The persistent regular practice highly matters but the result doesn't matter at all

Why is the active continuous engagement in the yoga and meditation practice regularly highly mattered, but the many different impermanent by-products/side-effects/consequences that come along with the regular practice, as well as the final fruit/outcome/result of the entire total accumulated persevered practice (whether the mind successfully attains direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, or not) at the end of life existence doesn't matter at all?

Just as the existence of all kinds of fruit trees that produce different kinds of fruits respectively might be important and beneficial to the survival of many others, but whether all the fruits on the trees are being consumed, or not, and are being consumed in certain way or not in certain way, is not the responsibility of the fruit trees and the fruits, and it doesn't matter.

Just as performing all actions/duties/responsibilities under the presence of correct understanding is highly mattered, but the fruit of actions/duties/responsibilities, or how others respond and react towards one's actions and fruit of actions, doesn't matter at all.

Just as the effort, or willpower, or resilience of keep going in the journey of a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence until it comes to an end under respective cause and pace, is what mattered, but what is there, or not there, in the end of the journey, it doesn't matter at all.

*Such as there are many different wishful and hopeful or fearful and threatening stories telling about 'what happens upon and after death', or the common worldly belief about the existence of a timeless beginningless and endless infinite immortal existence of a permanent independent infinite individual self identity/soul/spirit/consciousness undergoing either several or countless separate births and deaths (limited and unlimited reincarnations/rebirths) ignorantly, reluctantly, and unwittingly, where either the cycle of births and deaths has a beginning that will come to an end, or it is a beginningless and endless loop/wheel of endless births and deaths, where the minds are not being in the present but are being busy building, accumulating, projecting, and anticipating what after now. Or, upon attaining the direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in the finite momentary existence in all kinds of names and forms - regardless of whether living organisms or non-living objects, where there isn't any past different separate existence or future different separate existence beyond this existence, or there aren't continuous past/present/future different separate existences that belong to a permanent independent infinite individual identity/soul/spirit/consciousness that doesn't exist, where the only existence is what is here in NOW, and it is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Just as the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function that is still existing and functioning in NOW is highly mattered, but when (long-lived/short-lived) and how (the cause of death) is the life existence and function comes to an end, doesn't matter at all.

Just as whether the minds believe or disbelieve in 'the creator and the judge of all and everything' or 'God'/'gods'/'soul'/'spirit'/'individual consciousness'/'heaven, earth, and hell'/'different realms'/'ceaseless reincarnations in endless loop of births and deaths undergoing countless different separate life existences transitioning among different realms of a permanent independent individual consciousness or soul or spirit', and etc, doesn't matter at all, but to be engaging in the mind purification and silencing process, or the silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or the annihilation/subjugation/stillness of the restless thought current, that gives rise to clarity of thinking and reasoning, that gives rise to correct understanding/wisdom/absolute knowledge, that gives rise to unconditional peace in oneself that contribute peace into the surrounding environment, regardless of whether the mind believes or disbelieves in 'all that', where the mind stops hurting or doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment under the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, either wittingly or unwittingly, consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, voluntarily or involuntarily, is what matters. 

*The mind doesn't hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment is not because of fear towards painful punishment, but out of conscious freewill under the absence of fear under the presence of correct understanding.

Just as it doesn't matter even when there are many minds believe in the many imaginative wishful thinking, or comforting mystical stories telling, or desirable justifications about 'what happens or what is there after death', that are non-factual, but more importantly, is how the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind making good use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function of the body and mind that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, that is still existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements in NOW, under the existing available physical and mental good condition and functionality, knowledge, understanding, experience, talent, skill, and opportunity, to be performing selfless actions/physical and mental activities that can benefit all and everyone and everything unconditionally and indiscriminately, out of generosity, kindness, and wisdom (correct understanding or absolute knowledge).

Just as all human beings, regardless of young or old, energetic or non-energetic, healthy or unhealthy, fit or unfit, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, intelligent or non-intelligent, talented or non-talented, skillful or non-skillful, happy or unhappy, ambitious or non-ambitious, wise or ignorant, understanding or non-understanding, introvert or extrovert, selfish or unselfish, good or bad behavior, short-lived or long-lived, need to have or develop a specific point of focus/attentiveness/direction/goal throughout the entire momentary duration of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence and function, to be diverting the entire attention and energy onto the physical and mental engagement in something that is beneficial to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, where there is no extra room/time/space, attention, or energy left for some other physical and mental activities that are harmful to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, during the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, is what matters.

The minds that have attained direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, will naturally understand why it doesn't matter about 'the existence of the many different comforting and/or threatening stories telling or justifications towards the unknown, or painful suffering, or certain behavior and phenomena that the minds couldn't understand', or 'what is there, or not there, upon/after the death of this physical body or the end of this life existence', while making good use or full use of this fleeting momentary 'precious' existence of the body and mind when it is still available and possible, to be doing something beneficial to oneself and others and the surrounding environment, indiscriminately and unconditionally.

Such minds won't waste any effort, or energy, or life (what most mind referred as time) into useless common mingling, socializing, bonding, connecting, interacting, big talk, small talk, vain talk, chit-chatting, gossiping, slandering, condemning, criticizing, shaming, blaming, boasting, glorifying, worshiping, day dreaming, building castle in the air, regret, guilt, celebrating, mourning, grieving, plotting, scheming, politicking, conflict, argument, debate, envying, admiring, imitating, intimidating, interfering, fighting, hoarding, and so on.

The minds that haven't attained direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, they might or might not be conditioned by certain belief and values to behave and desire in certain way and not in certain way, as well as what they 'want to' believe about 'what is there upon/after death', that they think and believe and evaluate as what highly mattered and meaningful. There is neither right nor wrong. Under such projection and anticipation towards the unknown or 'what is there upon and after death', some minds would refrain themselves from causing any harm unto anyone or anything, while some minds would cause harm unto themselves and others, due to the different degrees of understanding/non-understanding/misunderstanding, even under the similar common belief and values and practice, not to say, under the many different beliefs and values and practices.

That is why there is the highly practical and essential observation or practice of silence (Mauna), solitude, seclusion, being/living/focusing in the present, dispassion, desirelessness, non-grasping, non-association, non-craving, non-aversion, non-building castle in the air/day dreaming/wild imagination, withdrawing the outgoing tendency of the mind chasing after the objects of the senses, renunciation (non-engagement in worldly egoistic activities/affairs/relationships/connections/interactions/communications/aspirations), self-introspection, self-inquiry, concentration and meditation, to gather the passionate restless outgoing tendency/curiosity/random thoughts and desires/discontentment/inattentiveness/constant longing towards receiving attention, acknowledgement, agreement, consent, approval, recognition, understanding, friendship, companionship, interaction, or communication from others/power of influence and control seeking and gathering/possession hoarding and wealth accumulation, a.k.a. the restless thought current, to be concentrating at one particular point of focus/attentiveness/concentration for a prolonged duration, that will eventually and effortlessly turn into meditation (silence/clarity of mind/stillness of the mind or thought current).

The engagement in all kinds of regular persistent physical and mental practice are useful and highly mattered, until the mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of everything under clarity or quiet state of mind, where the conscious mind under the absence of the idea of 'I'/the ego, is resting in peace upon the selfless timeless attributeless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, where the mind can be attending or engaging in some activities, or not, and spending energy or effort onto doing/creating/constructing/sowing/learning/teaching/sharing something, or not, but there is needless to have any form of interaction, or connectivity, or communication, or mutual understanding, or response and reaction with any others.

This is similar to the minds that are being referred as autistic.

They can be learning and performing all kinds of activities/actions selflessly and egolessly, without the need of responding or reacting to anyone, or to be interacting and communicating with anyone, or to gain attention, reaction, appreciation, understanding, agreement, recognition, acknowledgement, liking, love, support, respect, approval, praise and compliment, encouragement, friendship, relationship, companionship, connection, power of influence or control, and etc.

They don't need any encouragement or praise from anyone to motivate them for anything and for being what they are, as they are. They don't respond or react to the presence and absence of encouragement or discouragement/praise or criticism/likes and dislikes/agreements and disagreements about anything from anyone.

They don't interfere with (judge/discriminate/expect) all and everything being what they are, as they are. They don't intentionally go around disturbing any others, but the others are greatly 'disturbed' by their silence and aloneness, or non-interaction and non-communication.

They are constantly self-introspecting, self-investigating, self-inquiring, or self-learning, which is the highest power of learning, knowing, reasoning, and understanding.

They can be highly intelligent and creative and talented and skillful in certain things or many things, but they are not seeking success/name and fame/power of influence and control, or response and reaction, attention, acknowledgment, recognition, praise, understanding, approval, consent, opinion, appreciation, liking, support, friendship, or anything, from anyone.

They are dispassionate but not emotionless, and they perceive or feel or recognize the different sensations of pleasantness and unpleasantness/comfort and discomfort, and they might express feelings and emotions as they are, while not necessarily in the way that most minds would express the different feelings and emotions in certain way respectively.

They don't have the 'common' and 'normal' tendency to interfere with/influence/control/manipulate all the others being what they are, as they don't need to digest/understand/react/respond towards any unnecessary inputs, or the different random and fleeting thoughts/feelings/emotions/actions/reactions/behaviors/understanding and non-understanding/agreements and disagreements/likes and dislikes of anyone.

Just as all the selfless cells in the physical body are performing their respective activity/duty/function selflessly and egolessly for being what they are, as they are.

* Selflessness - The truth of everything, where there is no existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence of a unique individual identity/soul/spirit/consciousness that exists in any names and forms, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self

* Egolessness or 'I'lessness - The absence of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the conscious individual self acknowledgement in the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind or the thinking faculty of the selfless living organisms

'Normal' minds referred autistic minds as 'abnormal', or 'unhealthy', or 'something wrong' because the autistic minds are basically and naturally functioning under the absence of the ego/the idea of 'I'/the conscious individual self acknowledgement and egoism, or the absence of the sense of separateness between 'I' and 'others' or 'not I', and hence, the autistic minds don't behave 'normally' the same as the minds that are functioning 'normally' under the presence and influence of conscious individual self acknowledgment (the ego or the idea of 'I') that gives rise to the sense of separateness between 'I' and 'others' or 'not I', that gives rise to 'relationship', or 'connection', or 'bonding', or 'interaction and communication', or 'corresponding', or 'mingling', or 'socializing', under the influence of the ego/the idea of 'I'/the conscious individual self acknowledgement and egoism of grasping, attachment, identification, craving and aversion, judgment, comparison, and expectation/anticipation/projection, where the many 'normal functioning' passionate egoistic minds, including enthusiastic scientists or biologists, cannot understand what is going on in the minds that are functioning under the absence of the ego and egoism, that are naturally and effortlessly resting within, or internalized, or focused within.

They think and understand and say that the autistic minds cannot pick up, or learn, or develop, or understand certain things like all the other 'normal functioning' minds, but actually it is the 'normal' individual self acknowledging egoistic impure restless minds that are the ones that cannot understand or comprehend the minds that are functioning under the absence of the ego and egoism, that are devoid of the sense of separateness and possessiveness, egoistic grasping, attachment, identification, association, connection, relationship, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, comparison, expectation, and all kinds of unnecessary evitable impurities and restlessness, of what the 'normal functioning' minds referred as 'normal' and 'healthy' function and behavior.

The autistic minds are indeed showing the world of passionate egoistic outgoing restless human minds about the truth of selflessness in all kinds of names and forms, where living organisms can be existing and functioning selflessly as well as egolessly under the absence of the ego/the idea of 'I' or the conscious individual self acknowledgement and egoism.

The world of many diversities will definitely have more peace and harmony and have less unnecessary unrest and conflicts if most minds are being born autistic genetically and biologically, or devoid of the ego and egoism naturally and effortlessly. Similarly, if more and more 'normal' egoistic impure restless passionate minds practice yoga and meditation diligently, and render the selfless impermanent limited and conditional egoistic impure restless modification of the mind to become quiet or silent, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, the world of diverse individuals and diverse communities will definitely and naturally have more peace and harmony.

There is the absence of the ego and egoism in the autistic minds 'genetically', 'biologically', 'physically', 'mentally', 'naturally', and 'effortlessly', which is exactly the ultimate goal of all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism practice under different lineages/styles/schools/paths/gurus/teachings/practices, but with the one same goal of to be consciously and diligently quieting and purifying the restless thought current, by eradicating restlessness and all kinds of impurities via the annihilation of the idea of 'I' and egoism from the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind, a.k.a. the annihilation of the veil of ignorance and the consequences/by-products of ignorance.

However, that (the absence of the ego and egoism) is being referred as a form of 'mental deformity', or 'abnormality', or 'unhealthiness', or 'madness', or 'negativity', in the world of ignorance and egoism, where the many passionate egoistic impure restless minds are 'naturally' functioning 'normally' under the presence and influence of the idea of 'I, egoism, impurities, and restlessness, where there are so much unnecessary evitable violence, discrimination, dissatisfaction, discontentment, distraction, disappointment, hurt, offensiveness, defensiveness, argument, conflict, fighting, unrest, resentment, selfishness, possessiveness, greed, aspiration, ambition, self-righteousness, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, guilt, regret, fear, worry, loneliness, boredom, lies, hypocrisy, justification, dishonesty, prejudice, discrimination, self blame, blaming others, slandering, back-biting, politicking, exploitation, plotting, all kinds of corruption, invasion, intrusion, interference, oppression, self harm, harming others and the surrounding environment, and so on, in the passionate egoistic impure restless minds that also contributing unrest, disturbance, and conflicts into the surrounding environment. Completely peaceless within and without.

And the 'normal' minds referred such ignorance and common ignorant behaviors, actions, reactions, interactions, relationships, connections, affairs, or activities of the 'normal' minds, as something 'normal' and 'healthy'.

The rare and precious minds, either being born autistic (absence of the ego and egoism as well as internalized/focused within) biologically, naturally, and effortlessly as it is, or not being born autistic but are functioning under the presence and influence of the ego or the idea of 'I', while out of conscious awareness being aware of the restless/ignorant/distracted/disturbed suffering peaceless state of mind, and having intense yearning to be free from all that, to be consciously making effort to be silent and quiet, by turning inward or internalized/focused within through conscious freewill and self effort via certain practices and observations to be eradicating the idea of 'I' and egoism that gives rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness/distraction that feeds and empowers the veil of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, these minds don't need to have any particular direction or goal, or hanging onto any kind of faith or belief and values, in order to keep them busy focusing onto working and reaching that particular direction or goal, in order to avoid engaging in many other activities that could be harmful to oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

All these self internalized minds won't be engaging in any form of activities that are deliberately or intentionally to be harming oneself and others and the surrounding environment, under the presence of one-pointedness or stillness or quietness, that gives rise to clarity of thinking and reasoning, correct understanding, wisdom, absolute knowledge, and unconditional peace, in silence, a.k.a. under the absence of the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I'/the ego, egoism, impurities, and restlessness.

That is why the autistic minds are being in the most comfortable state when they are being alone by themselves, not being 'disturbed' or 'stimulated' by any kind of unnecessary boundless inputs that are being ceaselessly generated by the many 'normal' minds that are so restless/puzzled/ignorant/egoistic/impure/passionate/discontented/control freak. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Meanwhile, the 'normal' egoistic restless passionate minds desire to 'change' or 'heal' the autistic minds, that are naturally quiet, peaceful, at ease, or comfortable being alone by themselves, while being 'anxious', 'disturbed', or 'unease' when they are being 'force feed' or 'disturbed' by so much ongoing unnecessary inputs or actions and reactions of the surrounding 'normal' egoistic impure restless minds, especially when there are many 'normal' minds around them aspired to force/change/heal/rehabilitate them to become 'normal', or to behave 'normally' like them.

The 'normal' minds want to interfere with and change the quiet and internalized minds because they don't like the reality of they can't understand the quiet minds where they can't control/influence/manipulate the minds that are quiet/internalized, and that don't interact/communicate with them or don't respond/react/acknowledge towards them and their desire of desiring/controlling/influencing/manipulating all and everything to be the way that they desire.

The selfless mind is fully focusing on doing its own thing quietly and attentively, alone, by oneself, in peace.

But the 'normal' minds/parents/friends/teachers/doctors/scientists in the surrounding environment that are extremely clueless, puzzled, and confused, "Look at me here. I am talking to you. I care for you. I love you. I want to help you. Please say and express something. Tell me what are you thinking and how are you feeling. Why don't you respond or communicate with me at all? I can't understand, and I can't help you, if you don't respond to me or don't communicate with me. It is not good and unhealthy if you cannot and don't mingle and socialize, interact and communicate with some others."

If the mind can be opened, it will start to see and understand all that. If the mind wants to see and understand the mind that is silence and internalized, that doesn't respond towards or interact/communicate with the others in the surrounding environment, the mind can learn about Vipassana practice by attending Vipassana silent meditation retreat, and it will know that there is nothing wrong, or abnormal, or unhealthy about the precious silence, quietness, solitude, seclusion, dispassion, internalization, inputs cut-off, non-expressing, non-communicating, non-mingling, non-socializing, and non-interacting, but it is absolutely highly beneficial to the over-all well-being of oneself and others and the surrounding environment.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Silence, correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, wisdom, freedom, respect, peace

Silence (the silent undisturbed clarity/state/modification of the mind under the absence of restless egoistic impure veil of ignorance), is the most precious thing in this world of human beings/minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, regardless of the different qualities of names and forms that all and everyone inherited from birth and changing/adopted/developed after birth.

Silence, gives rise to correct understanding, or clarity of thinking and reasoning, or absolute knowledge, or wisdom.

Wisdom, gives rise to unconditional freedom and peace in oneself.

Unconditional freedom and peace in oneself, gives rise to unconditional and indiscriminate respect and kindness towards all kinds of diversities being what they are, as they are, transcending all kinds of duality of good and bad, right and wrong, positivity and negativity, purity and impurity, superiority and inferiority, deserving and undeserving, appropriateness and disappropriateness, accomplished and non-accomplished, success and failure, gain and loss, joyful and joyless, wise and unwise, kind and unkind, selfish and unselfish, and so on.

Unconditional and indiscriminate respect and kindness among all kinds of diversities, regardless of what and how all and everything are, gives rise to world peace in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The mind that is observing all and everything in silence, as well as performing selfless actions under clarity in silence, understands towards the many other restless minds that are behaving in the way that they behave, where the many restless minds are functioning under the influence of restlessness or ignorance, under the absence of correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, or wisdom.

The silent mind is being undetermined and undisturbed by the disturbing ignorant violent aggressive hurtful destructive behaviors of the restless ignorant minds, and doesn't need to question the restless ignorant minds about why they behave in the way that they behave.

The minds that are restless and ignorant, cannot understand the mind that is silent, that is behaving in the way that it behaves, where the silent mind is functioning under the absence of restlessness or ignorance, under the presence of correct understanding, clarity of thinking and reasoning, absolute knowledge, or wisdom.

The restless ignorant minds are being intimidated, offended, and disturbed by the behavior of the silent mind that they recognized as abnormal, inappropriate, non-acceptable, unreasonable, disrespect, wrong, and bad, and they have the urge to be questioning the silent mind about why it behaves in the way that it behaves.

The silent mind doesn't see or take anyone as 'friend' or 'enemy', regardless of agreeable or disagreeable.

Meanwhile, the restless ignorant minds see or take the one that is agreeable as 'friend' and the one that is disagreeable as 'enemy', and there is the natural tendency to protect and support the 'friend' blindly, and to attack and destroy the 'enemy' that the restless ignorant minds perceived as 'intimidation' or 'threat' to themselves and their 'identity and possession', 'desires and ambitions', or 'dominance and superior status', even when none is intimidating or threatening anyone. However, under the influence of dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, greed, fear, jealousy, selfishness, desperation, pride and shame, and etc, the restless ignorant minds would betray or hurt their 'friend' as well.

The restless ignorant minds are ceaselessly dissatisfying, complaining, arguing, criticizing, condemning, threatening, opposing, protesting, disallowing, disrespecting, causing disturbance and obstruction and destruction towards all and everything that they dislike and disagree with, that they think and believe and judge and recognize as abnormal, bad, wrong, inappropriate, disrespect, non-acceptable, or unreasonable based on their own particular inherited and adopted/developed ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that are different from or going against their particular inherited and adopted ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that they think and believe as normal, good, right, appropriate, respectable, acceptable, and reasonable.

The restless ignorant minds are being disturbed, intimidated, or threatened by their own ignorance of being ignorant towards what they don't know and can't understand, such as they couldn't understand the mind that is silent, and hence, they cannot and don't know how to control, or influence, or manipulate, or oppress, or bully, or conquer something and anything (such as the mind that is silent) that they don't know and don't understand, and that incapability to know/to understand/to control/to manipulate/to bully makes the restless ignorant minds very uncomfortable, agitated, or restless.

The silent mind understands and respects the restless ignorant minds being what they are, as they are, where there is needless of argument or criticism, which only wasting the precious energy and life existence and function, that can be reserved and conserved for performing many other beneficial activities/actions that benefit all and everyone and everything.

The restless ignorant minds couldn't comprehend or respect the silent mind being what it is, as it is, and they have intense desire to be interfering, arguing with, and criticizing the silent mind that is silent, that doesn't interfere with anyone, not to say, that doesn't argue with or criticize anyone for being what they are, as they are, even though the silent mind can utilize the existing available energy, life existence and function, knowledge, understanding, experience, talent, skill, and opportunity, that don't even belong to itself, to be performing certain activities/actions and/or carrying-out all its duty and responsibility towards itself and others and the surrounding environment.

The restless ignorant minds become even more offended, dissatisfied, and disturbed (angry and violent) when the silent mind remains silent, and doesn't gratify their desire of what they want (to be engaging in and empowering argument and criticism that derived from and that also feeds/empowers restlessness and ignorance). 

It is like the mad person who is holding and wavering some kind of hurtful weapons in both his hands and keeps shouting aggressively towards the others, "Hey, you all stupid wrongful terrible people! Why are you all going away from me? Why you all don't come to me? I want you all to come to me, so that I can shout at you all to express and relieve my anger, so that I can criticize, discipline, punish, and hurt you all stupid wrongful terrible people, so that you all can hear me shouting at you all, and you all can receive criticism and painful punishment from me. You won't be able to hear me shouting all my anger unto you, and you won't be able to receive criticism and painful punishment from me, if you don't come to me, if you are staying faraway from me. Come to me, now! You are bad and wrong if you don't obey me and don't do as what I tell you to do. Look what you did to me. You made me so angry. You are responsible and accountable for my anger. If you don't come to me now as I am telling you, if you don't let me shout at you, criticize you, and hurt you, I will be getting more angry, and I will hurt and destroy you even more!"

How many minds are drowning in such suffering restless disturbed violent state of mind? Plenty.

Functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, unwittingly and ignorantly, it is common and natural that the minds are under the state of pain/discomfort/dissatisfaction/unhappiness/disturbance/anger/ignorance/hatred/jealousy/fear/unable to dominate, or control, or over-power something or everything, but they don't know or understand why or what is happening in themselves, and they don't know how to be free from all THAT, and hence, naturally, in order to express and relieve the pain/discomfort/dissatisfaction/unhappiness/disturbance/anger/ignorance/hatred/jealousy/fear/unable to dominate, or control, or over-power something or everything, they inflict pain/damage/disturbance/destruction unto the others and the surrounding environment.

The minds that understand all THAT, they know that all THAT are neither good nor bad.

There is nothing to be arguing or criticizing about the ignorance and the by-products of ignorance in any mind.

The mind only knows what it knows (what it thinks and believes). What the mind doesn't know (what it doesn't think and doesn't believe), it doesn't know.

None can liberate another.

None can remove ignorance in another, for another.

Not even buddhas, or yogis, or gurus.

One can only liberate oneself.

One can only remove ignorance in oneself, by oneself.

While all and everyone and everything can help, show, guide, or initiate the others to be aware of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance.

That's why all and everyone and everything, including this mind itself, regardless of good and bad, right and wrong, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, pleasant and unpleasant, comforting and hurting, constructive and destructive, kind and unkind, wise and unwise, selfish and unselfish, happy and unhappy, peaceful and peaceless, and etc, are the teachers, the teachings, the practice, the realization, the knowledge, or the dhamma itself.

Ignorance is the by-product of ignorance itself.

Ignorance hinders the mind to know and understand everything as it is.

Not knowing or understanding everything as it is, empowers ignorance.

The mind is ignorant towards ignorance due to ignorance.

It has to come from the mind itself, to be aware of ignorance, to have the intense yearning to be free from ignorance, and to have the ceaseless effort/perseverance and determination to be free from ignorance.

And, under such awareness, or condition, or opportunity, or disturbance, or dissatisfaction, or pain, or suffering, or yearning, or effort, it is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The different personalities, characteristics, experiences, understanding, and desires in the different minds

All minds are selfless, and all selfless minds are having their own particular unique modification of the mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, even if there are certain cross-similarities among the many different minds.

Even within the one same particular ancestry lineage, family, and community, sharing the one same similar genetic inheritance, where the minds are growing up being surrounded and conditioned by the one same particular traditional or non-traditional family/communal/tribal/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/national/regional/philosophical/educational/commercial ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and visions, that influence the mind to have a particular way of thinking and reasoning, way of doing things, way of living and interacting, and way of conduct, that give rise to particular understanding, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, that influence the different behaviors or actions and reactions in certain way, but then, each mind also has their own particular unique modification of the mind undergoing specific conscious and unconscious evolution, that influence and determine the different states of mind that impact oneself and others and the surrounding environment differently in certain way and not in certain way, not to say, among the many different minds that are being conditioned by the many different traditional or non-traditional ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and visions, where each mind has their own particular unique personality and characteristic, life experiences and learning process, reasoning and understanding, agreements and disagreements, and desires/don't desires, that are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, that lead to different conscious and unconscious evolution/transformation/changes/outcomes.

Even more importantly, all minds can have their own unique mind thinking and behavior pattern evolving from the existing particular conditional thinking and behavior pattern that was/has been being conditioned by any particular ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and visions, where each mind has or can develop and empower different degrees of patience, acceptance, initiation, determination, perseverance, forbearance, willpower, tolerance, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, decisiveness, self-introspection, and/or self-control, where there are different unique life experiences and learning processes under the presence of different conditions, situations, ties and connections, relationships, interactions, and activities, that give rise to different knowledge accumulation that influence the intellectual reasoning and understanding, that give rise to different agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires, that influence the different behaviors, actions, and reactions, that impact oneself and others and the surrounding environment in certain way or not in certain way.

Because all THAT, not only that they are all selfless and non-self, but more importantly, they all are impermanent, limited, and conditional, that are ceaselessly changing being influenced and determined by the existing internal and external conditions and situations that are also impermanent, limited, and conditional. And the presence of conscious awareness/freewill/effort/action/activity under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness can be influencing all that in certain way or not in certain way, either constructively or destructively, depending on the existing different understanding and desires and don't desires.

The mind that knows and understands this, is fearless and in peace, regardless of what is happening internally in the body and mind, and externally in the surrounding environment of a world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Such mind doesn't desire to be controlling or expecting anyone or anything to be in certain way or not in certain way, but might or might not be making use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary life existence and function of the mortal body and mind to be performing possible selfless actions within one's ability and limitation, that would benefit oneself and others and the surrounding environment, devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism, not being determined by the actions and the consequences/fruits/outcomes of actions.

"Performing selfless actions without grasping, while allowing and respecting the fruit of actions being what it is, as it is, and it is impermanent," is the essence of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism.

The minds that have been coming in contact with such knowledge through reading or hearing, while thinking and believing that they know and understand this, but not really (haven't attained direct self realization yet), they are being determined by the internal and external impermanent changes/conditions/situations, and are being over-powered by the instinctive urge of controlling all and everything to be in certain way and not in certain way, being the slave of the boundless and endless conscious desires of craving and aversion, and being over-powered by selfishness, possessiveness, defensiveness, greed, dissatisfaction, discontentment, fear, the sense of pride and shame, the sense of high and low self-esteem and self-worth, the sense of goodness and badness, righteousness and wrongfulness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, positiveness and negativeness, auspiciousness and inauspiciousness, togetherness and separateness, happiness and unhappiness, joyfulness and joylessness, pleasantness and unpleasantness, accomplishment and non-accomplishment, success and failure, gain and loss, superiority and inferiority, of all kinds of duality, as well as being over-powered by the sense of boredom, loneliness, emptiness, left-out, unloved, unnoticed, unattended, unrecognized, unsupported, disliked, disapproved, disagreed, disrespected, humiliated, belittled, offended, victimized, depressed, oppressed, lack of freedom, absence of freedom, absence of peace, desperation, painful sorrow, physical pain/discomfort/weakness/injury/illness/aging/decaying, mental and emotional pain/discomfort/shortcoming/hurt/disturbance, of all kinds of physical and mental/emotional suffering. Such mind is restless and peaceless.

Out of restlessness and peacelessness (violent perturbed state of mind), or under the influence of all kinds of unpleasant undesirable impurities or painful suffering, many minds that don't know and/or don't understand towards what is going on in themselves (not knowing Thyself), would behave, act, and react in the way that hurt oneself and others and the surrounding environment, in order to express as well as to relieve such disturbing painful suffering state of mind.

More importantly, all minds under the presence of conscious awareness and cognition to be consciously perceiving and recognizing pain and pleasure/enjoyment and suffering, regardless of who/what/where/how/when, can be free from all that, out of their own conscious freewill, initiative, effort, intense yearning towards liberation/absolute knowledge/unconditional peace, determination, and perseverance.

The uncontaminated genuine yoga and/or buddhism teachings and practice is all about the annihilation of the veil of ignorance that is naturally formed upon the rise of the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness, that are all non-self, that doesn't even belong to the mind (the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mechanism that is part of the many different selfless mechanisms/functions/organs/systems of the selfless physical structure of the selfless conscious sentient living organisms) itself, where the mind sees or knows itself upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, and realizes unconditional peace, where the mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment under the presence of absolute knowledge (wisdom) and unconditional peace.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice of performing different practices that suit different minds accordingly, is all about activating the conscious mind evolution process of consciously purifying/quieting/silencing the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, by developing the basic essential foundation of mental and emotional independence while thinning-out and eliminating the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, impurities, and restlessness, via the observation of dispassion, renunciation, solitude, seclusion, non-grasping/non-attachment/non-clinging, non-craving, non-aversion, non-association, non-identification, non-comparison, non-judgment, non-expectation, concentration and meditation, and the practice of silence (Mauna), preparing the mind for performing self-inquiry under an open-mind that is free from the influence of any particular worldly egoistic ideas/beliefs/values/practices/visions, to be inquiring towards the truth of everything that the mind comes in contact with/learns/experiences/sees/hears/reads/being told by some others, especially towards realizing or knowing Thyself, knowing and understanding what is going on in the modification of the mind, of knowing what is the 'I' or the self acknowledgment under the presence of the conscious awareness/perception/cognition that the thinking mind/faculty perceives, thinks, believes, acknowledges, recognizes, identifies, and asserts as 'I', or 'myself', or 'mine' that belongs to 'I' or 'myself', that there is the wishful thinking in the selfless mind would like to think and believe that itself is or has a solid permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity of an unique individual consciousness/soul/spirit/being, that is devoid of any kind of suffering or limitation, but somehow, it is unwittingly residing/being trapped in the finite mortal impure physical body, that is full of all kinds of suffering and limitation.

Due to such ignorance, the selfless mind is in a state of suffering, or peacelessness, or not free, and there is a natural spontaneous desire to regain or return to that 'suffering free infinite immortal status/identity' that it wants to believe that it is all true, that it really exists, that itself really has, and that is what itself really is (what many minds would like to think and believe that itself is the existence of an infinite unlimited unconditional immortal existence of 'who I really am', that is super powerful - omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotent, or Shat-Chid-Ananda - infinite existence, all knowledge, and absolute bliss), that belongs to itself.

The one that is or wants to be identifying with something or anything (finite or infinite), is the selfless continuous stream of thinking/thought in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, that doesn't and cannot exist independently as what it is, where it doesn't exist, not to say, that it cannot function, if without the presence of the selfless support of the selfless energy and different selfless elements that enabling the mind to be existing and functioning as what it is.

The selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is not the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that gives rise to the selfless conscious and semi-conscious awareness in the different selfless minds that are functioning consciously and semi-consciously during the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

There is absence of conscious/semi-conscious perception/awareness/knowing/acknowledgement/idea/notion towards subject (the selfless perceiver) and object (the selfless objects of perception) under the state of unconsciousness, even though unconscious physical and mental activities are ceaselessly happening for life maintenance.

Subject and object, or the perception of all kinds of duality, or dualism, doesn't exist under the absence of conscious awareness during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, even if there are still certain non-conscious subtle brain activities (mental activities/thought current) for life maintenance ceaselessly happening until the brain ceased functioning completely (brain dead/irreversible brain damage or dysfunction), and even if the brain dead conscious-less physical body can still be keeping alive for an extended duration via the continuous support of certain life supporting machines of higher advance science and technology, until the entire structure/systems/components/organs of the physical body ceased functioning and disintegrate eventually and completely.

That is why the silence/annihilation/cessation of the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind or the restless thought current, devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restless thought activities, where the selfless mind is absorbed into or resting upon the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness (Samadhi), is the core as well as the only objective of the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, to know Thyself, that is not about to know who I really/originally/initially am (that doesn't exist at all), but to realize the truth of selflessness and non-self in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind and in everything that the mind perceives, of all kinds of names and forms, of all kinds of duality and separateness, of 'I'/'myself' and 'not I'/'others', the perceiver and the perceived, the subject and object, the veil of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, the knower and the knowledge, the experiencer and the experiences, the thinker and the thinking, the actions performer and the actions and the consequences of actions, the one that enjoys and/or suffers and the objects of enjoyment and suffering, the practitioner and the practice, the observer and the observation, the inquirer and the inquiry, the realization, the liberation, and the peace, and so on. All are selfless and non-self.

Even so, most minds that are still functioning more or less under the influence of the veil of ignorance, that perceive some kinds of suffering/restlessness/disturbance/dissatisfaction/disappointment/hurt, they need to hold onto something that they can comprehend to start with while embarking onto the path of self-inquiry and self-realization, such as, the quest of finding out who I really/originally/initially am, or the quest of attaining liberation from all kinds of suffering, or the quest of exiting 'the infinite loop of ceaseless births and deaths' a.k.a. 'the countless and endless reincarnation of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/consciousness/soul/spirit residing in many different names and forms under separate existences transitioning between different realms/spheres/realities/worlds' (that doesn't exist at all), or the quest of entering/reentering/regaining the superior state of immortality, or the practice of positive thinking to counter negative thinking, or to destroy the lower impure self to regain the higher pure self.

There is neither right nor wrong, even though all that is not the objective of the practice at all. But they may lead the mind towards the direction of attaining direct self realization towards the truth of everything, if there is intense yearning under immovable determination, and perseverance (ceaseless effort) towards attaining the ultimate liberation from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, under the presence of basic correct understanding and attitude, which can be developed and empowered.

All and everything ceaselessly manifesting, arising, changing, and passing away (appear and disappear), except the all pervading timeless (changeless) attributeless (nameless and formless) selfless universal consciousness, that is always there as it is, that is causeless/birthless and deathless/beginningless and endless, that is beyond time (devoid of impermanent changes), space (devoid of limitation), and causation (devoid of cause and effect), that never increase or decrease, that doesn't appear or disappear, that isn't pure or impure, where all and everything of all kinds of selfless impermanent limited and conditional names and forms manifesting upon, arising, changing, and passing away.

The yoga and/or buddhism observation or practice that is in accordance to the uncontaminated genuine teachings or dhamma, and that is being observed or practiced as it is, can allow the selfless mind to realize the truth of selflessness and non-self, where all and everything including the existence and function of itself, is selfless, where there isn't any solid permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence/identity existing to be undergoing the selfless formation (birth, or the beginning of existence and functioning), impermanent changes of growth, ceased growing, decay, and disintegration, or decomposing, or passing away (death, or ceased functioning and the end of existence), and all these selfless manifestations are non-self, where the selfless manifestation of formation/existence/functions/changes/decay/disintegration/decomposition/ceased existence in all kinds of names and forms, don't even belong to the names and forms themselves.

Due to the different minds are being conditioned by the different ideas, beliefs, values, practices, ways of thinking, ways of doing things, ways of conduct/behavior/action/reaction, that give rise to different reasoning and understanding, that is influencing the different desires and don't desires in the different minds, it is common and natural that there are many disagreements, arguments, debates, dissatisfaction, and frustration existing among the different minds that are trying to convince/over-power/conquer one another about what and who is right or wrong, or who and what is more true/accurate/good/appropriate/meaningful than the other. But that not only doesn't lead the mind towards silence that gives rise to correct understanding, or wisdom, or absolute knowledge, but it is augmenting, stimulating, and agitating the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind even more, fueling and empowering the veil of ignorance.

That is why there is the highly practical and essential initial basic observation of forgoing/abandoning/refraining from all kinds of habitual egoistic activities of small talk, big talk, vain talk, boasting, glorifying, story telling, justification, gossiping, slandering, blaming, finger pointing, condemning, criticizing, argument, debate, discussion, interaction, or communication.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here, and all and everything that the mind has been coming in contact with since birth, of all kinds of information/inputs/ideas/beliefs/values/practices/inspirations/aspirations coming from everyone and everywhere.