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Student Q&A with Guy on "Walk Away from the Pain of Yesterday" (12/7/22)
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Student Q&A with Guy on "Walk Away from the Pain of Yesterday" (12/7/22)

  • Posted: Thursday, December 8, 2022
  • Meeting: Wednesday, December 7, 2022

  • Duration: 16min 31sec

Topics Covered
  • If you still have an enemy of any kind, then up until now you have spent your life suffering uselessly.
  • No moment in time repeats itself. Creation is eternally new. Then the question to ask ourselves is: how do we find ourselves stuck in what seems to be the same painful situations over and over again?
  • Yesterday's pain does not exist today without the consciousness that carries it over.
  • Your moment-to-moment experience is inseparable from what your attention is connected to.
  • The more that you try to escape from a painful memory, the more you breath life into that memory and its attending pain.
  • Revisiting and reliving painful moments from the past is so much of a habit that it seems like a normal part of life.
  • The sure way to be free of yesterday's pain is to understand that it is not ours.
  • You can't separate a painful memory from the strong sense of self that appears with it.
  • Reliving the pain of the past never releases you from it. Consenting to relive the pain is what prevents the natural release.
  • Stop going there. When a painful memory appears, catch the temptation to participate in the old, familiar scene.
  • Die to the continuation of the strong sense of self that appears with the temptation to wrestle with the past.
  • Trying to escape painful past memories -- by imagining a utopian future where everything is as it should be -- only serves to solidify the level of consciousness that believes that escaping pain through imagination is the solution.
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See It and Be Free of It

It is not the pain of the past that goes deeper, grows darker, becoming more intractable each time it's revisited. Rather, this pain is the negative effect of an unconscious nature that loves to immerse itself in its own conditioned memory of that unwanted moment...

... And where each time it revisits, and then resists this experience that it recollects on its own...here's what happens: its identification with that pain is strengthened, and the more it suffers for its role in what amounts to a self-induced creation.

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