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Student Q&A with Guy on "How to Realize the True Meaning of Every Moment of Life" (6/11/23)
Posted: Monday, June 12, 2023
Meeting: Sunday, June 11, 2023
Duration: 46min 36sec
Topics Covered
The meaning of life cannot be known through any thought that we will have about it. We do not know the meaning of life, but we think we do.
The meaning of life is unknowable to any part of our consciousness that strives to assess the moment through its knowledge.
The meaning of life is not found in knowledge. It is found in being. The meaning of life is immediately perceptible or it isn't.
Presently there is between you and life a "middle man" that goes into every moment with you to decide whether that moment is for you or against you. It is a conditioned mind that believes it already knows the meaning of the moment before it has taken place.
There is a belief that if we are not thinking about what we are experiencing, then we will not know what to do.
"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The intermediary that comes between you and life to intercept the moment analyzes the moment through the filter of what it wants and doesn't want.
We judge other people because the meaning of the moment is being judged.
The meaning of any moment cannot be separated from the level of understanding of the observer.
The middle-man that tries to restore balance becomes more imbalanced every time it analyzes the moment trying to find the meaning of it.
Psychological fear does not exist without something in us having told us the meaning of the moment.
Catch and dismiss the middle-man by first becoming aware of its presence. See the contradiction of how the divided mind creates fear by trying to figure out how to be free from fear.
We have been conditioned to avoid the silence that comes about through the absence of thought analyzing the meaning of its experience.
There is no gratitude to be found in the mind's analysis of the meaning of a moment, because it is trying to figure out how to get more of what it wants.
We gather energy through awareness of energy being squandered by the futile efforts of the divided mind attempting to reconcile its experience.
The divided mind seeks to be free of the effects of its own resistance.
You will find the freedom you are looking for when you at last see the mind -- that resists what it doesn't want -- is not you.
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