6th Fetter
The Boundary Curriculum

Subject/Object vs. Observing

The 6th Fetter is about the Subject-Object illusion.

We have worked with the delusion of a self, and by now you probably agree that there is no-one here. However, once we take a step further, and start to inquire about how it feels to experience “inside” and “outside,” we become aware of the very subtle identification that is still taking place.

Working with the 6th Fetter dissolves the idea that there is still something in here which is separate and apart from everything else, out there.

It is about the idea that there is a more subtle “me” than found in Fetter 1, but still one who creates and experiences the concepts of space and distance.

You will also find that there is an even more subtle identification taking place that you almost always tend to overlook.

It is connected with the mental images, and the mental stories we attach to everything we assumingly perceive as being “out there” and “in here”.

If you really slow down and zoom in, you will find that every mental image that is attached to everything you assumingly perceive, has its own life with its own storyline and deeper levels of identification.

There is a very clear difference in what you mentally think you experience, and what you actually sensorily experience. Both need to be discovered and investigated.

What all of the exercises are pointing towards is exactly that! All of them need to be experienced in your daily life with focus on the sensory experience, free from the mental overlays.

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“Of all the courageous, challenging and potentially controversial episodes in The Awakening Curriculum this is the best IMO.

This topic is not for the faint of heart; to question our most precious and deeply held notions and call out belief for what is, belief.
In our society there are no-touch topics and belief in God, Source, Awareness and Consciousness is one of them.

Once it was pointed out to me there was panic and a sense of free fall which accompanied the release of all the landing places and certainty which belief in oneness and a higher power contain.
It is impossible to describe what lays ‘on the other side.”

- Dr. Leela

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See Through The Self Delusion Course

We are so happy that there is now a full course for you to see through the identification of the self!

This course is like a practical handbook of all of the different angles that you need to be aware of when you are investigating identification in your direct experience. We hope that it will be equally useful to people who are absolute beginners on this awakening path, as it will be to seasoned seekers who believe they have seen through the sense of self and are currently working with the higher fetters. We believe that everyone will find things in the course that will help them to deepen their insights regardless of whichever stage of awakening they feel they are in.

Take your time with this course! It is quite comprehensive. Through it we will be discussing many aspects of awakening, some of which tend to be overlooked by those on the path. We stress the importance of integrating awakening into our daily lives, so we spend a lot of time helping to bridge the gap between the spiritual world and the relative mundane one in which we all live.

In this course we will go into detail about meditation practices, discerning thought from “reality”, how to approach long-held trauma, how to investigate and manage our fear of death, practices to stimulate deep non-dual insights, and how to avoid many different pitfalls and egoic traps that you might encounter on the awakening path.

For those who are familiar with our The Awakening Curriculum and Unfettered Mindfulness YouTube channels, you might have already seen many of these videos. But they have been assembled in a practical sequence that allows progressive insights and practice, and they have been expanded with 50,000 words of written summaries, extrapolations, further inquiry and meditation practices, and more. It’s effectively like having a whole book integrated into the video material. Even if you have already watched the videos, we hope that these written lessons will help to deepen and expand your understanding of the material, and provide you new directions to take your practice.

To get the most out of this course, we recommend watching each video in sequence, and taking lots of time to actively do every inquiry at least once. It can help to do the same inquiry multiple times before moving on. It’s always recommended to rewatch lessons, if not immediately, then come back to them weeks or months later to see if you now hear something that you missed the first time, or that now makes sense to you in a way that you couldn’t access previously.

It should be emphasized, you might accumulate a lot of new concepts from this course, but that will be of comparatively little benefit next to the insights that you glean from putting everything you hear into practice.

You are likely here, doing this course, in order to experience some sort of transformation of experience. But concepts have limited ability to do this. At least not in terms of creating long-term transformation.

For that, you need to have an experiential understanding of what we are pointing to. So relax, settle in, take a deep breath, and allow the experience to unfold all on its own.

No one knows what will happen on the other side of any practice. So remain curious, open, and remember to have fun.

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