These Were Crutches That You Never Needed - 26th December 2017

Name: These Were Crutches That You Never Needed - 26th December 2017
Uploaded: 2017-12-26
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: Ananta shares a story from the Yoga Vashistha about the mythical creature of the mind and invites us to experience the universal taste of life without concepts.

December 26, 20173:4250 views

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Ananta uses the metaphor of a thousand-armed creature to illustrate how the mind's concepts cause self-inflicted suffering, inviting seekers to drop all notions and experience the vastness of life beyond control.

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The mind is like a mythical creature with a thousand hands, each hitting itself with a conceptual weapon.

Try living notionlessly; you might realize these concepts were crutches you never actually needed.

The taste of life is much greater and more universal than any idea you use to contain it.

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