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Student Q&A with Guy on "Freedom from Feeling Insecure Begins Here!" (12/21/22)
Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2022
Meeting: Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Duration: 20min 57sec
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Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself.
Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way.
Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.
Even though you are able to give yourself just about everything that you want, if you are honest you will admit that you are still a wreck.
Conditions always seem to threaten the security that we think we have won. Consequently we think we need to figure out how to protect it.
"You can't take it with you." What is it that you really can't take with you? Your sense of self.
You cannot judge another person unless there is something in you that at the same time feels as if its security is being threatened.
You cannot separate your sense of security from the sense of self that appears with it.
It's the desire to be secure that puts you in relationship with all of the images and objects that consciousness comes up with to convince you of what you need to possess in order to be secure.
Fears hide themselves in desires, which is why we don't see the fear that the desire to be secure creates.
The more attached you are to something outside of yourself that seems to provide a sense of security, the more fear there is.
See that you carry around an idea of security that has fear built into it. The seeing itself will gradually lead to dropping it, naturally.
See that all forms of wanting in the moment they appear are rooted in some kind of pain. Desire places our attention outside of us, which produces a temporary identity.
Aside from practical thought, chronically thinking about what you need to do to bring order to your life IS disorder.
A consciousness that tries to rescue itself is in conflict with itself.
We look into a world we can't see is a mirror of our consciousness, so that whatever seems to take place -- out there -- whatever its temporary form or character -- for either its beauty or fear--is inseparable from the consciousness in which it is reflected.
Any and all other forms of perception are a form of duality, and where there is duality there is always some form of fear, and where there is fear there is conflict; and wherever you have fear and conflict you will always find the incessant search for some form of security to mitigate that suffering.
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