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Student Q&A with Guy on "Step onto the 'Pathless Path' and Realize a Peace that Passes All Understanding" (11/17/24)

  • Posted: Sunday, November 17, 2024
  • Meeting: Sunday, November 17, 2024

  • Duration: 39min 54sec

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  • "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn’t make any sense. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi
  • You cannot Google the Divine. There is no map to the Divine. The interior journey is a pathless path.
  • In nature, what is passive yields to what is active so that there can be the birth of a new creation. Real life is always being newly conceived. What is new acts as the ground of the next transformation.
  • We can't have a relationship with the Divine until we understand the nature of what is in the way of that relationship.
  • If we are going to have a new relationship with life, we need a new relationship with our own reactions.
  • The first reaction does not have a name. But every reaction is given a name by something in us that wants to know, and the description is never new.
  • That which gives the reaction a name believes that it is apart from what it is reacting to.
  • The original reaction, which does not have a name, is essentially asking us to be and to see what is being revealed in the moment of the reaction.
  • There is no seeing what is new without you being renewed when you see it.
  • The field that Rumi talked about was the meeting place of within and without, and the awareness of both at the same time. Within and without are not separate things. The field is greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Every destination that your mind brings up, every plan, is the unseen opposite of who and where you don't want to be.
  • The moment you don't want has come to reveal that you have already been given everything you need.
  • The naming of a reaction creates a sense of self that separates itself out from what it perceives.
  • When the opposites are brought together through awareness of them, you discover that the field out beyond the opposites has always been there.
  • The distance between yourself and real life are the reactions and descriptions that you are identified with.
  • When the minds tries to have a relationship with the Divine, it gives the Divine a name, which creates a sensation of self, and produces the very distance between itself and the Divine that it is trying to bridge.
  • To remember yourself is to realize that within, without, and the awareness of both, are a singularity.
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Step Onto the Pathless Path

As the sleeping mind -- driven on as it is by unconscious desires -- awakens to see that the only thing thought can do is make circles, it slowly stops seeking. The divine longing of the heart to know unconditional love remains, but the old "action" of trying to think one's way out of pain, or into some imagined "paradise," begins to fall away.

As grows the light of this new understanding, the veils of self-ignorance part by themselves to reveal an unthinkable Truth:

There is nowhere to go, only something to be. And Being takes no time, because it is timeless...

... Which means there is no path for us to seek, find, and then walk because one's eyes have at least been opened to see that Life itself -- in its eternal act of revealing itself -- to itself -- is the true "pathless path" because... no one walks it.

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