How Do You Say That 'You Are This Body'? - 7th January 2018

Name: How Do You Say That 'You Are This Body'? - 7th January 2018
Uploaded: 2018-01-07
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: Ananta explores the 'centrality of perspective' and why we identify as an object behind the eyes. Discover how the body is included in the non-phenomenal Self.

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Ananta challenges the identification with the body by pointing out that while perspective seems centralized behind the eyes, the true Self is the non-phenomenal container in which the body and all perceptions appear.

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The body is included in you; you are not an object contained within the body.

Is the feeling of being the body an energetic reality or just an interpretive perspective?

The centrality of perspective convinces us we are behind the eyes, yet we are the space containing it all.

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