Satsang Metaphors : AnyTime Misery Machine

Name: Satsang Metaphors : AnyTime Misery Machine
Duration: 5 min 44 s
Description: Ananta explains the 'ATM' metaphor: how attention and personal identification (belief) create suffering, and how to find freedom through non-identification.

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Ananta teaches that suffering requires both attention and personal identification. He suggests that while controlling attention is difficult, one can avoid misery by simply refusing to believe or identify with the mind's thoughts.

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The 'Anytime Misery Machine' requires both the ATM card of attention and the PIN of personal identification.

Let all thoughts come and go as visitors, but do not serve them tea.

It is easier to divest belief and identification than it is to control the wild monkey of attention.

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