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Is There Any Boundary to Existence? - 24th April 2017

April 24, 20175:1364 views

Saar (Essence)

Ananta guides seekers to recognize that all perceived boundaries and limitations are merely appearances within the vast, unlimited space of existence, urging them to look past the mind's self-centered definitions.

The mind always wants to grasp or protect, while presence is spacious and accompanied by peace.
All limitations are just appearances; check for yourself if you truly have a boundary.
The sense of a body's boundary is actually an experience occurring within your unlimited existence.

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Transcript

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Ananta

But with this, give you a question, which is: how do I distinguish between mind and intuition? And I shared that mind is always wanting something, wanting to grasp at something. It's a message; it's very... it's the 'book of this' or something special, or to protect itself. It's very self-centric. And the intuition is very spacious, accompanied by love and peace usually, particularly also being creative.

Ananta

It is to see that that which speaks to me as if I'm any limited entity, as if I have a boundary, is the mind. You having intuition, where it is not speaking as if it is endeavoring to limit identity. This one is which thinks that you don't have a boundary. We are one. All the limitations are just one appearance in the realm of appearance. What we do, which is not to take this as the base, but really ask for yourself: 'Do I have a boundary?' And that space where the sensations of the boundaries are appearing, that space of existence, does it have any boundary? Then your limitation, you see, what exists? You are that which exists, with recognition.

Ananta

And many of you might respond and say, 'But my experience points to that I am limited.' I'll just say: check a little more closely and see whether that which we are calling a limitation is also not part of your broader experience. For example, the boundary of your body: really, with a clue, is the sense of the boundary also an experience within the unlimited scale of experience? I am. Don't just... what the head says, 'No, no, my experience is not this.' It sounds very good, but it's not my experience. I know that our experience is the same. While that is being taken for a limitation, actually it is being experienced in unlimited existence, an unlimited scale of something.

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