What Does the Term 'Boundary' Mean? - 27th October 2017

So he says, what is the term boundary and what does it mean? Now, what is the constituent? So the limited identity that most of us seem to carry enough to say is what we do. So where do you actually end? At the body? But what is our actual experience of this? How are you experiencing your body now? Smoothing them out, the body experience you have, the visual perspective, the sensation which seem to define the boundary. So there's a visual perception and there are theorizing sensations. Now this visual perception and these sensations, where are they being experienced? Very closely, there's no rush. So what is the boundary of that in which the visual is there, this sound is there, and the sensation of the body are there? I know it can sound like a strange question. Just play with me for a bit and see that what I'm saying, these words are heard at that same space. The sensations of the body are felt in the same. All these visuals are also experienced in the same space. One would call it like the screen of consciousness, but we don't have to worry about even those words. Where is all of this being experienced now?

Mind said that this is my boundary and the walls which I'm hearing, which is impossible, is coming from outside of me because this is my boundary. For a minute, we are dropping that, like a child who doesn't know whether this hand is the toy or the toy is the devotion. We don't have, we end up, we are not picking up the idea that this is my boundary and we're just going to go with her inside about where all of this is being experienced irrespective of whether the mind is defining. So although it is very radical, if there is so that which we have taken as the valid voice for the me, that is what we are questioning now, which is the mind itself and its presumptions. So now if you don't just blindly follow what the mind is saying, you say, 'Okay, Mr. Mind, this is what you are saying, but let me check this for myself.' Then do you find that the sensation of the body which seem to define your boundary is actually happening in the boundless space of you? It is not a physical experience, but we just have to use it. So we say, 'the boundless space of you.' Are you like the water which is contained inside the glass? And suppose the boundary of the glass had some sensations. So are you experiencing it like the water within the glass experiencing the boundaries outside of yourself at your edge? Or are these boundaries also contained within that same space of existence where this voice is heard, the traffic is heard, where any experience is?

So what is experience? What you experience when it is mixed up to the mind, then it seems to define a boundary thing. But in the experience itself, do you find any boundary to you? And look at where is that? It seems to be perceived as a boundary. Where is that contained? So boundary means what? That there is a drop which is separate from the ocean. This is this type of drop of water which is contained in the ocean and that drop will have a particular negative comment. But here we're just checking because really, are we this drop itself? Are we that ocean which contains all of these experiences of that which we have called previously 'me' and 'another', 'inside' and 'outside'? Where is all of that? Where is this body sitting in front of you? Where is that experience? That's within. The sound is experienced within. Everything is experienced within. Again, we are not yet talking about what that 'within' is, but in that same space where all the objects of perception are experienced, in the same space even this seeming sensation of the body is experienced now.

This is not a persistent thing. Now, a part of the boundary, for example, I have ears, but you would not even aware of your ears till I pointed them out, you see? In that moment, there is no perception of it. One of my teachers used to say we feel like the body is defining us, but you like, you hear, you won't even know that you have a hair. So it is the sensations which seem to have been created as a definition for a 'me', but actually all of these are sensations within me. Now, any good that we walk together so far itself is very, very good. So what do we see? I exist unsupported, effortlessly, naturally. Existence is here no matter what the experience might be. I just am. The one that has all the suffering, all the problems, I look for that one, but at least so far I don't find a tangible entity that I can say that one is this. And I notice also that all that I perceive, which is like a perception or a sensation, is within the same existence that is here effortlessly, unsupported, you.