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Student Q&A with Guy on "The First Step to Realizing the Unimaginable Fulness of Your True Self" (4/28/24)

  • Posted: Monday, April 29, 2024
  • Meeting: Sunday, April 28, 2024

  • Duration: 36min 51sec

Topics Covered
  • We have spent our entire lives running away from pain that we don't understand, hoping to reach a permanent pleasure in a time to come.
  • The so-called heaven that we try to reach through thought always reveals itself to be a present self-created hell.
  • "Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel; yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mould clay into a vessel; yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house; but the ultimate use of the house will depend on that part where nothing exists. Therefore, something is shaped into what is; but its usefulness comes from what is not." -- Tao Te Ching
  • Emptiness is always the entrance into the fullness that exists within it. The emptiness is the request for something new to come into it.
  • What the mind wants has very little to do with what Life wants. True spiritual teachings entail learning about what Life wants.
  • Life is asking for one thing only: It asks that we see that it never stops giving us what it has asked for.
  • Until you understand the nature of emptiness, you will fill yourself with everything foolish and vain and futile.
  • The emptiness you fear is as imaginary as what you pour into it in order to fill it.
  • Urgency, panic, and rushing are the impossible attempts to escape the emptiness to something that your mind has imagined will bring an end to it.
  • Real emptiness cannot exist without the something-ness that awaits to fulfill it.
  • Fulness cannot be revealed without the emptiness through which it passes.
  • True emptiness is not devoid of possibilities. It is full of possibilities.
  • Answering any disturbance that you fear using thought is the same thing as avoiding the emptiness that reveals the truth about the disturbance.
  • There is birth, there is life, and there is death... and they are not separate from each other.
  • You cannot change what you hunger for until you see that what you currently hunger for is more of yourself, and that it is a painful pursuit.
  • The last thing that human beings want is the most important thing that they can be endowed with: and that is humility.
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Lights Along the Way

How I love to wander through fields of light, stopping here and there to see, and to stand in silent awe as from its ground flowers never-ending insight, gently asking me to remain there long enough to give each newborn revelation... the love it needs to die.

How to Realize the Unimaginable Fulness of Your True Self
 
Any attempt to bring an end to your sense of feeling empty serves only to strengthen the illusion of a false self that believes it can outrun its own imagined nothingness. Both illusions are filled with real enough terror, yet neither can be slain any more than a shadow can be put to death by a knife.
 
On the other hand, to allow emptiness ITS LIFE -- whenever it may appear -- slays both the painful illusion of it as well as the false self that is so fearful of it. Then real Emptiness and her beautiful sister, Fulness, appear at the same time, revealing their timeless secret: they are celestial twins who are never apart from one another. 
 
They only seem to be separate from one another because each is so overwhelming to behold by herself that to look at just one blinds you to the existence of the other.
 
Within you -- only still sleeping -- lives a higher order of being that neither fears the momentary appearance of any imagined emptiness... nor does it imagine some new sense of fulness to escape that fear.

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Student Q&A with Guy on "The First Step to Realizing the Unimaginable Fulness of Your True Self" (4/28/24)

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