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Don’t Fall in Love With Ideas
Ananta warns against becoming attached to ideas, emphasizing that concepts are useful pointers but barriers to truth when we mistake them for the real thing.
Key Teachings
- Ideas and concepts are pointers, not the destination—they should be used and released, not clung to
- The mind naturally falls in love with its own creations (ideas, beliefs, opinions) and mistakes them for truth
- True understanding comes through direct experience, not through accumulating or believing in concepts
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From: There Is Only One - 4th May 2019