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Student Q&A with Guy on "The Sure Cure for Painful Stress and Tension" (7/6/22)
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Student Q&A with Guy on "The Sure Cure for Painful Stress and Tension" (7/6/22)

  • Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2022
  • Meeting: Wednesday, July 6, 2022

  • Duration: 27min 57sec

Topics Covered
  • It is not in our power to change WHAT we experience. But it is in our power to change WHO is having the experience.
  • To understand the nature of your experience in each moment is the beginning of changing who is having the experience.
  • Most of us would not even know who we are without having something to be tense about, something to be in conflict over.
  • Freedom that is dependent upon conditions playing out according to expectations is not freedom at all.
  • We are the captive of any moment that comes along and seems to threaten our so-called freedom.
  • You cannot be tense or stressed without at the same time feeling the threat of losing something.
  • The more the mind talks to itself about the tension it feels, the more tension it creates.
  • Explaining to yourself why you feel tense IS the tension that you feel.
  • One of the ways that tension hides itself and is able to continue unabated is by disguising itself as "excitement."
  • If desire is tension, then how can anything that we desire release us from that tension?
  • The conflict is within the consciousness itself, which means that same consciousness cannot do anything to end the conflict. Change takes place in the awareness of that consciousness.
  • Seeing the sudden onset of tension and stress as a threat to an identity of ours is the beginning of unconditional freedom from those states and from that identification.
  • The only reason why people lie is that they feel threatened, and the lie serves as a self-protection mechanism.
  • Wants promise the end of tension, when the fact is that wanting marks the beginning of tension.
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Supplemental Material

When Fire Becomes Light

Desire breeds tension,
Tension fuels desire;
Identifying with either...
Is like a flame trying,
In vain... to put out a fire.

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