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Student Q&A with Guy on "Freedom from the Unseen Source of All Fear and Sorrow" (12/10/21)
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Student Q&A with Guy on "Freedom from the Unseen Source of All Fear and Sorrow" (12/10/21)

  • Posted: Sunday, December 12, 2021
  • Meeting: Friday, December 10, 2021

  • Duration: 29min 9sec

Topics Covered
  • Setting out on the spiritual path is not about achieving a result. We want to place ourselves on a path where there is a never-ending possibility of discovery and realization.
  • At their root all negative states are connected to the fear of death. Not only the death of the physical body, but also the death of a cherished sense of self.
  • An epiphany is the revelation of an understanding that had always been there, waiting to be discovered in another order of time and being.
  • "We have existed in the past, we exist now, and we will exist in the future. The soul that has a body will find another body after death. Those who know this are not deceived by the threat of death." -- Bhagavad Gita
  • If the world of time had something within it to satisfy the soul, then the world would have found it by now and be content.
  • The pursuit of riches in the world is the same as entering into the world of time.
  • It isn't the world we need to change. Our consciousness needs to be brought into another order of awareness and be changed by that awareness.
  • Our present awareness of time is that we see events appear and then disappear. Our experience is tied directly to the way in which consciousness perceives time.
  • There is an unseen but constant fear of death born out of the way we presently perceive time. But our present perception of time is not the limit of its possibilities.
  • The limitation of your physical senses is not the limitation of the soul, which has the capacity of perceiving an entirely new and higher order of time.
  • The purpose of true teachings it to introduce us to ideas that, upon hearing them, resonate with a part of us that understands our native timelessness, our own timeless nature.
  • What we call life and death is not the reality of life and death. There is no such thing as death for the one who can see by a higher order of awareness that is already part of another order of time.
  • The attempt to prolong the life of what is temporary is the same as fearing death.
  • "The unreal has no being, the real never ceases to be." -- Bhagavad Gita
  • At the point where time intersects with timelessness dwells a presence with which we are intended to abide.
  • Freedom cannot be described because the description is a function of time and creates one who knows what freedom is. Freedom is free of anyone experiencing freedom. There is just freedom.
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Only There and Only Then

The best possible use of each day's innumerable experiences -- the secret Good that lies hidden in some moment's delight, or that we find ourselves driven to do -- is to realize, whenever possible, this one indisputable fact: one way or another, we have been "there" before.

We experience the same thoughts.

We run through--or have been run over by--too-familiar feelings in a loop without end, only to do it all over again.

And... it isn't until we actually remember this fact--feel the truth of it in the depths of our soul--that we realize we had somehow...forgotten it.

Then comes a deep humility, a wave of silence sweeping away all that was, or will be.

We are suddenly senseless... because another set of senses rises like the dead from out of the shadows of passing time -- to stand as an Instrumental Witness to an unknowable eternity, yet... that knows itself.

Only there does experience provide, and prove what is truly fruitful to the one within whom it unfolds; for only then does he awaken to see he has always, and forever been there unseeing. But now... his eyes have been opened.

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