Let go possessiveness and pride to realize the universal dhamma, or the universal teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism

All minds have the freedom to think, believe, reason, understand, behave, act, react, desire, and express as they are. There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, even if the different minds have their own particular way of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, behavior, action, reaction, desire, and expression that are different from one another, that could be constructive or destructive, beneficial or harmful.

This doesn't mean that constructive and beneficial activities should not be encouraged and empowered, or destructive and harmful activities should be encouraged and empowered. 

For the minds that truly want to practice and realize yoga vedanta and/or buddhism, to be free from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance, then the teachings here, regardless of agreeable or disagreeable to the different minds, can serve as a reflective object or subject for them to reflect upon.

It is a common and normal trait or behavior of the selfless minds that are functioning under the presence and influence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, to develop, possess, and empower the sense of belonging/origin as well as possessiveness/ownership and pride towards many things that the minds think and believe are who they are, where they come from, and what belonged to them, in oneself and among a community, such as their particular personal, family, and communal identity, their origin and background, their ancestry heritage, their culture, their spirituality, their religion, their ethnicity, their belief, their birth place, their nationality, their country, their history, as well as all and everyone and everything that were and are somehow connected or related to what they think and believe is who they are, where they come from, and what belonged to them.

Such as the dhamma, or the teachings and practice of yoga vedanta, or the teachings and practice of buddhism, or the minds that had/have attained direct self realization towards the dhamma, such as Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Ajahn Chah, or Swami Sivananda, or some other saints and sages.

The egoistic minds, including the enthusiasts of yoga vedanta and/or buddhism, would think and believe that the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism, or Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Ajahn Chah, or Swami Sivananda, or certain enlightened buddhas/yogis/gurus/saints and sages who had/have attained direct self realization towards the dhamma or the truth of all and everything, were/are originated from a particular area/location/place/country/region under particular cultural/spiritual/religious background, and that also simultaneously belonged to that particular area/location/place/region/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion, or the people from that particular area/location/place/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion would think and believe that yoga vedanta, or buddhism, or the dhamma, or the direct self realization towards the dhamma being realized by certain minds from that particular area and background, should autonomously belong to them and their particular area/location/place/region/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion.

That is their freedom of thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, action, reaction, desire, and expression.

For the minds that truly want to practice and realize the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism, they need to be opened, to reflect upon the truth of such thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, action, reaction, desire, and expression that is based on the egoistic sense of belonging/origin (what and where they come from and belong to) as well as possessiveness/ownership (what and where belonged to them) and pride or shame towards all THAT that they think and believe as good or bad, or pride deserving, or shame deserving.

Just as the planet earth, the livable atmosphere, the nature, the natural resources, the continents, the lands, the oceans, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the air, the water, the minerals, the nutrients, the plants, all kinds of living organisms, all kinds of non-living objects, the other planets, the sun, the moon, the stars, the universe, the galaxy, all kinds of elements and energy, or the infinite space that hosts all and everything, don't belong to anyone or anything, similarly -

The universal teachings and practice of yoga and buddhism, the universal dhamma/the universal truth of everything, as well as the direct self realization towards the universal dhamma, or the universal truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self in all kinds of names and forms, that was/is being realized by the different selfless minds from different eras in different areas/locations under many different backgrounds, including Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Swami Sivananda, Ajahn Chah, and many other buddhas, yogis, gurus, saints and sages, where the minds had been or are existing and functioning momentarily under different eras in different areas in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, undertaking similar and/or different path(s) and practice(s) under the different names such as yoga vedanta, or buddhism, or some other names, or without any names, but the universal truth, or the universal dhamma, or the universal path of yoga vedanta, or the universal path of buddhism (the names are different, but they all are the same realization towards the truth of all kinds of names and forms), doesn't belong to anyone, or anything, or the minds that had/have attained direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, not to say, all THAT doesn't belong to any particular area, or region, or country under the particular community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion background where the many different enlightened minds/buddhas/yogis/gurus/saints and sages were/are born, or lived/live in, or had/have attained enlightenment.

There is no 'my' realization, or 'my' enlightenment', or 'my' dhamma, or 'my' truth, upon the direct self realization towards the timeless universal dhamma/truth of all kinds of names and forms. It's just the mind knows and understands Thyself upon the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness under the quiet/clear state of mind.

The self realized liberated minds/buddhas/yogis/gurus were/are the selfless minds that had/have attained direct self realization towards the universal truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, that exists along with the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of all and everyone and everything, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, upon the annihilation/silence of the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind under the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, a.k.a. the absence of the idea of 'I' (the ego/self acknowledgement/sense of separateness between 'I' and 'not I' or 'others'), egoism, impurities, and restlessness, a.k.a. the natural veil of ignorance, not only effortlessly and naturally in the state of unconsciousness, but more importantly and particularly, upon the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

There is neither superiority and super extraordinary power to override or alter the truth of selflessness/impermanence/limitation/conditional/non-self in the enlightened liberated minds nor inferiority and painful punishment/suffering deserving in the non-enlightened minds. It is merely whether the minds know or don't know and understand or don't understand towards the universal truth of all kinds of names and forms; Have peace, or not; Be kind towards oneself and all and everything indiscriminately and unconditionally, or not; Or, don't hurt or stop hurting oneself and others and everything in the surrounding environment, or not.

Upon the state of consciousness/semi-consciousness, there is the natural conscious/semi-conscious continuous stream of countless idea/thought of 'I' (the ego/self acknowledgement/sense of separateness) arising and passing away, that gives rise to egoism and the by-products of countless and various impurities, that gives rise to the restless conscious/semi-conscious thought activities/actions/reactions/desires/state of mind, which is what restlessness or the veil of ignorance is about, where the veil of ignorance doesn't exist in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, but only manifests naturally as it is, upon the states of consciousness/wakefulness and semi-consciousness/semi-awake/semi-sleep/dream, except for the minds that are born autistic, where there is absence/non-development of the ego/the idea of 'I'/self acknowledgement/sense of separateness biologically, effortlessly, and naturally, even in the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

It doesn't mean that the other egoistic impure restless minds that didn't realize or haven't realized the universal truth, are not selfless minds/buddhas/yogis/gurus. 

All minds are buddhas/yogis/dhamma. All and everything are dhamma/the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self. All and everything are the teachings and the teachers, or the gurus of dhamma.

The selfless minds that didn't attain/haven't attained the direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, are merely the buddhas/yogis/dhamma that are veiled and yet to be realized by the minds themselves, that was/is unknown to the selfless minds that were/are functioning under the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance upon the states of consciousness and semi-consciousness.

The universal dhamma or the universal truth of everything and both the self realized ego-less quiet selfless minds and the non-realized/haven't yet-realized egoistic impure restless selfless minds, are untouched/uncontaminated/unaffected/undetermined/unchanged/undamaged/unhurt by the presence and absence of the veil of ignorance in the restless impure egoistic modification of the minds, although activities being generated under the influence of the veil of ignorance can cause unnecessary impactful damages/suffering unto all and everyone and everything.

Regardless of realized or non-realized/haven't yet realized, liberated or non-liberated/haven't yet liberated, pure or impure, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, wise or ignorant, constructive or destructive, peaceful or peaceless, enjoying or suffering, all selfless minds are the dhamma/the truth itself, and the minds are still what they are, as they are, or the dhamma/the truth is still what it is, as it is. All minds are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

The universal truth of "All kinds of names and forms are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self," doesn't change, and is permanent and timeless before/during/after the manifestation of all kinds of names and forms manifesting and changing, arising and passing away, under respective cause and pace, upon the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All minds are buddhas/yogis/dhamma, but there is no permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence in the minds to be identifying as buddhas/yogis/dhamma.

All minds are selfless. The minds don't evolve and become selfless. All kinds of names and forms, regardless of living organisms or non-living objects, are all selfless, as well as impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

To know Thyself, or the self-inquiry inquiring towards "Who/What am I?" is about the realization towards the one same nature of the existence and function of the perceptive thinking mind, the physical body, and all and everything that the mind perceives through the senses via the sense organs, of what all and everything are, where are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, where there is no existence of a permanent independent infinite immortal individual self existence of an unique individual identity/soul/spirit/consciousness that has been ignorantly and reluctantly undergoing endless rounds of different separate mortal life existences of different body and mind under different momentary identities, transitioning between many different realms/worlds/spheres endlessly due to the ceaseless generation and accumulation of boundless 'good/bad/neutral karma' or 'merits and virtues/sins'.

However, under the influence of the veil of ignorance, especially in the beginning of the path of yoga and/or buddhism, it is normal and nothing wrong that most minds would naturally non-understand or even misunderstand about the essential self-inquiry towards "Who/What am I?" is about finding, recognizing, knowing, remembering, reconnecting with, re-identifying with, regaining, recovering, or returning to "Our original true identity of who/what we really are."

The minds are naturally being ignorant towards the truth of itself/Thyself, due to the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance, which is a natural phenomena or manifestation in the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind/faculty upon the presence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, that hinders the mind from seeing the truth of itself, which is the same truth in all kinds of names and forms that the mind perceives through the senses via the organs of the senses, where all and everything, regardless of sentient and non-sentient/mobile and immobile living organisms or non-living objects, are all selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

All the genuine and highly determined, attentive, intelligent, and knowledgeable scientists or biologists who have been studying and researching enthusiastically and one-pointedly towards the science of the human body and mind as well as the science of all and everything in the surrounding environment 'should' know this, especially under the help of many innovative tools being invented under advance science and technology, unless the mind is still being conditioned by certain existing inherited/adopted/developed/empowered worldly egoistic cultural/spiritual/religious/personal/family/communal/regional/national/political/commercial/educational/philosophical/traditional/non-traditional new age ideas/beliefs/values/practices/aspirations in the mind, to reason and understand everything in certain way and not in certain way.

Not only the minds of the highly intelligent and knowledgeable scientists and biologists, but all minds, regardless of where they were/are and what type of background they come from or have, they can realize the truth of the selfless impermanent limited conditional momentary life existence and function of the mortal body and mind that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, if there is the conscious/semi-conscious perception towards endless painful suffering and fleeting pleasurable enjoyment that are all impermanent, limited, and conditional, and have the intense yearning towards attaining liberation from ignorance and the by-products of all kinds of painful suffering that are unnecessary, via the direct self realization towards the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, under the conscious/semi-conscious state of mind that is rendered quiet/silent/clear/absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, or restless thought current/activities/state of mind.

The minds don't need to look out, or look far, or go somewhere, or suffer greatly, ignorantly, and unnecessarily, in order to realize or know the universal dhamma/truth, as the entire selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self existence and function of the body and mind itself is the dhamma/truth itself. That's why the teachings and practice is about knowing Thyself, by quieting the restless modification of the mind via renouncing the passionate worldly egoistic ideas/beliefs/values/practices/aspirations/habitual thinking behavior pattern, turning the outgoing tendency of the mind inward to look within, and the mind will attain direct realization towards the universal dhamma/truth.

There is absence of pleasurable enjoyment or painful suffering in the minds that are either functioning under the absence of conscious and semi-conscious awareness under the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, or are functioning under the absence of the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness not only in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep/coma, but even under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness under the state of consciousness/semi-consciousness, either effortlessly and naturally being born autistic biologically or via the persistent engagement in conscious effort/practice/observation to render the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self modification of the mind quiet/silent/clear/one-pointed/focused within/desireless via ceaseless conscious effort/perseverance/determination of thinning-out/weakening/annihilating the ego and egoism, as well as their by-products of various impurities and restless thought current/process/activities, or state of mind, that both fed by and feeding the idea of 'I' and egoism, that forms and empowers the veil of ignorance.

That is why the dhamma/the truth/yoga vedanta/buddhism is universal. It is what all and everyone and everything are, that are manifested and come under different qualities of names and forms that are impermanent, limited, and conditional, that don't even belong to the names and forms themselves, but that also don't belong to anyone or anything, and it is unlimited, unconditional, timeless, and changeless, being unaffected, undetermined, unchanged, uncontaminated, undamaged, or unlimited and unconditioned by any qualities of names and forms that come and go, that arise, change, and pass away under respective cause and pace.

The minds that have attained direct self realization towards the universal truth/dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, there is naturally the correct understanding/absolute knowledge/wisdom of "All and everyone and everything don't belong to oneself, or anyone, or anything," where there is no grasping, attachment, identification, sense of belonging, possessiveness/ownership, or pride/shame towards the momentary impermanent existence and function of the body and mind, or anyone, or anything.

The minds also understand that the knower and the knowledge are non-separated (oneness/non-duality/non-separateness). The knower is the knowledge itself. The knower knows Thyself. Without the knower, there is no knowledge, and vice versa. Similarly, the perceiver and the perceived, the thinker and the thinking, the experiencer and the experience, the projector and the projection, the awareness and the objects of awareness, the enjoyer and the objects of enjoyment, or the sufferer and the objects of suffering.

Under the influence of the veil of ignorance, the restless impure egoistic minds think and believe and desire that the truth/dhamma/yoga/buddhism belong to them, as they were/are born and/or lived/live in the same area/region/country as the self realized or enlightened buddhas/yogis/gurus, that should also simultaneously belong to that (their) particular country under that (their) particular nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion/belief.

The egoistic minds of the human beings from different areas/regions/countries of the similar or different cultures/spiritualities/religions/beliefs would have the sense of possessiveness/ownership and pride towards the dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, while claiming that the dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism originated from and belonged to their particular area/region/country/nationality/community/culture/spirituality/religion/belief.

The possessive prideful minds argue with the others who also claimed possessiveness/ownership/pride towards the dhamma/yoga vedanta/buddhism, and are being offensive/defensive about the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism was/is originated from and belonged to their particular area/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion/belief, where the people/the minds would get over-whelmed by the ongoing heated arguments and become highly disturbed/offended/dissatisfied/disappointed/upset/angry/violent towards each other in the process to prove/convince that the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism was/is originated from and belonged to them and their particular area/region/country/nationality/community/ethnicity/culture/spirituality/religion/belief.

The presence of such idea/thinking/belief/behavior/action/reaction in the minds/people only indicates that such minds/people don't know/haven't realized towards the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism, which is ONE under different names, which is universal, which doesn't belong to anyone or anything (not even belongs to 'all of us'), which is centered in the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self, where the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of the body and mind existing and functioning under different states of consciousness doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself, or the momentary existence and function of all kinds of names and forms doesn't even belong to the names and forms themselves, as well as the core teachings and practice is about the annihilation/absence of ignorance, the ego, egoism, and restless boundless impurities of the egoistic sense of belonging/possessiveness/ownership/separateness, grasping, clinging, attachment, identification, selfishness, self-esteem and self-worth, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, craving and aversion, comparison, competition, judgment, expectation, discontentment, greed, dissatisfaction, disappointment, offensiveness, defensiveness, envy, jealousy, irritation, frustration, bitterness, resentment, vengeance, anger, hatred, violence, intimidation, argument, debate, fighting, back-biting, slandering, shaming, blaming, glorifying, worshiping, blind-following, blind-believing, blind-practicing, blind-propagating, and etc.

Even though Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was born and lived in the area that is named Lumbini in the country of Nepal, and he had been travelling around different areas and attained self realization in the area that is named Bodhgaya in the country of India, buddhism and the dhamma/the truth of everything don't come from or belong to Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Lumbini (The birth place of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha), or Bodhgaya (The place where the direct self realization of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha took place), or any other minds that knew/know Thyself via conscious self-initiation, self-effort, self-inquiry, and self realization from any particular era, in any particular area.

There is no 'our' dhamma, 'our' buddhas, 'our' yogis, 'our' yoga vedanta, 'our' buddhism, 'our' Swami Sivananda, 'our' Ajahn Chah, 'our' Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or 'our' saints and sages, if the minds are free from the presence and influence of the veil of ignorance.

Although there is absolutely nothing wrong and it is highly beneficial to all and everything in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, for certain people/individuals/community/organization/government/country actively and enthusiastically promoting buddhism or yoga vedanta in those particular areas/locations/places/countries, or in any where, under the name of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, or Swami Sivananda, or Ajahn Chah, or any other enlightened saints and sages that were/are born in those areas or anywhere, that had lived and moved around/have been living and moving around in those areas or anywhere, that had/have attained enlightenment in those areas or anywhere, even if it is under the intention of promoting tourism for economic growth in those areas/places/countries/people/community, with the correct understanding of "The universal dhamma, the teachings and practice of buddhism and/or yoga vedanta, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Swami Sivananda, Ajahn Chah, or any other self realized buddhas/yogis/minds/saints and sages from any eras and areas, don't belong to anyone or anything. And all minds, regardless of all kinds of differences and backgrounds, from any eras and areas, can practice and realize the universal dhamma, or buddhism, or yoga vedanta."

Similarly, yoga vedanta has the background of Hinduism, where many great buddhas, yogis, and gurus were/are from Hinduism background, but it doesn't mean that yoga vedanta came from and belonged to Hinduism or Hindus, or all Hindus are practicing yoga vedanta, or only Hindus can practice and realize yoga vedanta, where the realization of the dhamma or the truth of all kinds of names and forms is the same in both yoga vedanta and buddhism - Selflessness, Impermanence, Limitation, Conditional, Non-self.

Where the teachings/observation/practice are the same - Non-grasping/Non-dualism/Non-separateness/Oneness/Silence/Self-initiation/Self-effort/Self-inquiry/Self-realization/Unconditional peace/Wisdom/Kindness/Non-violence/The middle path/Renunciation/Dispassion/Desirelessness/Non-craving and Non-aversion/Simplicity/Non-greed/Non-possessiveness, and etc.

Where the subject and object is non-separated and both the same selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

Where it is all about - The mind and The conquest/silence of the restless egoistic impure modification of the mind by the mind itself.

The minds that claimed that yoga or buddhism originated from and that belonged to particular being(s)/person(people)/mind(s)/community/ethnicity/spirituality/religion/belief/culture/era/area/region/country/nationality/organization/authority, they didn't/don't know or understand about the existence and function of the teachings and practices of yoga vedanta and/or buddhism, as well as the universal dhamma, or the truth of selflessness, impermanence, limitation, conditional, and non-self being realized by the minds either under the name of 'yoga vedanta', or 'buddhism', or 'some other names and forms', or nameless and formless, are universal, that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is not limited to/by/in any particular name and form, but it exists along within all and everyone and everything of any qualities of names and forms, in any eras, and in anywhere in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

If without the selfless impermanent limited conditional and non-self momentary existence and function of all kinds of names and forms existing and functioning as what they are, what is the truth of names and forms, and vice versa?

And there is neither right nor wrong, and it is the freedom of all minds for their particular thinking, belief, reasoning, understanding, behavior, action, reaction, desire, and expression about anything and everything.

The minds that are open, will start to see the dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism as it is, devoid of grasping, identification, possessiveness/ownership, or pride, not to say, the egoistic reaction of being offended, disturbed, upset, angry, hating, or violent towards something that the mind perceived/understood/recognized as something offensive/disrespectful/intimidation/disagreeable/undesirable deriving from the presence of grasping, identification, possessiveness, or pride.

The minds that are not open, will naturally react and feel offended, disturbed, upset, angry, hating, and violent towards anything or anyone that is contradicting or different from their particular thinking, belief, reasoning, and understanding, and the presence of such reaction only indicates that they don't know/understand or haven't realized the universal dhamma, or yoga vedanta, or buddhism as it is.

Such minds are being conditioned to think and believe, "There is only one truth, and that is our truth deriving from and belonged to our people, our community, our ethnicity, our country, our nationality, our culture, our spirituality, our religion, our ancestors, our gurus, our teachers, our saints and sages, or our enlightened buddhas/yogis. Our truth is the one and only truth," while be disturbed, dissatisfied, upset, angry, hating, and violent by thinking and believing that their truth is somehow being disrespected, offended, intimidated, contaminated, damaged, or hurt by something or someone that is different from or contradicting to their truth.

If it is really the universal truth, it is universal, it doesn't belong to anyone or anything, and it cannot be determined, affected, contaminated, offended, disrespected, humiliated, intimidated, damaged, hurt, altered, or changed by anything or anyone.

If it is the universal truth, it is not limited to or constrained by any particular era, area, location, position, quality, name and form, region, country, nationality, community, individual, culture, spirituality, religion, belief, caste, sect, ethnicity, status, or anything.

None need to be possessive and claimed ownership towards anything that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, in order to be kind, and not damaging/harming/destroying but to look after and promote the general welfare of all and everyone and everything and the surrounding environment.

Inquire/Reflect the truth of everything, including all that is here in this blog, and be free. 

Upon direct realization towards selflessness and timelessness

Upon the direct realization towards selflessness, that also simultaneously gives rise to the realization towards timelessness, as well as spontaneously without any intention to know or understand this or that, the mind transcends all kinds of worldly egoistic beliefs, values, and practices created and practiced by the minds that were/are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance.

The realization towards selflessness, where there is no permanent independent infinite immortal self existence of an individual consciousness/soul/spirit/'I' existing in any living organisms that resides in or belongs to each respective living organism, not to say, in any non-living objects, to be undergoing the ceaseless selfless impermanent limited and conditional changes (formation/decay/disintegration) of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, that is non-self, that doesn't even belong to the body and mind itself.

The realization towards timelessness, where time is merely the reflection of ceaseless selfless impermanent changes in NOW, of the ceaseless conscious and unconscious physical and mental activities during the different states of consciousness, of the ceaseless process of decaying and disintegrating in between coming into existence and ceased existence in NOW, where there is neither past nor future, upon Silence, or the annihilation/subjugation of the restless modification of the mind, where the notion/idea of past and future arise upon the selfless perceptive mind under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness is being aware of the selfless impermanent restless thought activities of perceiving, knowing, thinking, reasoning, recognizing, understanding, sensing, feeling, desiring, acting, reacting, remembering, and imagining/anticipating/scheduling/planning this or that, as well as sleeping and dreaming, in NOW.

Under the absence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness in the state of unconsciousness/deep sleep, there is no idea of 'I' or self acknowledgement, not to say, acknowledgment towards the selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind, the state of unconsciousness, and the surrounding environment, even though there are ceaseless autonomous selfless bodily activities for life maintenance/impermanent changes/decaying process/rehabilitation process/inputs processing that ceaselessly happening throughout the different states of consciousness, in NOW.

The selfless impermanent autonomous growing/ceased growing/aging/decaying process and the autonomous rehabilitation/regeneration or deterioration process of the existing damage, wound, illness, or injury is also happening ceaselessly throughout the different states of consciousness in NOW, where the damage, wound, illness, or injury are getting better or worse, regardless of under the presence or absence of conscious awareness, in NOW.

Even though the natural process of the ceaseless selfless impermanent changes of growth/rehabilitation/regeneration/deterioration/decay/aging/disintegration is an autonomous process that is happening throughout the different states of consciousness, but the conscious activities of knowledge learning and accumulating/actions taking/problems solving/habits changing during the state of consciousness under the presence of conscious awareness on top of the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, as well as under the accessibility, availability, and possibility of essential healthy living environment/condition, proper nourishment, proper health and fitness activity, and specific medical treatment, or under the absence of all that, it can influence the selfless impermanent changes in certain way up to a certain extend (either slow down or speed up the selfless impermanent changes constructively or destructively) throughout the different states of consciousness, even though such conscious interference doesn't change the truth of decay and disintegration, or mortality, or ceased function and ceased existence in all kinds of names and forms (living organisms and non-living objects).

One can maintain the best condition of everything as much as possible, and extend the life span and functionality of everything as much as possible, but all and everything will eventually and naturally ceased functioning and ceased existing. No matter how good or bad is anyone or anything, and no matter how intelligent, creative, talented, skillful, successful, accomplished, wealthy, healthy, happy, fit, and strong is anyone, all and everyone and everything will come to an end of function and existence. For most minds that are functioning under the influence of the veil of ignorance, this ultimate truth is something negative and meaningless for them, but for the minds that are free from the influence of ignorance, this is nether positive nor negative, neither meaningful nor meaningless, but they can make use of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary function and existence of the body and mind to be performing conscious activities/actions to benefit all and everyone indiscriminately and unconditionally, without grasping.

Similarly, short-lived and mortality (finite momentary existence) is something inauspicious, bad, negative, painful sorrow, or suffering, while longevity or immortality (infinite endless existence) is something auspicious, good, positive, joyful, or pleasurable enjoyment for the minds that are functioning under the influence of ignorance. But, it isn't so for the minds that are devoid of ignorance.

Under the absence of conscious awareness or acknowledgement, under the state of unconsciousness, it doesn't mean that there is no ceaseless conscious and unconscious inputs/impacts/influences/imprints of the ceaseless conscious and unconscious activities/impermanent changes/causes and effects throughout the different states of consciousness. Most of the time, the mind has no awareness/acknowledgment towards many kinds of internal and external activities/impermanent changes/causes and effects that are ceaselessly happening under the state of consciousness and semi-consciousness, not to say, under the absence of conscious awareness/acknowledgement in the state of unconsciousness, but the ceaseless inputs/impacts/influences/imprints of everything are still there as they are, even if all these are also impermanent.

That is how extremely restless the thought current is (The natural formation of the veil of ignorance in all minds).

That is why the highly importance of the inevitable renunciation and the observation of silence (mauna) in solitude and seclusion, for a prolonged duration of at least 5 - 6 years and maybe longer for certain extremely restless minds, to cut off unnecessary worldly passionate egoistic ties and connections, contacts, communications, interactions, affairs, activities, actions, and reactions, to withdraw the senses from the objects of the senses, to turn the outgoing tendency of the mind inward, to refrain from news/magazines/TV programs/movies/books/novels/stories/musics/songs/theater performances/social medias/political, commercial, spiritual, religious, or cultural related inputs/activities watching/reading/hearing/engaging, as well as specific food/fuel/energy consumption that stimulate or agitate the states of mind, to refrain from worldly egoistic habits of socializing/chit-chatting/commenting/discussing/debating/arguing/gossiping/vain talking/boasting/glorifying/admiring/criticizing/condemning/back-biting/slandering/justifying/story making and telling/lying/day dreaming/aspiring and etc, to practically reduce and restraint the restlessness of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional modification of the mind throughout the different states of consciousness, in order to quiet the restless thought current effectively.

Upon the annihilation of the veil of ignorance or the restless impure egoistic modification of the mind, or upon the presence of clarity of thinking and correct understanding, the mind can live and mix freely among the worldly minds, without being determined or influenced by all kinds of worldly egoistic inputs and outputs, to be performing selfless service to serve the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, selflessly, indiscriminately, and unconditionally.

This direct realization towards selflessness and timelessness, brings along the absolute knowledge/understanding towards the truth of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary finite existence of all kinds of names and forms, that are ceaselessly changing governed by the nature's law of cause and effect that is also impermanent, limited, and conditional, that is influencing or directing the impermanent changes (causes turning into effects) being what they are, ceaselessly changing under the existing causes that turn into effects that have countless possibilities, under the presence/influence of the existing impermanent limitations and conditions in NOW, where the effects/changes are not fixed, even if the causes are fixed, being what they are, as they are.

This realization/knowledge towards selflessness, timelessness, and the nature's law of cause and effect also gives rise to the knowledge of there is not an infinite loop of good/bad/neutral/neither good nor bad karma that powers the infinite wheel of ceaseless reincarnation, of endless cycles of births and deaths of a permanent independent infinite immortal self existence of an individual consciousness/soul/spirit (that is non-existing, that doesn't exist) undergoing countless separate different existences under different timing, ceaselessly reincarnating from the beginningless past (previous beginningless countless existences) into NOW (this specific existence) that will be continuously reincarnating into the endless future (endless existences after this specific existence in NOW) in accordance to certain worldly cultural/spiritual/religious beliefs, values, and practices.

The existence of all kinds of names and forms that had ceased existing/are existing in NOW under different qualities and impermanent changes, were/are merely a selfless impermanent limited and conditional dot ( . ) that keeps changing (selfless impermanent changes governed by the existing causes that turn into effects of countless possibilities under the influence of the existing impermanent limitations and conditions in NOW), and it is not even a finite line ( - or l or s) that begins from a dot and that will come to an end of the line, not to say, there is not an infinite beginningless and endless continuous line, or a stream of multiple dots that form a continuous line that turns into an infinite loop that is beginningless and endless, or a wheel that has no beginning or ending ( O ).

Meanwhile, this selfless impermanent limited and conditional dot (any kind of names and forms - living organisms or non-living objects) that is existing in NOW, has a beginning of existence (coming into existence under an existing cause) and has an end of existence (the end of impermanent changes), and is ceaselessly changing/decaying/disintegrating during its selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence under the influence of the existing internal and external causes that are turning into effects under the influence of the existing impermanent limitations and conditions, in NOW.

Most of the causes and effects might be inter-related to one another, where one cause gives rise to another cause that also gives rise to another cause, and so on, especially if the mind keeps reacting wittingly and unwittingly in certain way being conditioned by the specific conditional thinking and behavior pattern under the absence of correct understanding, or under the influence of the veil of ignorance. - Never ending of "I hurt you and you hurt me back, or vice versa, and repeat," under the absence of correct understanding.

The different causes and effects don't necessary related to one another, upon the mind performs effortless actions in accordance to the existing limitations and conditions (possibility and impossibility) that are impermanent, under the presence of correct understanding, or under the absence of the veil of ignorance, without the idea of 'I', without grasping, or without egoism of attachment, identification, craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, or expectation.  - "You hurt me (under the influence of ignorance), I can but I don't necessarily have to hurt you back, or vice versa, even if there are inevitable consequences of actions that are what they are, or there are inevitable damages that cannot be undone, and there is respective responsibility or accountability, regardless of intentional or unintentional activities/actions/reactions," under the presence of correct understanding.

There is conscious/semi-conscious freewill under the presence of conscious/semi-conscious awareness and cognition, to choose what type of activities/actions/reactions to be generated, under the presence of correct understanding.

It is up to the dot, that comes with the organs of perception and organs of action under the presence of conscious awareness, to consciously generate what kind of causes/actions that are being nurtured under what type of impermanent limitations and conditions, that influence the effects/consequences of actions being in certain way or not in certain way, in NOW.

Live in NOW, without attachment, or grasping, or clinging unto NOW regardless of pleasant or unpleasant/desirable or undesirable/agreeable or disagreeable, that is always changing, that is limited and conditional, but also comes with unlimited possibilities simultaneously.

There is no fear in such mind under the presence of absolute knowledge.

Inquire the truth of everything, including all that is here.

The countless individual minds are many and different, the timeless universal consciousness is one and same

Just as the paths/lineages of yoga and buddhism are many and different, but the self inquiry and self realization is one and same, similarly, there had been, and there are many different individual selfless physical structures (all sentient living organisms, not just limited to human beings) with their own respective individual selfless modification of the mind, that had been or are existing and functioning under many different conditions, qualities, traits, personalities, states, desires, behaviors, actions and reactions, manifested under different time (timing), space (location), and causation (cause and effect), are many and uniquely different from one another, but the selfless consciousness that gives rise to different states of consciousness and conscious awareness to all the countless different individual minds that had ceased existing/functioning and/or are existing/functioning, in NOW, is the one same timeless attributeless selfless consciousness.

There had been, and there are countless individual minds existing and functioning under each of the countless individual physical structures ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away at their own respective cause and pace under different time, space, and causation, while the timeless selfless consciousness that pervades all and everything within and without throughout the infinite space, doesn't come and go, or change.

 

The selfless existence and function of the many different individual selfless minds are non-independent (depending on the selfless support of the selfless energy and elements to be existing and functioning), impermanent (ceaselessly changing), limited, and conditional.

They are non-self (their impermanent dependent limited and conditional existence and function doesn't even belong to themselves, not to say, all and everything that the minds think and believe that belong to them).

They have a beginning of existence and an end of existence, they are limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation, and it is limited and conditioned by discriminative and assertive or subjective functions/modifications of the limited and conditional perception/cognition/memory/intellect/thinking/feeling/emotion/action and reaction/desire/self-identification or self-acknowledgement (the idea of 'I' or the ego, that gives rise to separateness and egoism, that give rise to all kinds of impurities and restlessness - The veil of ignorance).

The selfless universal consciousness is independent, changeless, unlimited, and unconditional. It is beginningless and endless (unlimited by time or impermanent changes and activities), it is all pervading (unlimited by the limitation of space that exists in all kinds of names and forms), and it is unborn (non-manifested), nameless, formless, attributeless, or substanceless (unlimited by causation - cause and effect).

Just like the infinite space is timeless, attributeless, and unborn/non-manifested, the selfless universal consciousness is infinite, timeless, attributeless, and unborn/non-manifested.

Everything that are manifested in the infinite space under specific qualities of names and forms (matters/molecules/cells/atoms/protons/neutrons/neurons/electrons/elements/light/heat/gas/energy/air/water/minerals/living organisms/objects/planets/stars/suns/galaxies/universe/world/atmospheres/environments/conditions) are all limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation. But the infinite space is untouched, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or undetermined by all kinds of manifestations that come and go. The space doesn't increase or decrease regardless of all kinds of names and forms arising and passing away.

The selfless universal consciousness is the timeless selfless silent witness towards (the indiscriminate/non-judgmental/non-interfering imprint of) all kinds of selfless manifestations. It is untouched, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or undetermined by the selfless manifestations of all kinds of names and forms that are limited and conditioned by time, space, and causation, that existed/exist, ceaselessly changing, and had/will be ceased existing, in NOW.

Just as the function of memory itself is uncontaminated or undetermined by the contents of memory, and it is indiscriminate/non-judgmental/non-interference towards the contents of the memory.

The countless different individual selfless minds of the countless different individual physical structures functioning under the many different impermanent qualities/conditions/states/limitations might be pure or impure, might be kind or unkind, might be good or evil, might be constructive or destructive, might be intelligent or non-intelligent, might be knowledgeable or non-knowledgeable, might be enjoying or suffering, and so on, and ceaselessly changing, but the selfless universal consciousness that pervades all kinds of names and forms and gives rise to the different states of consciousness in all minds to be unconscious (complete resting/deep sleep/coma), semi-conscious, and fully conscious towards themselves and the surrounding environment, enabling all the countless different individual minds to perceive/experience/know/think/reason/understand/remember/desire/behave/act/react in their own particular way at their own particular cause and effect (unconsciously/semi-consciously/consciously), is untouched, undetermined, uncontaminated, undamaged, unhurt, or unchanged by all that.

All the countless different individual selfless minds have their own each and particular personal imprint (limited and conditional individual memory storage) of their own particular personal and collective existence/function/impermanent changes/causes and effects/experiences during their limited and conditional momentary existence and function under different time, space, and causation, while the timeless selfless universal consciousness that pervades all and everyone and everything, is the timeless selfless silent witness towards the all time manifestations of all kinds of names and forms ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, or the all time endless sum total imprints of the all time momentary existence/function/impermanent changes/causes and effects/experiences of all and everyone and everything (all kinds of sentient/non-sentient living beings and non-living objects) in the infinite space.

 

The selfless universal consciousness is selfless, neither self nor non-self.

It doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

It's not 'my consciousness', 'your consciousness', 'our consciousness', 'their consciousness', 'its consciousness'.

The body is not 'I'. The 'I' is not the body. 

The mind is not 'I'. The 'I' is not the mind.

All and everything that are manifesting in the body and mind, are not 'I'.

There is no 'I' in anything (All and everything are selfless). 

The 'I' (the ego) is merely an idea or thought that manifests in the mind in a continuous stream of ceaseless ideas/thoughts of 'I' or self acknowledgement/conscious self awareness, ceaselessly arising, changing, and passing away, manifesting/transitioning under different states.

The momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function of the body and mind and the ideas/thoughts/modifications/the ego/the intellect/the cognition/the memory of the mind, are not 'I'.

All are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that only existing and functioning/manifesting while ceaselessly changing/decaying/disintegrating under the selfless support/influence of the selfless energy and elements for a momentary limited duration.

The minds are not the selfless universal consciousness. The selfless universal consciousness is not the minds.

Regardless of what or who the minds think and identify as they are and are not, regardless of what the minds think or don't think, believe or disbelieve, behave or don't behave, understand or don't understand, all and everything will change and pass away.

The selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, is always there as it is.

Just by reading or knowing this knowledge doesn't liberate the mind from ignorance and the consequences of ignorance.

Quiet the mind.

Eliminate the idea of 'I' and egoism.

Purify. Meditate. 

Inquire the truth of everything.

Attain direct self realization, and be free.

The yoga class beyond the yoga asana and pranayama practice

Let go of the past.

Whether the past is something happy or not happy, it is not important. 

Let go of the future.

The future doesn't exist.

The future is just some wild imagination, anticipation, projection, wishful thinking, fearful thinking, expectation, and uncertainty, in NOW, that are not real, that don't exist in NOW.

The only reality, the only existence, is the present moment NOW, and it is impermanent. 

Be aware of the present moment now.

Be aware of where you are and what you are doing.

Be aware of the breath coming and going.

Be aware of the movements of the abdomen expanding and relaxing. 

And everything in NOW is impermanent, constantly changing.

The breath is impermanent.

Every breath coming and going is a different breath, there is never the same breath, even though they might appear to be the same.

Every thought/feeling/emotion arising and passing away is a different thought/feeling/emotion, there is never the same thought/feeling/emotion, even though they might appear to be the same.

Every idea of 'I' is a different idea of 'I', even though they might appear to be the same, and they appear to be one single idea of 'I' under a continuous stream of countless ideas of 'I' (self acknowledgement) arising and passing away, and they appear to be the one same 'I' under the function of memory where the perceptive mind remembering some or all of the different states of mind/perceptions/experiences/learning/knowledge/understanding/ideas/desires/aspirations/ties and connections/relationships/interactions/activities/affairs/duties/responsibilities/plannings/thoughts/feelings/emotions/sensations/sights/smells/sounds/tastes/dreams/imagination/anticipation/expectation/likes and dislikes/agreements and disagreements, and etc (as they are, or distorted/corrupted/not as they are).

Just like a stream of continuous motion movie (film or digital) is manifested under a continuous stream of countless different individual images or pixels. Each image or pixel is a different image or pixel.

Just like each sunset is a different sunset, there is never the same sunset, even though they might appear to be the same. 

The sensations are impermanent.

The thoughts, the feelings, and the emotions are impermanent.

The state of mind is impermanent.

The physical internal and external condition and appearance is impermanent. 

The strength, the flexibility, the stamina, and the ability and disability are impermanent.

The limitation and condition is impermanent. 

The surrounding environment is impermanent.

The life existence is impermanent.

Allow all kinds of impermanent changes to be there, as they are.

 

Let go all kinds of identifications under different qualities of different names and forms.

All kinds of identifications are not you.

All kinds of qualities are not you. 

You are not all these names and forms.

They are not what (you think) you are.

They don't belong to you, and you don't belong to them. 

 

What is your given name or your family name is not important, although the existence of the many different names for addressing the many different individuals and things is merely existing for the purpose of convenience of having the specific names to address someone or something in this world of many diversities, or else there will be many confusion or misunderstanding arise in all kinds of communication and interaction in everyday life.

Whether other people remember you or your name, or not, is not important.

Whether other people pronounce your name correctly, or not, is not important.

Whether other people call and address you by your name with certain title in a specific way, or not, is not important.

Similarly,

What you recognize, identify, and think is your background, belief, values, and practice, is not important. 

What you do or don't do in life, what you can do or cannot do, and what or who you think you are and you are not, is not important.

Not to say, 

How other people look at you, or how other people perceive or judge you, or how other people think and feel about you, is not important.

How other people behave, act, and react towards you, or treat you, is not important.

 

You have the freedom to be what you are.

Other people also have the freedom to be what they are.

Regardless of what is your given name and your family name,

Whether people remember and recognize you, or not, 

Whether people remember your name, or not,

Whether people pronounce your name correctly, or not,

Whether people call and address you by your name with certain title in a specific way, or not,

Whether people call and address you with many different kinds of names or labels with different meanings or qualities,

And, 

What you recognize, identify, and think is your background, belief, values, and practice, 

What you do or don't do in life,

What you can do or cannot do, 

What or who you think you are and you are not,

Not to say, 

How other people look at you, perceive and judge you, or think and feel about you,

And how people behave, act, and react towards you, or treat you,

It doesn't determine you,

It cannot affect or destroy the peace and freedom in you for being what you are, as you are.

 

More importantly, is what and how you choose to think, feel, reason, understand, desire, behave, act, and react towards yourself and other people, and all and everything in this world.

 

In the beginning,

You think and believe that the given name and the family name that you carry is highly important,

You think and believe that what you think and identify as what and who you are, as well as what you think and believe is where you belonged to and what belonged to you, are highly important,

You expect and desire other people to know you and your name, and remember you by your name,

To call and address you by your name correctly with certain title in a specific way, and not to call and address you with some other different names or labels with different meanings or qualities,

To acknowledge and appreciate you and your effort, achievement, and contribution,

To understand you, to agree with you, to praise and compliment you, to be attentive to you, to be kind to you, to be friendly to you, to be thoughtful of you, to be helpful to you, to be agreeable to you, to be respectful to you, to be true to you, to be faithful to you, to admire you, and to look up to you.

That's okay.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative. 

In the beginning,

You might be unwittingly thinking, feeling, reasoning, understanding, desiring, behaving, acting, and reacting under the influence of ignorance, being conditioned and influenced by the internal biological genetic traits inheritance and/or the external influential and conditioning influences and conditions.

You might be consciously and unconsciously reacting towards all and everything that you experience under the influence of ignorance, and generate all kinds of impurities wittingly or unwittingly reacting towards the names and forms that you like and dislike, agree and disagree with, desire and don't desire, feel pleased or annoyed, and enjoy or don't enjoy.

There are clinging, craving, passion, possessiveness, and greed towards the names and forms that you like, agree with, desire, feel pleased, and enjoy.

There are aversion, dissatisfaction, hatred, violence, vandalism, and destruction towards the names and forms that you don't like, don't agree with, don't desire, feel annoyed, and don't enjoy.

There are longing, clinging, admiration, disgust, jealousy, defensiveness, offensiveness, aggressiveness, bullying, manipulation, exploitation, sabotage, mischievousness, vengeance, bitterness, resentment, anger, ill will, superiority, inferiority, pride, arrogance, anticipation, imagination, anxiety, insecurity, fear, worry, disappointment, shame, guilt, regret, urge to control or over-power, and etc, reacting towards the presence or absence of certain names and forms or experiences that you like or dislike, agree or disagree with, desire or don't desire, feel pleased or annoyed, and enjoy or don't enjoy.

There are constant comparison, judgment, and expectation being generated towards oneself, and towards others and all and everything.

There are constant conflict, argument, justification, hypocrisy, story telling, or lies, within oneself, and towards others.

There are boundless desires waiting to be fulfilled or gratified.

There are endless ambitious personal and community aspirations waiting to be accomplished.

There is constant physical, mental, or emotional tension, fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout.

There are vain talk, boasting, scheming, slandering, gossiping, politicking, day-dreaming, wishful thinking, hopeful anticipation, and building castle in the air.

There are perishable momentary sense of goodness, righteousness, happiness, joyfulness, positiveness, success, and meaningfulness, that will also inevitably give rise to the sense of badness, wrongfulness, unhappiness, joylessness, negativeness, failure, and meaninglessness.

You are constantly acknowledging and telling yourself and others that you love all and everyone and everything very much, but you are also constantly generating ongoing hurtful possession/interference/plotting/politics/slandering/behavior/action/reaction unto all and everyone and everything that you think you love very much out of ungratified desires, pride and shame, superiority and inferiority, possessiveness, obsessiveness, selfishness, greed, discontentment, dissatisfaction, disappointment, jealousy, lust, insecurity, fear, anger, bitterness, resentment, vengeance, disturbance, hostility, animosity, offensiveness, defensiveness, or feelings of annoyed, irritated, humiliated, belittled, intimidated, hurt, and so on.

You are constantly longing for receiving ongoing acknowledgement, attention, love, support, encouragement, liking, agreement, recognition, praise, and compliment from all and everyone, to feel good, confident, happy, meaningful, powerful, and high self-esteem or high self-worth, or else, you will feel bad, not confident, unhappy, meaningless, powerless, and low self-esteem or low self-worth.

You constantly think and feel that you are in competition with all and everyone, with yourself, with your friends, with your parents, with your siblings, with your relatives, with the members of your community, with your partner/spouse/lover, with your children, or with your classmates/colleagues/co-workers/neighbours/teachers, and constantly feel inferior/envious/jealous towards (or feel disturbed, offended, intimidated, and belittled by) others who appeared to be more intelligent, or more knowledgeable, or more talented, or more skillful, or more successful, or more accomplished, or happier, or friendlier, or kinder, or stronger, or wiser, or even, more evil and cruel than you, and you would feel proud in oneself and more superior towards the others who appeared to be not as 'good', or not as 'evil' as yourself.

You constantly think and believe that you are the victim of the bad and wrongful behaviors or treatments of the others, and if you behave hurtfully unto yourself and others and the surrounding environment out of feelings of hurt, is because all those bad people and all those bad things that have been happening unto you, that you don't deserve.

You strongly think and believe that you are thinking, feeling, reasoning, understanding, desiring, behaving, acting, and reacting in certain way, is the respective effect of the existing inherited cause deriving from your genetic traits inheritance from your parental lineage, that you are born like that, that it is not your responsibility, and that you have no freewill to be free from all that no matter what and how, just because some biologists say so.

Out of self-righteousness, you are hurting all kinds of names and forms that you think and believe as bad and wrong based on your particular personal and community belief, values, and practice, while you think and believe that you are doing something good and right, and that you are doing all that as a favour, or service, or heroic act to all and everyone.

Most of the time, under the influence of ignorance, you are wittingly or unwittingly and intentionally or unintentionally hurting yourself and others and the surrounding environment.

You might be aware or unaware towards all THAT.

You might be wittingly or unwittingly being the slave of all THAT.

The presence and absence of all THAT, is affecting and determining you for what and how you perceive, think, feel, reason, understand, evaluate, desire, behave, act, and react towards yourself, others, and all and everything in this world.

There is neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative.

It doesn't mean that you are bad, or evil, or sinful, or bound by bad karma. You are not any of that.

It doesn't mean that you deserve all kinds of ill treatment, bad happening, punishment, cruelty, bullying, or painful suffering. You don't deserve any of that.

 

All THAT are not what or who you are.

They are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, 

They are not you or part of you, and they don't belong to you.

Regardless of how bad, evil, sinful, or bad karma that other people tell you that you are or have been, or that you yourself think and believe that you are or have been, you can be free and have peace.

None can take away or destroy the wisdom and compassion, or the freedom and peace that is always there in you. 

You can stop hurting yourself and others and the surrounding environment, if you want, and only if you want.

Wisdom and compassion, or freedom and peace, is always there in you and in all and everyone, never increase or decrease, regardless of what you think you and everyone are, or no matter how good and right or how bad and wrong that you think you and everyone are.

It is merely the presence of impurities and restlessness and egoism and the idea of 'I'/the ego, that is absolutely possible to be eliminated from your selfless modifications or the selfless mind stuff, that doesn't belong to you, that are not you, where even what you think is you, also doesn't belong to you, and that is what hindering you from realizing all that within you.

There is needless of guilt, or shame, or regret, or repent, or punishment towards all THAT.

Guilt, or shame, or regret, or repent, or punishment, cannot undo or erase the past and the effect or impact of the actions/causes being generated. Let it go.

All kinds of past pleasant and unpleasant, agreeable and disagreeable, desirable and undesirable, enjoyable and non-enjoyable, or easy and difficult experiences/conditions/situations/affairs/relationships/interactions, what you have been doing and didn't do, what you could do and couldn't do, what you have and didn't have, how you behaved, acted, and reacted, what you achieved and didn't achieve, what you think and believe is good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, meaningful and meaningless, joyfulness and joylessness, perfect and imperfect, or deserving and non-deserving, and all your accumulated memory remembering towards all your learning, understanding, knowledge, accomplishment and non-accomplishment, success and failure, gain and loss, possession, identity, inherited and adopted belief, values, and practices, and all kinds of ties and connections, backgrounds and lineages, are not important.

They are not you, or part of you, and they don't belong to you.

What matters, is your action/desire/intention/understanding, in NOW.

 

You don't need to know about all the others and all and everything in this world.

You just need to know yourself. 

It is merely because you haven't know yourself, or understand about yourself, and hence, you don't know the others, and don't understand about the others, or you don't know and don't understand about all and everything internally and externally in this world of names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that don't belong to anyone or anything, that don't even belong to the names and forms themselves.

It is merely because you have been unwittingly being conditioned and influenced by the worldly egoistic impure restless thinking, ideas, beliefs, desires, aspirations, values, and practices, to think, to believe, to feel, to reason, to understand, to desire, to aspire, to evaluate, to behave, to act, and to react in certain way and not in certain way.

It is merely because you have been told/conditioned by everyone from everywhere since birth, about not only that you need to be aggressive and possessive and ambitious and powerful, but that you also need to be more aggressive and possessive and ambitious and powerful than all and everyone else, to over-power all the others, in order to survive.

Nope. You don't have to.

Even the most powerful, or the strongest, or the most energetic, or the most intelligent, knowledgeable, experienced, skillful, and talented, or the most influential human beings, or living organisms, or non-living objects in the world, also cannot defy or escape the selfless impermanent changes of decay, weakness, illness/disease/damage/injury, fragility, malfunctioning, inevitable limitation and condition, ceased functioning, ceased existing, or disintegration and decomposition, or death, under the influence of the nature's law of cause and effect.

One can be using the power, or strength, or energy, or intelligence/knowledge/experience/skill/talent, or influence that is available to oneself to be doing something that give rise to constructive or destructive impact unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment during one's momentary mortal existence and function, depending on whether the mind is functioning under the absence or presence of ignorance.

More importantly, 

One can be using the power, or strength, or energy, or intelligence/knowledge/experience/skill/talent, or influence that is available to oneself to be helping oneself and all the others that are less power, less strength, less energy, less intelligent, less knowledgeable, less experienced, less skillful, less talented, less influence, or less opportunity than oneself, to improve, to evolve towards clarity and correct understanding, or peace and freedom.

 

None can tell you or advice you to let go all THAT.

None can tell you or advice you about what and how you should and shouldn't think, or believe, or feel, or understand, or desire, or behave, or act, or react.

Not even the buddhas, or the gurus, or the yoga teachers, not to say, the elders, the parents, the friends, or the leaders of any kind.

But, only yourself.

You can.

You have the will and effort to let go all THAT.

As long as you have the selfless functions of perception/cognition/intellect/emotion/memory under the presence of selfless conscious awareness being aware of all these, and you have the perception or experience of enjoyment and suffering, happiness and unhappiness, and the presence of doubts and unknown, and as long as you have the desire to know, to understand, to be free, to have peace,

You have the selfless conscious choice making (conscious freewill) to choose and act responsibly for yourself and others (self-awareness and self-control) and you have the intentionless indiscriminate influential power of conscious awareness to be perceiving, experiencing, learning, reasoning, inquiring, knowing, understanding, and remembering what you know and understand, that can influence what and how you live life, maintain life, think, feel, reason, understand, desire, interact, behave, act, and react.

All and everything that you need, all the dharma, all the teachings, all the guidance, all the tools, or all the knowledge, that can help you, that can liberate you, that most probably you don't even know what you need, are all within you.

You are your own one and only teacher. You are the dhamma. You are the teachings. You are the guidance. You are the tools. You are the knowledge. You are the truth seeker. You are the realization. You are the peace. You are the freedom. You are the wisdom. You are the compassion. You are the answer to all your doubts.

You are not even whatever you think you are. Whatever you think and acknowledge as 'this' and 'not that', are all merely momentary qualities of names and forms that are selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, that don't even belong to the names and forms themselves. You don't and can't exist or function if without the selfless support of the selfless energy and the countless different selfless elements that all work together selflessly that give rise to the existence and function of you, the selfless impermanent limited conditional non-self perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty being part of the many different selfless mechanisms of the mortal physical body that is selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self.

You don't even belong to you.

What you (the thinking) think is you (the idea of 'I'/self acknowledging) are merely part of the selfless impermanent limited conditional non-self selfless manifestation of thought process and memory/imprint under the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements.

Without the selfless support of the selfless energy and the many selfless elements/systems/components that all work together selflessly and intentionlessly that enabling you to be existing and functioning as what you are, you don't exist. What are you? Who are you? You are nothing.

Beyond the limited and conditional mortal existence and function of the selfless impermanent body and mind,

Beyond the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mechanisms of the mind stuff, the conscious mind awareness that can be present or absence (the different state of consciousness/semi-consciousness/unconsciousness), the perception of names and forms, the perceiver that perceives inputs, the thought processor that processes inputs/information/experience/names and forms, the action performer that generates/delivers reflexes/responses/outputs/actions/reactions, the senses and the organs of the senses, the organs of action, the cognition, the memory storage/the accumulation of learning and experience and knowledge/the imprint of perception/experience/names and forms/thought process/inputs and outputs, the intellect, the reasoning/discrimination/understanding, the emotion, the sensation, the thinking or the thought process/activity/current, the conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious actions and reactions, the fruit/effect/consequences of action and reaction, the internal genetic traits inheritance, the external influential conditions, the ties and connections, the ongoing experiences and interactions, the personal and collective affairs/events, the wakeful conscious state, the semi-awake/sleep/conscious or dream state, the deep sleep or unconscious/coma state, the purity or impurity/restlessness or calmness/known or unknown/correct understanding or incorrect understanding/selfishness or unselfishness in the modification of the mind, of what you think and acknowledge is you, or part of you, or that belongs to you,

Is the all pervading timeless attributeless selfless universal consciousness that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, that is unlimited and unconditional (independent and permanent), devoid of 'birth and death or changes and decay', 'quality', 'name and form', 'thinking/thought', 'action/reaction', not to say, 'acknowledgement', 'attachment', 'identification', 'self-ness', 'I-ness', 'mine-ness', 'internal and external', 'discrimination', 'condition', 'judgment', 'myself and not myself or others', 'agreeable and disagreeable', 'desirable and undesirable', 'positive and negative', 'meaningful and meaningless', 'good and bad', 'right and wrong', 'perfection and imperfection', 'healthiness and unhealthiness', 'heaven and hell', 'past and future', or 'enjoyment and suffering' (that are all MERELY part of the momentary selfless manifestation within the selfless modification of the selfless mind), that pervades the entire space within and without all and everything, that hosts all kinds of selfless manifestations of you and all and everything that are all momentary, selfless, impermanent, limited, conditional, and non-self, to be momentarily existing/functioning/being what you and all and everything are/changing/decaying/disintegrating/ceased existing.

Keep practicing, keep going until you know yourself and understand about yourself, and then, you will also know and understand about all the others, and all and everything in this world that you perceive or experience. It is okay that you don't know many things, that you don't know everything. What you don't perceive or experience, is unknown to you, and that's okay.

It is to know all and everything that you perceive and experience of what you know, as what they are, as they are, under clarity, under the absence of impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I', or the ego, not being influenced or contaminated by all kinds of worldly egoistic impure restless thinking, ideas, beliefs, values, desires, aspirations, and practices.

The more you understand, the less disturbed you are.

The less disturbed you are, the more you understand.

And more importantly,

It is okay,

If after you exert continuous effort and would like to be able to let go all THAT, but somehow, you are aware of you still can't let go all THAT.

You are aware of you are unwell, unsettled, disturbed, confused, hurt, insecured, restless, exhausted, in doubt, in painful sorrow, in suffering, lost, or in need of help and guidance.

The presence of the precious selfless conscious awareness of being aware of you (a.k.a. the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mind stuff, or the conscious perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind) can't let go even if you have tried your best, but without judging or punishing yourself, is indicating the presence of the precious correct understanding and non-grasping, or the presence of wisdom and compassion, and that is already a great liberation.

The presence of non-grasping is more relevant than the complete annihilation of all THAT, or the state of absolute Silence/Samadhi.

While without attachment or expectation, the persist presence of non-grasping will eventually and naturally/effortlessly lead towards the annihilation of all THAT, without forcing, without struggling, without violence, without controlling.

And it's okay, if the mind still can't let go certain things, or still haven't attained direct self realization, or still have doubts at the end of life existence, but having the conscious awareness being aware of all that without grasping, without attachment, without identification, without judgment, without expectation. That is already served the purpose of the entire effort of practice. It really doesn't matter.

What matter is, before the selfless impermanent momentary life existence come to an end, when the selfless body and mind still have the energetic energy and endless possibility to be performing certain actions/activities via the selfless organs of action and expression, under specific conscious intention/aspiration and/or under random intentionless instinctive urge, that can impact all and everyone and everything in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, either destructively or constructively, that are being performed under the presence or absence of impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I', a.k.a. the veil of ignorance.

That is why it is so highly important for activating the conscious mind purification and silencing process, or the conscious mind evolution, to thin-out and eliminate impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I' or the ego from the selfless modification of the mind or the selfless mind stuff, even if it is selfless, impermanent, and momentary, because there are so much damage can be done via the selfless organs of action and expression during the short duration of the momentary existence and function of a selfless mind that is functioning under the influence of ignorance, that can impact all and everyone and everything for a prolonged extended duration, even after the ceased functioning and ceased existence of the momentary selfless body and mind.

So that the mind stops hurting itself and others and the surrounding environment out of disturbance/suffering/all kinds of impurities in the selfless modification of the mind under the influence of ignorance during its momentary selfless impermanent limited and conditional existence and function in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

So that the mind can make use of the existing knowledge, understanding, talent, skill, experience, ability, and opportunity to be doing something beneficial for oneself and all and everyone and everything in this world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything, under the presence of the selfless wisdom and compassion, or peace and freedom, devoid of ignorance a.k.a. impurities, restlessness, egoism, and the idea of 'I'.

Never give up.

You can understand, if you want.

You don't have to become like the many other minds that don't understand, that are confused, that are being determined, influenced, and disturbed by all and everything that they come in contact with/perceive/experience, that are wittingly or unwittingly hurting all and everyone and everything out of the disturbed, disappointed, discontented, confused, violent, restless, insecured, exhausted, desperate, painful, prideful, and suffering state of mind.

It's okay, if you don't, and can't (fully) understand, in NOW.

This is also impermanent.

Just keep letting go, until there is nothing there that need to let go.

No judgment. No expectation.

Purify. Meditate. Inquire. Realize.

Even the most restless impure suffering minds also can realize peace and freedom that is always there in them, if they want, and only if they want (the indication of the presence of conscious mind awareness that is essential for activating the conscious mind evolution).

Peace and freedom, or wisdom and compassion, or liberation from ignorance and suffering, are irrelevant and don't exist, upon the ceased functioning and ceased existence of the selfless impermanent limited and conditional mortal body and mind. All that are only relevant and exist along with the selfless impermanent limited and conditional momentary existence and function of the mortal body and mind.

Inquire the truth of everything.

The selfless thinking faculty is merely a function of the selfless impermanent physical body

Whatever and whenever there's a 'thinking', or a 'thought', or an 'idea' arises in the mind, thinking and believing and identifying as "I am this or that" and "I am not this or that", it's merely part of the selfless function of the selfless thinking faculty being part of the selfless function of the selfless physical body.

That's why no matter what the thinking faculty thinks and believes and identifies as 'I', or "This is I" and "This is not I", it's incorrect.

That's why in the traditional lineage of zen meditation, the teacher will 'spank' the students regardless of what the student answers or doesn't answer, thinks or doesn't think, believes or doesn't believe, identifies or doesn't identify with something or anything, upon being asked, "Who 'am' I?".

If the self-inquiry or investigation towards "Who 'am' I?" is being replaced with "What 'is' I?", or even more precise, "What is the 'I' that the mind thinks and believes and identifies as 'I' and 'not I', or doesn't think and believe and identify as 'I' and 'not I'?", the mind would be having a clearer approach towards the self-inquiry towards selflessness or 'I'lessness.

There is no 'I' existing to be answering or not answering, to be thinking or not thinking, to be believing or not believing, to be identifying or not identifying with something or anything, including nothing. Such as there's no "I am selfless" if it's something selfless.

More importantly, selflessness without a permanent independent existence of 'I' in the body and mind or in any organism and objects, doesn't mean that the selfless impermanent life existence of a selfless impermanent physical body with the selfless impermanent function of the selfless thinking faculty doesn't exist. It doesn't mean that all these that the selfless thinking faculty is perceiving now, doesn't exist. Neither past nor future, as well as 'all these are not real', also doesn't mean that all these that is happening now in the present moment doesn't exist. But all and everything are existing, changing and ceased existing in this present moment, selflessly and impermanently.

The one that answers or doesn't answer, thinks and doesn't think, believes and doesn't believe, identifies and doesn't identify with something or anything, it's merely the selfless function of a selfless thinking faculty being part of the selfless impermanent existence and function of the selfless impermanent physical body.

Under the presence of the idea of 'I' under the influence of the veil of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, being conditioned by worldly passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice to be reasoning and understanding everything, the mind couldn't grasp or comprehend towards selflessness.

Many thousand years ago, when 'scientific research' wasn't a common thing in the world, even though science is 'the truth of what things are', that exists forever, regardless of whether human beings know or don't know about what things are, while 'technology' hasn't been well developed yet, where self-inquiry and self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence was being seen as something 'mystical' and yet 'insane' and 'impossible' for most minds that are functioning under the idea of 'I' under the veil of ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

All minds that had attained self-realization via self-inquiry and meditation under a calmed and purified modification of the mind towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence in all kinds of names and forms, especially in the complex function of the selfless impermanent physical body that comes with the complex function of the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting faculty, are all great scientists of the world, even without the help of advanced technology to be performing detailed research onto the formation and function of the mortal selfless impermanent physical body, where they know what many minds don't know, where their way of thinking, reasoning, understanding, desire, behavior, action and reaction are being different from most minds that are still functioning under the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, where they are resting in unconditional peace while most minds that are under the influence of ignorance are struggling and drowning in different kinds of suffering, or some minds are even 'enjoying' in generating many kinds of suffering into the world out of ignorance.

However, even though there are many advanced technologies in this era, to be looking into the complex formation and function of the physical body and the thinking faculty, the many highly intelligent and knowledgeable minds that are interested in science or scientific research might still be encountering difficulty towards knowing or comprehending selflessness, as the minds are deeply being ingrained with and conditioned by the worldly passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice that based on the idea of 'I'.

It's not that difficult for the minds to experience, see, know and understand towards the truth of impermanence in all and everything, however, it's a great challenge and even impossible for the mind to experience, see, know and understand the truth of selflessness. That's why the importance of the observation of silence, dispassion and renunciation in seclusion and solitude for activating the mind purification process to free the mind from being conditioned or influenced by worldly passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice based on the idea of 'I', to inquire, investigate, reason and understand everything, as it is.

The idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, is the root cause of all kinds of humanity problems and behavior problems in the world, that give rise to many kinds of unnecessary painful sorrow and suffering deriving from the existence of corruption, incorrect reasoning and understanding, selfishness, possessiveness, separateness, greed, fear, discrimination, hatred, oppression, conflict, fighting, bullying and violence in the world of many diversities that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

Just as Swami Sivananda mentioned in his teachings while being a medical doctor himself, "One can cut open the body, and still couldn't find, see or know the mind."

Buddhism, yoga, self-inquiry and meditation, as well as selflessness and impermanence, timelessness and non-separateness, are science.

It's not a belief. It's not a religion. It's not a culture. It's not a ritual. It's not something mystical or untouchable.

It's definitely not just a physical and mental health and beauty and fitness exercise, although it can be, if without dispassion and the renunciation from worldly passionate egoistic thinking, belief, values and practice, and without working on the annihilation of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness.

The teachings and practice exists as the selfless guidance and tools for the minds to help and guide itself towards the attainment of self-realization towards the truth of selflessness and impermanence, and thus, be free from the unnecessary suffering deriving from being ignorant towards "Who am I?" or "What is I?", as well as be free from generating hurtful damaging behavior, action and reaction, either wittingly or unwittingly, directly or indirectly, that hurt itself and others and the surrounding environment out of the ignorant selfish disturbed dissatisfied fearful desireful suffering restless states of mind, under the influence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities and restlessness, during its momentary selfless existence and function in this world of selfless impermanent names and forms.

Inquire towards the truth of everything, including all the teachings of yoga and buddhism that the mind comes in contact with, including all that is here.

Yoga classes for self-inquiry and self-realization

"What type of yoga do you teach?"

This is the most common question.

Just by saying, "It's about yoga," it doesn't answer the minds, "I know it's about yoga, but what I want to know is what type of yoga classes?"

The yoga classes are for the minds that are genuinely interested in learning, studying and practicing the essential teachings of yoga and vedanta for self-inquiry and self-realization, and it doesn't necessarily has to be in a yoga school, or a yoga studio, or a yoga hall, in a yoga class. It's happening anywhere, at any time, in the selfless modification of the mind.

Even though yoga is for all minds indiscriminately to be free from ignorance and the suffering deriving from ignorance, to stop generating hurtful damaging actions/reactions and consequences of actions/reactions unto oneself and others and the surrounding environment ignorantly, however, not all minds would be interested in the yoga practice for self-inquiry and self-realization. It's also useless to the minds that are completely lost without certain degrees of sanity, that don't have any reasoning power. That's why it's never too late to help oneself when it's still possible, but also don't wait until it's too late when one couldn't help oneself at all.

It could be quite unpleasant, disagreeing, and even offensive, disturbing and annoying, especially for the minds that have intense attachment and identification and pride towards the idea of 'I' and egoism, as well as towards their particular worldly egoistic beliefs, ideas, values, desires, expectations and practices.

This is not a discrimination at all, but it's merely compassion, to be avoiding the suffering minds generate further unnecessary disturbance in themselves and unto the surrounding environment.

There are many yoga classes in the world catering for these minds to be developing the basic awareness and understanding, before the initiation onto the path of self-inquiry and self-realization. There are quite many 'certified yoga teachers' who have been practicing and teaching certain type and style of yoga for many years are also not ready for the path of self-inquiry and self-realization.

As those who are ready for the path of self-inquiry and self-realization, there's no such thing as 'yoga teacher training certification' or 'internationally recognition authorized by international yoga alliance'.

That's why many silent meditation retreat courses are very serious on the background check for any existing mental health issue and intoxication addiction, where those who have serious mental health issue or addiction towards certain kind of intoxication, are not allowed to be attending such courses, that involve deep mind purification process that are quite unpleasant, disturbing or painful to the minds.

And hence, it would be more suitable for the minds that have certain degrees of awareness towards the existence of ignorance in themselves, and have certain degrees of yearning towards attaining liberation from ignorance, that are willingly to open their mind to be receiving the teachings of yoga and vendanta.

It can be helpful, even though there's no guarantee, for the minds that are suffering from certain mental and emotional disturbance, but are being confused or don't really understand what is happening in the mind, while still have certain degrees of awareness being aware of all that, and have certain degrees of will power of wanting to be free from all kinds of suffering or disturbance, to take full responsibility towards looking after the over-all physical and mental well-being of oneself, to realize unconditional peace and happiness out of one's freewill and self-effort, in this precious momentary selfless impermanent life existence.

There's no guarantee that all minds that are interested in the path of yoga for self-inquiry and self-realization would be free from the veil of ignorance, as it depends solely on the causation and effort of the mind itself.

When the selfless mind is 'stuck' or 'lost' somewhere in the selfless restless modification of the mind, it has to depend on itself to find its way to come out from that.

That's why the minds that understand, "I want to try, and I will do my best, even if I don't achieve success, and that's okay," under certain degrees of mental and emotional maturity or independence, they can walk alone on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization.

The path is all alone, even if there are many others are walking on the same path. All kinds of guidance and teachers that are available for the mind in the present moment now, are all impermanent. The only teacher, teachings and practice that is with the mind throughout the entire path, is itself.

In this present moment, as the selfless mind is coming in contact with all these here, upon how the selfless mind perceives, reacts, reasons, understands and realizes, either with or without attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, judgment and expectation, is indeed the yoga class, the teachings and the practice.

The minds that are free from ignorance and suffering, they don't need all these. They don't need the teachings and practice of yoga and vedanta for self-inquiry and self-realization.

Inquire the truth of everything.

Mind purification in Yoga and Buddhism

The teachings and practice of Yoga and Buddhism is about liberation from the inevitable suffering of an impermanent and selfless worldly life existence deriving from the conditional and limited existence and function of a selfless impermanent physical body along with the ignorant egoistic impure restless modification of the perceptive and cognitive intellectual egoistic thinking mind, where the vanish of the idea of 'I', or the ego, or the delusive existence of an individual being, upon the absence of attachment and desire, or the annihilation of the restless modification of the selfless mind, where the realization of selflessness/'I'lessness/egolessness/birthlessness/deathlessness/oneness/attributelessness/namelessness/formlessness takes place, is the aim of the Yoga and Buddhism practice.

All forms of practice in Yoga and Buddhism is nothing but mind purification, or silencing the selfless and restless modification of the mind. It's not about the mind having only pure, good and positive thoughts or thinking, or void of impure, bad and negative thoughts or thinking. It's not about changing the perceived world to be all pure, good and positive, and nothing impure, bad and negative. It's definitely not about performing rituals and sacrifices to be accumulating merits and virtues to receive 'blessing' and be qualified to 'migrate' to a place called 'heaven'.

All the perceived names and forms, or the thinking, or the thought activities, or the perceived world of enjoyment and suffering, are just what they are, neither pure nor impure, neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative. And both the perceiver and the perceived are impermanent and selfless.

Mind purification is indeed the entire process of the practice and it comes to an end upon the complete annihilation of the mind.

It's about freeing the mind from ignorance and egoism that give rise to restless modification of the mind, which hinders the cognitive mind from knowing Thyself, where the modification of the perceptive mind give rise to a selfless impermanent worldly life existence consisting of the idea of 'I' and everything that 'I' perceive, think and know, which generates duality and separateness that gives rise to all sorts of suffering, where all THESE are nothing but selfless impermanent changes of names and forms ceaselessly arising and passing away within the modification of the mind, in NOW.

There's no 'I', or the existence of an individual being. There is neither a past nor a future. It's merely impermanent selfless changes powered by the law of nature, cause and effect. Past and future only exists within the modification of the mind as memories and imaginations in the form of thinking or thought activities.

Countless thoughts/sensations/feelings are arising and passing away, or ceaseless 'births' and 'deaths' are happening selflessly, within the modification of the mind, in NOW. The perception of 'enjoyment' and 'suffering' is within the modification of the mind, in NOW. The selfless modification of the mind gives rise to countless worlds of pleasant enjoyment and painful suffering. There's no world upon the annihilation of the mind.

All forms of longing, clinging, disappointment, dissatisfaction, anger, hatred, greed, hurt, guilt, regret, grief, painful sorrow, fear and worry vanished upon the direct realization of THIS.

Craving and clinging towards enjoyment, and desiring to create permanent enjoyment in this life existence, is not freedom. Aversion and rejecting towards suffering, and desiring to escape inevitable suffering within this conditional and limited impermanent and selfless life existence, is not freedom.

Free from attachment and desire of craving and aversion, going beyond the mind perception of enjoyment and suffering in this fleeting worldly life existence of an impermanent and selfless body and mind that needs constant restless maintenance, that is limited and conditioned by the law of nature, that is inevitably bound by the physical and mental suffering of restlessness of impermanent selfless changes, that is subject to decay, old age, illness and disintegration even after all the restless maintenance to be surviving, and eventually annihilating the mind, is freedom, in NOW.

Freeing the mind from egoistic attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, judgment, comparison and expectation, which leads to removing the veil of ignorance and thinning out the modification of the mind, allowing the mind seeing the truth of itself, or knowing Thyself, as it is, which is Impermanent and Selfless.

"Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form. Form is not different from emptiness. Emptiness is not different from form." - The teachings of Buddhism

"On the whole, life is a sorrow." - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

"There's only one book to read - This heart." - Ajahn Chah

"Brahman is real. The world is unreal." - The teachings of Yoga Vedanta

"Sarvam Duhkham Vivekinah - All indeed is pain to a person of discrimination." - Patanjali Maharshi

"Kill the mind." - Swami Sivananda

Contemplate on the teachings.