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Student Q&A with Guy on "Drop These Useless Thoughts and Leap into the Indescribable Life" (12/14/22)
Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Meeting: Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Duration: 26min 44sec
Topics Covered
Spiritually speaking, if you are going to become a new human being, something old has to die.
Every desire promises you freedom. But does the fulfillment of a desire ever really deliver the freedom it promised?
To die to oneself does not involve doing something with one's own will. "The Kingdom of Heaven cannot be taken by force."
In nature, death is inseparable from life. Everything in nature starts to go through a transition after its purpose has been fulfilled. Death is part of the purpose of everything in creation.
Everything -- spiritually and physically -- is meant to go through a transformation after its purpose has been fulfilled.
A negative state such as impatience can turn into humility if its purpose is allowed to be fulfilled. All negative states are meant to be released once their purpose is realized.
There is no chance for the purpose of a negative state to be realized and therefore released if we interfere by trying to do something about it through our own will.
To "re-act" means that one is handed the same action that has already been implemented in the past.
No reaction can release you from the condition that the reaction blames for the pain.
When you can watch your own consciousness reacting, then you are part of a field of awareness that is not identified with the reaction.
The opportunity to die to yourself appears whenever you see yourself.
Instead of allowing the negative reaction to choose for you, choose to end your usual relationship with that reaction.
To step out of the identification with a negative reaction is what it means to begin dying to yourself, surrendering yourself.
The task is to see what negative reactions are telling you to do in order to be free.
Let the train of negative reactions go on without you. Do not jump onboard. You will feel a period of emptiness if you do this, but you will be given a new instruction if you will wait there.
What do you see when you're afraid? You think you see an enemy, but what you really see is the "end-of-me."
Thoughts turn into acts And habits are formed, From habits the shape Of character's borne... ... In character's forged Each soul's destiny, So does Truth make plain The seed is the tree!
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