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Student Q&A with Guy on "Out with the 'Old Addictive Self' and in with a New Dedication to be Free" (1/4/23)
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Student Q&A with Guy on "Out with the 'Old Addictive Self' and in with a New Dedication to be Free" (1/4/23)

  • Posted: Friday, January 6, 2023
  • Meeting: Wednesday, January 4, 2023

  • Duration: 20min

Topics Covered
  • True exploration of your consciousness cannot be for the purpose of escaping from something, nor to confirm what you already know.
  • The defintion of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over again, and hoping for a different result. The same could be said about "addiction."
  • "Addiction" connotes the idea of unwilling service to something that is harmful.
  • Addiction is suffering for the sake of bringing an end to suffering. This is a consciousness that is set against itself.
  • The consciousness that is in a ceaseless state of pain ceaselessly searches for pleasure.
  • No form of addiction can begin without some form of temptation, and the root of every temptation is the wish to complete oneself.
  • What we are really addicted to is identification with the consciousness that looks for resolution to the pain that it is creating.
  • No addiction belongs to you. It belongs to a part of you that wants to escape from the pain of itself by finding a pleasure in a time to come.
  • An addiction at its root belongs to an unconscious nature that is addicted to the experience of itself.
  • If you want to be free, then you cannot keep falling for the temptation to give this unconscious nature what it wants in order to protect itself from pain.
  • Any true action that a human being takes happens because he or she has seen something about him or herself.
  • The onset of any painful resistance is the evidence of an unseen addiction that is hiding in you.
  • Stop feeding the addiction by seeing that you would not need to seek freedom without the part of you that believes it is a captive. Awareness of these opposites at once is the same as not feeding the unconscious nature that runs in these familiar circles.
  • Real needs never go away. False needs are meant to go away.
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At the center of its dark heart... addiction is the love of a promised pleasure, of some freedom to come; in short, all forms of addiction are inseparable from our (almost) incessant search to escape some form of suffering, to end (our) painful sense of still being incomplete.

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