Do We Need Boundaries with No Separate Self to Protect?

If there’s no separate self, you don’t need to protect something. What, then, do boundaries look like? How do you model appropriate boundaries for children, especially around unhealthy people, when you can go to being and aren’t hurt by words? Rupert says: ‘You don’t lay down a boundary to protect yourself. You do so for the sake of your children, because children have to know where there are legitimate boundaries – not egoic boundaries, but children have to know that there are legitimate boundaries in life. You are modelling for your child what it’s like to stand as being in the face of adversity or hostility. You are not explaining it to them. You’re demonstrating it to them.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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