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L'esprit n'a pas besoin d'être très intelligent pour accumuler et mémoriser des connaissances ou des informations sur telle ou telle chose. Le fait d'être très intelligent ne signifie pas nécessairement que l'esprit est sage, dépourvu d'ignorance, ou qu'il est paisible, dépourvu de souffrance. Le fait d'être plus intelligent que les autres esprits ne signifie pas nécessairement que l'esprit doit être plus savant que les autres esprits qui sont moins intelligents que lui, et vice versa. Bien que l'esprit puisse être très intelligent, il peut aussi avoir accumulé et mémorisé de vastes connaissances ou informations sur telle ou telle chose. La quantité de connaissances accumulées dans l'esprit ainsi que les différents degrés d'intelligence ne déterminent pas si l'esprit est sage/dépourvu d'ignorance ou non, ou si l'esprit est paisible/dépourvu de souffrance ou non. L'esprit qui fonctionne sous l'influence de l'ignoran...

L'indifférence et le non-attachement sont des pratiques essentielles du yoga et/ou du bouddhisme. L'indifférence et le non-attachement ne signifient pas que l'on n'aime personne. Au contraire, on aime tout le monde inconditionnellement tel qu'il est, sans l'influence de la passion, de la convoitise, du désir, de la possessivité, de l'égoïsme, de l'attachement, de l'identification, de l'envie, de l'aversion, de la comparaison, du jugement, de l'attente, des préférences et des aversions, des accords et des désaccords, ou de toute sorte d'impuretés, telles que l'insatisfaction, la déception, la blessure, la colère, la haine, la jalousie, le ressentiment, l'amertume, l'exploitation, la violence, l'orgueil et l'arrogance, et ainsi de suite. Il n'est pas nécessaire d'avoir, ou d'être dans une relation/des liens familiaux/un lien relationnel/une amitié avec qui que ce soit, ou d'avoir une interaction physi...

Les enseignements et pratiques essentiels du yoga et/ou du bouddhisme sont essentiellement axés sur la paix, qui consiste également à libérer l'esprit de la peur, ou du sentiment de séparation. Il ne s'agit jamais de semer et de renforcer la peur dans les esprits par toutes sortes de conditions autoritaires, de règles et de règlements, d'oppression, de menace, d'intimidation, de jugement, de punition, de violence, de chagrin douloureux et de souffrance. L'ignorance et l'idée du "je" donnent naissance au sentiment de séparation. La séparation engendre la peur. En réalisant le désintéressement et l'impermanence, en l'absence d'ignorance et de l'idée du "je", l'esprit qui est dépourvu du sentiment de séparation est dépourvu de peur. La paix est absente de la présence de la peur, ainsi que d'autres types d'impuretés et d'agitation. La paix est là telle qu'elle est en l'absence de peur, ainsi que d'autre...

The genuine yogi/buddhist, or the adept yoga/buddhism practitioner, or the selfless impermanent mind that has intense yearning towards liberation, inquires towards the truth of everything under a calm, quiet, purified, and open mind, including all the teachings of yoga as mentioned in the Scriptures or the Yoga/Buddhism Sutras, being commentated or interpreted by anyone, of many different Gurus or teachers under different lineages from different timings, without blind-believing, blind-following, blind-agreeing, blind-worshiping, blind-practicing, or blind-propagating. To inquire towards the all-pervading selfless universal consciousness as mentioned in the teachings of yoga, the mind can inquire towards the selfless impermanent limited existence of the limited conditional physical body with the perceptive thinking mind, that cannot exist or function independently by itself, where it needs to depend on many different selfless elements and selfless energy to be supporting its selfless im...

Liberation, or freedom, is all in the mind. The limited conditional physical body is inevitably not free, being limited and restricted by time (impermanent changes), space (can only be at one place at a time), and causation (cause and effect). That cannot be modified. It is what it is. The mind also 'can appear to be' not free, being limited and restricted by ignorance, egoism and impurities, as well as being conditioned and limited by certain worldly egoistic conditional thinking, belief/disbelief, ideas, values, and practice, and hence, it is being limited by time (impermanent changes of restless thoughts activities), space (the mind perception of a selfless impermanent worldly life existence under a limited physical body is limited by space, on top of being determined by past memories and future wild imaginations), and causation (cause and effect, being supported and influenced by energy to be existing and functioning), however, all that can be transcended, where the thinkin...

Self-inquiry is about inquiring or investigating towards what is the 'I' that 'the thinking' in the mind that thinks and believes as the 'existence' of a permanent independent non-decaying unchanging immortal infinite 'I' or self/individual/being/entity/identity that 'exists' in this physical body and mind, that has been under going ceaseless rounds and rounds of 'reincarnation', or 'rebirth', or 'transitioning' in countless different mortal impermanent names and forms that are subject to decay, changes, and disintegration, or 'death', that inevitably leads to another 'birth', endlessly and restlessly. It's about inquiring or investigating towards what the thinking mind is about, or what is the selfless impermanent function or the restless modification of the perceptive, cognitive, assertive, intellectual, emotional, reasoning, understanding, remembering, learning, experimenting, knowing, thinking, desi...

If all kinds of random impure egoistic thought activities in all the minds in this world are being exposed as they are, one will see that there's very little or even no truthfulness in all kinds of worldly ties and connections, social relationships and interactions, worldly affairs, dealings, and activities, except in silence, devoid of selfless restless modification of the mind, or when the mind is free from the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism, impurities, and restlessness. Truthfulness is just what it is. Neither good nor bad. Neither hurtful nor non-hurtful. Similarly, what is going on in the mind, of all kinds of random impure restless thought activities/desires/actions/reactions/feelings/emotions/ideas/impurities/wild imaginations/subjective partial incomplete distorted memories of the past, is also neither good nor bad, neither hurtful nor non-hurtful. However, truthfulness appears to be something hurtful, disturbing, unpleasant, inappropriate, or something contributes...

To know what is non-attachment, it's easier for the mind to understand or know what is attachment. If there is a personal and group identity towards certain names and forms to be identifying as 'I' or 'us', if there is judgment, expectation and discrimination towards everyone and everything based on the existing thinking, belief/disbelief, ideas, values and practice in the mind, based on the different qualities, names and forms that all and everything have or possess, then that is attachment. If the mind will be pleased or displeased, satisfied or dissatisfied, and comforted or disturbed by something that it perceives or experiences in the present moment, not to say, something that it perceived or experienced in the past, then that is due to there is attachment towards the names and forms or experiences that the mind perceives(d) or experiences(d). If the mind is being determined by the presence and absence of something that it likes and dislikes, agrees and disagre...

The purity or cleanliness that matters in the path of yoga, is about the mental purity, where the thinking and acting faculty is free from the influence of the idea of 'I', ignorance, egoism and all kinds of impurities, of incorrect or corrupted thinking and understanding, attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, expectation, dissatisfaction, disappointment, restlessness, disturbance, hurt, bitterness, resentment, selfishness, self-righteousness, discontentment, greed, lust, jealousy, violence, ill-will, anger, hatred, vengeance, back-biting, slandering, prejudice, discrimination, separateness, superiority or inferiority, pride, arrogance, possessiveness, authoritarian, corruption, grief, sorrow, fault finding, blame, fear and worry, and so on.