This month in two special upcoming workshops, I'm going to be speaking about something that I have never spoken of in the way I intend to, and I thought it would be helpful to share some of these ideas with you - not only because they are valuable in and of themselves, but because you might want to learn more about them.
I don't think I have to tell you - but I'll strengthen the idea - that there's nothing in the universe, not one thing, that doesn't have meaning. I can look out the window on a gorgeous Spring day here in Southern Oregon and see all the bounty, the burgeoning green - it has a meaning that words can't give to it but that the experience itself delivers.
I'm saying this to you because I want you to understand that for a man or a woman - an aspirant of the higher life - every moment is a gift of that transaction, of that meaning. And that includes the pain that we're in.
Our problem is that we think we know the meaning in our pain. But the meaning that we give our pain is actually given to us by the nature that created it, through our conditioning, our identification, and the demands inherent in a consciousness that is dedicated to its own continuity.
In my upcoming talks (the New Renaissance Zoom workshop and our annual 3-day "Talks in the Pines" workshop) I'm going to speak about this gift in pain that we don't know about, and I'm going to talk about it in a very different way. As we are now at our level of consciousness - and I mean this literally - we are consumed by our resistance to unwanted moments. That's what pain is - it is resistance to unwanted moments.
But what if you found out that instead of being consumed by that resistance, you were created to be able to consume the energy in that resistance? Then your life wouldn't be spent running from something, but rather partaking in a completely different relationship where you were literally eating that energy in order to give birth to something in yourself that can only be born out of that nourishment - as opposed to living from those constant negative reactions that are telling you the meaning of the moment is for you to escape that moment.
Now you won't want to escape unwanted moments anymore. You'll be willing to get in there and sit down at this feast that is prepared in the presence of your "enemies."
I hope you'll join me for these talks in which we'll explore these ideas more deeply. You can learn more at the links below.
~Guy Finley
Zoom Workshop sponsored by New Renaissance Bookshop
Thursday, June 6, 2024 from 6:00-7:30pm PT
Cost: $10 - Learn More at www.guyfinley.org/ticket
25th Annual Talks in the Pines Summer Solstice Workshop
Friday, June 21 - Sunday, June 23, 2024
Cost: In-person ticket $49 - FREE Livestreaming - Replay Package $24.95
Learn More at www.guyfinley.org/tips24
