The Easier Way to Look at the Mind - 15th February 2018
Saar (Essence)
Ananta invites listeners to drop the mind's authoritative interpretations, which act like a dull photocopy of reality, and instead recognize their true nature as the vast, formless space in which the entire universe arises.
The mind provides a bad photocopy of reality instead of letting us meet life freshly.
We have considered ourselves limited objects, but we are actually the boundless space where the universe appears.
When the concern for 'what will happen to me' drops away, true resolution is found.
contemplative
Transcript
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The easier way to look at the mind is to look at it as the subtitle track because there is too much of this happening because of this. This is interpreted. The mind is right now, it is coming up with this interpretation. So this becomes so authoritative, this is you. That's why I say that as long as we live from the lips of this mind, it can feel like we live in this very insipid photocopy sort of reality. You meet somebody for the first time, the mind has already started, already they have an idea of what we are meeting instead of meeting that even phenomenal appearance fresh. You are meeting the phenomenal appearance in a Xerox and a bad photocopy. This is the filter through the lens of this subtitle.
This seems so... actually even now, for example, you don't know if you've studied a single word. So now, one thought, so you don't know anything about the next five minutes, the next two minutes. And this 'I don't know' has been scaring us because we have considered ourselves to be a limited object in this world. As you are recognizing now that you are boundless, the actual resolution, this life will just stay with me. This virtual dissolution which the arcs of the universe, they come in me. That's for this ocean which the arcs of the universe, they come coming to inside about this. This fear of 'what's going to happen to me, what is in it, is it a good thing?' and this drops away. And this is not going to be mid-life, some tokens wouldn't work.