In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that real meditation involves being present to both the interior world as well as the exterior world at the same time. That presence is the center of all things.

All of our life experiences have been trying to teach us a certain grand lesson: Liberation from our captive condition (whatever that may be in the moment) cannot come by further deliberating it. We can see the wisdom in doing nothing toward our own troubled thoughts and feelings when we realize that the only way not to be dragged under by these negative states is to stay...

Student Talks: 7/2/2021 - Key Lesson: Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.

Topics Covered: True ideas interfere with the agenda of what is untrue; We are taught early in our lives that we should know the answer to every question. Otherwise there will be a punishment; We believe that the sooner we can answer the urgent question our mind is asking, the sooner we will be released from the pain of not knowing; The pain is in the question itself because the question...

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2021 - Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.

When you don't -- when you consciously won't -- express some negative state, you are literally asking for awareness of a higher self. Here's why... As you don't express that state, you become conscious of yourself as the ground upon which it is breaking as well as the presence of that visiting state. In this moment of new awareness there is something there inside of you, with you...

Classroom Talk: 8/28/2020 - Just as the sun consumes her own substance as fuel, transforming matter into life-giving light and heat, so too are we created to consume ourselves; to transform the base aspects of a separate self - the many conflicting characters inherent in our divided consciousness - into a single, higher form of...

Topics Covered: In the moment of realization, something that was disconnected before is integrated; Discouragement is dishonesty; We must be willing to make mistakes for the purpose of revelation; Thought that we identify with that is allowed to run unconsciously kills the possibility of rebirth; We are born with the capacity to see our consciousness no matter what level it is at...

Topics Covered: It is not our responsibility to balance our own consciousness; That which can see what is out of balance is balance; Awareness is that which makes the sun shine on good and evil alike; Unpractical thought is the never-ending futile attempt to balance a reaction; The world that is raging is the rage I see in me; To try to not have an identity is an identity...

Question: "Two years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm doing better now but how can I let go of the fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop?" Listen to Guy's answer as he explains why waiting in the middle of any fearful reaction is the only place to catch a glimpse of a higher message.

Meditation Talk: 12/27/2019 - Meditation is the interior art of quietly watching your whole life unfold, moment-to-moment, for "better or for worse"... Without trying to change, explain, or otherwise control whatever you see.

Meditation Talk: 11/22/2019 - Any moment we can remember to break out of habitual thought -- and simply know that we exist -- is the same as realizing a new and higher level of consciousness that thought will never know, let alone share in a measure of its perfect peace.