Floating objects and the ocean of ignorance and suffering

Why is that all kinds of worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/political/national/commercial ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and rituals are neither good nor bad, even if they are the by-products deriving from egoism and that empowering egoism, that give rise to many unnecessary hurtful destructive actions/reactions/activities/affairs in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, which is the opposite of the thinning-out and elimination of egoism, that leads towards the realization of the truth of selflessness and non-self, that gives rise to peace from within that also illuminate into the surrounding environment?

There is nothing wrong, or bad, or negative, or inferiority in the presence of the veil of ignorance in the mind. It is a natural manifestation due to the nature of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional function/modification/mechanism of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the living organisms.

The natural manifestation or formation of the veil of ignorance (the idea of 'I'/the ego/self acknowledgement, egoism, impurities, and restlessness under the presence of conscious awareness) upon the selfless initiation/activation of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional function/modification/mechanism of the mind under the selfless support and influence of the supportive influential energy and elements/conditions, is not the fault or responsibility of anyone or anything, for the mind being what it is (egoistic, impure, and restless - violent, destructive, and hurtful).

It is not bad karma, it is not sin, it is not punishable, or it is not punishment/condemn/shame/humiliation deserving, even if the presence of the veil of ignorance gives rise to many unpleasant destructive hurtful side-effects/behaviors inflicting unto oneself and all and everything in the surrounding environment.

All minds (except the minds that had attained direct realization towards the truth of selflessness and non-self), are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance (the ego/the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, restlessness, and the by-products of all that - all kinds of evitable suffering, desperation, unrest, disturbance, and violent destructive hurtful behavior/action/reaction/activity/affair inflicting unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment), and hence, there is the initial need of seeking any kind of momentary and/or lasting refuge, or comfort, or relief, or escape, or rest, or hope, or direction, or guidance, or motivation, or encouragement, or praise and compliment, or friendship and companionship, or love and attention, or acknowledgement and recognition, or agreement and support, and so on, from someone or something for anything and everything.

The physical body needs some rest in between ceaseless physical activities under a shelter that is sheltered from harsh weather and predators, so that it doesn't get to the point of over-exhaustion or suffered from unnecessary irreversible illness or injury. Similarly, the mind also needs some rest in between restless mental activities under a mental shelter/refuge/resting point amid all kinds of ignorance and disturbance or suffering, so that it doesn't get to the point of over-exhaustion or suffered from unnecessary irreversible illness or injury.

All kinds of worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, practices, and rituals served such purposes like a floating object for the mind to hold onto while drifting on the ocean of ignorance and suffering in searching for a shore to land on, and not to be drowned in the ocean due to extreme exhaustion from trying to stay afloat, before the mind sees and reaches the shore where the mind can get out from the ocean of ignorance and suffering while leaving the ocean and the floating object behind, and let all the others that are still drifting and/or drowning in the ocean of ignorance and suffering, that are also in need of a floating object for them to hang onto to stay afloat in the ocean until they reach a shore to land on. It is needless to be continuously carrying the floating object that served a particular momentary purpose, after getting out of the ocean and standing on the dry land.

One shows gratitude to the floating object, and let it go.

It is like the stepping stones that form a path for anyone to walk away from where one is that is full of unpleasant 'rubbish' and painful 'diseases', in order to reach somewhere that is devoid of 'rubbish' or 'diseases'. Upon walking, not to say, upon reaching the destination, one doesn't keep picking up every stone that one walked on, and keeps accumulating and carrying all the stones with oneself throughout the journey in searching for a space that is devoid of 'rubbish' and 'disease', not to say, after reaching such space, but one leaves all the stones where they are (non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-possessiveness/non-clinging).

All the stepping stones, are all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, or enjoyable and painful experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/relationships/ties and connections/gain and loss/success and failure/happiness and unhappiness/achievement and non-achievement, and etc, that reflect the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, as it is, where they all are the teachers, the teachings, the practices, and the realization.

One shows gratitude to the stones, and let them go.

However, due to ignorance, there are many minds misused the floating objects for certain destructive hurtful purposes or activities. Similarly, there are many minds misused the stepping stones for certain destructive hurtful purposes or activities. It is not the fault or responsibility of the floating objects on the ocean or the stepping stones on the path. Just as a knife served certain purposes, and it doesn't have the intention to be constructive or destructive, but it depends on the user of the knife using the knife under what type of intention and understanding.

More importantly, the floating object itself doesn't bring the mind to any shore, and the existing current (existing intentionless conditions) might move the floating object away from any shore. But, it depends on the continuous effort of the mind, to make use of the floating object (momentary refuge) to stay afloat as much as possible, and more importantly, to use something or anything that is available that can maneuver the floating object that carries oneself towards the direction of a shore (self-contemplation/self-reflection/self-introspection/self-investigation/self-control/self-discipline), or even abandoning the floating object that is seriously broken/faulty, to just make use of one's own body, arms, and legs to swim towards the shore (renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, purification, meditation, self-inquiry, and self-realization), even if it is going against the existing current (all kinds of internal conscious and unconscious conditional thinking and behavior pattern/genetic inherited conditions, and external obstacles and distractions), that ceaselessly pull the floating object that the mind hanging onto (or one's own body without hanging onto any floating object) towards the middle of the ocean of ignorance and suffering.

The existence of 'the floating object' is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, and doesn't belong to anyone or anything, and it doesn't has the intention to be what it is, as it is.

The existence of 'the one that is drifting on the ocean', and the existence of 'the ocean and the shore', are all selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional.

Beyond all THAT that are selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, that exists momentarily for a short duration, there is neither the existence of 'the ocean, the floating object, and the shore' nor the existence of 'the one that is drifting on the ocean, hanging onto a floating object, and getting out from the ocean and landing on a shore'.

Upon the direct realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in all and everything, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is devoid of doubt or any kind of impurities, unrest, disturbance, or suffering.

The mind that is devoid of doubt and impurities, unrest, disturbance, or suffering, there is needless to seek refuge, or comfort, or relief, or escape, or rest, or hope, or direction, or guidance, or motivation, or encouragement, or praise and compliment, or friendship and companionship, or love and attention, or acknowledgement and recognition, or agreement and support, and so on, from anyone or anything for anything.

The ocean, the floating objects, and the shore ceased existing, upon the ego (the one that is drifting on the ocean) ceased existing, or upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance.

The mind that embarks on the journey towards the truth of everything, doesn't go anywhere. It is always where it is. It is merely a selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary journey within the mind.

The journey begins and ends in the mind.

The destination is in the mind itself.

The ignorance, the doubts, the corruptions, the problems, the hardships, the suffering, are all in the mind itself.

The realization, the knowledge, the truth, the answers, the liberation, the peace, are all in the mind itself.

All the different realms (the different states of mind) are all within the mind itself. The realms are not something or somewhere existing without/outside the mind. All realms ceased manifesting/existing upon Silence/Samadhi, or the annihilation/cessation of the restless modification of the mind.

And above all, this mind is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, only existing and functioning momentarily for a fleeting duration.

Inquire the truth of everything, and be free.

It is absolutely possible to be free.

May all be free, be peaceful, be happy.

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.

Doing something good for the world of ignorance, is extremely difficult and exhausting, if without non-grasping

In order to do something really good (constructive) for the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, effectively, it is inevitable to be getting involve in the world of politics, that is inevitably running the world of human beings, even if the mind knows and understands that there are many destructive minds with destructive ideas and conducts are existing in the world of politics.

The world of politics (to be gaining influential power of influence and control or authorization towards all and everything to be and not to be in certain way in accordance to one's desires and don't desires) is indeed the creation of the minds functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, being supported and given power by the minds that are also functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism.

The many different types of politics (the many different political parties, or associations, or organizations, or authorities, or individuals), that exist under many different ideas/visions/aspirations/desires/agendas (the power of governance, or leadership, or influence to maintain certain 'order' in the family, or the relationship, or the community, or the world of diversity, to be complying with specific ideas/visions/aspirations/desires/agendas), is neither good nor bad.

Just like the existence of all kinds of tools, or educations, or advance technologies, or business, or economy (income generation and consumption), or money transaction (goods exchange), or good quality of living, or leisure activities and enjoyments, and etc, are neither god nor bad, it depends on the presence and absence of ignorance in the minds.

However, when the world of politics (the power of governance/leadership/influence/regulation/authorization) is run by the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, that are full of destructive ideas/visions/aspirations/desires/agendas, then naturally, it appears to be something hurtful and destructive towards all and everything.

And if the world of politics is run by the minds that are free from the influence of ignorance and egoism, it can bring many constructive evolution or transition (experience, affair, happening, condition, situation, interaction, relationship that promotes peace and harmony) to the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Just as schools and educations are neither good nor bad. It depends on whether the teachers who conduct the teachings and the available curriculum are functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, or not. Where the proper education taught by the selfless compassionate teachers that are free from the influence of ignorance and egoism can bring constructive changes individually, communally, and environmentally, and vice versa.

The difficulty, is that - 

The minds that are interested in the path of self realization to be free from the veil of ignorance, in order to realize unconditional peace in oneself, as well as having the good intention to be doing something good (constructive) for the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that can promote peace and harmony among the many diversities that are momentarily sharing the space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, will be naturally and/or eventually distancing themselves from the world of politics, as the engagement (without non-grasping) in the world of politics with the intention of doing something good (constructive) for the world of ignorance and egoism, is extremely difficult and exhausting, that not only hinders the process of the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, but empowers the veil of ignorance (the continuous disturbed restless state of mind) in oneself, due to continuously dealing with and hammering by all kinds of madness or destructive hurtful ideas and conducts/actions/reactions coming from the other minds (that oneself wants to help to be free from all those madness or destructive hurtful ideas and conducts), if under the presence of grasping, or the absence of non-grasping.

Meanwhile, the minds that are interested in politics, to be gaining or having the influential power/control/authorization/influence/possession/manipulation towards all and everything in the world that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, they are not interested in the path of self realization to be conquering one's own restless egoistic impure modification of the mind, to be free from the veil of ignorance, but merely interested in conquering and influencing and controlling all the other minds in order to achieve their own particular boundless ideas, desires, visions, aspirations, or agendas.

Such destructive hurtful thinking and behavior pattern exists in anywhere and everywhere, not only in the world of politics, but at all levels, in all fields, in all kinds of affairs, in family ties and connections, in relationships, in community, in social interactions and activities, at home, at school, at work place, in public area, in business, in non-profit charitable organization, in cultural, spiritual, and religious organization, and even within oneself alone without engaging with any others, and so on.

However, even if the minds are not interested in politics to be gaining or having the power/control/authorization/influence to be controlling/regulating/influencing anyone or anything, but merely want to be doing something really good (constructive) to the world of many diversities, to help to liberate the many ignorant egoistic minds from their own madness or destructive hurtful ideas and conducts, to promote peace and harmony among the world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, these minds need to be 'utilizing' the existing world of politics, not for gaining power of control/authorization/influence, but merely to have the opportunity and possibility to introduce or initiate constructive ideas and changes into the world of ignorance and egoism that is running/functioning under the existing egoistic politics, effectively.

As most minds are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance and egoism (both the leaders and the supporters/followers/members), where the world is inevitably running/functioning under the existing egoistic politics/governance/leadership/authorization, where majority of the human beings are not mentally and emotionally independent (being conditioned by the surrounding environment/the parents/the family/the community/the leaders/the cultures/the spirituality/the religious beliefs/the commercial values to be mentally and emotionally dependence), where they need to be motivated and acknowledged by something or some others, that they need to be somebody with specific identities and qualities, and that they need to depend on the existence of leadership of having some leaders to think and make decision for them and be responsible for the consequences of the decision making and action taking, or to organize and regulate their life existence, conducts, desires and don't desires, belief and disbelief, ways of thinking, ways of living, and activities.

But all these 'selfless and noble' actions through the engagement or involvement in the world of politics to bring 'constructive' changes into the world of ignorance and egoism, effectively, have to be done under the presence of non-grasping, or under the absence of grasping, or else, one will be hammered and drowned by the over-whelming continuous boundless madness or destructive hurtful ideas and conducts (ignorant actions and reactions) of the many minds that oneself wants to help to be free from all that.

Without the egoistic intention/desire/vision/ambition to change (by influence, or control, or manipulate, via temptation/reward and threat/fear (lies and story telling), with rules and regulations and prosecutions and punishments) the world to be a better place for all and everyone, but merely make use of the existing knowledge/talent/possibility/opportunity constructively, to be performing possible actions that might or might not help to bring constructive changes in the world, significantly or insignificantly, while allowing the fruit of action to be what it is.

Look after oneself before one can truly look after all the others, effectively.

Stay away from egoistic politics (the destructive power of hurtful ideas, activities, control, manipulation, and influence that promote mental and emotional dependence), when the mind is not free from the influence of ignorance and egoism - Not harming oneself and others.

Get involve in selfless politics (the constructive power of beneficial ideas, activities, supportive facilitation and selfless service, right education, and correct understanding that promote mental and emotional independence), when the mind is free from the influence of ignorance and egoism - Promoting wisdom and compassion or peace and harmony in oneself and others.

Turning a supposedly extremely difficult and unpleasant path into a path of wisdom and unconditional peace.

The light is just being what it is.

The light doesn't bend itself to illuminate every corner behind all kinds of obstacles.

The light doesn't enjoy or suffer regardless of whether it illuminates everywhere, or not.

But under the absence of obstacles or under the presence of reflective objects, the light illuminates everywhere, intentionlessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally.

The light is always there, as it is. It is up to everyone to either move away from or remove the obstacles that hinders them from seeing the light, or not being in the dark.

Some prefer to be in the dark without the presence of light, and that is their freedom of choice and desire.

Without the existence of light, none can come in contact with or experience the light.

Without the presence of wisdom and peace, none can come in contact with or experience wisdom and peace.

Wisdom and peace exists in all and everyone regardless of whether they realize it, or not.

Be the selfless reflector of wisdom and peace, and let others whether to reflect upon and realize it, or not.

 

Go beyond the worldly egoistic conditional ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious/communal/political/national/philosophical/commercial thinking and belief, values and practice, that give rise to and empower all kinds of dualities and all kinds of madness, of selfishness, possessiveness, sense of belonging and ownership, self-esteem and self-worth, superiority and inferiority, deserving and undeserving, hurtful ideas/desires/behaviors/actions/reactions, fear, greed, hypocrisy, control, manipulation, exploitation, cruelty, self-righteousness, and violence.

Be the selfless reflector of the truth of selflessness, or the dharma/dhamma.

Be the selfless reflector of all kinds of diversities (the many different qualities of names and forms), that allows the selfless minds to reflect and see themselves, or not.

Perform action, and let go.

Just give, and let go.

Just be kind, and let them be. 

The difference between the presence and absence of grasping

All kinds of physical and mental yoga and meditation practice is about developing and empowering non-grasping, or the thinning-out/elimination/absence for grasping, or clinging.

Upon the direct realization towards selflessness, there is neither grasping nor non-grasping (the end of practice), as the mind is resting upon the selfless universal consciousness devoid of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, or restlessness.

As long as the mind still hasn't attained direct realization towards selflessness, where the mind is still in doubt towards the truth of selflessness, then all kinds of regular ongoing physical and mental yoga and meditation practice to move the mind away from the worldly passionate egoistic conditioned habitual thinking and behavior pattern, is highly useful and valid.

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It is normal and nothing wrong to like and enjoy certain agreeable and pleasurable experiences, conditions, activities, interactions, affairs, or connections, including any particular type of food and drinks, living space, surrounding environment, companionship, relationship, friendship, daily or regular physical and mental health and fitness training activities, yoga and meditation practice, rituals, and etc, if they are available to the mind, or it's possible for the mind to enjoy all that, in the present moment NOW.

If for any reasons, all those agreeable and pleasurable names and forms that give rise to the sense of enjoyment, accomplishment, satisfaction, goodness, positiveness, healthiness, righteousness, joyfulness, happiness, or meaningfulness in the mind, are not available in the present moment NOW, or under the presence of certain limited condition and situation (the presence of obstruction, or obstacle, or disturbance, or disruption, or sickness, or injury, or weakness) where it's not possible for the body and mind to be enjoying all those agreeable and pleasurable names and forms in the way that the mind would like it to be, even if they are available in the present moment NOW, and the mind will be disturbed, dissatisfied, disappointed, depressed, frustrated, irritated, agitated, restless, angry, or violent, being determined or disturbed by the non-availability or the impossibility of the enjoyment towards some or all or certain agreeable and pleasurable names and forms that the mind likes and enjoys from time to time or regularly, especially under the presence of disagreeable and unpleasant experiences, conditions, activities, interactions, affairs, or connections, then it indicates the presence of grasping, or clinging (the presence of physical/mental/emotional attachment and the desire of craving and aversion).

Such minds are not practicing yoga or meditation as it is, even if they have been 'practicing' some kind of yoga and meditation practice regularly for a prolonged duration, and are enjoying many of the benefits deriving from the regular physical and mental practice (the enhanced physical and mental health and fitness condition/strength/flexibility/stamina/ability and the sense of calmness/positiveness/righteousness/joyfulness/meaningfulness, that are also impermanent, limited, and conditional).

And if the mind is still peaceful as it is (resting in unconditional peace), being undetermined or undisturbed by the non-availability or the impossibility of the enjoyment towards some or all or certain agreeable and pleasurable names and forms that the mind likes and enjoys from time to time or regularly, regardless of whether the non-availability or impossibility is for short-term or long-term, as well as particularly under the presence of disagreeable and unpleasant experiences, conditions, activities, interactions, affairs, or connections, then it indicates the absence of grasping, or clinging (the absence of physical/mental/emotional attachment and the desire of craving and aversion).

Such minds are the identity-less, nameless, and formless yogis or buddhas, even if they didn't or couldn't practice any kind of yoga and meditation practice under certain names and forms.

However, there is neither bad nor wrong about the minds are not practicing yoga and meditation as it is, even though they have been practicing some kind of yoga and meditation practice regularly and enthusiastically, as the minds don't know what is non-grasping yet.

In the beginning, the mind might not be aware of what is going on in the modification of the mind, due to the veil of ignorance. That is something natural and very common.

As the mind keeps practicing, the mind might start to develop certain degrees of awareness/observation/understanding towards what is going on in the modification of the mind, even if the mind still doesn't know what is non-grasping yet, where the mind is unwittingly being determined or disturbed by its own ungratified desires of craving and aversion, and all kinds of impurities.

And as the mind keeps practicing, it might start to develop certain degrees of detachment or non-association, standing as a third party looking into the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mind and the modifications/states/thought activities of the mind.

And as the mind keeps practicing, it might develop certain degrees of non-grasping or non-attachment towards the restless modification/states/thoughts activities of the mind, and becoming less and less disturbed or determined by the presence and absence/availability and non-availability/possibility and impossibility of all the pleasant and unpleasant/desirable and undesirable/agreeable and disagreeable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable experiences that are all selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional.

And as the mind keeps practicing, it might come to the point that it is no longer being determined or disturbed by all kinds of names and forms that it perceives through the senses, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable, agreeable or disagreeable, and enjoyable or non-enjoyable.

Or, the mind might still hasn't developed any of that (not practicing yoga and meditation as it is) until the end of the momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, and still being determined and disturbed very much by all and everything that it perceives/experiences, and that's okay too.

And so, does the mind still feel disturbed, offended, dissatisfied, disappointed, depressed, demotivated, or upset, hurt, humiliated, disrespected, belittled, victimized, cheated, ill-treated, angry, and hatred towards the presence of certain disagreeable/unpleasant/undesirable/non-enjoyable/undeserving names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/interactions/relationships and the absence of certain agreeable/pleasant/desirable/enjoyable/deserving names and forms/experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/interactions/relationships? If yes, then just keep practicing, but if possible, with better understanding towards what yoga and meditation practice is about.

It doesn't mean that one should just stand there not moving away from any kind of ill treatment or hurtful behavior of some others, and silently accepting all kinds of physical/mental/emotional ill-treatment or hurtful behavior inflicted unto oneself by others who are functioning and behaving under the influence of ignorance. One should try to move away from such ignorant hurtful conditions, situations, affairs, interactions, or connections if possible, even if they are one's family members/relatives/friends/community, while need not be determined by the ignorant hurtful destructive behaviors of the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance. Even a two years old toddler that has just learnt how to walk and run would also have the autonomous survival instinct to run away from risky situation and to take shelter or hideaway from anyone who is violent and hurtful, or to ask help or take refuge in some others who are available to give help or protection.

The minds that understand this, there is no difference between all the different types/lineages/paths of yoga and/or buddhism. There is neither superior nor inferior. It is about choosing which type/lineage/path that is available to oneself, and that suits oneself most, in the present moment NOW. While that might or might not change depending on the current condition and situation in NOW, that is always changing.

If the mind still thinks and believes, or debates and justifies that this particular type/lineage/path of yoga and/or buddhism is the best among all, or is more superior or inferior than some other type/lineage/path of yoga and/or buddhism, or the mind thinks and believes and desires that this is the only type/lineage/path of yoga and/or buddhism that it likes and wants to practice, and reluctant to make adaptation and adjustment to accommodate the current selfless impermanent limited and conditional condition and situation of the body and mind and the surrounding environment, in the present moment NOW, then the mind needs to keep practicing until it sees the one same nature in all kinds of diverse names and forms. All debates and justifications, or superiority and inferiority and all kinds of duality, will disappear naturally.

If the mind still needs the presence of something or someone externally to motivate itself to be performing certain action/practice/duty/responsibility that will benefit itself and others and the surrounding environment, then it needs to keep practicing until it no longer needs to depend on the presence or availability of anything or anyone externally to motivate it for anything.

The only motivation/intention/desire is the intense yearning towards liberation/absolute knowledge/unconditional peace arising from the mind itself, that keeps the mind to keep going in life and keep practicing no matter what, while constantly making necessary adjustment and adaptation to accommodate the current condition and situation, and even that intense yearning will also have to be let go/dropped-off, where the mind completely surrenders to all kinds of pleasant and unpleasant/agreeable and disagreeable/desirable and undesirable/enjoyable and non-enjoyable or painful experiences being absent or present as they are, without craving or aversion, accepting the perceived reality as it is, knowing that all are impermanent, where the modification of the mind is completely devoid of any desire/intention/expectation including the intense yearning towards liberation from suffering/painful sorrow/doubt/ignorance/unpleasant, disagreeable, undesirable, non-enjoyable or painful experiences, then the mind will start to see things as it is, and realize Selflessness, and unconditional peace, resting upon the timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness.

One doesn't need to be physically and mentally super extraordinary, healthy, fit, strong, flexible, long-lived, knowledgeable, intelligent, talented, skillful, well-learnt, well-informed, well-lived, accomplished, or highly experienced, to realize all that.

Regardless of what/who/where/how one thinks and believes oneself is, one just needs to be able to let go grasping, towards all kinds of worldly/personal/communal/ancestral/cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial/philosophical egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, aspirations, desires, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation.

Just do what one can do that is possible, in the present moment NOW.

In the beginning, the mind needs to take refuge in something externally (to have external teachers and teachings to help, teach, and guide oneself). Upon it developed mental and emotional independence, the one and only refuge/teacher/teachings is the mind itself, where all and everything that it perceives/experiences/comes in contact with, regardless of pleasant or unpleasant/desirable or undesirable/enjoyable or non-enjoyable, including the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the body and mind, are the timeless selfless teachers and teachings that teach and reflect about selflessness and impermanence, as well as the answers to all the doubts in the mind itself.

Inquire the truth of everything. 

Inquire towards the selfless conscious awareness

All are selfless.

The mind stuff, is selfless. 

The thinking faculty, or the function of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind, is selfless.

The modification of the mind, or the thought process/activity, is selfless.

All the different selfless mechanisms that enabling the selfless thinking faculty, or the selfless mind to be existing and functioning as what it is, that consists of the conscious awareness, the senses and the organs of the senses, the perception, the cognition/the accumulated knowledge/the memory storage, the intellect/the reasoning/the discrimination/the understanding, the feelings and emotions, the sensations, the thinking, and the conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious desires/urges/actions and reactions, including the idea of 'I' (the ego), or the self awareness/acknowledgement, as well as the selfless supportive energy and elements that enables all cells/organs/systems/functions/mechanisms to be functioning as what they are, are all selfless.

The presence and absence of conscious awareness that enables the mind to be aware (conscious) or semi-aware (semi-conscious) or unaware (unconscious) of the objects of awareness, or the existence and function of itself, the modification of the mind, the physical structure, and the surrounding environment, is also selfless. It can be present or absent, or it comes and goes, depending on the different states of consciousness that is impermanent.

The selfless universal consciousness that is always there as it is, that doesn't come or go, that doesn't change, that pervades all and everything within and without, that gives rise to the different impermanent states of consciousness/awareness to the selfless minds - Complete absence of consciousness/awareness (state of unconscious/deep sleep/coma), partial absence/presence of consciousness/awareness (state of semi-conscious/semi-sleep/semi-awake/dreaming), and complete presence of consciousness/awareness (state of fully conscious/aware/awake), is also selfless.

The selfless mind stuff, or the different selfless mechanisms of the mind (the different tools that are needed to be making the movies, the movies projector, and the projector screen for screening/reflecting/hosting the movies) and the selfless states/modifications/thought activities of the mind (the movies), is neither pure nor impure, while the contents of the modification of the mind, or the thought process/activities in the many different minds (the different contents of the many different movies produced by the many different movies makers), that consists of many different way of thinking, belief/disbelief, values, practices, thoughts, ideas, sensations, feelings and emotions, desires, actions and reactions, even though they are just what they are, neither pure nor impure, but they can be conditioning and influencing the selfless mechanisms of perception, cognition, intellect, reasoning, understanding, aspiration, behavior, action, and reaction in certain way or not in certain way, that appeared to be destructive or constructive, that can give rise to destructive or constructive consequences unto oneself, others, and the surrounding environment.

Just like the selfless universal consciousness is untouched, unchanged, undetermined, undamaged, or uncontaminated by the selfless impermanent manifestations of all kinds of names and forms manifesting under different qualities/conditions/time, space, and causation/impermanent changes upon itself, the selfless conscious awareness is also untouched, unchanged, undetermined, undamaged, or uncontaminated by the objects of awareness.

There might be pure or impure/pleasant or unpleasant/positive or negative/constructive or destructive thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values, practices, desires, aspirations, sensations, feelings and emotions, behaviors, actions and reactions, ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away in the selfless modifications of the mind governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, but the selfless impermanent conscious awareness that can be presence or absence depending on the different states of consciousness, is untouched, unchanged, undetermined, undamaged, or uncontaminated by all that.

The mind might be in a state of purity (clarity) or impurity (murky), happiness or unhappiness, positiveness or negativeness, constructiveness or destructiveness, but the selfless conscious awareness doesn't become pure or impure, happy or unhappy, positive or negative, constructive or destructive.

The practice of concentration and/or meditation is about strengthening and sharpening the power of awareness by gathering the dissipated wavering awareness to be focusing at one particular point of focus or at one particular object of awareness (particularly focusing within towards what is happening in the body and mind in NOW, towards the breathing, or sensations, or thoughts, or feelings and emotions, that enables the mind to see the truth of impermanence and selflessness directly as it is), devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, association, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

During and after the prolonged process of the practice of gathering the dissipated awareness at one single object of awareness, or keeping the attention or the focus at one point of focus, the strength and sharpness of the conscious awareness will increase, just as the power or efficiency of the eyesight or hearing, or the power of intellectual learning, reasoning, and understanding, or the power of memory, can be declining or improving under different influential condition.

The strengthened and sharpened conscious awareness can even maintain fully presence during the semi-conscious state, or the sleep state, or the dream state, or even in the unconscious/deep sleep/coma state. Such as, certain minds can be aware of and remember clearly towards the dreams (vivid dreams) or even the unconscious perception of names and forms (the unconscious autonomous thought process/perception of names and forms) during the state of unconsciousness, or deep sleep, or coma.

The mind that was in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/complete resting/coma wasn't consciously aware of itself and the surrounding environment during the state of complete absence of conscious awareness, being unaware of itself (the absence of the idea of 'I' (the ego), or self acknowledgement/awareness - the reflection of Selflessness) and its selfless impermanent autonomous modification of the mind, or the different autonomous bodily functions, or the surrounding environment, however, there are some minds don't even consciously know/aware of what was happening during the state of unconsciousness under the absence of conscious awareness, and they don't know why, but they come back into the state of consciousness (waking up) remembering partially/mostly/fully not only the accumulated conscious memory/imprints of before they went into the state of sleep/dream/deep sleep (the self acknowledgement/awareness of a particular self identity under a specific accumulated memory/imprints), but also the ceaseless autonomous memory/imprints of the ceaseless unconscious autonomous physical and mental activities during the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, due to the selfless universal consciousness (the timeless changeless silent witness) that pervades all and everything, is always there as it is, beyond the three states of consciousness in all minds, that doesn't come and go, even though the conscious awareness can be presence or absence depending on the different states of consciousness, that is highly important and inevitable for all kinds of sentient and non-sentient living organisms to be interchanging between conscious activities and complete rest from conscious activities even though there are still some essential continuous autonomous physical/mental activities ceaselessly happening for life maintenance under the momentary state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma.

Similarly, there are minds that have very little or even no awareness towards themselves, of what is going on in the body and mind, or towards the surrounding environment, even under the state of wakefulness. Or, when the mind is fully focusing on reading a book, or watching a movie, or it goes into a deep contemplation (state of meditation), it has no awareness towards certain bodily sensations or certain noise/sound/smell/talking/movement/activity in the surrounding environment (being momentarily cut-off from the conscious perception of names and forms via the senses and sense organs, even though the unconscious autonomous imprints of everything is still there as it is).

All these are neither good nor bad. The most important thing is about the absence of grasping, or attachment/association/identification/craving/aversion/comparison/judgment/expectation under the presence of conscious awareness towards anything and everything (the selfless impermanent modifications/states/thought activities of the mind, or the objects of awareness/perception/knowing/experience).

All kinds of physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practices are merely about the thinning-out of the degrees of grasping that leads to the complete annihilation of grasping (the thinning-out of the idea of 'I' and egoism, that also lead to the thinning-out of impurities and restlessness).

The prolonged practice of concentration and meditation under the presence of non-grasping (the absence of grasping), will eventually lead towards the process of self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of things as it is, where the mind perceives the perceived names and forms as they are, or is aware of the objects of awareness as they are, under the absence of the subjective thinking/reasoning/judgment under the influence of any particular worldly passionate egoistic impure desires/ideas/beliefs/values/practices (under a one pointed quiet thoughtless desireless peaceful state of mind).

The minds that have no correct understanding towards the selfless modification of the mind, are unwittingly or ignorantly being the slave of all that, where there is the idea of 'I (the ego) and egoism of grasping, or attachment, identification, association, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation being generated towards all those selfless manifestations of perceived names and forms/thoughts/sensations/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations/dreams/urges/inspirations/aspirations, that lead to ceaseless and restless ideas/desires/actions/reactions/behaviors (the presence of restlessness and all kinds of impurities - The formation of the veil of ignorance).

The minds that have correct understanding towards all that, they are resting upon the unchanging timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, having the selfless conscious awareness being aware of all that, while being undetermined or undisturbed by all that - devoid of the idea of 'I' (the ego), or egoism of grasping, or attachment, identification, association, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation, allowing all the selfless manifestations of perceived names and forms, thoughts, dreams, memories, imaginations, ideas, desires, sensations, feelings, and emotions, being there as they are, allowing them to be arising, changing, and passing away, governed by the nature's law of cause and effect, without being influenced or determined by all that to be acting or reacting that are unnecessary, apart from attending the inevitable essential needs/activities for life maintenance.

The minds that are practicing yoga and/or buddhism and meditation, is all about non-grasping, or the absence of grasping, where the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind that is being conscious towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of itself and the selfless impermanent modification of the mind under the presence of the selfless impermanent conscious awareness, is aware of all those selfless manifestations of names and forms or the thought process/activities/ideas/sensations/feelings/emotions/memories/imaginations, but devoid of the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment/grasping, identification, association, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation towards all that.

Non-grasping doesn't exist or is invalid in oneness/non-duality/non-separateness, upon the selfless mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness.

Non-grasping/non-attachment/non-identification/non-craving/non-aversion/non-comparison/non-judgment/non-expectation don't exist in the timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness, or upon the mind attains direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness (the absence of the idea of 'I'/the ego).

Meanwhile, the selfless mechanisms of the mind is not the contents of the selfless modifications of the mind.

The conscious mind awareness is merely existing and being what it is along with the selfless existence and function of the different selfless mechanisms of the body and mind.

Under the presence of conscious awareness, the conscious mind is aware of the objects of awareness, or the knower knows the knowledge, or the perceiver perceives the perception of names and forms via the selfless function of the senses and the sense organs that are existing and functioning under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements.

The conscious mind (the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty of the physical body) under the presence of conscious awareness, is not the objects of awareness, and vice versa, the objects of awareness is not the awareness, including what the mind perceives/acknowledges/understands/identifies as 'this is I/me/myself' (thoughts/ideas) is also not the conscious awareness.

The presence of conscious awareness is merely the 'connecting bridge' that allows the selfless mind to be aware of the selfless existence and function of the mind itself and all kinds of perceived names and forms in the surrounding environment, that are all selfless and impermanent (there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence that exists in the body and mind, or in all kinds of names and forms).

Just as the presence of light (the 'connecting bridge') that enables the perceptive mind to perceive sights via the sense of seeing to see the objects of seeing through the organ of eyes. Under the absence of light, the mind doesn't perceive sights even if the different mechanisms of the mind and the sense and organ of eyes are existing and functioning perfectly as they are.

The presence/availability of light is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional (can be strong or weak/brighter or dimmer/complete or partial presence and absence), so as the presence of conscious awareness that exists along with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the mortal body and mind.

Without the selfless support of the selfless energy and different selfless elements that come together to form the selfless impermanent existence and function of the limited and conditional mortal body and mind, what is the selfless impermanent existence and function of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mind of the selfless impermanent mortal physical structure?

Without the selfless impermanent existence and function of the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty/mechanism/mind of the selfless impermanent physical structure, what is the restless modification of the mind or the worldly life existence of enjoyment and suffering?

Without the selfless universal consciousness, what is conscious awareness?

Without the conscious awareness, what is the objects of awareness?

Without the selfless existence and function of the different selfless mechanisms of the mind, what is good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, purity and impurity, happiness and unhappiness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness, appropriateness and disappropriateness, deserving and non-deserving, enjoyment and suffering?

And hence, non-grasping is valid and possible, as long as there is still the restless modification of the mind manifesting under the selfless impermanent existence and function of the different selfless mechanisms of the selfless mind under the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements, under the presence of the selfless conscious awareness, that gives rise to duality or separateness (subject and object, 'I' and 'not I').

Non-grasping (the yoga and/or buddhism practice, or meditation/self-inquiry/conscious mind evolution to eliminate the veil of ignorance and to transcend suffering), or non-grasping towards the objects of awareness, or the conscious mind perception/experience of dualities/separateness/subject and object, or enjoyment and suffering, doesn't exist or is invalid, upon Silence, or the stillness/annihilation of the restless modification of the mind.

That is why, it really doesn't matter if the mind still hasn't understand (completely) towards all these, even if the mind might still keep hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment either intentionally or unintentionally, due to unwittingly and ignorantly functioning under the influence of ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

Because at least, the mind might stop harming/hurting itself and/or others and the surrounding environment during the time when it is being occupied by all kinds of ongoing physical and mental yoga and/or buddhism practices during its momentary selfless and impermanent existence and function. However, there are some minds might still be harming/hurting the body and mind during the process of learning and performing the different yoga and/or buddhism practice under the presence of the habitual ignorant and egoistic ideas, thinking, understanding, attitude, desire, aspiration, action, and reaction.

That's why the highly importance of the initial mind purification process (mental practices) under the help of the observation of renunciation, dispassion, solitude, seclusion, and silence, in order to eliminate the ego and egoism even before the beginning of learning and performing the physical practices.

Such as, occupying the entire life existence into performing ceaseless selfless service or karma yoga for oneself and others, or performing one's duties and responsibilities towards looking after oneself and others and the surrounding environment, without the need of performing any kind of specific yoga asana practice, breathing exercise, chanting, prayer, ritual, concentration and meditation practice under particular name and form, and etc.

It's about perform all kinds of actions without grasping/attachment.

Perform all actions/practices/duties/responsibilities, and let go the fruit of actions/practices/duties/responsibilities, allowing the fruit of actions to be what it is.

The minds that understand this, there is no difference between action and inaction, between worldly duties and all kinds of yoga and/or buddhism physical and mental practices, between different types of yoga/buddhism practice, or between different lineages/paths of yoga/buddhism. Not to say, there is no this type/lineage/path of yoga/buddhism is more superior/inferior than some other type/lineage/path of yoga/buddhism. But the presence of correct understanding towards all that is crucial, as that is influencing whether the mind will be generating behaviors, actions, and reactions that hurt oneself and others, or not, regardless of whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Meanwhile, the direct self realization towards all these, can allow the mind to be resting in peace amidst the chaotic world of ignorance and egoism, and/or to be making full use of the selfless impermanent momentary existence and function of the body and mind with the available existing and accumulating talents, skills, knowledge, understanding, experience, and opportunity, under the absence of ignorance, the idea of 'I' (the ego), egoism, restlessness, and all kinds of impurities (corrupted and destructive ideas, thinking, understanding, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, actions and reactions, feelings and emotions, self-righteousness, pride, the urge to control everything to be or not to be in certain way, and etc), to be looking after and benefiting oneself, all and everything, and the surrounding environment, selflessly and indiscriminately.

And hence, it is highly important for activating the mind conscious evolution, to eliminate the veil of ignorance, to be resting in unconditional peace upon the selfless universal consciousness, during the momentary existence and function of the selfless impermanent mortal body and mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The different stages of open mind

One of the important key words in the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism, is open mind.

There are some misunderstanding in certain minds towards open mind, that give rise to aversion, or rejection, or fear towards open mind, especially in the prideful egoistic impure restless minds that have certain individual and/or community agenda/aspiration to be manipulating and controlling the others or the members of the community to think, believe, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way, in accordance to their particular likes and dislikes, desires and don't desires, agreements and disagreements. Because the mind that is opened, that is mentally and emotionally independent, cannot be influenced or manipulated by anyone or anything.

To know what is open mind, one can inquire towards what is closed-mindedness.

The minds that are closed-minded, they are unwittingly being conditioned and over-powered by the selfless survival instinct that exists in all living organisms for basic life maintenance, as well as being manipulated and conditioned by their elders/parents/guardians/teachers/leaders/members of their particular community to think and believe that their particular personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, and the desires or don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements (based on their particular belief, values, and practices that are being generated under the influence of survival instinct on top of the influence of ignorance) are somehow more authentic, good, right, pure, superior, or true than all the other types of personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, and the desires or don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements that are different from theirs, that are contradicting with theirs, that appear to be intimidating towards their particular belief, values, practices, desires, visions, and aspirations, where they have the ambitious vision or aspiration to conquer the world and build a world that they prefer based on their particular personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices.

They strongly think and believe that the world, or the surrounding living environment, or the land and space with all kinds of natural resources for life maintenance, where they and their ancestors were born, where they live on, or occupy, or claimed ownership and possession, is something that rightfully/automatically/naturally belonged to them, that is theirs, personally and/or communally (only limited to their particular family/community). And if there are some other land and space that they haven't claimed ownership or possession, authorization, control, and occupation yet, they will want to invade, conquer, occupy, and claim ownership or possession, to take authorization and control over those land and space that come with the natural resources that don't belong to anyone or anything.

Meanwhile, these minds will be determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire, that they think and believe, or judge and recognize as opposing, or disrespectful, or offensive, or intimidating towards their particular personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices, that are intimidating and hindering their ambitious vision and aspiration for conquering the world and building a world that they prefer under their particular personal and/or community desires and don't desires.

People, or the minds of human beings, would like to think and believe that, (or even, some of the biologists say,) "This human's selfish and possessive behavior pattern is conditioned by the internal genetic traits (genes) inheritance and survival instinct governed by glands and hormones under the nature's law of cause and effect, that all human beings and some other living organisms are genetically being engineered to behave in certain way and not in certain way, and there is no freewill to be liberated from all that. Even if there is evolution or changes towards better or worst, it is also evolving under the effect of the pre-existing cause/genes from birth. If people think and behave in certain way and not in certain way, whether they are wise or ignorant, selfish or unselfish, peaceful or peaceless, kind or unkind, what they like and don't like, what they desire and don't desire, whether they will be successful or failed in everything, healthy or unhealthy, long-lived or short-lived, determined or non-determined, resilient or non-resilient, good or evil, greedy or not greedy, hurtful or not hurtful, and etc, it is because they were born/destined/conditioned to be in such way."

Because the passionate impure egoistic restless prideful minds would like to be able to justify and prove that, it is not their responsibility towards all their thinking, desires, and actions, as well as the consequences of all their thinking, desires, and actions. That they have no freewill at all, but all their thinking, desires, and actions that are being generated either consciously or unconsciously, are all being conditioned and influenced by the underlying subconscious/unconscious survival instinct, or urge, or cause/genes/glands/hormones/energy/elements. That there is no conscious freewill of conscious choice making to choose, to over-come, to transcend, to think or don't think, to understand or don't understand, to feel or don't feel, to desire or don't desire, to improve or don't improve, to behave, act, and react in certain way or not in certain way. And even if there is limited conscious choice making, thinking, desire, and action, it can never over-ride the underlying genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct.

That is their freedom of thinking and understanding.

The minds that know Thyself, will also know and understand that, "Even the underlying genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. Human's way of thinking/desiring/behavior/action/reaction, or the modification/state of the mind, is merely the indication/reflection of whether the minds are functioning under the influence of ignorance, a.k.a. the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, that can be annihilated/transcended through certain self-initiated, non-violent, genuine, persevered, and determined observations and practices, under intense yearning towards knowledge, liberation, freedom, and peace, initiated by the coming in contact with the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self that exists in all and everyone and everything and everywhere, where the modification/state of mind is occupied by disturbance, dissatisfaction, restlessness, impurities, painful sorrow, and suffering upon coming in contact with the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self under the influence of the veil of ignorance, but the annihilation of ignorance upon the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self will liberate the modification/state of mind from disturbance, dissatisfaction, restlessness, impurities, painful sorrow, and suffering.

Under a disturbed, churning, restless, impure, egoistic, and suffering modification/state of mind, the mind would think, desire, behave, act, and react in the way that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment. While under the undisturbed, calm, quiet, pure, ego-less, and peaceful modification/state of mind, the mind doesn't think, desire, behave, act, or react in the way that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment."

The state of mind is selfless, impermanent, limited, and conditional, where it can be influenced by the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the conscious mind awareness being aware of the states of the mind, to be performing certain action or inaction that can be influencing the state of the mind, to eradicate the veil of ignorance, a.k.a. restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I', and upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance, the selfless mind can know Thyself, of the selfless mind stuff, or the impermanent modification/state of mind, or the selfless functions/mechanisms of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty, the selfless universal consciousness that gives rise to the conscious mind awareness to be aware of its internal selfless existence and function and the external surrounding environment, and all kinds of selfless names and forms that the selfless mind perceives through the selfless senses, as it is. 

While yes. If you are being conceived and born under specific parental inheritance of specific characteristics/qualities/names and forms, and physical/mental/emotional health condition/limitation being conditioned and limited by internal genetic traits inheritance by birth that are fixed, that is what you are, that you cannot change or modify, even if there is the conscious freewill.

But nope. Your 'conditional habitual' way of thinking, belief and disbelief, values, practices, reasoning, understanding, learning, doubting, investigating, inquiring, intentions, and aspirations that are influencing your thinking, desires, behaviors, actions, and reactions are mostly being conditioned and influenced by the external influential conditions/situations/experiences/affairs/relationships/interactions/activities/food consumption after birth that are not fixed, that you can choose what type of condition, situation, experience, affair, relationship, friendship, interaction, activity, or food consumption that you want to be engaging with, or not.

You can over-ride or transcend the underlying survival instinct and the genetic traits inheritance that is what it is, that you can't change, and not being determined by all that internally of all kinds of characteristics/traits/qualities and physical/mental/emotional conditions and limitations under certain names and forms that are fixed, not to say, you can transcend and not being determined by all your external experiences/affairs/relationships/interactions/activities under any kind of surrounding environment, condition, or situation, that are pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable/painful, physically/mentally/emotionally.

Because all that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All the thoughts, feelings, emotions, that are coming and going in the modification of the mind either being generated consciously or unconsciously, are not you, they are not part of you, and they don't belong to you, and vice versa.

You don't have to live, think, believe, reason, understand, desire, behave, act, or react like your ancestors, your parents, your siblings, your family, your community, your friends, your favourite idols, your highly respected leaders and teachers, your highly admired influencers, or anyone.

You don't have to fit in, or be qualified to fit in, or to please anyone, and you don't need to be receiving attention, acknowledgement, recognition, approval, agreement, acceptance, understanding, friendship, love, liking, mental/emotional support, encouragement, companionship, admiration, praise and compliment, from anyone, not even from yourself, or your own immediate family/parents/siblings, not to say, all the others or the leader and members of the particular community, to be what you are, and you don't even need to have, not to say, to develop and empower the sense of self-esteem and self-worth, pride, confidence, goodness, righteousness, positiveness, joyfulness, deserving, accomplishment, or meaningfulness deriving from the achievement, attachment, identification, or possession towards certain qualities of names and forms, if you know Thyself, if there is mental and emotional independence. Although you can be kind*, friendly*, helpful, and understanding towards all and everyone unconditionally and indiscriminately, without the idea of 'I' and egoism, because you understand (that many other minds might not understand what you understand, and it's okay).

*Friendliness and kindness towards all and everyone without discrimination unconditionally regardless of agreeable or disagreeable, is not about building and accumulating passionate personal interactive friendship or intimate relationship with all and everyone, particularly those who are like-minded and agreeable to meet up and get together from time to time to interact, chit-chat, gossip, exchange information, or enjoy life/spend time doing certain activities together.

Being what you are as you are, that you don't need to become or pretend to be the same like all the others, that you don't need to fit in, or even, distancing/retreating yourself from the worldly minded egoistic society to be looking after your own well-being, it doesn't mean that you are deliberately making yourself to be distinctive and separated from all and everyone, but in contrary, you understand that beyond all the differences in all and everyone for being what all and everyone are, being uniquely different from one another, it is the one same universal essence/nature/truth in all and everyone and everything - Selfless, Impermanent, Limited, Conditional, and Non-self. That allows you to be able to respect all the differences in all and everyone and everything, as they are, unconditionally and indiscriminately, and it is okay that all are imperfect, limited, and impermanent.

It is only the minds that haven't attain direct self realization towards selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, will think and believe that there is no conscious freewill/awareness/understanding in the selfless mind, that is also selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, to have conscious choice making that can activate the conscious mind evolution to transcend all that selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self restless impure egoistic mind stuff that is merely existing and functioning being part of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the mortal physical body that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, not to say, none and nothing belongs to anyone or anything.

Only the prideful mad minds functioning under the influence of ignorance would think and believe that they own and possess all and everyone and everything, either by education/temptation/manipulation or by force/violence/bully/threat/intimidation, under their boundless and endless greedy ambitious desires and aspirations.

No doubt that all and everyone are having their own particular not by choice underlying genetic traits inheritance and physical/mental/emotional condition and limitation that are fixed, that cannot be changed, even if all and everyone have the conscious freewill towards many other things that are not fixed. There is nothing bad or wrong with that, and it doesn't need to be changed into something else that it is not, at all.

The momentary mortal existence and the different functions/mechanisms of the body and mind (and all and everything) is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that is the truth of everything, that is permanent, that cannot be changed, and it doesn't need to be changed to become something else that is NOT what it is, that is NOT selfless, NOT impermanent, NOT limited, NOT conditional, and NOT non-self.

The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, appears to be something unpleasant, undesirable, disagreeable, and painful to the minds that are functioning under the veil of ignorance, that haven't attain direct self realization towards all THAT.

The truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, is just what it is, neither liberating nor binding, but the direct self realization towards all THAT is absolutely liberating to the minds upon the direct self realization towards all THAT, where the liberation is not about be free from the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, but it is about the liberation from ignorance, and the by-products or consequences of ignorance, of all kinds of suffering, restlessness, impurities, egoism, and the idea of 'I'.

This liberation is available to all minds effortlessly*, and most importantly, without force, or violence, or threat, or judgment, or punishment. And the presence of force, or violence, or threat, or manipulation, or story telling, or hypocrisy, or judgment, or punishment, is the greatest hindrance towards the realization of this liberation.

*Effortlessly - Holding on vs Letting go, Grasping vs Non-grasping

Holding on or grasping requires effort and continuous effort to keep holding on and grasping.

Letting go or non-grasping doesn't require effort, and hence, it is effortless, or natural.

 

It is only the minds that are still functioning under the influence of ignorance, that are being conditioned by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure cultural/spiritual/religious/political/commercial ideas, beliefs, values, and practices, that strongly think and believe that they have an immortal permanent independent infinite individual self existence or identity, that have the ambitious desire, or aspiration, or wishful thinking to defy/deny/modify/change/be liberated from/transform what they are, to become something else that they are not, to be liberated from selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, to become or transform into something else that has an infinite immortal individual existence/identity that is non-selfless, non-impermanent, non-limited, non-conditional, and non-non-self.

Under the influence of such intentional ignorance on top of the influence of the selfless intentionless survival instinct, these minds, individually and/or communally, regardless of whether they are from which particular family/community or parental lineage genetic traits inheritance, they all have the similar desire or aspiration to interfere, to conquer, to convert, to change, to educate, to manipulate, to threaten, or to control all the others to live life, to think, to believe/disbelieve, to desire, to aspire, to evaluate, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way, to build a world or community (that begins in the personal relationship/family ties and connections) that is in accordance to their particular vision or ambition under their particular desire and don't desire.

That is what has been happening in the world of human beings, the existence of all kinds of selfishness, possessiveness, greed, hoarding, exploitation, cruelty, hatred, jealousy, discrimination, separation, defensiveness, offensiveness, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, hypocrisy, story telling, manipulation, intimidation, bullying, oppression, occupation, aggression, fighting, killing, hurtful destructive ideas and behaviors, unrest, or violence, that exists within one's mind, among different individual minds, among different communities, that impact all and everyone and everything in this world of diversity that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The world of human beings doesn't have to be like that, at all.

 

How you (the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty) react and feel towards all that (that is fixed, that you can't change), or deal with all that, or live with all that, as well as what you can learn (know and understand) and do (act) about many other things that are not fixed, that are conditional and impermanent, that are possible to be strengthened or weakened within your limited physical/mental/emotional ability, is at your own conscious choice making in NOW upon the presence or absence of certain conscious perception, experience, knowledge, and understanding, and under certain conducive/easy or detrimental/challenging condition and situation in NOW.

Knowledge and understanding are not fixed. One can be constantly learning, inquiring, accumulating, and improving one's knowledge and understanding, if one desires and has the opportunity to do so. None and nothing can stop you from ceaselessly learning, inquiring, knowing, and understanding, unless the selfless body and mind ceased functioning and ceased existing, or there is some damage/injury/dysfunction/malfunction/deformity in the selfless functions/mechanisms of the body and mind.

The thinking, the emotions, the desires, the behaviors, the actions, and the reactions are very much being influenced by the existing knowledge and understanding in the mind, under the presence of conscious mind awareness, under the presence or absence of grasping or non-grasping. And hence, there is conscious freewill towards all that, towards choosing what one thinks and desires, and how one feels, behaves, acts, and reacts, either constructively or destructively, unselfishly or selfishly, wisely or ignorantly, to hold on or to let go.

Genetically/physically/mentally/emotionally, we all are uniquely different from one another. Our physical/mental/emotional characteristics, condition, limitation, ability, and disability are different from one another. But, beyond the differences under the many different genetic traits inheritance, we all are the same - Selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self. All sentient and non-sentient living organisms and all non-living objects are the same - Selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Unless the body and mind is completely functioning unconsciously under the instinctive autonomous function of the bodily systems under the availability of the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements for life maintenance, but without any conscious awareness or response towards one's own existence/function/modification and the surrounding environment, that one doesn't even have the basic function to perceive, or understand, or recognize what is this or what is that, if it is not like that, then, you have the conscious freewill/awareness/basic understanding during the state of conscious wakefulness and semi-conscious/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dream state, to choose what you desire or don't desire, and how you want to think, feel, behave, act, and react towards all and everything that you perceive and experience, internally upon the selfless impermanent changes that are happening ceaselessly within the body and mind, and externally upon coming in contact with the objects of the senses, even if your existence and function are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, non-self, and only existing and functioning momentary for a short duration.

Not all minds, but there are some minds can be aware of, or know that there is dreaming during the sleep state, they know that whatever they perceive during the sleep state is just dreaming, that it is not real, and they can remember all or some of the contents of the dreams, they can even control the dreams/pause the dreams/continue the dreams/replay the same dreams/change the contents of the dreams, and wake themselves up during sleep state or dreaming, or even, from the deep sleep state. These minds are also having high degrees of creativity/imagination/visualization/image memory, that is not necessarily beneficial to oneself and the world, if the minds are still functioning under the influence of ignorance.

If these minds can have certain degrees of self control or conscious freewill during sleep/dream state, not to say, of course they have high degrees of self-control or conscious freewill during the state of wakefulness, even though all states (conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious) are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, and there is no grasping, or attachment, or identification being generated towards all states, including the state of changeless timeless attributeless thoughtless actionless Turiya/Atman, or the selfless silent witness of all states, beyond the impermanent states of conscious wakefulness/semi-conscious sleep or dreaming/unconscious deep sleep or coma, of ceaseless conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious physical and mental activities happening and changing under the selfless support of the selfless energy and selfless elements for life maintenance.

This precious conscious mind awareness of self-awareness and self-control can be developed and enhanced via the regular practice of concentration and meditation and silence, that is beneficial for conscious mind evolution to know Thyself.

That is why it is so important for having doubt, open mind, and self-inquiry to be inquiring towards the truth of all and everything, regardless of all kinds of information/knowledge that are coming from anyone or anywhere, including all the teachings of yoga and/or buddhism that are existing under many different names and forms coming from everyone and everywhere.

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An open mind, is a mind that is devoid of grasping and identification.

There are different stages of open mind. Just like there are different degrees or stages of partial/incomplete understanding that lead towards complete/absolute understanding under the different degrees of calmness and clarity.

The beginning stage of open mind, is about the mind is consciously aware of and understand that there are many different types of living organisms/non-living objects/people/communities in this world sharing the surrounding living environment that comes with the intentionless indiscriminate natural resources for life maintenance, that don't belong to anyone or anything, where there are many different types of personal and/or community thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, as well as different types of desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements existing in the world of many diversities, and it is inevitable and essential to be respecting and non-interfering towards one another among the many diversities individually and/or communally for being different from one another, to be maintaining peace and harmony (the essential inevitable elements for a conducive living environment for maximal survival/wholesomeness and/or minimal unnecessary evitable destruction/difficulty) among the many diversities.

Although the mind might still be conditioned by its own personal and/or community thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, practices, as well as the specific desires and don't desires, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, where the mind would be determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire based on its particular way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices.

 

Then, even though the mind might still be having particular personal and community likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, based on the particular type of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, values, and practices, to live life, think, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, aspire, behave, act, and react in certain way, however, the mind is less and less, and/or not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind doesn't like, doesn't agree with, and doesn't desire, because it starts to understand that all and everyone have the freedom to be what they are and what they are not, being different from oneself and/or one's particular community. It starts to respect all and everyone as they are, to be different from one another. Not trying to interfere, or convert, or change, or control the others to be or not to be in certain way, in accordance to one's personal and community likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires.

Then, it is about the absence of blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind-agree/disagree, and blind-propagate towards anything, as well as the presence of intense yearning towards absolute knowledge, correct understanding, liberation from ignorance, freedom of existence, and unconditional peace, to be performing self-inquiry or self-investigation to be inquiring/investigating towards the truth of all and everything in oneself, towards all the likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, desires and don't desires in one's mind, including the particular existing way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices, that are influencing the thinking, feeling, behavior, action, and reaction in one's mind and/or one's particular family/community.

The mind begins to doubt and realize that the particular existing personal and/or community way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices, that give rise to personal and/or community vision or aspiration to conquer the world (interfere, convert, change, and control the others), and to build a desirable world or community based on that particular personal and/or community desire and don't desire, in itself, are not necessarily (completely) true and beneficial to oneself individually, one's community, and all the other different individuals and communities in the world of many diversities, but that 'urge'/'desire'/'aspiration'/'ambition'/'action' to conquer/interfere/covert/control others, is actually hurting and destroying all and everything, impacting its own momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal existence that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to itself, that inevitably depends on the availability of a conducive living environment under the selfless existence and function of all and everyone and everything that work together selflessly and indiscriminately (the selfless power of compassion) that enables all and everyone and everything being what they are, as they are.

Just like within the selfless physical structure where the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty under the presence and/or absence of conscious awareness, is merely part of the functions/mechanisms of the selfless physical structure, that depends on the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many different selfless elements/functions/mechanisms/systems/components/organs/glands/hormones/cells/atoms/neutrons/protons/neurons that all work together selflessly and indiscriminately that enabling the selfless body to be existing and functioning as what it is, momentarily, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, and conditionally, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body itself, not to say, it doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

The presence of breakdown/malfunction/dysfunction/corruption/to be fighting or interfering against one another in any particular element/function/mechanism/system/component/organ/gland/hormone/cell/atom/neutron/proton/neuron is impacting and detrimental to the selfless existence and function of the selfless physical structure.

One who hurts others and the surrounding environment, is actually hurting oneself. 

 

Then, it is about activating the conscious mind purification and silencing process of freeing the selfless modifications/functions/mechanisms of the mind from ignorance, restlessness, or impurities, by letting go the idea of 'I' and egoism of attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, that leads the selfless thinking and acting faculty under the presence of conscious awareness towards transcending or not being determined and influenced by the existing particular personal and community's habitual mind thinking and behavior pattern being conditioned by the internal parental family lineage genetic traits inheritance and survival instinct by birth, the selfless impermanent desirable or undesirable changes in the body and mind, the different impermanent modifications/states of mind, the ongoing external surrounding parental/family/community/school/work/social network/political/spiritual/religious/cultural/commercial conditioning and influential influences, the instinctive unconscious random autonomous desires/urges, and the conscious by choice built up/accumulated habitual likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, and desires and don't desires, based on the particular type of personal and/or family/community/political/spiritual/religious/cultural/commercial thinking, beliefs, reasoning, understanding, aspirations, values, and practices in oneself and/or in one's particular family/community, a little by a little, step by step, stage by stage, without rushing, forcing, or violence, without grasping, association, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

In this stage, the observation of renunciation and dispassion, solitude and seclusion, and the practice of silence, for a prolonged extended duration, is highly important and effective and helpful.

 

Then, it is about the presence of mental and emotional independence, or the liberation from the influence of ignorance and its by-products or the restless impure egoistic mind stuff, where the selfless mind effortlessly respecting the nature's law of cause and effect, accepting the body and mind being what it is, inevitably having certain parental lineage genetic traits inheritance and physical/mental/emotional conditions and limitations that cannot be changed or modified, under the momentary existence and function of a mortal body and mind that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that requires ceaseless effort for ceaseless maintenance, that is subject to hunger and thirst, that is subject to aging, weakness, stiffness, injury, and illness, that is subject to fragility and mortality, that is subject to decay and disintegration, or ceased function and ceased existence, as well as, respecting and allowing all the others/living organisms/non-living objects/nature/the world of many diversities/selfless impermanent changes to be what they are, as they are, while not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by all and everyone and everything being what they are, that are not necessarily pleasant, or agreeable, or desirable, or beneficial, that might be unpleasant, or disagreeable, or undesirable, or hurtful.

Respecting the perceived reality (internally and externally) in the present moment now as it is, and it is impermanent, while not being determined or disturbed by all that, devoid of grasping, attachment, identification, craving, aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.

The personal and/or community ambitious vision or aspiration to build a desirable world or community based on that particular personal and/or community desire and don't desire disappears from one's mind.

The mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment.

The mind fully understands that the world of many diversities, or the surrounding living environment, or the land and space with the natural resources for life maintenance, as well as all and everyone and everything, doesn't belong to anyone or anything, not to say, it doesn't belong to itself and/or its particular family/community, even if they have been born and living on that land and space for a prolonged duration, or they have been discovering, occupying, and claiming ownership/possession towards any particular land and space earlier than many others who came later.

The open mind is not being determined, or disturbed, or offended, or intimidated by what the mind perceives/recognizes as the absence of pleasant, agreeable, desirable, or enjoyable experiences/names and forms/interactions/activities/relationships/conditions/opportunities, or the presence of painful inevitable and evitable experiences/situations/conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering and all kinds of ignorance, hurtful behaviors, and ill treatments deriving from the many minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance.

The mind understands that there are inevitable painful or unpleasant conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering just by being existing and functioning as what it is, selflessly, impermanently, limitedly, conditionally, and momentarily, and there are many unnecessary evitable unpleasant/disagreeable/undesirable/painful experiences/situations/affairs/relationships/interactions/conditions/limitations/difficulties/suffering, under the presence of all kinds of ignorant egoistic impure selfish thinking/ideas/beliefs/reasoning/understanding/desires/aspirations/values/practices in the many different individuals and communities, that give rise to all kinds of incorrect thinking, hurtful behaviors/actions/reactions, defensiveness, offensiveness, selfishness, possessiveness, discontentment, greed, admiration, jealousy, fear, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, deserving and non-deserving, low and high self-esteem/self-worth, sense of meaningfulness and meaninglessness/goodness and badness/righteousness and wrongfulness/positiveness and negativeness, discrimination, separateness, unjust, prejudice, hatred, corruptions, exploitation, desperation, cruelty, violence, conflicts, and ill treatments deriving from the minds functioning under the influence of ignorance, existing in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, impacting and hurting all and everyone and everything in certain way.

Above all that, there are also many constructive wholesome beneficial ideas/actions/activities in the world deriving from the selfless minds that are functioning under the absence of ignorance and its by-products.

The mind understands that all those unpleasant/undesirable/disagreeable/painful/difficult evitable affairs/activities/conditions/situations deriving from the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance and the by-products of ignorance, are all merely because of the presence of ignorance and the by-products or side-effects of ignorance, that is not what they are, that is not part of them, and that doesn't belong to them, that can be eliminated (only) by themselves, willingly and wittingly (consciously) out of their own self initiation and self effort.

Just like the selfless natural disasters being what they are, that inevitably cause certain types and certain degrees of damages or destructions unto lives and objects and nature or the surrounding environment.

Just like there are minds/people that are suffering from certain form of insanity due to certain malfunctioning, or dysfunction, or deformity, or damage of the brains/glands/hormones/nerves/systems by birth or developed/encountering some time later in life, where they have very little or no conscious mind awareness, or self-control, or conscious freewill over their own modification of the mind and behavior, that might or might not cause random damages or destructions unto themselves, and/or others and the surrounding environment.

Just like all kinds of obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters being there as they are. One can only try to avoid or move around the obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters, as much as possible, to minimize unnecessary evitable direct or indirect coming in contact with the potential effects/damages/destructions that come along with the obstacles/dangers/risks/natural or man made disasters being what they are, as they are.

The mind that understands all that, it understands that it doesn't need to be 'determined by', or 'disturbed by', or 'suffer' for the 'ignorance' and the 'effects/consequences of ignorance' deriving from the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance.

It allows all the other minds to take their own pace under their own cause, to evolve as they are, to inquire and realize towards the truth of all that, or not.

Unless there is serious deformity/dysfunction/damage/illness/injury in the body and mind that there is absolutely no conscious mind awareness/freewill/self-control to be aware of its own internal modification/function and the external surrounding environment, all selfless minds under the presence of selfless conscious awareness can be free from the influence of ignorance, however, it has to come from the mind itself to be aware of the presence of ignorance/impurities/hurtful thinking, intention, desire, behavior, action, and reaction in itself, to have the self-initiation to help itself to be free from the influence of ignorance, to annihilate restlessness, impurities, the idea of 'I', and egoism all by itself under right effort, right attentiveness, right attitude, perseverance, and determination, to inquire the truth of everything, to attain direct self realization towards the truth of everything - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, and Non-self, to be resting in unconditional peace, to have clarity of thinking and correct understanding, to stop hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function in the world of many diversities, where all and everyone and everything don't belong to anyone or anything.

Do not blind-believe, blind-follow, blind-practice, blind agree/disagree, or blind propagate anything from anyone, including all that is here. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

It is absolutely possible to be free from ignorance.

You can attain direct self realization towards all these.

There is nothing spiritual, religious, mystical, supernatural, or unreachable in the path of yoga and/or buddhism, or meditation. It is pure solid knowledge and understanding that unveil the unconditional peace in the mind, in NOW, even if all and everyone and everything are existing and functioning momentarily, selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional and non-self.