Informal Saturday discussion with Guy Finley on a variety of topics.

When we look at life and we see a problem, are we looking at life that has a problem that's fixed, or are we looking at something in our own consciousness that has fixed something and called it a problem? We're looking in our own mind and it is showing us something that is fixed, yet we know it's not because life itself is fluid; it is potential. But our mind doesn't relate to what...

If you haven't noticed this yet about yourself, it's easy to see in others: we each seem to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. The nature of this burden may change with age. When young, we feel the weight of having to choose a direction in life. As adults, we feel encumbered by all the perceived requirements of an active life: trying to control events...

Topics Covered: True teachings awaken the aspirant to what already lives in them; Freedom is an inclusive state, never an exclusive one; The one thing we almost never doubt is the certainty that we feel when we are negative; the certainty is that the cause of the negativity is somewhere outside of ourselves; Whatever we resist has to first be judged and found to be wrong...

Topics Covered: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...

Topics Covered: Observe where and by what your attention is taken; Identification is blindness; No reaction can reconcile another reaction; The task of the observer is to realize that it can't change what it sees, but that what is observed needs to be changed by what is higher; Every condition is the perfect place for revelation; Thank you, I didn't know that about myself...

Topics Covered: Desire is not the answer to the sense of being incomplete; Enter completely into the emptiness; What measures everything will never know what is immeasurable; Revelation of our consciousness is the beginning of not being afraid of it; The only thing that bothers us about anyone else is what we want from them; The first priority is to see something that...

When we try to avoid or manipulate a moment in order to just get through it, we will meet that same moment again because we are the same. We cannot separate the moment we don't want from the level of consciousness that fears it. Seeing this is the same as realizing that the fear, though we may feel its presence, is not the power that it claims to be.

Second force prolongs whatever it is that we resist; The illusion that my identity exists apart from the image it's attached to; There is no 'I' without an opposite; Thoughts are outside of you; The self feels incomplete the moment it imagines what will complete it; Poverty of self; What is incomplete can't bring an end to itself with anything that it will acquire; Being called inward...

Student Talks: 2/21/2020 - Key Lesson: Be what you are: Don't try to FIX the moment; complete it... on the spot by bringing ALL that it reveals -- including any reaction to it -- into the undivided awareness of ALL being seen within it. In this "all-ness" is a holiness: The Truth that sets you free.

Classroom Talk: 2/19/2020 - We may discover ourselves -- or (psychologically) defend ourselves -- but, as long as we choose the latter, we will never succeed with the former, let alone hope to realize... "the Truth that sets us free."

Student Talks: 11/29/2019 - Key Lesson: The painful illusion of being held a captive of any painful limitation is the dark dream of a false self that loves to imagine it’s been thrown into a dungeon, so that then... it can plan an effective way to escape it.