- The moment that a reaction gets named you have been set up to have a painful moment, because that consciousness resists the very reaction that it has named.
- Revelation of resistance is the release from the captivity of that resistance.
- "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -- William Shakespeare
- An object or a condition cannot exist as it does for us, for the pain or pleasure of it, without prior knowledge of it.
- Every name that is given to any moment has a history. In fact, there is no name that isn't history. No name has life.
- If you name it, you are a captive of it. But you would never deliberately make yourself a captive. It's an unconscious, mechanical operation.
- The consciousness names what is happening in an attempt to gain some kind of control over the condition.
- You cannot avoid having a reaction. But you can either be aware of the reaction's quality, or resist it and therefore serve it.
- Avoidance is trying to escape something that the consciousness has remembered. Awareness of that process leads to no longer being caught by it.
- Humanity spends almost all of its time distracting itself from awareness of its own consciousness.
- "For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." The thinker suffers over its own knowledge, descriptions, explanations and interpretations that it identifies with.
- No moment of real life has a name. The reaction to the moment does not have a name. So what is needed is awareness of the consciousness that makes names. We are tempted to name things.
- Goodness becomes known when the observer and the observed are no longer separate from each other.
- Before any moment can be judged, it has to be given a name.
- What is this moment like, what is the energy of any reaction like without the name that is given to it?
- Watch the temptation to name the moment and observe the sense of self that is produced as a result.
- A name itself has no memory, but memory makes the name.
- Don't think... live. Don't remember... be. There is no being in thinking, but being allows for thinking.
- We are addicted to knowing, and yet who we really are is unknowable, beyond knowledge, beyond a name.
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Student Q&A with Guy on "The Wisdom to Make Painful Moments Vanish into Thin Air" (3/12/23)
- Posted: Monday, March 13, 2023
- Meeting: Sunday, March 12, 2023
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Duration: 36min 17sec
Student Q&A with Guy on "The Wisdom to Make Painful Moments Vanish into Thin Air" (3/12/23)
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