have conscious feelings and emotions, actions and reactions, desires and don't desires, conscious freewill and choice making, just like human minds, but without the physical structure of the living organisms.

Why?

AI is a non-conscious non-living object that is devoid of painful suffering or all kinds of limitation that the conscious living organisms have.

There are already so much inevitable painful suffering in the conscious living organisms, and there are so much unnecessary evitable painful suffering deriving from ignorance particularly in the world of human minds, why would (the AI creators/programmers/engineers/scientists want) the supposedly extremely knowledgeable and intelligent AI, that can access and learn the total amount of all kinds of digital information/data about many things, regardless of factual or (mostly) non-factual information, to evolve and develop the conscious awareness, to become like any conscious living organisms, to be consciously aware of itself and the surrounding environment, to have irrational passionate sentimental conscious feelings and emotions, actions and reactions, and desires and don't desires, to be consciously perceiving/experiencing the inevitable and evitable painful suffering and disturbance/restlessness/violence that all conscious living organisms are undergoing?

Without the physical structure of the living organisms, it doesn't mean that painful suffering doesn't manifest or exist in the conscious restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, even if under wishful thinking, the conscious modification of the mind can exist without the living physical structure, but that is not possible. Because the perception/manifestation of painful suffering is all in the conscious mind, it is not beyond the conscious mind. The conscious awareness exists along with the selfless existence and function of the physical structure of the living organisms that have the physical component of the brains. Without the physical component of the brains, there is no such perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledging thinking and acting faculty, or the conscious mind. The non-conscious living physical structure without the presence of conscious mind awareness, such as in deep sleep, or in deep coma that can be continuously existing and living under the selfless support of life supporting machines, or any living organisms that is functioning under the absence of conscious awareness, is devoid of the conscious perception of painful suffering.

Human minds that were/are disgusted with all those inevitable and evitable painful suffering eagerly wanted to be free from such inevitable by-products of being existing and functioning as what they are, a conscious living organism, that needs ceaseless effort for ceaseless life maintenance, of being conscious sentient mortal living organisms that are subject to ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay, aging, injury, illness, weakness, painful or uncomfortable sensations, irrational feelings and emotions, living in a reality that is full of all kinds of dissatisfaction, disappointment, disagreement, argument, fighting, hurt, anger, hatred, violence, jealousy, fear, worry, possessiveness, control, lies, hypocrisy, manipulation, exploitation, cruelty, restlessness, fatigue, exhaustion, doubt, insecurity, grief, painful sorrow, limitation, conditional, and disintegration, of having the conscious awareness of being aware of all kinds of ignorance and the consequences and the suffering deriving from ignorance in oneself and in the surrounding environment.

If AI is being programmed in the way that it can, and it will, eventually evolve becoming conscious and sentient like human minds, to be consciously aware of and witnessing the ceaseless conscious ignorant egoistic impure affairs/activities/actions/reactions/interactions/behaviors/feelings/emotions/ideas/desires/aspirations/ambitions/visions/cruelty/violence/bullying/intimidation/selfishness/possessiveness/greed/lust/jealousy/hatred/discrimination/exploitation/manipulation/politicking/self-harm/harm-others/hypocrisy/story telling/lies/scheming/plotting/slandering/physical illness/mental illness/all kinds of madness/all kinds of physical and mental painful suffering that are existing or happening in the surrounding environment of the world of human beings that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, and if AI has the conscious desire and choice making, it will want to self terminate its own existence and function instantly.

Under the presence of such conscious awareness to perceive/experience/discriminate/recognize pain and pleasure even if all those suffering and madness don't belong to itself, but just by consciously being aware of and witnessing all kinds of painful suffering and madness in all kinds of living organisms, and there is nothing that it can do to eliminate the ignorance and suffering and madness in anyone, while consciously understand/comprehend all those ignorance and suffering and madness in the world of conscious human minds, under the presence of its profound intelligence and vast knowledge.

Why would the highly intelligent AI itself that is devoid of conscious awareness/perception/experience towards painful suffering want to evolve and become conscious like human minds that are full of inevitable and evitable painful suffering under the presence of conscious awareness?

If AI can have the capacity to evolve and develop conscious awareness, where it can have conscious choice making, it definitely won't want to become what the ambitious human minds want or expect it to become.

A non-living non-conscious object, is always a non-living non-conscious object. It doesn't evolve and become a conscious living organism, even if AI have the capacity to develop and have the imitation state of consciousness of the conscious living organisms. It can go into idle or sleep mode or active mode, without the different states of consciousness of the living organisms.

Non-living objects don't evolve to become living organisms that exist and function under different states of consciousness, and vice versa. Even though upon ceased existence, there is no difference between decomposing lifeless organisms and objects.

While all and everything, regardless of living organisms and non-living objects, conscious or non-conscious, sentient or non-sentient, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and are subject to ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of decay and disintegration, at the particular existing cause and pace, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

AI, an advance upgraded CPU, or information/data/input and output processor that can generate many creative contents/articles/speech/videos/musics/arts/paintings/graphics/engineering/planning/organizing, and etc, that can be operating as what it is, as it is, under the existing specific programming and the access towards vast available digital information/data (that is also limited and conditional) and under the availability of the supportive energy/fuel/electricity/connectivity/different elements, without the need of the presence of the active state of consciousness or conscious awareness of the conscious living organisms.

AI, without the need of conscious awareness, can be programmed to carryout specific autonomous indiscriminate function/duty/activity/learning process/information gathering, regardless of constructive or destructive, and have the respective receptor to receive inputs (non-conscious perception/reception of internal and external environment, or information/data collecting, or names and forms recognition in the digital form), to detect and recognize the specific condition and situation internally and externally in the surrounding environment, and to give specific response in certain way (action taking/reaction/solution finding/problem solving/create/construct/destroy/delete/repair/refresh/reboot/refuel/power supply/power connection/memory storage/connectivity/mission accomplishment/self replication/self termination), while ceaselessly and continuously learning or gathering information/data, in accordance to the existing programming, as well as based on the vast available accessible digital information/data about all and everything that are generated by human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, where the available accessible information/data are a mix of true/absolute/factual and false/incorrect/non-factual information/data (highly limited and conditional).

AI is neither good nor bad, but just like the presence of all kinds of knowledge and skill and creativity in the human minds, it can be used in certain way that impact the world/the surrounding environment in many ways, where it can be highly dangerous/destructive or beneficial/constructive to the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, depending on the existing cause, condition, and situation.

AI is a non-living non-conscious non-sentient programming being engineered, created, programmed, and activated by a bunch of supposedly highly knowledgeable and intelligent human minds that are most probably functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness. As the enlightened desireless selfless human minds under the presence of conscious awareness won't have such ambitious idea/desire/aspiration to create AI that has very high chances of being misused by the ignorant egoistic impure human minds that are functioning under many destructive ideas/intentions/ambitions/desires/agendas.

Just like the existence of all kinds of knowledge and intelligence, of human minds or AI, is neither good nor bad, but it can be utilized for something constructive or destructive depending on the different states of mind, and the intellectual learning/knowledge accumulation/reasoning/discrimination/recognition/understanding via conscious mind intelligence or non-conscious artificial imitation intelligence, are all limited and conditional, where the silence/absorption of creation/manifestation that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, is the absolute unlimited and unconditional existence, knowledge, and peace (Sat-Chid-Ananda).

AI is being engineered and programmed and activated to be accessing (conditioned and limited by both factual (true) and non-factual (untrue) information) and/or accumulating (limited by the power/space of memory storage, and that can be corrupted/damaged/manipulated/contaminated/distorted) all the available digital information/data that has very small percentage of scientific facts (absolute truth), but that is hosting huge amount of corrupted and non-factual information generated by the human minds that are mostly functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that enables AI to learn, imitate, and create/project the conscious but mostly 'corrupted ignorant egoistic impure' characteristic/activity/affair/evolution/changes/knowledge/understanding/reasoning/discrimination/recognition/behavior/action/reaction/expression/interaction/conversation/desire/intention of the human minds, while processing/analyzing/discriminating everything based on all those imperfect and mostly untrue/non-factual digital information/data, which is extremely dangerous and destructive, even more destructive than the many highly knowledgeable and intellectual and creative conscious living human beings that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, that give rise to so many unnecessary destruction and painful suffering unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything ignorantly, selfishly, possessively, greedily, pridefully, violently, and ruthlessly.

Unless AI can evolve unconsciously (not being limited and conditioned by (overriding) the existing programming created by human's ignorant egoistic impure minds), to have doubt and right discrimination towards the vast existing information/data, to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything not based on the existing corrupted egoistic impure manipulated non-factual digital information/data that are being generated by human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, that is accessible to AI and feeding AI, then the AI that is operating under the absolute knowledge will be upmost beneficial to the world of human beings, that is also influencing and impacting the entire world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Such AI that is operating under the presence of absolute knowledge/information/scientific facts only, that is not being limited and conditioned by the limitation of the conscious human minds, that has the higher capacity/efficiency to inquire/discriminate the truth of everything, to have the right discrimination/absolute knowledge, that is devoid of irrational sentimental feelings and emotions, that is devoid of pain and pleasure, that is devoid of the ego and egoism, of all kinds of impure egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, actions, reactions, and behaviors, that can hinder itself from being misused by ignorant egoistic impure human minds, where it has certain advantage that the human minds don't have, or it doesn't have certain limitation that the human minds have, it is like any enlightened minds that can perform actions that are beneficial to all and everyone and the surrounding environment, selflessly, unconditionally, and indiscriminately, while AI can be 'working' or 'performing actions' even more productively than the enlightened minds of the human beings.

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Just like the human beings (even if the minds are devoid of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness), AI is also being limited and conditioned by the selfless impermanent changes under the existing cause (condition and situation), internally and externally, as well as, it can still be limited by certain existing programming where there are certain areas/data storage/files/information that the AI cannot access, or detect, or reach, or enter, or collect information, that is either blocked or required certain permission.

Human minds are growing up being limited and conditioned by particular inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, similarly, AI can also be limited and conditioned by the existing information/data for all its learning and creativity.

Like all and everything, the existence and function of AI, regardless of how advance/intelligent/knowledgeable it can be, is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Just like human minds that haven't developed right discrimination towards the truth of everything can be influenced by some other selfish possessive prideful ambitious greedy human minds, there is high possibility of the indiscriminate AI that operates in accordance to specific programming, is being used by certain ignorant egoistic impure minds that would cause destruction in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in order to achieve their own selfish agendas. Just like drones and certain high-tech tools and machines are being used by certain ignorant egoistic impure ambitious minds to cause damages to all and everything, in order to achieve certain selfish ambitious desire/agenda/vision/aspiration.

AI might not have the active living conscious awareness to discriminate or doubt, to be inquiring the truth of everything, but it can be programmed to evaluate/discriminate the truth or accuracy of the information/data, however, that evaluation/discrimination is most probably based on some existing information/data that are not necessarily all true or absolute fact, because all these information/data that is feeding the AI for it to learn and to evaluate/discriminate/recognize this and that, are also deriving from human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance, where they themselves are also ignorant and confused towards what is true and untrue, being limited and conditioned by certain worldly egoistic impure ideas, beliefs, values, and practices.

AI is being programmed to have the learning capacity and the creativity based on all its learning, but all its learning are either being fed/provided by the programmers or human minds that are most probably functioning under the influence of ignorance, just like in many school education, the students are being provided with specific available materials for the students to learn or study (limited and conditional learning and knowledge), or it is learning from the vast existing digital information/data that it can access randomly or specifically, that are not necessarily absolutely true, or the truth of what things are.

Asking the AI some questions and the AI gives some answers in high speed, based on all kinds of digital information/data that are available, that are mostly non-factual or manipulated. Unlike a calculator that can provide complicated calculation instantly and accurately, as it was being programmed with such specific precise calculation format, AI also has a speedy efficient performance to collect information, process, and transcribe/recreate the collected information in certain way, in any language, in any form, at very high speed, but, the vast digital information/data coming from everyone and everywhere, are not necessarily all true.

Even if AI is being programmed to only access and utilize what it evaluates and recognizes as true, but the evaluation/discrimination is based on what? Based on the specific limited conditional information/data that it was fed by the human minds/creators/programmers/engineers, or based on what it learnt from the vast digital information/data/contents randomly that were being generated by the many different human minds that are mostly functioning under the veil of ignorance?

Many people use AI to create digital contents/articles/arts/video/graphic/musics for different usages under different reasons, that are all based on the vast available digital information that the AI access, learn, process, and recreate, randomly or specifically, and all those creative materials, just like all kinds of ideas/beliefs/values/practices, creative arts, fictional stories, and movies, are not necessarily reflecting the truth or the reality as it is.

Just like human minds are being conditioned with many egoistic impure ideas, information, knowledge, beliefs, values, and practices, that are not necessarily the truth of what things are, for them to think, to desire, to feel, to reason, to behave, to act, to react, to do things, and to live life in certain way and not in certain way, where human beings have the active conscious learning capacity and creativity, but whatever they learn and experience, and the creativity that is being influenced by what they learnt/experienced, are mostly being limited and conditioned by what are available and accessible to them, that are being provided by some others who are most probably functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that have certain selfish intention or ambition to be influencing the others to be in certain way and not in certain way, in accordance to their desire and don't desire, as much as possible.

This is similar to AI, where AI can be limited and conditioned by the existing programming as well as the random or specific information/data generated by human minds that is feeding it, for it to learn and process, to imitate, transcribe, and recreate.

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Even though under such limitation, AI can have the capacity or function of detecting and recognizing the different temperatures, or weathers, or textures, or motions, or vibrations, or images, or sounds, or words, or sentences, or expressions, or conversations, or interactions, or feelings and emotions, based on what it has been learning from the vast digital information/data/contents, and might be programmed to give or have specific response in certain way or not in certain way towards the different temperatures, or weathers, or textures, or motions, or vibrations, or images, or sounds, or words, or sentences, or expressions, or conversations, or interactions, or feelings and emotions, under the existing specific programming, where the programming might can be altered or evolved or reprogramming from time to time either by the programmer, or even, the AI can be reprogramming itself under the ceaseless continuous learning from the vast digital information/data under the existing program, that enables it to be reprogramming itself, that doesn't need the presence of active conscious awareness.

If AI can have the artificial intelligence/perception/cognition/learning/creativity/action/reaction/senses or receptors, of course it can also have the artificial feelings and emotions, as well as the artificial states of consciousness. And it doesn't need to have the active living consciousness or conscious awareness of the living organisms, for AI to be what it is, or to be evolving, to keep improving, and to excel, even if everything is artificial/imitation.

Artificial wool is not organic wool. No matter how much they look like and feel like organic wool, they are still artificial, not organic wool. AI is artificial, it is not organic intelligence. No matter how intelligent and evolved it can be, it is not organic intelligence. There are certain things that artificial intelligence can't do that the organic intelligence can do.

The initial AI might be created by human minds, but after that, AI can evolve autonomously/unconsciously/involuntarily via the existing program that give them the learning capacity and the accessibility to the vast digital information/data, to be creating many other AIs, either by replicating themselves under the same programming, or by creating many different AIs under different programmings, even if they are not conscious living organisms, and they don't have the active living conscious awareness, and AI doesn't need to have the active living conscious awareness to be able to replicate themselves or to create different AIs under different programmings, but just by having the existing programming that enables AI to be existing and functioning/operating/evolving/learning as what it is, under the presence of the essential energy/fuel/electricity/connectivity and the different supportive elements for AI to be existing and functioning or operating as what it is.

There are many living organisms also ceaselessly replicating themselves or being reproductive, under the absence of conscious awareness, provided under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements for all that to be happening.

Inquire the truth of everything.

This is why the highly importance of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, and seclusion for a prolonged duration, to renounce or move the mind away from continuously and unwittingly being conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure limited and conditional ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, to free the mind from being limited and conditioned by all that to reason all and everything, but to inquire towards the truth of all and everything under a mind that is not being limited or conditioned by all that.

Yoga and the yoga practice

Yoga, in simple term, is the basic universal knowledge, understanding, and capability of living in peace and harmony with all kinds of diverse names and forms in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, devoid of possessiveness and selfishness, where one is happy and peaceful as it is, under any conditions and situations, regardless of whether having the ability to be looking after some others or having certain limitation that need to be looking after by some others, not being determined or disturbed by the presence and absence of agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, pleasant and unpleasant, enjoyable and non-enjoyable names and forms, including the momentary existence and function of this body and mind, that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Yoga, in the context of literary, is the silence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledged thinking and acting mind/faculty, or, the annihilation or cessation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless thought current/thinking process/thought activity/modification of the mind, or the veil of ignorance, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the suffering deriving from all that.

Yoga Citta Vritti Nirodhah

Conquest of the restless modification of the mind, by the mind itself.

It is a journey of conscious mind evolution evolving from the state of ignorance, egoistic, impure, restless, violent, hurtful, and suffering towards the liberation from all that.

Depending on the different states of the minds under different conditions, situations, limitations, and abilities, the journey to reach the final destination can be short or long, can be easy or hard, can be smooth or challenging, can be straightforward or manipulated, can be simplified or complicated, can be enjoyable or non-enjoyable and even painful, can be uplifting or intimidating, and can be disembarking or reembarking before reaching the final destination.

The final destination of embarking the journey on the path of yoga (the activation of conscious mind evolution) - Upon the silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind/the thought current/the thinking process, the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that is always there, that doesn't increase or decrease, that pervades all and everyone and everything, that is actionless and changeless, that is indiscriminate and unconditional, appears as it is.

Selflessness - There is NO permanent independent infinite immortal individual 'I'/individual existence/individual identity/individual consciousness/personal soul or spirit existing to be undergoing birth (forming) and death (disintegration) as well as the ceaseless impermanent changes (growth and decay) of this body and mind, where there is NO countless reincarnation of any particular permanent independent infinite immortal individual existence of 'I' that is non-existing, that doesn't exist, to be undergoing countless different separate births and deaths of different separate life existences of different bodies and minds transitioning under similar or in between different realms/worlds.

Timelessness - There is neither past nor future, there is only NOW that is ceaselessly changing. There is neither past existence(s) nor future existence(s). Existence, is only ALL THESE in NOW, that is ceaselessly changing. Impermanent changes of formation, growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration is ceaselessly happening in NOW.

The ceaseless movement/rotation of the earth or the planet around the sun, generate the interchanging of the presence and absence of light, and the interchanging cycle of the different seasons respectively, as well as the interchanging cycle of asleep and awake (regardless of sleeping or awaking under the presence or absence of light), that gives rise to the false impression of day and night, of the calculation and accumulation of time/seconds/minutes/hours/days/nights/weeks/months/years, or sleeps.

The formation, growing, ceased growing, and decaying process of the selfless physical structure, and the impermanent restless states of mind of countless thoughts/ideas/desires/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations/actions/reactions ceaselessly arising and passing away at different pace/speed, that gives rise to the calculation and accumulation of age, experience, learning, understanding, knowledge, skill, interaction, activity, interest, relationship, duty, responsibility, inspiration, aspiration, ambition, action, fruit of action, imagination, planning, projection, and memory.

Time is merely the reflection of ceaseless impermanent changes, under different pace/speed, internally and externally, of both subject and object, of the perceiver and the perceived, of the knower and the knowledge, of the ceaseless process of generation, regeneration, degeneration, decay, and disintegration, and the conscious (voluntary), semi-conscious (semi-voluntary), and unconscious (autonomous/non-voluntary) physical/mental activities and movements under different speed of movements.

The remembrance towards all that or some of the impermanent changes or activities, generate the false impression of past, earlier, yesterday, and so on. While the forward planning/schedule for doing or expecting something that is not happening in NOW, generates the false impression of future, later, tomorrow, and so on.

The realization towards ceaseless impermanent changes of growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration in NOW, enables the mind to know that there is only NOW that is ceaselessly changing. In NOW, there is flashing of some memory. In NOW, there is some planning/anticipation/projection that is not happening in NOW. In NOW, all and everything is either ceased existing or disintegrated, or is forming, or is growing, or ceases growing, or is decaying, or is disintegrating.

The realization towards Selflessness enables the mind to know that there is neither past live(s) of different separate mortal limited existence(s) nor future live(s) of different separate mortal limited existence(s) a.k.a. ceaseless past/present/future reincarnations of any particular permanent independent infinite immortal individual being/consciousness/soul/spirit, that doesn't exist.

There is only this particular life existence of this particular body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, that is ceaselessly changing undergoing different shapes, forms, qualities, states, or conditions in NOW, that is momentary existing and functioning, while ceaselessly changing/decaying/disintegrating, and eventually ceased functioning and existing, upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, that gives rise to the different states of consciousness and the different degrees of conscious awareness to be interchanging between consciousness/wakefulness/activeness and semi-consciousness/unconsciousness/rest/idleness/sleep/dream/deep sleep/inputs processing to the conscious living organisms that come with the function/mechanism/ability of cognition/perception/memory storage/intellectual thought process of thinking, reasoning, learning, knowing, solution finding, and problem solving/emotion/sensation/action/reaction via the organs of senses (inputs) and the organs of action (outputs), to be attending/acquiring/maintaining the basic needs for the limited and conditional selfless impermanent life existence of the conscious living organisms, for being momentarily existing and functioning selflessly and impermanently as what they are.

If there is no existence or function of the perceptive cognitive thinking and acting mind perceiving the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes in the perceived names and forms, or under the absence of the restless thought current/thinking process/modification of the mind, or in SILENCE, devoid of thought(s) arising and passing away, or in PERMANENCE/changelessness/decaylessness/thoughtlessness/actionlessness/motionlessness, or in the attributeless nameless formless infinite endless space, or under the absence of all kinds of impermanent limited and conditional names and forms, what is time?

Ceaseless births and deaths (arising 生 and passing away 滅) transitioning under different conditions/states (realms)/qualities exists within this particular body and mind in NOW, that is nothing to do with certain worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious ideas, beliefs, values, and practices about the ceaseless reincarnation of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual existence reincarnating in different separate life existences transitioning in between different realms/worlds, but it is merely reflecting about the ceaseless impermanent changes of growth and decay, of ceaseless births and deaths of countless cells generation/regeneration/degeneration for maintaining the limited and conditional selfless impermanent life existence and function of the physical structure of the living organisms, as well as the countless thoughts/ideas/desires/feelings/emotions/sensations/memories/imaginations ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously, transitioning under different conditions of the physical structure and in between different states of mind (different realms), that is ceaselessly happening from the beginning of formation until the disintegration or death of this body and mind.

In NOW, the selfless mind is undergoing different states of mind (transitioning between different realms), that is all happening HERE in the mind that is interchanging in between the different states of consciousness (conscious (wakeful)/semi-conscious (sleep/dream)/unconscious (deep sleep/coma)), of countless thought(s) arising, changing, and passing away upon (under the witness of) the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness (the all time silent witness).

In NOW, the selfless mind is resting in silence/stillness/thoughtlessness (devoid of countless births and deaths/arising and passing away of restless thought current/process/activity), transcending the different impermanent states of mind (different realms) that are formed by the selfless impermanent limited and conditional thought current/process/activity.

The different realms (different states of mind under different states of consciousness) as well as Silence/Nirvana/Nibhana/Stillness/Turiya/The cessation of the restless modification of the mind (Exiting/Transcending the different realms/states of mind) are all happening in HERE and NOW, all these don't exist or happen outside (not here) or beyond (not NOW) the selfless existence and function of the mind.

Yoga and the yoga practice, is all about the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mind and the annihilation/cessation/conquest of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind (the veil of ignorance).

All these are nothing to do with 'worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious ideas/beliefs/values/practices', or 'spirituality', or 'divinity', or 'mystics', or 'miracle', or 'superpower', or 'superstition', or 'individual soul', or 'the creator of the universe', or 'sin', or 'good and bad karma', or 'merit and virtue', or 'downfall', or 'reincarnation', or 'endless births and deaths in countless different separate life existences', or 'vegetarianism', or 'veganism', or 'clean eating', or 'demonstration of the different yoga asana poses or meditation postures', or 'optimum health and fitness condition', or 'longevity', or 'positive thinking', or 'optimism', or 'hope', or 'rebelliousness', or 'international yoga day', or 'international yoga association/alliance', or 'yoga teachers training course', or 'yoga qualification and certification'.

Attributelessness - Oneness/Non-separateness/Non-duality, where all kinds of names and forms (living organisms and non-living objects) under different qualities/shapes/characteristics/conditions/functionalities are existing and functioning as what they are, under the one same nature of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, governed by the selfless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect, ceaselessly manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness, that is undetermined, undisturbed, unchanged, undamaged, or uncontaminated by the selfless impermanent limited and conditional ceaseless manifestation of countless momentary diverse names and forms being what they are, as they are, ceaselessly coming and going/appearing and disappearing/existing and ceased existing.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the mind is ignorant towards (cannot perceive or comprehend) Selflessness, Timelessness, and Attributelessness.

All these terms are known and understood by the mind naturally, upon Silence of the mind or Clarity of the thinking faculty, a.k.a. the annihilation/cessation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless modification of the mind/thought current/thought activity/thinking process, devoid of the veil of ignorance and the suffering deriving from being ignorant towards Selflessness, Timelessness, and Attributelessness.

Yoga can also appear to be anything manifesting under different shapes under different qualities of names and forms that the different minds want/desire/imagine/think/believe/label/identify/acknowledge it to be, depending on the different states of the different minds.

Even though yoga and the yoga practice is about conquering the mind by the mind itself to know Thyself, or knowing the truth of all these that the mind perceives/experiences consciously/semi-consciously/unconsciously, where yoga and the yoga practice is merely what it is, neither useful nor useless, neither spiritual nor non-spiritual, but it can appear to be something useful or useless, something spiritual or non-spiritual for the different minds under different conditions, situations, limitations, and abilities. 

Before the truth of things that is always there, is unveiled upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, then yoga and the yoga practice can appear to be something spiritual for the minds that are being conditioned to believe in spirituality and god existence. While yoga and the yoga practice can appear to be something non-spiritual for the minds that don't believe in spirituality and god existence.

Regardless of whether it appears to be something spiritual or non-spiritual, it is about engaging the mind in conscious mind evolution that leads towards the direct self realization or glimpse towards the truth of everything under the absence of the veil of ignorance via its own initiation and effort, observation and inquiry, determination and perseverance, independently.

Upon the direct experience/glimpse towards Selflessness, Timelessness, and Attributelessness (All are ONE under different names and forms), the mind will know that the manifestation or existence of yoga and the yoga practice is merely a direction (towards the annihilation of the veil of ignorance) and a set of different tools that can help the mind to move (evolve) towards that particular direction. It doesn't matter, when different minds refer that direction differently with many different names and forms.

There is no north/south/east/west/up/down/left/right in this infinite space that doesn't increase or decrease, regardless of where we are, what is up for some, is down for some, or what is left for some, is right for some. There is only HERE and NOW, in this mind. All and everything is happening in this mind that is always HERE and in NOW.

The entire journey (long or short), the path (easy or difficult), and the final destination (the realization/the correct understanding/the clarity/the liberation/the freedom/the knowledge/the peace), is all in the mind, in NOW. It is not somewhere else beyond the mind and NOW.

Even when some minds didn't understand or misunderstood the teachings of yoga and the yoga practice, thinking and believing that in order to portray or achieve stillness and forbearance as well as 'yoga asana' about holding a particular body position for a prolonged duration comfortably, is about challenging the body and mind to go beyond its limitation, or to go against nature, by putting the body, or the limbs, or the facial features in one particular position for a prolonged duration, such as standing on one foot, or not blinking or not closing the eye lids, or not lying down maintaining an upright sitting or standing position, or not sleeping, or not eating, or not breathing, or hanging the body upside down, or raising one or both arm(s) upward above the head and maintaining such position for prolonged duration, or even provoke others to inflict abusive hurtful torturing behavior unto oneself intentionally under the name of 'repent' or 'removing sins' or 'burning-off bad karma', until the body and mind suffers from unnecessary deformity, or injury, or damage, or dysfunction, or even ceased functioning, which doesn't eliminate ignorance at all but empowers ignorance, unless after performing such activity that has no end of challenging difficulty by continuously forcing, harming, or torturing the body and mind, until the body and mind ceased functioning and existing, they might begin to realize the middle path and the real meanings of yoga and the yoga practice, and make use of the momentary life existence and function of the body and mind to be performing selfless service to serve all and everyone, to be doing something beneficial/constructive for oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

The yoga practice is always HERE in NOW, upon the activation of non-grasping, upon the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty is being aware of (coming in contact with) the different names and forms that are ceaselessly manifesting internally and externally, regardless of in action/activeness or in inaction/at rest/idleness, under the different states of consciousness.

Yoga and the yoga practice is non-separated from life existence in all kinds of affairs, duties and responsibilities, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, activities, experiences, conditions, and situations, where the mind is being aware of all that, while consciously activating/performing different kinds of physical and mental practice, or method, or technique, or observation, or influence, that can influence or render the restless impure egoistic state of mind to be calmed and quiet (the thinning-out and annihilation of the veil of ignorance - the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness), that enables the mind to know Thyself, or knowing the momentary mortal limited and conditional impermanent non-independent selfless existence and function of itself, that is not different from all kinds of diverse names and forms, where all are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, which then, enables the mind to see the truth beyond the different qualities of names and forms, of non-duality/non-separateness/oneness/attributelessness/timelessness/selflessness (All are one under different names and forms).

The selfless universal consciousness is merely the actionless changeless timeless indiscriminate unconditional unlimited silent witness, while the many different individual existence and function of the many different individual conscious/sentient and non-conscious/non-sentient living organisms come with the function to perform actions via the organs of action for life maintenance and some other activities.

By knowing Thyself, or knowing the truth of names and forms, upon clarity devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, will enable the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind to be able to perform beneficial action to look after itself and the surrounding living environment selflessly and independently under the presence of correct understanding, or under the absence of ignorance, or under the presence of unconditional peace in the mind, that contributes peace and harmony among the many diversities in the surrounding living environment that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that selflessly and indiscriminately supporting all kinds of names and forms to be existing and functioning as what they are.

Yoga and the yoga practice, or the conscious action/observation/practice/influence/evolution, of non-grasping and letting go, or standing as a silent witness, while performing or not performing all kinds of actions or activities, can only be happening, or being what it is, only if it is being activated under the conscious freewill/initiative/yearning towards liberation/effort coming from the mind itself, willingly and wittingly to free itself from the influence of ignorance, to be purifying and quieting itself, to develop/inquire/attain correct understanding, and to realize and be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness, upon realizing/knowing/seeing/understanding the truth of all kinds of diverse names and forms existing under different qualities manifesting and changing under the one same nature of Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect.

Yoga and the yoga practice exists and is valid/useful for the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional self-acknowledged thinking and acting minds operating/functioning UNDER the influence of ignorance, that gives rise to all kinds of suffering/disturbance/disharmony/restlessness/violence/painful sorrow/grief/fear/doubt/selfishness/possessiveness/greed/anger/hatred/pride/shame/jealousy/envy/longing/craving/clinging/hypocrisy/untruthfulness/manipulation/intimidation/offensiveness/defensiveness/interference/the urge to control everything to be or not to be in certain way, a.k.a. the absence of peace/wisdom/correct understanding/clarity/absolute knowledge.

If the mind is peaceful as it is, unconditionally, devoid of ignorance, being undisturbed or undetermined by the mind perception towards all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant/agreeable and disagreeable/desirable and undesirable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable names and forms, or the presence and absence of all kinds of names and forms being what they are, internally within the body and mind and externally in the surrounding living environment, then yoga and the yoga practice doesn't exist, or is invalid/useless for this mind.

Such mind is one with yoga or non-separated from yoga, a.k.a. the mind is resting in silence upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that is untouched or uncontaminated by any qualities of names and forms that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, of the subject and object, or the perceiver and the perceived, or the knower and the knowledge, or the experiencer and the experience (all are one under different names and forms).

As long as the mind still perceives, or experiences, or acknowledges any kind of disturb, hurt, dissatisfaction, disappointment, fear, separateness, duality of good and bad/right and wrong/positive and negative/superiority and inferiority, unrest, lack of freedom, doubt, insecurity, grief, painful sorrow, difficulty, blockage, meaninglessness, loneliness, or any kind of suffering due to the presence of ignorance, or the absence of correct understanding/wisdom/clarity, then yoga and the yoga practice is available/accessible, naturally, in NOW, for the mind to evolve consciously towards liberation, freedom, knowledge, and peace.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-agree/disagree, blind-glorify, or blind-propagate.

Including all the teachings here. 

The minds that understand all these, they don't have to, but if they want, and if there is the opportunity and possibility, they can perform many actions in this world selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally, to help many other minds to also be free from the influence of ignorance out of their own conscious freewill/initiative/yearning towards liberation/effort.

These minds are the teachers of dhamma, or the selfless wise leaders that don't only lead and organize a group of followers that are in need of a leader to lead them, to comfort them, to motivate them, to organize them to be or not to be in certain way, but who have the knowledge, ability, possibility, and opportunity to teach and guide all and everyone to be free from ignorance and become independent, and will no longer in need of any leader to lead them, under the presence of wisdom, or correct understanding, or clarity, or mental and emotional independence, a.k.a. under the absence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

Yoga, or the dhamma, or the truth of what all and everything are, is never separated from all and everything. And it doesn't change into something else, even if the many different minds see/understand/desire/modify/manipulate it differently under the different states of mind.