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"Exposing" In Satsang

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Ananta explains that exposing one's mental constructs in satsang is meant to reveal their absurdity and drain them of belief, rather than serving as an excuse to indulge in or reinforce them.

Exposing in satsang drains the belief out of the mind's absurd representations.
As consciousness, you can let go of anything, despite what the mind says.
Do not use the act of exposing as a refuge for your egoic tendencies.

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Transcript

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Ananta

There's a big difference between when we say 'expose it in Satsang' and the excuse to just bind to the construct of what the mind is saying, just in the garb of exposing. To expose in Satsang implies that we take something which is so often believed that it becomes like a condition, that 'I cannot let go of it.' And all this is nonsense, of course. You as consciousness can let go of anything.

Ananta

But when you buy into this notion, then sometimes when it escapes from your mouth—especially in front of the Master and Sangha—then you yourself hear the absurdity of what you're saying, and the belief gets drained out of it. Because many times in the presence of Sangha, you notice that you are completely not what your mind is representing. So when you start exposing like that, do it for that reason, but don't make it a coin; don't make it a refuge for your 'bitch' [mind].

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These satsangs touch the same silence.