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Show Me Where Your Boundary Is - 7th January 2018

January 7, 20183:1539 views

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Ananta guides seekers to recognize themselves as the boundless space in which all thoughts and feelings appear, rather than identifying with the transient 'black dots' of mental content.

Show me where your boundaries are. There are no boundaries except for thoughts.
You are that space in which a gazillion feelings can come and go and not touch you.
We don't recognize the space; we only recognize that which is moving.

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Transcript

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Ananta

Okay, let's do something simple. All of us, show me where your boundary is. Show me where your boundary is.

Seeker

No boundaries, except of thoughts.

Ananta

Yes, that's what I'm saying. And the thought is not a real boundary; it's a pretense. And except of some feelings, but it's the same as thoughts. We can say even a feeling uninterpreted is no trouble, is no boundary. You need the interpretation that 'this should not be' or 'this is what I am'—some interpretation from, again, the mind itself. You are that space in which gazillion feelings can come and go and they would not touch you.

Ananta

Also, if you know this example which I take: there's a big white wall and I make a small black dot on it, and I ask all of you, 'What do you see?' 99.9% of you will say, 'I see a black dot.' Very few will say, 'A big white wall.' Why? Because we don't recognize the space; we only recognize that which is moving. This feeling—what is the space in which the feeling is coming? I promise you that if I put million more feelings just like that, that space will remain untouched. And this is what we are going to check for ourselves, come to this insight for ourselves. Like I said in the beginning, don't believe anything I'm saying; check for yourselves.

Ananta

And ask also: if the space in which that feeling is there, is it not the same space where this voice is there? In space, is there the separation between me and you? Is there a boundary?

The Thread Continues

These satsangs touch the same silence.