The mind that doesn't love itself or anyone

There are many minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, are wittingly and unwittingly clinging onto and craving towards attaining and possessing endless attention, liking, affection, love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, agreement, approval, praise and compliments, support and encouragements, sympathy and empathy, companionship, ties and connections, relationships, or friendships, where they have intense aversion or rejection towards the opposite of all that or the absence of all that, but they don't love themselves or any others at all, even though they would think and believe that they love all the others very much, but then, they will constantly do and say things that will hurt all the others that they think and believe that they love very much upon their desires of craving and aversion are not being gratified, when they don't get what they expect to be getting but they are getting what they don't like and don't desire from the others that they think and believe that they love very much.

The mind that doesn't love itself and any others is actively and passionately showing affection, or kindness, or friendliness, or generosity, or helpfulness to the others with the intention/desire of to be receiving attention, liking, affection, love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, agreement, approval, praise and compliments, support and encouragements, sympathy and empathy, companionship, ties and connections, relationships, or friendships in return. And it is disturbed, disappointed, and bitter, upon its such desire/craving are not being gratified after it showed affection, or kindness, or friendliness, or generosity, or helpfulness to others, or after it has done something 'nice' for others. While being 'nice' in front of the others in order to attain what they desire to be getting from the others, but then, they would do and say things that hurt the others behind their backs (hypocrisy and back-biting or back-stabbing or slandering) in order to attain what they desire to be gaining from doing that (politicking and sabotaging).

These minds also think and believe that they are the 'victim' of 'ill-treatment' or 'bad behavior' from the others upon not receiving what they expect to be receiving from the others. "You are ungrateful and bad. You are so unloving and nasty to me. You don't love me. I love you very much and I don't deserve this from you but I deserve better from you," upon not getting what they expect to be getting from the others, or upon getting what they don't like and don't desire.

These minds are also the minds that would be 'suffering' from the sense of loneliness, joylessness, meaninglessness, unloved, unattended, unnoticed, unappreciated, unacknowledged, left-out, low self-esteem, low self-worth, shamefulness, or pride and arrogance, where they themselves as well as some mental health advocators, or psychologists, or holistic/spiritual/religious enthusiasts/practitioners/propagators would think and believe that they 'deserve' extra sympathy and empathy, attention and affection, love and support, or tolerance and forbearance from all the others to be actively enduring and forgiving (passively encouraging and empowering) the repetitive ongoing hurtful behaviors of such minds, as these minds would be constantly behaving in the way that hurt all and everyone, under the influence of such ignorance in themselves.

"I am sorry if I have hurt you unintentionally," and "I love you very much," doesn't mean anything, when these minds would ceaselessly do and say things that hurt all the others repeatedly upon not getting what they expect to be getting from the others as well as in the pursue of getting what they desire to be getting from the others, while they would 'apologize' for their hurtful behavior that they think it's not their intention at all to hurt anyone (either they aren't aware of their behavior is hurtful, or they are denying that their behavior is hurtful, where they think and believe that their behavior is not hurtful at all, but it's a form of loving kindness and generosity and righteousness).

This is a common hurtful behavior (mental blockage/illness or mental corruption) that exists in many family ties and connections and relationships, among spouses, among parents and children, among siblings, among friends and relatives, and among the members of any community that come under similar and/or different ancestral, cultural, and regional backgrounds.

The yoga and/or buddhism practice is all about enabling the minds to see themselves, or to attain self-realization towards the manifestation of this veil of ignorance in themselves, and to free themselves from all that, out of their own conscious awareness, conscious freewill and initiative, conscious effort and self-discipline, under the presence of intense yearning towards liberation/knowledge/freedom/peace, under immovable willpower, perseverance, and determination.

There is nothing wrong or negative upon the mind realizes that it doesn't love itself or any others at all, that it has been hurting all and everyone out of ignorance repeatedly and ceaselessly, wittingly (I know that I have hurt you) and unwittingly (I didn't know that I have hurt you, and I didn't have intention to hurt you).

The mind that understands, it stops chasing after, or craving towards, or clinging onto attention, liking, affection, love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation, recognition, agreement, approval, praise and compliments, support and encouragements, sympathy and empathy, companionship, ties and connections, relationships, or friendships coming and receiving from the others, not being determined by the presence or absence of all that.

It is okay to realize towards and acknowledge to oneself and others (ones parents, children, siblings, spouse/partner, friends, anyone or everyone, and etc) that, "I don't love myself. I don't love anyone. Because I keep doing and saying things that hurt myself and everyone that I thought and believed that I love very much, but I don't." Which leads to the manifestation of unconditional and indiscriminate loving kindness manifesting in the mind towards itself and all the others, where the mind stops/ceases hurting itself and the others, because it understands.

Such mind is free to love or doesn't love, being loved or not being loved, and having or not having any family ties and connections and relationships and friendships, allowing all the others being what they are, as they are.

The sense of loneliness, joylessness, meaninglessness, unloved, unattended, unnoticed, unappreciated, unacknowledged, victimized, left-out, low self-esteem, low self-worth, or pride and shame, doesn't manifest or exist in such mind.

Peace in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, begins with the mind that knows and understands this, or the mind that is mentally and emotionally independent or matured.

Just be kind, be loving, be friendly, be generous, and be helpful towards others indiscriminately and unconditionally without the intention/desire/craving/expectation of receiving kindness, love, friendliness/friendship/relationship, generosity, or help in return.

Many minds are being brought up in the way of developing and empowering hypocrisy, untruthfulness, and politicking, where such behavior or practice are being valued and seen as 'the way to maintain peace and harmony among one another in the family ties and connections, friendships and relationships, or community affairs and interactions, and the way to success and prosperity and power and wealth', but it doesn't. That is why the world is in such a great mess under the presence of such ignorant idea, belief, value, and practice deriving from ignorance and empowering ignorance.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Ceaseless selfless births and deaths in different realms within the modification of the selfless mind

Under the veil of ignorance as well as under the influence of certain worldly egoistic belief, the mind understood that the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths in different realms is about an individual immortal existence that is permanent, independent and unchanging was being born into the impermanent mortal world of names and forms residing in an impermanent mortal physical body to be under going impermanent worldly life existence that is subject to all kinds of physical, mental and emotional painful suffering, due to an 'ignorant downfall' that generates the 'initial karma seed' that had pushed off the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of countless different life existence, transitioning in different forms, interchanging in different realms, according to the past and present accumulated inexhaustible 'karma' deriving from every single thought, desire, action and reaction that generate ceaseless cause that leads to ceaseless effect, and hence, the endless suffering of the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths that will never come to an end.

While in every single life existence, where all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable or enjoyable and non-enjoyable life experiences, conditions, situations, ties and connections and relationships are all governed by the past and present accumulated 'karma' deriving from good and evil deeds, and upon death of one particular life existence, it will then be reborn or reincarnated into another impermanent mortal life existence transitioning under different forms in the respective realms in accordance to the past accumulated 'karma'. And that, the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of countless different impermanent mortal life existence transitioning in different forms, and interchanging in different realms, will keeps on 'rolling' until the complete clearance or exhaustion of 'karma', where the 'individual immortal existence' can finally exit the wheel of births and deaths in the impermanent mortal world of names and forms, to regain its immortality, its original form.

Inquire towards the teachings of yoga and buddhism about the beginning and the end of the wheel of ceaseless selfless births and deaths of countless different impermanent mortal selfless existence transitioning in countless different forms, interchanging in the different realms, that is happening within the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind.

There arise the first initial thought or the idea of 'I' born out of ignorance in the selfless modification of the selfless impermanent function of the mind being part of the selfless impermanent existence and function of the selfless impermanent mortal physical body.

That initial thought of the idea of 'I', leads to the rise of grasping/attachment, identification, and the desire of craving and aversion, that followed by all kinds of actions and reactions and impurities deriving out of egoism under the veil of ignorance, which then gives rise to the wheel of ceaseless births and deaths of ceaseless thought after thought, or the continuous restless stream of thoughts, attachments, identifications, desires, actions, reactions and impurities, of countless idea of 'I', attachment, identification, desire, action, reaction and impurity under different selfless impermanent forms or qualities, that gives rise to all kinds of different states of minds, or realms, where the selfless modification of the selfless mind continuously transitioning or interchanging in between different states or different realms, of inevitable restlessness within this selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind, where all these selfless impermanent names and forms keep on arising, changing, and passing way in the selfless impermanent modification of the selfless mind, governed by the selfless intentionless indiscriminate nature's law of cause and effect.

The entire wheel of ceaseless selfless births and deaths of transitioning in countless different names and forms, and interchanging in different realms, is all happening right here, right NOW, in this selfless mind, in this selfless impermanent mortal physical body, in this selfless impermanent limited and conditional life existence.

Never give up. Never despair.

Just by understanding intellectually towards the teachings without direct realization towards all these, doesn't free the mind from all kinds of madness and suffering, due to the presence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

Keep purifying, keep disciplining, and keep quieting the selfless impermanent impure restless modification of the selfless mind.

Keep inquiring and attaining self-realization towards all these, to know Thyself, and be free from all kinds madness and unnecessary suffering that is not anywhere else but only in this selfless mind, due to the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

All these will passed away. However, before that happens, the selfless mind can be liberated from ignorance and its by-products and the suffering deriving from all that. Or else, the mind keeps hurting itself and all and everything, because it doesn't know and doesn't understand what is going on in itself.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Be truly generous

The mind wants to thinks and believes that itself is a generous person.

It also wants others to think and believe that it is a generous person.

It wants to be generous to all its friends and the surrounding community.

However, it feels that it is unfair to itself for being the one to be working and supporting its family's living.

It feels that its family members shouldn't be staying at home and just looking after the household affair, while itself has to go out and work to be the financial supporter of the family. It wants its family members to also be working hard in certain way, so that it will feel better about itself.

It tells its family members to be grateful towards its contribution to the family.

It complains to others about itself has to be working hard while its family members are enjoying the fruit of its hard work.

Itself is getting frustrated and unhappy due to such ignorant thinking and petty-mindedness.

What generosity?

If there is true generosity, the mind would be so glad to be able to provide for the family, even if oneself is the one that has to be working for making a living, while all the others family members are having their own particular duty and responsibility to be looking after themselves and the household affair. There's no calculation towards who work less and who work more, or who contribute more and who contribute less.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The selfless universal Self

It's not about realizing our true Self of who we really are.

It's not about realizing my true Self of who I really am.

It's not 'my' Self, 'our' Self, 'his' Self, 'her' Self, or 'its' Self.

If it's selfless, there's no individual existence to be identifying as "I am That," or "I am the Self."

Just as the sun being what it is, there's no identification of "I am the sun," or "I am the Self."

If it's selfless, there's no "I am selfless," or "I am the selfless Self."

It's not even 'the selfless universal Self'. It is what it is.

It's realizing the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all and everything, that leads towards the realization of the timeless changeless birthless deathless beginningless endless selfless universal Self, that exists selflessly and independently within and without all and everything that are selfless and impermanent, untouched by the selfless impermanent qualities and changes in all and everything, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything of all kinds of selfless and impermanent names and forms that the selfless mind perceives through the selfless senses via the selfless sense organs of the selfless limited and conditional physical body, where all and everything being reflected as they are, that can not and do not exist independently and permanently, but inter-depending on one another and inter-influencing one another, to be arising, changing, and passing away.

Although the selfless existence and function of the limited conditional selfless body and mind is dependent on all kinds of selfless elements and selfless energy to be existing and functioning, but self-esteem, self-worth, pride, attachment, identification, desire, craving, clinging, or mental and emotional inter-dependency are merely the by-products of ignorance and egoism, that don't exist upon the annihilation of ignorance and egoism, or the idea of 'I', that generate the sense of separateness.

Under the veil of ignorance, egoism and the idea of 'I', there are unnecessary self-esteem, self-worth, pride, attachment, identification, desire, craving, clinging, or mental and emotional dependency occupying the selfless modification of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual thinking mind, where the ignorant egoistic selfless mind perceives all kinds of unnecessary mental and emotional suffering, or disturbance, or fear and worry, or dissatisfaction and disappointment, or anger and hatred, or painful hurt and sorrow, due to being ignorant towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence.

If all minds are free from the idea of 'I', egoism and ignorance...

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

Fear or aversion towards losing something?

The one that has fear towards losing something loses everything

Those who have certain position and power to be making crucial decision that could impact the general welfare of a particular area in the world, as well as be given the precious opportunity to be igniting certain awareness in the ignorant minds towards the ignorance in themselves, even with the initial good will of trying to do something right for oneself and many others, hoping for a less corrupted world deriving from corrupted thinking, belief, values and practice, which led them to be gaining that position and power by fighting very hard against corruptions, however, due to fear towards losing that position and power, they are reluctant to be doing the right thing, in order to harvest more support to keep that position and power, and even if they get to keep that position and power by not doing the right thing, they will still be losing everything, in the end, being the 'slave' of those who don't support those who would do the right thing due to ignorance, while forgot about all the others majority who had been supporting those who would do the right thing, which led them gaining that position and power in the first place.

There should be no fear of losing any position or power, for those who truly want to do something right for themselves and for the world.

It's about making good use of that 'impermanent' position and power to be doing the right thing as much as possible, particularly the upmost important thing to do with that position and power, is to be igniting awareness in the minds that are under the influence of ignorance to be aware towards the ignorance in themselves, which is the main reason why there are so much corruptions existing in that area. The only way to reduce or eliminate corruptions in an area effectively, is by igniting awareness in the minds to be aware of the ignorance in themselves. Just by criminalizing, prosecuting, punishing and imprisoning those who are corrupted, doesn't help the area to have less corruptions, as the root cause is still there.

Corruptions or impurities are like the countless leaves that keep falling down from a tree to the ground that will never come to an end. One will be restlessly cleaning up everyday and leaves will still be falling down everyday. There's no need to keep cleaning up the area full of 'corrupted leaves' by uprooting the entire corrupted tree from the root. There's no longer a 'corrupted tree sprung from corrupted root' that generates 'corrupted leaves' endlessly. And that root of all kinds of ignorance and corruptions in the society, is in the minds under the influence of ignorance and egoism.

The only one that can uproot the root of ignorance from the minds, is the mind itself through self-awareness being aware of the ignorance in itself, and many minds might not have that tiny little bit of self-awareness to be aware of the ignorance in themselves under the thick layer of ignorance being conditioned by ignorant egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice, however, under the help of a selfless reflector, awareness can be ignited or reflected in such minds, regardless of how thick layer is the veil of ignorance, as even that layer of ignorance is conditional and impermanent. Ignorance is conditional because it can be increased or reduced, and even be annihilated, depending on the many factors that can be influencing the degrees of ignorance.

But, the reflector, especially a clear one, not a dusty and shattered one, needs to be available. All kinds of leaders in the world, are unintentionally a reflector for the mass that are under the influence of ignorance. That's why they need a leader that make decision for them as they can't make decision for themselves, that tell them what they should do and shouldn't do. Those who are free from the influence of ignorance, they don't need a leader to lead them. These world leaders can be a corrupted reflector selfishly and ignorantly, or they can be a clear reflector, if they want.

Unless they are completely selfish and ignorant, the leaders in the world, who have a little tiny bit of self-awareness, who don't just want to make a successful career out of that position and power, but with a tiny little initiative or goodwill to help the world to be less corrupted, to have less corruptions, they must make use of that precious opportunity to be igniting awareness into the minds that are lost in ignorance.

Such position and power loses its meaning and power, even if one gets to keep that position and power, by being a 'slave' of the ignorant ones in order to keep that position and power, empowering ignorance in the minds. One will be swallowed by that position and power, in the end, by empowering the ignorance in the people, that is similar to be breeding a large group of uncontrollable monsters in one's home.

Inquire the truth of everything.

How to be free from the sense of separateness

Regardless of what the mind thinks and believes and identifies itself as this and not that, and what the mind thinks and believes and identifies others as this and not that, all and everyone are selfless and impermanent.

Regardless of what are the different qualities that exist in the different names and forms, all and everything are selfless and impermanent.

Regardless of what the mind thinks and believes and judges as good or bad, right or wrong, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, positive or negative, meaningful or meaningless, strong or weak, common or uncommon, normal or abnormal, ordinary or extraordinary, healthy or unhealthy, knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, educated or uneducated, talented or untalented, happiness or unhappiness, joy or sorrow, pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, enjoyment or suffering, living beings or non-living objects, sentient or non-sentient, intelligent or non-intelligent, wise or ignorant, perfect or imperfect, egoistic or selfless, passionate or dispassionate, peaceful or restless, gain or loss, deserving or non-deserving, holy or unholy, pure or impure, 'unbreakable' or fragile, and so on, all and everything are selfless and impermanent.

Keep performing the same inquiry towards all and everything, from ancient until the present, regardless of whether it's something from within the same category or it's something among the many different categories, all and everything are selfless and impermanent. All are arising/forming, changing/decaying, and passing away/disintegrating.

Keep inquiring until the mind starts to see beyond all kind of different qualities in all kind of names and forms that appear to be distinct and separated from one another, as well as names and forms that appear to be having the same uniform quality with the same name and form, where the mind sees only the one same nature of all and everything, which is, selfless and impermanent.

The sense of separateness will disappear from the mind as it is.

This mind will be void of discrimination, or hatred, or intimidation towards any names and forms.

This mind will respect all kind of names and forms being what they are, as they are, and they are changing, slowly or rapidly.

There's no sense of loneliness in this mind.

All and everyone and everything that the mind likes and dislikes, agrees and disagrees with, loves and doesn't love, are changing and passing away, eventually, slowly, rapidly, or suddenly.

There's no grief or painful sorrow.

There's neither meaningfulness nor meaninglessness.

Be free.

Just by coming in contact with the teachings about non-separateness, and intellectually 'understand' about non-separateness, but if without direct experience and realization towards non-separateness, the mind will still be determined by the different qualities of names and forms that the mind likes or dislikes, agrees or disagrees with under the influence of ignorance and egoism, attaching and identifying with certain qualities of names and forms as 'I', where the mind unwittingly comparing, judging and expecting itself and all and everything based on the particular thinking, belief, values and practice that it upholds and feels proud of, that generates the sense of separateness between 'I' and all the others that are not 'I', that are different from 'I' and are contradicting with 'I' and 'my', and hence, naturally, there's discrimination, aversion, rejection, hatred and intimidation arise in the mind towards what the mind dislikes and disagrees with, based on the particular thinking, belief, values and practice in the mind, that it upholds and feels proud of, which also influences the mind thinking and believing itself and others are somehow deserving or not deserving certain things, reactions, treatments, or experiences.

Upon the vanish of the sense of separateness, there's neither deserving nor non-deserving this or that.

This is contradicting with all the different kinds of thinking, beliefs, values and practices in the world, where although they are distinct from one another, they have the similar values about being proud of and protective/defensive towards their own particular thinking, belief, values and practice, and there's deserving and non-deserving, as well as judgment and expectation towards themselves and all the others, based on what their thinking, belief, values and practice judges and refers as good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, meaningful and meaningless, and so on.

It's everyone's freedom for their own thinking, belief, values and practice, for all their desire and don't desire, action and reaction.

Those who are not interested in yoga or practicing yoga, they don't need to perform this inquiry.

Be happy.

Inquire towards mental blockage and the practice of renunciation and dispassion

Mental blockage in the teachings of Yoga and Buddhism, is about when the mind is unwittingly being conditioned to think in certain way, to believe in certain belief, to analyze and judge everything under the influence of that particular way of thinking and belief, which influencing the mind to behave/act/react in certain way under the influence of ignorance, limited understanding/incorrect understanding, survival instinct, egoism and impurities.

And hence, the importance of mind purification process to free the mind from mental blockage even before being initiated into the different types of yoga practice for the thinking mind to silent itself, or to transcend its selfless function of the mind perception of a worldly life existence of names and forms, where both the perceiver and the perceived are subject to impermanence and selflessness.

Many yoga enthusiasts would think that the practice of renunciation and dispassion is the advance yoga practice that comes much later on the path of yoga, where it's only applicable to those who have been practicing yoga for a long time and who have already been through intense mind purification process.

Actually, renunciation and dispassion is indeed the basic practice that allows the mind purification process to be happening efficiently, by retreating and moving the mind away from such conditional worldly egoistic thinking and belief, to allow the mind to see the truth of things as it is, to free the mind from the habitual behavior pattern of egoistic thinking/judging/acting/reacting in certain way under the influence of ignorance, egoism and impurities.

The minds that are already free from ignorance, egoism and impurities don't even need to practice renunciation or dispassion, or any form of yoga practice.

It is because out of ignorance, egoism and impurities, most minds encounter great difficulty to free themselves from ignorance, egoism and impurities, as the mind only knows what it knows and what it knows are not necessarily the truth of what things are, and it's being conditioned by that limited impure and partial knowledge to be functioning and analyzing everything, and so, the important practice of renunciation and dispassion exists for helping the mind to be free from ignorance, egoism and impurities, practically and efficiently.

The minds are being told by this and that about what is good and bad, what is right and wrong, what is positive and negative, what is appropriate and inappropriate, what is happiness and unhappiness, what is deserving and non-deserving, what is meaningful and meaningless, what is joyful and painful sorrow, and so on. As long as the mind doesn't know how to be free from being conditioned by all those information/knowledge to analyze and judge everything, the mind will never be free even after spending the entire life span trying to practice yoga and meditation regularly looking forward to attain Samadhi, or to transcend suffering, as the modification of the mind is forever restless under the influence of ignorance, limited understanding/incorrect understanding, survival instinct, egoism and impurities.

In this present moment, the mind is free when the mind is free from being conditioned by any particular worldly egoistic impure thinking and belief, to think, analyze, judge and expect in certain way. The mind is not free it's because the presence of ignorance, egoism and impurities influencing the intellect of the mind to analyze and judge everything. Sincere renunciation and dispassion towards worldly affair, identity, connection, interaction and activity can practically help the mind to realize that freedom, that can purify the intellect efficiently and effortlessly, and not struggling by trying to analyze and reason everything under impure intellect influenced by ignorance, egoism and impurities.

Without renunciation and dispassion, the mind that wants to be free from suffering is like swimming in the ocean of sticky oil, while struggling to be free from sticky oil. The mind that is always swimming in the ocean of sticky oil is most probably got use to the presence of sticky oil, and it would be like fish out of water, if it comes out of the ocean of sticky oil.

After a prolonged period of time being dispassionate towards worldly object and engagement by retreating the mind from worldly egoistic affair, identity, connection, interaction and activity, then naturally, standing as a third party, the mind will start to be able to see the ignorance, selfishness, possessiveness and hilariousness in all kinds of worldly affair, identity, connection, interaction and activity under the influence of worldly egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice, influenced by ignorance, survival instinct, egoism and impurities. It's like those who are not swimming in the ocean of sticky oil, who can clean themselves efficiently from sticky oil by getting out of the ocean of sticky oil, who are free from the inconvenience of sticky oil, and looking at those who are enjoying yet struggling swimming in the ocean of sticky oil.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The suffering minds don't really need love, but Dharma / Dhamma

This teaching isn't opposing 'love' or 'loving kindness' among all and everyone.

It's about how to truly help the suffering minds to be free from suffering efficiently, where they are receiving the gift of Dharma or Dhamma, that allows them to be free from suffering by removing the root cause of suffering, by themselves.

There's no suffering even if 'loving kindness' from some others is not available for some reasons. There is no need to receive 'loving kindness' from anyone, in order to get momentary relief from suffering, as there's no suffering upon the removal of the root cause of suffering. Although there's nothing wrong with 'loving kindness' exists in the world, and it's better than the existence of 'selfishness, anger and hatred' in the world.

By showing loving kindness to the suffering minds will definitely help to relieve certain amount of suffering, but suffering will always be there, if the root cause of suffering is not being removed.

There's nothing bad or wrong to get momentary relief from suffering by receiving loving kindness from some others as well as receiving certain medical treatment that might also give momentary relief from certain suffering, but then, suffering will always be there because the root cause of suffering is still there, if the minds don't know what is the root cause of suffering, and don't know how to be free from the root cause of suffering.

No Guru, or Buddha, or doctor, can remove the root cause of suffering in anyone else, but only by oneself. While the success of those who attempt to remove the root cause of suffering is very much influenced by their own will-power, determination and perseverance.

It's everyone's freedom whether they just want to get some momentary relief from suffering, but suffering is always there, or they want to be free from suffering by knowing what is the root cause of suffering and how to be free from the root cause of suffering.

Those who are interested in realizing and eliminating the root cause of suffering, can take a look these blog posts and see if it can give some reflection to be reflecting upon -

https://mengfoonglai.blogspot.com/2018/09/love-upon-realization-of-selflessness.html

https://mengfoonglai.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-importance-of-renouncing-worldly.html

Yoga students, yoga teacher and yoga asana practice

When the students express gratitude to the teacher, as they are now able to perform the yoga poses that they couldn't do before, thinking that it was because of the teacher's teachings, effort and encouragement that allowed them to be able to perform the asana poses, but it was actually the students themselves allowing themselves to let go of mental blockage, and thus able to perform the yoga poses. The teacher didn't do anything. It was the students own effort and determination, that allowed themselves to keep practice disregards how many attempts until they were able to perform the yoga poses, without judgment, comparison and expectation.

Same as when the students couldn't let go of mental blockage, and were not able to perform certain yoga poses even though their body is ready and is capable to perform these yoga poses, it was not because of the teacher's teaching was not good enough, nor because of the teacher didn't put effort into teaching the students, nor because of the teacher didn't give any encouragements.

And thus, thank yourself and keep practice, without judgment, comparison and expectation. Allow the result of your practice to be what it is.

Om shanti.