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Student Q&A with Guy on "Illuminate and Eliminate the Source of Personal Painful Conflict" (9/2/20)
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Meeting: Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Duration: 25min 25sec
Topics Covered
Self-acceptance is self-realization. The rejection of a moment is the same as resisting a moment of revelation
There is intended to be a release in each moment... if we are willing to accept the revelation in it
Conditions do not create conflict. The conflict is already there before the condition, and before we even know it. We come into the moment holding onto an unconscious nature that must be in conflict in order to exist
When we refuse a lesson we also refuse the liberation that the lesson would give to us
Human beings suffer from "HTSBS": How Things Should Be Syndrome
Judging ourselves is the refusal to accept what we are being shown about ourselves in that moment, so that judgment replaces revelation
It is not what we cling to that has to go. What has to go is the thing that clings
Self-acceptance is not making peace with the part of us that torments us; and self-acceptance has nothing to do with thinking. Real self- acceptance is connected to seeing ourselves in each moment, no matter what is revealed
The sleeping consciousness is imprisoned by its own activity
The rushing nature is always trying to reach a point where it will no longer have to rush
Separation becomes corruption whenever the divided mind seeks to find a way back to wholeness, which it cannot do through its own thought and effort
It is our certainty of how things should be that causes us to suffer
It is in the revelation of the true root of conflict that we are released from ourselves and the conflict
The whole world will change if we will die to the part of us, within us, that does want to change
Nothing is too great for the human beings who will agree to see something about themselves that they could not see before. There is no end to who and what we really are
We've been looking at a picture of ourselves believing that it is the whole of ourselves, and that is why we find ourselves in conflict with reality, Reality is a living thing, not a picture
If we have a purpose for meditation, we will never know what real meditation is. Meditation is the full acceptance of what the moment brings, what the moment reveals, and what is born from that
Our true nature is the acceptance of revelation
Our consciousness cannot set itself free, but it can discover that it already is free in a higher kingdom
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