Naturally, You're Just Effortlessly Existing - 20th February 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta exposes the false sense of separation by showing that all sensations, including the body and mind, appear within the same space of existence. He guides seekers to recognize themselves as the all-inclusive, unchanging awareness.
All of this confusion is just this misrepresentation of me.
Our existence has been taken to be something which is contained in those sensations we call the body.
The greatest aspect of yourself is this unchanging awareness.
contemplative
Transcript
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We're joking after the thing is to be left as long as you play the cat, the master has to... does this mean as long as you keep saying 'meow', the master has to come and ask? All of this confusion is just this, this misrepresentation of 'me'. And now some of you already see that it's strangely funny that you were taking just some perceptions, some sensations, and all the time referring to those as 'me'. It's strange, all of them appearing in the same space, their own existence, but this existence you have not taken to be what it truly is. You have taken it to be something that is contained in these sensations. It's so upside down that our existence has been taken to be something which is contained in those sensations that we call the body. Auto-hypnosis has been used.
Is it apparent to you now that all that we call this body, these sensations, are just appearing within the same space? When this one's in the period where all perceptions are here, and we've taken a few of these and said 'this is me' and 'this is outside', see? And this separation, this duality, is the primary conclusion, the primary cause of... let's go further. If you did not make this distinction, and let's go a step further away and say if you did not make any distinction, not even the distinction of world, body, mind... something which is immediate, do you depend on these distinctions for your existence? All these edges, constructs, all these edges, belief systems, interference of this plane... not the appearance of this realm, but the distinctions. It is constant without constant.
We've been discussing what is the body. You've taken a set of sensations and a set of perceptions and included that into one theoretical notion called 'body'. We've taken another set of sensations and perceptions and called that 'mind'. And then we have a super-notion called 'body-mind'. In just the appearance of all of this, there is no distinction. The only thing about distinction is that it leads to this false sense of separation. Something is treated as 'being' and something else gets treated as 'this'. This is duality, this is separation, which has never really happened.
So look around, actually look around without interpretation. Is there 'me' or 'another'? Is there any separation? You have a boundary?
My itch.
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Your itch? My itch, oh yes. Whose to me? Whose itch? It is, you see, this is the thing. I'm not saying that the itch will not appear. The sensation will still appear, you see? But is it built in the same space of existence? Is your itch appearing in a different space compared to where this voice is appearing? In the same space where this body is being perceived? So why do you call that sensation 'mine'? I know you're joking, but it's a good point. Why do we call that sensation 'mine' and this sensation outside of this voice 'another's voice'? How do you share it? Also in the same space, but one is 'my words', another is... and this is not natural to us. We have been taught this. As children, we have been taught this: 'this is you, this defines you, this is another'. Actually, you're just effortlessly existing, containing all things, containing all appearance.
But it appears to be another.
Without interpretation as 'another', I say look around without interpretation or the notion. You see all these qualitative appearances, but does this sense of 'me' and 'another' come without the notion? The sound is appearing, that hand is appearing, that hand is appearing. Without any notion, does it become 'my hand' and 'another hand'? No, just appearances in the same space of perception, the same space of existence.
Then what can happen? The second thing is that we seem to have this visual perspective, the centrality of the visual perspective. It seems to be centered around this body and we seem to be looking outwards from here. And that's why so many of us, although we know this is not true, we still feel like 'I must be an object which is sitting inside this head'. As well as this question: is the back of the head in front of you or behind you? Where is it in relation to you? It's a good contemplation, although it can seem a bit strange because it looks at this belief we have that 'I am something contained within this container, the body container'. But then when we observe the sensations which we call 'the back of my head' and try to find our relationship with that, you find that it's just another sensation occurring in the same space.
It's so funny that we look this way, then we say, when I say 'go inside', you check inside, meaning with closed eyes you are checking inside the body. But you as a doctor, you know that we are not checking inside the body. They check inside, 'go to your heart, experience the presence, your existence'. You use these words, isn't it? But you know as a doctor that if you would open a physical heart, it means it's the pump pumping blood. So this 'inside' is not inside this body. It is beyond this whole dimensional realm. Our existence as prior is beyond this four-dimensional realm. This is just an appearing, a manifest instrument.
And these things which are so obvious, right under our nose, you see, we never really looked. Did you say 'go inside'? Okay, I'll close my eyes, I must be visiting inside my body. But you know, what is this 'inside'? What is this space of perception in which imagination, memories, thoughts, sensation of the body, all of this is working? Is it a different space compared to when all this other visual stimuli is available? You see? Where is all this appearing? Is it in a different space? It's one, one perception realm, one appearance. And as I check this, you will find that even beyond this... I was saying the other day, why do you take only some sensations and call them 'me'? Why don't you take every sensation, every perception, and call it 'me'? Why don't you take that entire space in which all these sensations and perceptions, including thoughts, memories, imagination, everything, are occurring?
Then we say, but even in this, there is something. Why don't you take that which witnesses all of this also? If you have to use 'I' or 'me' for something, we can be fully inclusive. This is a great part of Atma Gyan. We can make everything fully inclusive and say 'it is I', or you can say 'not this, not this, not this, not this'. But you come to the same place. That which includes everything, right? Because the greatest aspect of yourself, the greatest aspect of yourself is this unchanging awareness. The dynamic aspect of it is just like a flickering movement of light in time. But you are fine, this that is aware, this Self which is aware.